Week 2: Pick the perfect proposal!

February 8, 2010 | by Tia Ayers

Joe and Nicole won last week’s inaugural Proposal of the Week Contest. This week they face off against two new couples. Will a new couple knock them out of the competition or will they defend their title? You decide.

Remember, that you can vote once a day, so come back and show your love to your favorite couple. The contest closes at 12:05am PST on Friday.

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

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.

2. Jeremy Caul & Jaime Imbeault
Location: Kekabeka Falls in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Date: November 6, 2009

Jeremy writes:
Jaime, and I are students, living in Thunder Bay, ON, Canada. We’ve been together for almost two years now, and have lived together the whole time.

In October, my great-grandmother passed away, leaving me feeling like life was short. Since I love Jaime and was planning on proposing soon anyway, I decided to go out and get a ring. Once the ring was in my coat pocket, I knew I couldn’t wait.

Three days later, during the four-hour drive home for the funeral, we stopped at Kekabeka falls; a local falls just outside Thunder Bay. My excuse was that I needed to take some pictures for my photography class, which was partially true. We walked around the falls a while taking some pics, and it was the first beautiful, sunny day in a long stretch of rainy days – this is how I knew that today was the day.

I asked her to pose for a picture, leaning on the rail looking towards the falls with her back to me. I didn’t even take the picture but when I told her I was done, she turned around and I was on one knee with the ring box open in my hand. She didn’t even let me stand up to put the ring on! She was so excited that she immediately dropped to her knees to give me a hug and kiss, nearly knocking the ring out of her hand.

Today, we are happier than ever. We hope to graduate and begin working in three years time, and then we will have our wonderful wedding. The date we have just chosen is August 23, 2013 – which will be our 5 and a half year anniversary. I love my wife-to-be, and we plan on having a great, long, life together.

3. Elizabeth Henry-Hooker & Nick Farina
Location: Paris, France
Date: June 13, 2008

Elizabeth writes:
I was in Paris for a semester doing study abroad, and was sad about spending my 25th birthday so far away from my boyfriend, Nick. The morning of my birthday, which happened to be a Friday, there was a knock at my door, and when I opened it, Nick was standing in the hall!

That evening, my friends and I got dressed up, planning to go to a jazz club. Instead we ended up at our favorite place, on the steps of the Sacre Coeur, drinking wine.

After watching the sunset, we moved to where we could see the Eiffel Tower light show, and as my friends watched, Nick pulled me close and said, “Do you want to know why I really came to Paris?” before dropping to one knee and pulling out a box. Inside was the most beautiful ring I’d ever seen. I started crying before he even asked the question! One of my roommates had brought a bottle of champagne, and another friend had brought pastries for dessert. We celebrated right there in the street! We even have pictures of the whole thing, since Nick had thought to warn a friend with a camera.

Now that you’ve read the stories, it’s your turn to weigh in!
You can vote for your favorite story once a day, so remember to come back tomorrow!

Voting closes at 12:05 am (PST) on Friday, February 12th.
We’ll post the winner later that day!

Submit your story to Proposal Magazine!

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