Dani

On August 25, 2012 I asked the love of my life if she would marry me! This is my story of how I proposed to Dani! Rewind, 3 months earlier Dani kept showing me all of these YouTube videos of the best wedding proposals in all of mankind. I knew I had my work cut out for me to say the least! So the brain storming began, I looked up every known proposal in history. I came up with this idea of sending her on a scavenger hunt all over our home town of Reno, Nevada. Now the real work started, I enlisted the help of her two best friends (Amanda and Sam) and her brother (Cy, videographer) to assist me with the task at hand. I created a new email address so that we could remain undercover and not ruin the plan before we even got started. We came up with 7 unique clues that had special meaning to Dani and I which would be hidden throughout Reno. We all came to the same conclusion that right when Dani got the first clue, she would know what was going to happen when she got to the last clue. So I needed to put a little twist on things to try and throw her off a bit. This is where Sam came into play. Dani had not seen Sam for over 6 months as Sam lives in Florida, they are the type of friends that talk almost every day, so I knew that I could use this to my advantage. This is when all of the little white lies started! Sam and Dani had planned for Sam to fly in and stay for a week in early September. So Sam and I came up with a great twist, Sam called Dani and told her that she would not be able to come and visit because she could not get the time off of work. I remember right after Sam called, Dani called me crying and upset that Sam couldn’t make it out and now Dani didn’t know when she would get to see her best friend next. I felt like such a bad person on that day but I just kept reminding myself that end the end it was going to make for the best day of Dani’s life. As the day came closer I had to keep telling little white lies so I could get some free time to work on everything. Every time she called I had to try and remember what I had told her the time before or where I was supposed to be. End the end I never got caught but there were some close calls. The big day! August 25, 2012 Dani and I woke up early that Saturday morning with two entirely different idea of how the day was going to play out. Dani’s plan for the day was to meet up with her other best friend Amanda to go get their nails done, my idea, and then grab some lunch. My plan for the day was to go pick up Sam and Cy race around Reno and set all of the clues out and try not to get caught. After getting her nails done Amanda and Dani went to lunch, at lunch the waitress dropped of an envelope which read, “Hi Baby, so there has been a little change of plans for today, I know how much you love when plans change, but just go with the flow. Today you will be going on a scavenger hunt, every clue will be marked with a balloon. Amanda is going to accompany you on your journey, if you happen to get stumped just ask for a hint.” And the scavenger hunt started, unknown to her the entire thing was being filmed by her brother Cy. As she made her way through the clues she was telling random strangers that today was the day she was getting proposed to. This is where the twist I had worked so hard on came into play, when she got to what she thought was her last clue Sam was sitting there holding a balloon. She ran up to Sam and told her how excited she was that Sam was there to see her get proposed to. Sam told her that she didn’t know what Dani was talking about and that the surprise was that she had flown into town to see her. Dani was devastated and kept asking where I was at. She called me and told me that she was really happy to see Sam and thanked me for flying her best friend into town but I could hear in her voice that she was a little upset with everything that had just happened! I told her that we were going to have a BBQ out at a friend’s house to celebrate Sam being in town. The real last clue! When Dani pulled up to the house there was one more clue that read, “Sorry baby that I lied to you, but I promise that this will be the last lie that I ever tell you. This final place is unknown to the both of us, but its somewhere out there, we are going to have to find it together, but I have all of the faith in the world that with you by my side we will find this very special and happy place." "Your final clue is waiting for you on the dock!" I had completely decorated the dock that sat on a private lake and was waiting for her. As she walked down the dock to me all of our closest friends and family that had been hiding in the house from her came quietly outside to witness this very special day. After she said YES we celebrated the night away with everyone that we love. This is my story of how I ask the girl of my dreams to spend the rest of her life with me. P.S. Please check out the video of that amazing day                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdNy4yVNTs8&feature=share