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The Official History of Palindrome Day

Recounted by Sedora

Meddlesome Editorial Interference by Mike

Date & Location:

  • Date: 2.12.12 (<---it's a Palindrome!)

  • Location: Near Guard Tower 36, Newport Beach, CA

 

Fun Facts:

  • By 2012, we had been dating for about 8 years.

  • The date and the ring were planned.

  • We started shopping for engagement rings in December 2011.

  • We custom designed our ring at Princess Bride Diamond in Huntington Beach in January 2012 but had to wait a month to get it, which is why we got engaged in February, which has no special significance for us.

  • Yes, I made us wait until a Palindrome day so the date would be easier to remember. Also, I'm nerdy about dates and numbers like that.

 

The story:

 

I think Mike's plan to propose went something like this:

 

1. Take Sedora to brunch at The Beach House (an oceanview restaurant in Laguna Beach) and wear a buttondown shirt. (Bonus!)

 

2. Walk along the beach.

 

3. Go home to Newport Beach and get ready for dinner.

 

4. At sunset, make Sedora carry a secretly packed Trader Joe's paper bag (containing all the proposal-related props) out to the beach. 

 

5. On the beach, present the photo album of (not-that-well sorted from facebook) photos from our years together, and read off the paper as Sedora looks through the album. Hope she doesn't notice the reading. (She does, but won't say anything till recounting the proposal for this website to put you on blast to all our guests :D)

 

6. Present ring. Get engaged!!! Celebrate with bubbly! Take photos till Sedora says we can stop. 

 

7. Put jackets back on after the photos cuz it's Februrary and freezing at the beach.

 

8. Go inside and call close friends and family, then post on fb.

 

This is a super un-mushy version of what happened, but I don't like mushy, so that's all you get. 

 

Other fun proposal facts:

  • Mike planted the empty blue ring box in the dresser drawer cuz he knew I would snoop while he was in the bathroom at some point during the weekend. I was SO EXCITED when i saw the box and SO MAD when i opened it and found it empty and knew he had planted it on purpose! See what I mean about him knowing me and foiling all my plans?!?!?

  • I flew out the next day (we were still long distance), so we didn't even really celebrate with any family until three months later at my grad school graduation.

  • We had a 2.5 year engagement.

MIKE & SEDORA

8.30.14

the PROPOSAL

[Mike wants me to insert here that he remembers carrying the bag, but I'm pretty sure I remember teasing him about making me carry my own getting-proposed-to bag, so you can side with him if you're on Team Mike, or side with me if you're on Team Sedora. Or don't choose a side, since this is a trivial detail.]

[Mike wants me to explicitly state here that I really did like the propsal, but I obviously did, otherwise I would've said no. :D JK, I was touched and of course super happy!]

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