So, I'm engaged now

I bet when you clicked this link from "Active forum topics", you weren't expecting to see my little radioactive icon as the author of the thread.

So, one week before we had been dating for exactly four years, I asked the girl I love to marry me. But not quite so simply.

No, first, she had to run all over town in a "scavenger hunt" patterned after The Amazing Race, complete with Logan serving as cameraman with his fine Sony HD camcorder.

At each stop of the "race", she would find a relative or friend. Three of her friends came from out of town to participate. She had to do various tasks like find a certain item inside a store, paint a picture, race a go-kart, and (my favorite) participate in a miniature NFL combine, complete with 40-yard-dash time and Wonderlic test. Perhaps the best moment is when she didn't know what the word "gridiron" referred to, and she ended up asking people in the mall what it meant - finally getting an answer from former Oakland Raider and AFL Hall of Fame receiver Art Powell, who was signing autographs in the mall.

At the end, she found everyone waiting for her at the restaurant at which we had our first date. There, I proposed to her, she accepted (this was a foregone conclusion - she had been pretty much bugging me to hurry up the proposal for some time ), and we all enjoyed a wonderful Japanese food dinner.

Soon, we will shoot some B-roll, and take all of that film and cut it together into a TV-style broadcast, complete with dramatic soundtrack and all that fun stuff.

And since I know that...

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... I shall oblige

But...but...does she like football?

Rat Boy wrote:

But...but...does she like football?

Yes, she likes football. It's something she's learning as she goes. Each season, she's watched more and more on TV and in person. Given enough time, she'll be watching the draft.

Football's a work in progress, but she loves hockey. She's been a season ticket holder to the local ECHL team for 3 years now.

Congrats! That's a really neat way to propose. I've always wanted to do a scavenger hunt.

lunabean wrote:

Congrats! That's a really neat way to propose. I've always wanted to do a scavenger hunt.

The DVD final product will be a real gem - especially with some of the unexpected things that happened during the "race" (like the classic Art Powell part, some trouble with a Hot Topic employee, and a part where she took a quick detour into a mall store instead of urgently following the directions to her next location )

I also blatently ripped off one task from The Amazing Race, and had her get random passerbys in a public place to agree to let her weigh them, until she had weighed enough people to total up to a certain number of pounds. Though it wasn't original, it was certainly a kick.

That explains why you didn't join us in Choas Theory tonight.

Edwin wrote:

That explains why you didn't join us in Choas Theory tonight.

But does it justify the absence?

Congratulations, now go make tiny people!

Congrats, Legion! I hope you are considering posting the video for us, or at least the outtakes.

Regardless, all the best!

Congrats man. I'm not going to let my fiance see this because my proposal was not nearly as planned.
Good luck with the wedding planning. I suggest writing a max number down, adding 10%, putting your fingers in your ears, getting in the fetal position, and agreeing with everything she says.

Her parents get to do the paying. I just gotta finish my master's degree, get a job for when school ends, and well, do the fetal position and agreeing part.

To date, I have suggested:
* having my wedding ring be the One Ring of Power
* allowing me to walk to the wedding stage to Rick Derringer's "Real American" (which some will remember as Hulk Hogan's theme back in the day)

Guess how far these suggestions went?

*Legion* wrote:

To date, I have suggested:
* having my wedding ring be the One Ring of Power
* allowing me to walk to the wedding stage to Rick Derringer's "Real American" (which some will remember as Hulk Hogan's theme back in the day)

Guess how far these suggestions went?

Oh man, she denied the ring of power?? It'd be so cool to have that as a wedding ring. My wedding ring belonged to my grandma; she died a few months before I got married so I inherited it.

As for the Hulk Hogan theme, well she's right to have denied that.

she loves hockey. She's been a season ticket holder to the local ECHL team for 3 years now.

She has my approval. You may marry her.

Congrats amigo. May the marriage be long and eventually blessed with legionnaires.

Let me just get into the ugly side of this:

In order to properly record this, I had to stay mute. And by that, I mean even when I wasn't recording. Otherwise, that would open the door to her grilling me on what the whole day was about.

And let me tell you something, she hates silence.

