Prom-posal Story!



There's no way I can do the proposal story justice through my mediocre words, but I still want to have it written, and for you to know! It was unbelievable. Maybe I'll bullet it. Yes, I'll bullet it.

• got home from work yesterday (ben had the day off, but usually we come home from work together).
• ben said that he wanted to treat me to dinner at robintino's, an italian restaurant in bountiful.
• we stuck around the house for a little while, then off we went.
• but first he used an excuse to get me to go to my place.
• we get to my bedroom, and there on my bed is a dress that he rented from a fancy formalwear place (i had gone to this place to get the correct fitting, so i knew a special proposal was approaching, but i didn't know when/what we were doing).
• he said, "you're gonna want to be wearing that. i'll be back in a half-hour to pick you up."
• i scrambled to get a girl over to help me put on my dress, but wasn't having any luck. i began to get ready myself.
• he also had some of his mom's beeeautiful jewelry and silver purse there for me to accesorize my dress with.
• i finally got his sister-in-law to come over and hook/zip me up.
• a few minutes later, he arrived!
• we walked outside to a streeeetch white hummer limo. oh em gee.
• the limo driver took us to robintino's where we enjoyed a yummy italian meal.
• then we went to our church building where ben with his family's help had set up a prom scene (neither ben nor i went to our own high school proms).
• we took pictures, danced, ate, the whole nine yards.
• after that fun, he went onto the stage and in the microphone announced the prom king and queen. i wonder who they were?
• with sashes and crowns/tiaras, we released the balloon/rose petal/confetti drop.
• ben brought out a cake that said "i love you, ashley." he asked me to remove one of the (icing) roses from the cake.
• the one he asked me to remove wasn't actually icing. it was a RING BOX!!!!!!!
• he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him.
• i said, "yes...hahahahah...of course...hahahah."
• i opened the box, and took out the most gorgeous ring.
• we embraced. a lot.
• we danced to our song, "the rose," as performed by westlife.
• we then picked up our friends, sophia and troy who were waiting on stand-by, and some of ben's family members in the limo, and brought them back to the gym to enjoy the remainder of prom with us.
• sophia and troy then came home with us. we opened a bottle of martinelli's.
• i called my family and gave them this bulleted list.
• ta-da!
• i'm engaged!
• the wedding date is 11-11-11 in the reno lds temple.