I met Michael in January of 2018 on a dating app. We went on our first date in February and have been together ever since. In December of 2018, we decided to get married, but were not engaged yet. He wanted to give me a real proposal and I was impatient. Why did I need a real proposal when he could just hand me a ring and we could make it Facebook official? I must admit, I have never been happier to be proven wrong.

Michael promised me he would propose before Spring Break, meaning I was immediately suspicious of his every move whenever we spent time together. I also started frisking his jacket pockets when he wasn’t looking. I knew he found a ring because Michael and my wife (AKA, my sister and best friend, Macie) had both told me he found and purchased a ring. Several other people knew about the ring and the plans for the proposal as well. After unsuccessfully trying to bribe Michael’s sister to give me the details, I settled into a state of constant discontent suspicion. I over analyzed everything he said and every move he made, trying to decide if he was going to pop the question in that moment or if I could snag some detail about the proposal from something he said. In other words, I was acting insane.

Fast forward to a couple weeks ago. Michael has been wanting me to watch the Bourne movies for a long time. To be 100% honest, I was not incredibly excited about these movies. I’m just not a big fan of action movies. However, my sister heard we were thinking about watching them and said she wanted to watch them. Michael suggested spending a Saturday together watching the Bourne movies. I said we should invite Macie and he quickly said we should invite her. Macie was available, so we decided to watch the movies together.

Now, this Saturday was the Saturday before Spring Break. I figured he would propose that day. I called Macie the night before and asked if I should look cute. Macie, being an excellent accomplice, told me to dress however I wanted because we were just watching movies. She did, however, suggest looking cute whenever I saw Michael until he proposed. Naturally, I did not heed her advice the next morning and showed up at Michael’s house in a sweatshirt and gross messy bun. I looked like a grease weasel.

For this next part of the story, you need to understand a few things about my fiance. First, he is amazingly creative when it comes to technology. This man constantly amazes me with the things he builds. One of these things is his home theatre. He has a Roku and a digital movie server hooked up to a projector, which projects onto a big screen. All of this can either be controlled from his phone or his computer.

We watched Bourne Identity without incident. I was starting to think this really was just a movie day. I ran upstairs for a minute and came back down in time to start Bourne Supremacy. The movie description was up on the screen. I could see the cover, the actors, the summary, the Rotten Tomatoes rating, everything. Michael pressed play and instead of seeing Matt Damon, I saw my sister.

“Hi Maddie! First, I just want to say gotcha!”

I quickly realized what was happening and settled into watching the sweet video. The video had my sister, then my dad and step-mom, then my step-dad, then Michael’s sister, then Michael’s parents, and then finally, Michael. His sweet message to me ended with, “I need you to walk up to the movie screen.”

Moments later, there was a ring on my finger.

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