Will Laura & Wesley become the first couple to repeat their victory or will one of these two couples beat them out?
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1. Laura Clontz & Wesley Hargrove
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Date: November 25, 2009

Laura writes:
Wesley and I have known of each other since elementary school. He was in love with my best friend in fifth grade.

We “went out” in eighth grade for a month or so. Different middle schools was so rough, and it didn’t last. In high school, we became great friends and started dating again sophomore year. When it was time for college, I stayed in our hometown, and he went off to Santa Barbara, California, where he’s been most of the year for the last four years. Even with the long distance, we knew that we were perfect. In total, we will have been together for six years this March.

In November, I came to visit from Texas for Thanksgiving and Wesley’s birthday. He took me to a beach that we often visited during the summer we lived in Santa Barbara, with cliffs overlooking the beach and the ocean. It was sunset, which is our favorite time of day. As we sat and talked on the cliffs, Wesley said he wanted to go down to the beach. We both stood up, but instead of walking down the cliffs, he knelt down, took the ring out of his pocket, and asked me to marry him.

I said yes, and he told me that the people behind us with cameras were his friends taking pictures of us, so we now have pictures from the actual proposal! We spent the rest of the night on the phone with family and friends!

We’re now planning our marriage on October 23, 2010 here in Texas. And even though we’re still 1600+ miles apart, we know that there is nothing else that we would rather be doing. This is love.

2. Bonnie & Lee Hodge
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Date: March, 2005

Bonnie & Lee

Bonnie writes:
On a Tuesday afternoon, I got a call from my boyfriend, Lee. He told me that at work he’d won a free dinner for 2 at a restaurant downtown, but that we had to use it that night. It was a treat to go out on a weeknight so, of course, I was excited. It was a beautiful restaurant inside a Marriott Hotel. We ordered a bottle of wine and the food was amazing. When dinner was over, we took the rest of the bottle of wine and decided to go to the Parthenon Park downtown. It’s kind of like Nashville’s “Central Park” – only it has a life-size replica of the Greek Parthenon.

We walked around hand-in-hand for a bit and then on the steps of the Parthenon, in the moonlight, he got down on one knee, told me how much he loved me and asked me to be his wife. I was very surprised but very happy. I said yes and we got married 6 months later. He later confessed he had not won a free dinner, he was just trying to catch me by surprise… He succeeded. That was 5 years and 2 kids ago and we’ve been blissfully happy ever since.

3. John Barry & Andrea Kessler
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: September 6, 2008

Andrea & John

John writes:
I had ordered the engagement ring, but it hadn’t arrived, and frankly, I hadn’t planned the How. I wasn’t going to worry about that very long.

We had been house-shopping for a few months, and one Sunday afternoon, we put in an offer on the house we wanted. To celebrate, we went to the supermarket to pick up a bottle of wine. Andrea seemed a million miles away. I could read her face: “How could I be entangling my finances with a boy who hasn’t even proposed?”

To her credit, she had the trust in me to still take this leap before the greater leap of marriage. But I didn’t want that.

Without ring in hand, in the parking lot of Jewel-Osco, I smiled at her and said, “I’ve got a secret.”

“What is it?” she asked.

“Your engagement ring is being shipped right now. . . Would you marry me?”

And she smiled and cried “Yes!”

We kissed in the parking lot in the one of the lowest budget, yet most romantic, proposals either of us had seen on television. Two days later when the ring arrived, I got down on one knee two days later and placed it on her finger like a proper gentleman.

Now that you’ve read the stories, it’s your turn to weigh in. The winning couple will be revealed Friday.

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