VIDEO IS AT THE BOTTOM!
The beginning
Well, we have dated for almost 6 years now, so of course I knew I was going to marry Walter, the question was just when. We decided together we wanted to get married the summer of 2011 a few months ago. So I knew I was getting married already. This helped because it gave me TONS of time to plan, which I needed. But this made it really hard on Walter to surprise me when he proposed. A week after we had told our parents, he gave me a letter. He told me he would give me a letter every single day until he proposed.
He handmade the letters to look vintage, because he knew I loved vintage things! He took regular paper & envelopes and made them look vintage with stamps! You can see below everything he used!
What the letters started as!
The ingredients
The final product!
In the end there were 27 letters!
Walter got me a cute matching box to keep everything in too!
In the letters, there were surprises & dates & fun little gifts!!
The actual day:
We went to the Outer Banks for my “birthday”. I got clues the week before to figure out where each place we were going was. We started the day at a great cafe & then went to Rodanthe. After Rodanthe, we went to Jockey Ridge State Park. We went to dinner & then to hike in Nags Head Woods to see the sunset. Nags Head Woods was in the middle of nowhere and I have no clue how Walter found it. We went through a neighborhood & then into the middle of nowhere. Some people told us people who have lived there 20 years didn’t even know about it! We hiked about a mile through the beautiful woods and ended up on a secluded beautiful beach. After looking around and taking some pictures we sat down to wait for sunset. Walter then pulled out a letter. Of course, my heart dropped. I was thinking this location was perfect for him to ask and of course I got a letter not a ring. This is what I saw when I opened the letter…
He grabs my hand and walks me over to the sand, tells me I’m beautiful & he loves me and gets down on one knee. It’s all a blur pretty much, but I remember he asked me to marry him & I said yes.
We stayed and watched the most beautiful sunset of my life and it was magical! Now onto the ring…
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