The big question!
Jamie and I have had a few conversations about the possibility of getting married, we both agreed that it is something that we would want, but neither of us really knew when we would get engaged or when we would get married. Just like anything else, it is something that just seemed like it would be out there in the future some time. I have slowly been looking at rings and questioning her on what kind of ring and what kind of stone she likes so that I can get her something that she loves. She told me recently that she would wear a 25 cent ring as long as it came from me and meant that we could get married.
On my last paycheck, I had a little bit of money left over after paying all of my bills and thought that I would maybe try and find a ring to get her. On Friday I ran to the mall on my lunch break just to check out the jewelers and see what they had. I went to the first one and didn't really see anything I liked, a couple of maybes, so I thanked the jeweler who helped me and headed to the next. The next one had an even worse selection, and tried to talk me into a fake ring.. blah, blah, yeah right... my girl is much better than that. I am on a budget, but I would rather get a small simple ring than a fake one!! So of course I walked out of that place pretty discouraged and thinking that I would have to do a lot more looking around to find the right ring. As I was leaving, I was going to leave the mall because I was running out of time and I saw that there was another jewelery store right across from the one I was walking out of so I thought I would check it out.
I walked in, told the sales person my price range and she started to show me some rings. This was a lot better selection than the other places, but still nothing jumped out at me. Again I had a few maybes and was about to leave when I thought I would just see what else they had. I told the woman to show me just their regular solitaire rings. We walked over to the counter and she started to pull out some rings to show me.. She pulled out THE ring, once again just to show me and I thought to myself, this ring would be perfect. Of course not as big as I would like, but I thought would be exactly what Jamie would want. As I was looking at it, the woman said "actually, that ring is on sale and is right there in your price range". I stood there staring at the ring, thinking, when I finally decided. I just can't fight fate. This is meant to be, this is the one! I bought the ring and headed back to work.
Now I was faced with having to decide how to ask, I hadn't really had time to think about it, but I wanted it to be something very personal to us. I was racking my brain. I had a few ideas but really couldn't figure it out. I decided after a while of thinking that I wanted it to be very intimate, so I didn't want to go to a public place or a park or any of those things that people usually do. I decided that I wanted to do it laying in bed so that it is just me and her where we sleep every night. Now that I got that out of the way, how do I ask? What do I say? I was going over all kinds of different ways to ask when, just as fate would have it, our song came on my ipod. At first I thought, how cool is that? While I am thinking about how to ask Jamie to marry me that our song would come on randomly out of the almost 3,000 songs on my ipod. Then it hit me.. I will tie it into our song.
The chorus of the song says "Did I say that I need you? Did I say that I want you? oh if I didn't I'm a fool you see, no one knows this more than me" So I went home after work on Friday and Jamie was in bed napping. I of course didn't have the patience to wait until we went to bed at night, so I massaged her back and talked to her for a little while and tried to sneak the ring out of my pocket. When I finally did, I lay down next to her and said "I heard our song at work today, it came on my ipod" She said "What a coincidence, I listened to that song today" I thought YES!! This is perfect. I started to quote the lyrics. I said "Did I say that I need you? Did I say that I want you?" and then I slipped the ring on her finger and said "Did I say that I want to marry you?" She gasped and said "What?" She turned around and I said "Will you marry me?" She said yes and finally looked at the ring.. She loved it!!! I am so happy!
If you want to check out the song, here is a video on youtube that has the lyrics.
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