[ASTalumna06]

This story is about how my cousin (we’ll call him Chris), proposed to his wife (we’ll call her Stacy), and I just had to tell it.

The two of them had planned to rent a movie one night. Chris said he’d pick up the video and he promised Stacy he wouldn’t get anything too “guy-ish”. She agreed, and he came home later with a couple movies. She asked him what he got and he said it was a surprise. She watched tv while he made some popcorn.

He came in the room, handed her the bowl, and put in the movie. Well.. my other cousin’s husband works for a production company and he put together a movie of Chris and Stacy. It was from all of the vacations they took together (and there were a lot!). At the beginning of the movie, Chris pops up on the screen and says what the movie is about, and says that he loves her and that he hopes she enjoys the show.

As the movie goes on, there are tons of pictures of them… goofy ones, nice ones… and there was some video added in, also.

At the end of it, Chris comes back on the screen, saying how much he loves her, etc. etc. Then he says, “Hold on..” He disappears off camera for no more than 5 seconds, and he comes back wearing a tux. He says, “This seemed a bit more appropriate for the occasion, but I’ll turn it over to Chris now..” The REAL Chris then pulled out the ring and got down on one knee. Meanwhile, on the video, Chris is standing there and in the top corner appears a big picture of a ring... he looks up at it, points at it, looks straight ahead again, and smiles.

The next time my family visited, he had us watch the video and it was the cutest thing. And I'm sure the actual proposal was just as adorable