that's right i just proposed to my girlfriend crazy right but i wanted to do it in a special way
something that was unique fitting to me and fitting to her so in today's video i'm going
to be walking you guys through my creative process with these custom laser ingrained air force ones
that i use for my proposal i'll be showing you guys some in-depth looks of the sneaker telling
a little bit about the backstory and showing some clips from the proposal as well and if you didn't
know by now my name is dj and this is the dna show so when it comes to proposals we have seen
people come up with so many crazy ideas and a lot of very simple ideas as well and i couldn't
figure out exactly what i wanted to do there's different options like doing it in a stadium
or somewhere just private with just me and her or maybe friends and family involved who knows what
the right answer is so throughout the time that we had been dating i had always asked her questions
like what would a dream proposal be like tell me how you feel about it what do you want it to be
and she told me months before the proposal she wanted to be something more intimate something
with just her family and friends and all of our close people in our circle and the people
that truly love us and are really around us supporting us every single day and for me
i love situations like that because all my friends and family know i love being in an environment
with all of them because it's just nothing but good vibes we're always having a great time
so something like this was right up my alley now i had purchased the ring months before this time
but i just couldn't figure out exactly when i wanted to do the proposal i couldn't figure out
how i was gonna do it and all these different things and some people had thought i was gonna
do it on my birthday and then months went by and i thought maybe you're gonna do it for christmas
and then you're gonna do it for this time that time and then just time kind of goes by and
i'm just trying to figure out the right time and i was like you know what i'm overthinking it
it doesn't matter i really love this girl i want to be with her i just want to propose to her let's
figure out when the next big day is and let's make it happen then so her birthday was coming
up and i surprised her with the full trip to aruba before her birthday because i wanted to make sure
that it was scheduled right and everything was correct that way i wasn't impeding on her schedule
and everything like that so everything worked out i surprised her with that and she thought
that was her big birthday gift so a week goes by and now her birthday is actually here and i'm like
man that was kind of dope i'm gonna give her the ring i'm gonna propose to her i think i want to
do like a surprise party or something like that i have another house so i'm like maybe i can trick
her to thinking like let's go out to dinner on our way to dinner we got to stop at the other property
to check on it real quick or something like that and then you know maybe i can have all the people
already there and it's already prepped and i come in we do the surprise and then i do proposal later
in the night so i had that stuff kind of brewing in my head i put it all together within a couple
days and everything worked out pretty smooth but for some reason it just wasn't hitting right to
me i'm like okay we got the trip we got the surprise party i'm gonna do the proposal at
the surprise party but then i was like i want to do something else you know me i'm a sneaker head
i got to do something sneaker related too because i just you know i got to mix it in there so two
days before her birthday i said you know what let's make some custom laser engrained air force
ones that says will you marry me on it she'll read the shoe in front of everybody it'll have
her birthday which is also the proposal date on it and then she'll turn around and i'll give her
the ring this is gonna be a great idea so i called up my boys over at custom depot and they got me a
rush order in and they got my shoes customized for me within the day so right here on the back of the
sneaker you can see the proposal date which is the day of her birthday as well and on the front of
the sneaker where you typically see the silver air force one metal piece we actually switched that
out with little wood pieces laser engrained with both of our faces on each of the shoes so as you
can see right here on the right foot you have a picture of her face and on the left foot you have
a picture of my face obviously her face looks a lot better than mine but hey it is what it is
and just below that on the front end of the foot it says will you marry me because we
weren't sure what shoe she was gonna grab first so we figured hey we might as well put it on both
and this came out amazing so i couldn't go pick up the shoes i knew if i would have done it something
would have been kind of suspicious she would have thought i was up to something so i had my dad pick
up the shoes from the guys over at custom depot and they also made this dope satin bag right here
and it has her name on it with the swoosh and this thing is fire so the shoes actually came
in this bag and she couldn't see will you marry me on there because she only saw the bag and she saw
that had her name on it and they were specially made for her so when they threw that satin dust
bag in there to hold the shoes i thought it was an amazing touch something i didn't even think of
