Kathleen and Gary's Engagement Story

Below is Kathleen and Gary's Engagement Story. Very sneaky Gary with the dessert menu and Kathleen thought it was never going to happen!

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Gary and I had been dating for almost 4 years. Gary graduated from college in May, and I would graduate in December. We had discussed engagement several times, but it didn't seem as though he was very motivated to propose any time soon. I am very much of a planner, so I wanted to know if I should expect it within 6 months, a year, never?? Just so I could either tell myself to let it go because it wouldn't be for a while and to look to live on my own for a while, or to be thinking about our future. He would get so frustrated when I would bring it up. Our last discussion a week before he proposed he was laughing when I was asking him serious questions about engagement/marriage -- and man was I pissed! I said, "You're laughing? What is wrong with you? This is serious, Gary. Just forget it."Well, to celebrate our 4 year anniversary, he took me out to dinner. We had been to the Eagle's Nest for our 3 year anniversary and loved it, so we decided to go back for our 4 year anniversary. Before dinner I said, "So are we going to get dessert?" Gary responded, "Yea we have to celebrate." Well we got halfway through our dinner and I said, "No dessert for me I am already stuffed." Gary said, "Oh come on, we have to have a dessert on our anniversary." So I said ok and asked for a to-go box for the rest of my steak. The waitress asked if she could bring us any coffee, and I said, "No thank you, but could you bring us a dessert menu please?" SO she did, and I looked toward the bottom of the menu first. I saw Carrot Cake then Honeymoon Delight. I thought, "Honeymoon Delight that doesn't sound like a dessert"- below it said "Spending the rest of my life with you... Kathleen, will you marry me?"Gary took out the ring, got down on his knee and proposed. I was absolutely shocked, and I was shaking. I said yes and we're getting married October 25th. I then realized why he was laughing a week earlier. He had already purchased the ring and he didn't know how to respond to my questions without giving it away.