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Since we’re up and since @thentherewasKIM asked...here’s Ben’s proposal story!
Ok so boom. Ben always sets a goal to win one of the top distinctions from his job. He told me in January that he’d earned an award and that there would be an award banquet some time in March.
Rona’s ass came through swinging and his job started cancelling the events it had lined up for award recipients and giving money in lieu of the events.
In line w that, Ben told me that his dinner was cancelled and that they gave him a voucher for a free hotel night instead.
My mom passed on 3/1/20. She was pretty sick the week leading up to her passing so I’ve been in the house since at least the last week of February.
He’d actually come into town the night before she passed because we were supposed to go on a date the next night. He told her that night that he’d worked out the proposal plans they had been putting together.
Ok so boom, mom dies, COVID strikes, we have her funeral and things start to wind down. Ben says I need a change of scenery and suggests we use the hotel voucher for one night.
He adds in that although we never went on our date and we can’t go now because of Rona, we should get dressed up and eat take out. Cool with me.
So we get to the hotel and he “forgets” the room number as soon as we get off on the floor. (In actuality he forget to text my friend that we had parked. She was taking the photos).
We get back on the elevator and as soon as the door starts to close he suddenly remembers that we were on the right floor AKA he sent the text and she was ready. Lol
I walk in and see a camera flash. Then I hear my FAVORITE poem (Crucifixion Type Love by Brent Rice)
I immediately start crying because I told my mom and sister that whenever I got engaged, I would like that poem to be playing in the background.
I walk through the room and see another one of my best friends filming. Then I see what’s written out in rose petals on the bed. WATER WORKS.
Ben gets down on one knee and says “I prayed to God for a wife and He sent me you. Lauren Nicole will you marry me?” I think I said yes but it’s inaudible through my tears lol
He puts the ring on and I’m like DAMN! It’s ten times better than the ring I picked out a few months back. Bae did that.
Afterwards. We ate a catered meal prepared by Chef Kodak (IG: chefkodak). It was DELICIOUS. Hit him up.
So yeah. Now we’re engaged and I’m still in shock
Icing on the cake: this was the view from our room.
The end! Photos by my bestie. @triliatramaine (IG: trilshotphotos). She’s the shit.
Oh! And my nails. My cousin in law made a house call when y’all’s play uncle from the pentagon told y’all that the govt was about to initiate “Marshall law”.
