I’d been planning this for so long, and me having such a big mouth made it so hard to keep this under wraps but I’m glad to say I pulled it off!
For the past few months I’ve been screwing with Chrstina’s brain into thinking that there might be some doubt in our relationship, mean, I know, but I just wanted this to be a big surprise!
I first told Mum that I’d like to propose to Christina, she went ape. I then worked up the courage to ask Christinas parents. I think Christina’s Mum wears the pants in the family so I called her Mum about a month ago and told her I was in her area and would like to drop in for a chat in regards to Christina moving in to my place. Christina’s parents are traditional, and weren’t happy with the idea of her moving out so soon. I’m sure Rosemary was ready to let me know how she felt about it, but I admitted that I wasn’t really in the area at all. I lied (white lie! I’m sorry!) and that I wanted to ask her for her daughters hand in marriage. I was super nervous, she was teary and so happy :). The week after I had lunch with Rosemary and Tony and I got Tony’s blessing too. The only thing he had to say was that I should try to be more Chinese (!) which cracked me up.
They were both so happy that I was proposing, and more than happy for Christina to move in with me. That kinda fired me up a little. I made it really clear to them both that I was doing this for Christina and I, and not for them. Asking for Christina’s hand in marriage had nothing at all to make them happy about her moving in. They were cool with that though and it all works out great :)
That blue box.
Mum and Jamie helped me pick out a ring. Tiffany’s. I knew that already, but choosing a stone wasn’t as easy as I thought. Best thing was that Jamie was there to help me by being a ring model. In the end “internally flawless” sounded perfect to me. The smaller diamond looked great, proportionally to the ring but I had to get the bigger one. I just bit the bullet and went with it. :)
I wanted to propose on Christina’s B’day (27th April) and getting everyone to keep it quiet for the past month was always going to be the hardest part. My Mum was already telling relos overseas. Jamie and Richie were super cool, Rosemary and Tony had to keep it a secret from Christina’s younger sister Jess, that’s what I was most worried about!
We booked in to Altitude at the Shangri-La hotel for dinner. What I didn’t tell Christina was that I also booked in a hotel room with crazy harbour views (that was her pressie!). Yesterday I had butterflies in my stomach. I hardly slept the night before too. I think I took a one hour shower, then headed in to check-in and plan everything.
The view from the hotel room.
I put the ring in the hotel room safe. Spent some time looking out over the harbour and getting my nerves together then headed in to pick Christina up from work.
We had a cocktail, then dinner, which wasn’t as great as the view or service. I was trying my best to confuse Christina into thinking strange things about where we were going to go next, or what her B’day pressie was going to be. She was guessing a Ghost Tour, or absailing off the building (?!). I had her totally confused. After dinner I got her to close her eyes in the lift and when the doors opened we weren’t on the ground floor, but on the 15th :) I’d set up the room earlier that day with mood nighting (hehe) and wished her a Happy B’day.
Soon after I got down on one knee, presented the box and proposed. Chrstina’s eyes were popping out of her head and her jaw was on the floor (a funny face actually). Lots of laughter and she spent the next 20 minutes calling everyone, telling them off for not remembering her B’day, then telling them to sit down then dropping the news. I counted at least 50 “Oh My God’s”!
The ring.
The sun’s up!