and i'm telling you right now it came out perfect so the shoes were complete the surprise party was
set up the trip was already booked i had the ring in my pocket the whole time so now all i gotta do
is wait for the night to make the proposal so we got ready for dinner i told her to dress up in
something nice and now we have reservations for a certain time and we couldn't be late and all these
other things making her believe that we're going out for dinner because typically that's what we
do we go out for dinner we have some nice spots we have a good time but tonight we had a little
twist so we get in the car she thinks we're on our way to dinner and i say hey we need to stop
at the other property real quick i gotta check out something we were just getting done with a couple
upgrades on the home before we started to rent it out so i thought hey come inside real quick
check out the new remodels that we made on the house and then we can hurry up and go to dinner
i had her walk into the front door first everybody was there friends and family greeting her with a
surprise birthday cake food and everybody had a really good time that night so now let me take
you guys through my mental process and what was going on within the next 30 minutes because i knew
the proposal was coming very very soon and my life was about to change i think one of the most common
questions that a lot of men ask other men is are you nervous i got that question a whole lot when
i told some of my friends that i was going to be proposing and i had already purchased the ring
and they always asked me if i was nervous and i told them no i have the woman of my dreams i
look forward to being with her for the rest of my life and why would i have something to be nervous
about i'm excited for this journey and i know that god is gonna look after us throughout this process
and yes obviously everybody's gonna have a little bit of jitters or something like that but i wasn't
like nervous about her saying no or anything like that it was just more that i wanted to make sure
that she really enjoyed it as well and that not just about me being happy with what happened but
that she was happy with it as well so we're all hanging out kicking and eating food just
got done with the cake now it's my time to give her this gift that she thinks is a pair of shoes
because i'm telling everybody you know i got some shoes for you because i typically give everybody
a pair of sneakers for their birthday so i come out with a box of shoes they're already wrapped
up which thank you to whoever wrapped them up i don't know if it was my mom or my dad but
i didn't even get to see the shoes or wrap them up because i just saw the mock-ups in the photos
because i never got to see them in hand until that day but i knew they had looked good just from the
photos so the box was wrapped up with wrap and paper she opened up the box she saw that the dust
bag had her name on it and it was very special and unique to her she looked at the sneakers and saw
the faces and then she read the shoe and saw that it said will you marry me okay okay what is this
now you know me i'm extremely awkward i tried my best to hold my composure but i was smiling
through the whole time because i was just so excited to marry this woman right after
she said yes my heart filled with joy and you know i had to hit him with the classic
and that's basically how things went i had some custom air force ones made for
we had a great time we went out to aruba we had a great trip and everything overall i thought
was a great success and i'm definitely excited to never have to worry about putting a proposal
together ever again so stay tuned because we're gonna have all the wedding footage and
all the stuff posted here on the channel i'm excited to share that stuff with you guys
as well what sneakers i'm gonna wear to the wedding you know i'm wearing sneakers don't
let's not even debate about that we're definitely wearing sneakers to the wedding
actually one of the rules of the wedding is going to be nobody can come to the wedding
unless they're wearing sneakers all men must wear sneakers and speaking of that we actually have an
additional pair of custom laser ingrained dna show air force ones i'm going to be talking about these
in a little bit this is a friends and family exclusive i was only able to get 23 pairs made
and i'm excited to share this whole process with you guys as well so make sure you subscribe to
the channel for this as well because i'm going to be giving one pair away to you guys and i'm
going to be opening up the door for a few people to actually have the opportunity to purchase the
sneaker as well so i hope you guys enjoyed this this is how i did my proposal in my unique way
let me know what your creative ideas are for your proposals in the future or some other dope ideas
for other people to recommend for them as well and uh yeah i'm excited to marry my fiance and have a
dope wedding and all those other fancy things so i'll see y'all on another one all right i'm out
my shoes didn't come in the mail my my jacket was messed up my other jacket didn't come in the
middle the other jacket that i ordered was too small it was a size medium i need like a xl so
i got no clothes my wedding is in i don't know how many hours we got to figure this out yeah let's go
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