Madison

How We Met: We lived in the same dorm freshmen year at UGA.., Our first meeting is blurry to me, but apparently Will walked around the dorms introducing himself to everyone who had their door open. I saw him often in the stairway, but i could barely get out a decent sentence because i had such a crush on him. He was quite the stud in the dorm, and I didn't think he could possibly be interested in me. I found out later that he thought the same about me. It wasn't until later in the semester that he finally asked me to be his date to our social between AGD and DTD...Apparently we miscommunicated and when he showed up to pick me up for the social, I was at my Big Sis's apartment getting ready. The meeting at the bar was awkward and i took my first chance to escape and talk to one of his brothers for the rest of the night. He didn't attempt to ask me out again until the first day of school Spring semester. To my own surprise I said yes...we went out every night that week... So for my 20th birthday Will took my out to Rusan's and then to see Fred Clause. In the movie he put something in my hand. It took me a few minutes to realize he had done it but when i looked i realized that he gave me his lavalier on a necklace!!!... Our one year anniversary was January 18, 2008!! For New Year's Will came with my family on a Caribbean cruise. In Cozumel he got me my anniversary present..a gorgeous ring! a pear cut Alexandrite surrounded by diamonds in a platinum setting!! its beautiful :) I got him exactly what he wanted , a 30 30 rifle! How We Got Engaged: We went to Destin on January 2, 2009 for a little R&R before the semester started back. Will had been talking about taking some matchy-matchy couple's pictures on the beach...and i was secretly very pleased that he was interested in doing something so couply without me suggesting it. After seeing that the only evening with good weather would be the very first night at the beach, Will hurried me to shower and get ready for the pictures. His cousin Brooke was staying next door with her family so she came over to be our photographer. Once we got to the beach we took some cute pictures with the ocean and sunset in the background. Will had been talking about this one pose in particular that he had seen a friend do. He told me to face the camera and look shy (difficult for me) while he stood a few steps behind me...after a couple of those Brooke said, "ok, now Madison you turn around for this one..." I did, and Will was down on one knee with the ring in his hand...i fell to my knees and hugged and kissed him for what seemed like forever...in absolute shock...finally i pulled back and said "YES!!!" of course! It could not have been more perfect...the ring he gave me was his great-grandmother's which means so much to me. Of course Brooke was in on his scheme, but i can honestly say that he absolutely shocked me, i didn't have the tiniest suspicion.