hey guys why am i crying I am officially engaged to Michael James Morris why am i crying
stop crying. I have received such an outpouring of love and congratulations
from you guys but I've also received a ton of questions - how did it happen? can
you show us the ring? were you surprised? so I just wanted to make this engagement
video to tell you guys what happened and also to thank you all from the bottom of
our hearts for how much endless love and support you have for me and Michael as a
couple it's really remarkable. as many of you know I've been dating Michael for
nine years and we both have sort of discussed the fact that we would love to
get married in 2019 which is our 10-year anniversary of being together, so because
of that, it was only natural that 2018 was gonna be the engagement year but the
question was, when is it gonna be? it could have been any time from January
1st through December 31st I was ready for any day. so for our nine year
anniversary we decided to celebrate by going out to the Hamptons together where
his family has a house and we were gonna spend the weekend alone he actually gave
me for our anniversary day passes to this spa in Montauk that we
love. the plan was to go out there, chill, go to the lighthouse, go to the spa,
just sort of relax and enjoy the Hamptons at this time of year when it's
kind of quiet.
and so to make a long story short...we went out to the Hamptons together, we
went to the spa, then we drove together to the lighthouse and we took a few
photos at that beautiful view at the Montauk lighthouse. so after we went to
the lighthouse we were driving back to his house because he told me that he
wanted to go to a wine tasting event at a vineyard out there around 4:00 and at
this point it was around 3:30 or so. so we're driving back to his house and just
before he makes the turn to go to his street he decides to go the other way
and he says that he just wants to swing by the beach to take a few photos. and
this was really believable to me because first and foremost we loved that beach.
it's the Beach closest to his house, it's when we go to every summer when it's
warm out. and number two, for our anniversary, I had just gotten him a new
telephoto lens for his camera so it made sense that he wanted to go to the beach
we get to the beach it's pretty empty there's only one other car there, we
decide to walk down to the water and start taking a walk but the moment we
turn to start taking a walk Michael, starts turning towards me as I'm turning
towards him and he stops me and he hugs me and he says so I have a little
surprise for you, and then he got down on his knee and that's when the whole
engagement proposal happened. I remember being in that moment and thinking to
myself how badly I wanted to remember the moment and so I have this vision in
my head if I close my eyes of Michael on his knee in front of me, and it was a
really really sweet special moment I was tearing up, I started to cry.
I actually remember when he opened the box and showed me the ring I couldn't
even see it because I had tears in my eyes. so I'm not gonna repeat what he
said on his knee, but he gave me the sweetest speech and when we got up and
we hugged and kissed he turned and said hi Jen, and we look up the beach and
there was a photographer there with a camera who had just captured that entire
moment in photos. after the proposal she actually staged a few
more photos of us, and we took a few cute engagement photos on the beach. at this
point I was kind of looking around looking for my family because I had told
Michael in the past that it was really important for me to have our families
around after the engagement they didn't need to be there for the engagement, but
I really wanted to be surrounded by the people who we love
almost immediately after the proposal, and I had told him that in the past like
that was kind of a dream of mine. and so when we're on the beach I said where is
everyone like is everyone at the vineyard are we going to meet everyone?
he said no nobody's here, I figured we would go to the vineyard, we would have
the wine tasting, we can come home and have the house to ourselves tonight and
then tomorrow we're going home and there's a surprise party and you know
our families both know and they're waiting for us and they're so excited. I
wasn't, you know, crushed that they weren't there. I was a little bit
deflated that I was gonna go home and FaceTime them instead of seeing them in
person, but I could not have been upset I had just gotten engaged and I was so so
excited to go call them. we get in the car and we drive home and he says we
have about 20 minutes at home before the wine tasting event starts so let's go
inside and let's FaceTime everyone. we walk into the house to go FaceTime
everyone and I walk into the living room and everyone is there
with decorations and champagne and there was no wine-tasting event because we
were having a big family party at the house with our two immediate families, and we were having a big dinner and a big pajama party and I couldn't I oh my
gosh I just could not have envisioned a better scenario post engagement for the
people that I really wanted to be around. so now that you know that my family
was actually there, they essentially parked their cars across the street so
that we wouldn't see the cars when we pulled up, you know they were there all
day while we were at the spa in the lighthouse and I just had no idea, I
thought everyone was back home in the city. so we don't have a video on our end
of the actual proposal but my family set up a phone and took a video on their end
of them waiting in the house waiting for us to come home and then actually
surprising us when we walked in. and Michael and I watched this video it's a
10-minute video so I cannot show you the whole thing... we think it happened already
we don't know! we're waiting for them to come home... it's so fun for me and
Michael to watch that and to see how when we were so excited and we were just
on our way home to go call them that our families were so excited and freaking
out over the situation and getting ready to surprise us, and by the time we
actually walked into the house and I saw everyone I just lost it. I collapsed on
the floor.
alright we have a nine minute video!
check it check it check it check it all right bye-bye.
I was crying, everyone came over and started hugging us, we did a whole
champagne toast, and then we had dinner together. we pretty much put on our
pajamas right away and we had a double family pajama party, we went on a walk,
and then we had a giant sleepover all together. and now we're engaged. this is
the ring for everyone who's been asking me. it's pretty much my dream ring. I
described to Michael exactly what I really loved and wanted but then I let
him make it his own. and it is rose gold and it's a split shank with a circular
stone in the middle, and every time I look at my hand, I mean, besides the fact
that it's so sparkly and shiny, I seriously see Michael in this. like, I
just see the fact that he spent so much time... I'm crying again! and spent so much
of his time and his energy and money on making this for me and, like, making sure
that I was happy with it. and he's now told me all the stories about how he
went to the jeweler and got it made and went back and forth many times to pick
out the diamond. and he told me about this dinner that he had with my parents
in February where he asked for my hand and how he had such an incredible dinner
just the three of them. it feels different to have him be my fiance
versus my boyfriend. I did not think it would -- we've now been talking about
getting married since college -- he is my person you know.
so that's the story. I hope I answered all of your guys questions. once again I
am so grateful to all of you guys for your never-ending support and love that
you have for both me and Michael I cannot believe that 50,000 people in the
world saw and, you know, shared their love for us on that post. I just want to say
thank you to everyone, and we have a lot of wedding planning to do but we have
not begun yet so please, you know, any suggestions, anyone who's gotten married
and wants to give us words of wisdom, we welcome them below!
we really do. Michael's not here right now, but I'm sure if he was here he would
say hi and thank you to all of you out there, and that's it.
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