Tuesday Togetherness

"What on earth does he mean?" she pondered as she shut the phone late Thursday night.

Two things she was sure about after their late-nigh conversation. (A) David does not know how to pick out fashionable clothing and (B) David doesn't know what size of dress she can squeeze into.

It was nearing their six month anniversary, although it felt like they had known each other their whole lives. They are two parts completing each other, he told her occassionally. "You have what I lack and I have what you lack." he said. "We were made for each other."

What could he possibly be planning, she thought again as sleep ushered in.

Little did she know that she would be living her dream a few nights after...

David arrived a little behind schedule Saturday night. He called her when he was about 20 minutes away and told her, again, that he was bringing her something new to wear. Worried about his taste, she gracefully agreed to be ready to put on her new something before he wisked her away to a banquet.

"Princess" he called when he got in.

She rushed to the door with tights and a sleep-shirt, ready to go slip on what he brought her to wear.

Much to her amazement, he had brought her the dress she had picked out weeks earlier at Dillards. She had always wanted a fancy black cocktail dress, but they were usually too expensive or too irrational to buy. This particular one was on clearance at a ridiculously wonderful price. She bought it and stashed it in his closet, wanting to wear it to the opera they were planning to attend a few months after the purchase.

When she brought the dress to his house, she proudly showed him her "great deal" and casually mentioned that when she gets engaged, this would be the perfect dress.

A few weeks later, standing in her doorway with her dress in hand, he smiled and came forward to kiss her.

"Well, what are you waiting for. Go put on the dress," he said as he came inside her apartment.

Confused and excited, she put the dress on and picked out a pretty maroon wrap to wear with it.

"I'm coming out" she said with excitement..."Maybe we're going to go somewhere special after the banquet, or maybe we're going to go get cool pictures taken?" she thought as she exited her room.

David had moved further near her room. "What are you doing?" she said as he pulled out a little green box from his jacket.

Woah, she thought, is this really happening?

"Will you marry me?" he asked.

"Ahhhhh!" she screamed as she was shaking her head "yes yes yes".

"Hey, you're not down on one knee" she realized, laughing.

Graciously, he got down on one knee and asked her again.

"Yes, of course I'll marry you."

He slipped the ring on her finger, stood up, hugged and kissed her... all with a new-found passion.

And that, my friends, is how David and Kayla became engaged - Nov. 18, 2008.

And now, my friends, is wedding planning insanity. Just two more months...and I can't be more excited.