We planned for approximately nine tasks to go from 1pm - 5pm. I believe the time where we actually ended up at the restaurant was 8pm, but when I realized we were going over, I just stopped looking at my watch, for I had been operating under the assumption that we would get on time. Meaning I had been expending far more energy than I should've.

Originally I just kept quiet because it was just the best way to get the result we wanted. Five hours into it I was silent because I was sleeping with my eyes open.

I love the girl, but following her was basically as difficult as following Jack Bauer throughout Los Angeles. Not to mention that halfway through I got in a tiff with Hot Topic staff which ultmately resulted in having security called on me.

Follow this by going to the local amusement park and using my expensive sports coat to hide the camcorder before getting on the go-carts and having a "cart cam," getting good footage of her turning into a fat kid and making him spin out in front of us.

I would've been pleased, were I not worred about the $2,000+ camcorder in my hands without any sort of contraption keeping it from falling to pavement.

After the proposal was over with and the applause died down, everyone sort of sat down except me, and I just pointed to her and said, "I'm gonna kill her." Everyone laughed their asses off, because they knew exactly what I was talking about.

Followed by, "Now, can someone, tell me, where the bathroom is?" Hence my standing up. I had no time for bathroom breaks.

We originally had cards for me to hold up - "Bathroom Break" written on them, as a means to slow her down in case we had an abundance of time. Since we were taking up too much time, guess what? The opposite happened. I'd been holding it for five fraking hours!

Oy. At least on indie film sets you get to piss when you want.

Just get him back at the Bachelor party.

Congrats Legion! Happy wedding planning.

Congrats, man! GL with all the planning. My fiancee and I (200 days to go!) are doing it all ourselves, and getting stuff done early is The Way.

Nothing much to add, except for the obvious: Congratulations, and best of luck.

Vector wrote:
she loves hockey. She's been a season ticket holder to the local ECHL team for 3 years now.

She has my approval. You may marry her.

Congrats amigo. May the marriage be long and eventually blessed with legionnaires.

Ditto, I approve. Why is there an ECHL team in CA? Very cool way to propose, you're a special guy Mr. Legion.

Two of my friends got married and have wedding bands that are similar to the One Ring actually and have elven script inscribed in them or something. Of course, they're both geeks, but eh. Good luck!

Congratulations *Legion*! That was a very imaginative way to propose.

Congratulations and good luck.

Awesome stories! Congratulations. And totally massize props to Legion for pre-emptively posting the pics that he knew would be requested. Although I'm sure we wouldn't mind some of the actual engagement day/dinner.

Man, respek power to Logan for being a true friend. The unsung hero in this story.

I can't imagine ever going through that much trouble to get a girl to marry me. Hell, they're the ones who should propose... And I'll keep running away.

Grats Legion!

You have now spoiled any guy's chance to get off easy with a proposal if their lady reads these boards!

Congratulations Legion, and best of luck keeping your sanity while planning the wedding.

BTW forget the pics, I wanna see that video of your fiance driving like Tony Stewart on the Go-Karts.

Congratulations, Legion! (Now if only I could work up the courage to do the same...)

As far as the Ring goes, my boss has the silver version. Just for the record, its fun having a fellow geek as a boss. She's also the one that gave me my free 10-day trial to WoW.

Damn her.

Congrats Legion! That was a really cool way to get engaged. Although you didn't say for sure, I'm guessing she knew what was going to happen at the end of the scavenger hunt?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

in all seriousness congrats and good luck with everything.. my one piece of advice... Communication is the key!

Congratulations! Oh, and...

Congratulations, now go make tiny gamers!

Fixed it for Danjo

Gratz!

Congrats! And props to Logan for sticking with the plan: I couldn't help imagine the guy in your avatar running about with camcorder in hand not saying a word

Congratulations and the best of luck to you and your bride to be.

First off: well done. Your SO now has a story to tell each time the pack o' women congregate and share stories on getting engaged. You literally have more capital in the bank than you know . . . at least until after your 1st year of marriage when you have to come up with something clever for your anniversary.

Let me be the first to offer condolences on the whole wedding planning thing.