Wednesday, March 11, 2009

ENGAGED!

First of all I wanted to show you the Man of my dreams, and my beautiful ring before I even begin my story!


It all started with Johns spontaneous idea to drive down to Southern California for the weekend, just for fun I guess! So we just picked up and left! It was a great weekend too! We spent some time with his Grandfather (pa-paw) and family at his cottage in Laguna Beach; we went to a shooting rage, and shot a couple different kinds of guns with his brother-in-law Micah. We went to Huntington Beach with his buddy Corb and enjoyed the warm sunny weather.
THAN.....That night......Saturday March 7th
John took me out for a nice fancy dinner at the Salt Creek Grill not far from the beach.
John claimed he had an up-set stomach and kept getting up to go to the bathroom, he hardly touched his food. Although later I found out that he was making phone calls to family members in the bathroom making sure everything was going as planned.
And he didn't eat because he was so nervous...he lost his apatite!


After dinner we decided to take a stroll down to the Ritz Carlton Hotel where it sits up on a cliff over looking the beach. We had walked around there once before; it has beautiful landscaping and look out points, and being such a beautiful clear night.... what could be better than taking a romantic night time stroll to look out over the coast! LOVE!


At one particular spot something caught my eye as I looked down at the beach...... in the sand I saw colorful words pointing right in my direction saying "JULIE MARRY ME?" At first I couldn't quite see the "JULIE" part so I really wasn't sure if that was for me.




So I turned around to John and he was on one knee with the ring in his hand!!


Breathless, surprised, excited, happy, happy happy freaking out.....


Than he told me how much he loved me and asked me to marry him.... so i knelt down to his level and said yes many times..... :) Happy happy moment.....


The Ring was ridiculously blinging and sparkly.... he must have asked the moon to shine extra bright that night so that I could see the ring sparkle!Its a little too hard to see with the camera.... but this is where you could see the glow sticks on the beach "JULIE MARRY ME?" Its a very faint glow right next to my hair.


John is genius!


We walked down to the beach to meet up with "the engagement crew" John's family and friends. What a perfect night!

Here is some more of the Ring...




I LOVE JOHN KUPPER!




Just wanted to add in my favorite picture of John.

10 comments:

A. Marley said...

That is so cool, what a great story! COngrats!

Diana Hulme said...

Congratulations again! :)

Kaerlig said...

You are going to be a Kupper!

Joshua & Britt Marden said...

Ju I am so happy! I started getting teary when I saw that! I am so Happy for you! I love you and deserve every happiness! I better get an invite!

Emily said...

Julie!! Hey girl, congrats!! I saw your blog on your wall once, and was hoping you would write your engagement story here. How cute you two are! I'm confused, though, cuz I thought you guys broke up...but evidently not for long!! Your ring is awesome!!

Perry Family said...

JULIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is the best engagment story ever!! I loved it!! I could feel all the emotion from that night in your post!! Congrats!! You two are a perfect couple!! I'm so glad you guys are happy!

kassi said...

Sweet lovin! I'm sure John is relieved his plan worked out and his family all chipped in! So FUN! Love lovE loVe the Ring!
I also love your comic strip....you should do a dove release :)

Lavi said...

Julie!!! ahhhh I found you in the blogging world! yay and YAY for your engagement story & the photos to go along with it!!!! John is the best for you & you deserve the bestest!!! whooo whoooooo all my love Lavi

Kass Martin said...

So fun! You guys are a great looking couple that is for sure! It was fun hanging out at lunch today. You are such a pretty girl. You are going to be a great wife. John is lucky.

Cason and Marie said...

Congratulations!!! Beautiful ring! Love the gold!