David & Vanessa’s Engagement Story

The story begins the morning of Wednesday, November, 23, 2011! I drove David to work, stopped at Starbucks, and then headed back to his condo to prepare food for Thanksgiving. As I opened the front door my eyes immediately caught a vase of flowers sitting on the ottoman in the living room. These flowers were not there before I left so I walked over and there was a note taped to the vase that said; ‘A gift for you because…’ so I opened and read the inside of the note. The words were so sweet and made me smile big! As I walked into the kitchen another gift caught my eye! This one couldn’t be missed as it took up the majority of the counter space! Then I opened the cupboard and another gift, all with a card attached that said; ‘A gift for you because…’ within each card the inside words revealed something about David and I’s relationship or my character. Extremely sweet and beautiful! By the time I got to gift number 3 I decided to text David to make sure that I should be opening all these gifts? His response; ‘YES!!!’

I went about opening the gifts and giggling as I opened each one. A short time later David called and I told him of all the gifts that I had found and how excited I was to receive all of them, he then told me that I had not found all of them. What?! I had 5 more to find, so I excitedly started scouring the condo. Eventually I found the remaining 4 of 5 but could not find the last one. I called David told him that I couldn’t find the gift and he told me that I was overlooking it and that it was in plain sight! So for the next 6 hours I tore the condo apart trying to find the last gift! David did give me a few hints, but they all just seem to confuse me further.

By mid afternoon, I had accomplished nothing and need to head back to David’s office to pick him up so we could get dinner at our favorite place -Penny’s! Throughout dinner David told me that he could not believe that I didn’t find the last gift and that it was in plain sight in the TV room. I happily and confidentially argued that I had searched high and low in the TV room and could not find it. David continued to give me a hard time and reassure me that once we returned to the condo it would be there.

After dinner we went back to the condo and walked into the TV room, sure enough there was a mid-size pink bag sitting on the end table. My first response was; ‘No way! That was not there all day!’ David had a huge smile on his face and told me to open it, so I did! The gift was a booklet to Sandals Resorts, St. Lucia! At first glance I was a bit confused, David’s response to my confused look was; ‘I bought you a trip to St. Lucia!’ my immediate response was; ‘Are you going with me?’ and this is when David got down on one knee, pulled out a ring and said; ‘Only if you’ll marry me!’ My response was a resounding; ‘YES!’

I couldn’t be more thrilled to be able to marry the man of my dreams! Life with David is amazing and I know that God has unbelievably blessed me! Thank you to all for your widely huge support, we love you and are so thankful for each person that has encouraged and been apart of this part of our journey. We know that this is just the beginning of an incredible story!

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