The readers have spoken. This week’s winners are… Joe & Nicole.

Come back next week as they defend their title against two new contending couples.
Here’s their story if you haven’t read it yet.

Joe Kilgallon & Nicole Lappe
Location: Miami Beach, FL
Date: August 17, 2008

Joe & Nicole

Joe writes:
I’m a comedian, born and raised in Chicago. I love a good joke and the Chicago Cubs. I also love Nicole, my high school sweetheart.

I decided to propose to her at sunset during vacation in Miami. On the afternoon of the big day, my uncle told us that he bought us tickets to see a Cubs game that night. If I turned them down, Nicole would have known that something was up.

By the time the game was over, sunset had come and gone. We went for a walk on the beach anyway. While she looked at the sky, I walked ahead and wrote something in the sand.

I asked Nicole to come over and see what I drew. She thought it was going to be a childish, inappropriate drawing since I had been doing that throughout the trip.

But when she came over, she saw that I had written, “Will you marry me?” in the sand.

She looked back at me and I was down on one knee. Stunned, she kept asking if it was for real. I may be immature in some ways, but I’d never make a joke like that.

We plan to marry in 2011.