Celebrations By Design: 7/1/09

I have had the great pleasure of working with April the past few months and we have had a great time talking and preparing for her and Terrell’s bid day!

I like to share my clients love stories and proposals because I’m a hopeless romantic and love when there’s some creativity shown as well as their love for each other.

Here it is…the love story and proposal of April & Terrell…

Our Love Story

One night while hanging out at my sister’s job, I struck up a conversation with an insightful bartender named Kriss. Later that night Kriss called my sister and asked for my number. I was a little upset behind this request because I knew that Kriss had a girlfriend and thought he was trying to pull a fast one! ;-) But as it turned out, he wanted to my number for a friend of his. Well, I got ready to give him my “I-don’t-do-blind-dates” spiel, but decided to give him my number anyway. What the heck- I was new in town and hey, it was a free meal! Lol! Anyway, that was on a Wednesday and Terrell called me that Friday afternoon. Of course I had to play hard-to-get, so I called him back on Saturday. He was about to leave town, but promised to call me the next day when he arrived back in Nashville.

The next day he called and Terrell and I talked, and talked, and talked all day that Sunday. We talked from afternoon until around 9 p.m., took a break to eat, and then talked well into the early hours. Although I did not know him at all, I felt as if I had known Terrell for years. Talking to him felt so natural and I wanted to tell him everything about me. No secrets, pretensions, or guards- just me as I am. We went on our first date the following Friday at the Firefly Grille in Green Hills, which is where he proposed to me last November.

The Proposal

Now, I should have realized something was up on the night he asked me to marry him. Terrell was not eating his food, looking nervous, and just acting “off”. After dinner, he told me that he’d ordered dessert, which was strange because we NEVER ate dessert when we went out… plus he hardly ate his dinner. The waiter brought over the dessert and said “Would you like me to cut this Miss?” I said “Sure”, without looking at him, and kept talking to Terrell. Then the waiter asks me again, so I said “Sure” again…but this time I looked up at him. That’s when I noticed that he was looking back and forth from me to the cake gesturing for me to look at this ‘special’ dessert. So I did, and noticed it had some writing on it. As I looked at the cake to see what was so special about this dessert I started to read the words on the cake slowly. Hmmm…Will… you… marry… me—WILL YOU MARRY ME?!?!?!? “OF COURSE!!” I started crying and then Terrell got on one knee and asked me to be his wife. Naturally I said “YES!!!” …and the rest is to be continued until 07/31/09!