Marriage Proposal Ideas: preparations

I had to prepare for the proposal the week before the actual date. I went to a craft store and bought one of those "create a stepping stone" kits, the kind where you mix the cement together and can carve anything you want onto the stone. Well, I molded a heart shaped stone and wrote, "Haley, will you marry me" on it, along with the date of my planned engagement.

Before the Marriage Proposal

We had planned to go to the mountains and celebrate my birthday. All day, I had joked to Haley that this was MY day and we would do things for MY birthday. We went shopping in Boone and Blowing Rock, North Carolina. In the afternoon, we decided to go to Grandfather Mountain and hike like we had first planned.

The Actual Marriage Proposal

When we got there, we took off hiking on the main trail and stopped for a short break on top of one of the first peaks. Haley was turned around and looking at the view when I pulled out the stepping-stone from my backpack. She turned around to me and I handed it to her. As she turned the stone over to read it, I got down on one knee and pulled the ring out of my pocket. She couldn't believe it at first but when she saw the ring, she started crying. She said yes and we both stood on top of the world together thinking about our future.

Ideas to Make the Marriage Proposal Last

I left the stone there on Grandfather Mountain so that others can see it. If you ever go hiking on the main trail and happen to take a break on one of the peaks (first peak on the trail) look on the ground to your left and you will see my heart shaped proposal to Haley Tycer. We hope that it will still be there when we have children so that they too can come and visit the place where it all began.

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