That’s right folks I finally asked Julia to marry me, I have know for a long time that Julia is the love of my life and the girl that I wanted to spend all my days with. But arranging a surprise engagement was a nightmare.
Location now that was easy, I wanted to have all my friends around and share this with them, so my friend Darren offered me a room in his pub, our local pub as well, so it was very homely. Now were onto invitations, ok Julia’s birthday was on the 28th June so i could combine it with that and use her birthday as the front for the engagement. I designed a really cool party flyer as you can see, ahh Kung Fu....
How getting the ring and making sure it was the right size was a completely different matter, ring size first, Julia and i were messing around on the sofa while watching TV one night, and she was saying how her hand were as big as mine (there not), this gave me the opportunity to get her finger size and match it to one of mine, I know sneaky but when needs must. So having the finger size, I had to buy a ring, now living In GuangZhou China, this isn't the place to buy a nice ring and know the quality is good, so off to Hong Kong I must go. Now getting down to HK for 2 day would be the next challenge if I go normally its only for 1 day, a plan had to be formulated. Now I am no way proud of this but I had to tell a little white lie for the greater good, 'I'm have to go to HK for business luv, and see my accountant will be there 2 days' now after some discussion it was ok.
Once in HK I hit every jewelry store in Kowloon and i can tell you after looking at diamond rings al day they soon start to look the same, it was very difficult to a platinum diamond ring and all seemed to be white gold. Well the 1st day had gone and nothing yet, some nice rings but wasn't sure and the attitude of some staff members left a lot to be desired.
So off I went for some food and to work out my next move. I headed down to one of my favorite little eating places, as I was walking down the road past all the nice shops, just as I came to the shopping centre where I was going to eat, I saw a nice jewelry shop ‘Chow Sang Sang’ now this was more like it a very classy shop and huge amounts of choice, but it was closing. I got a quick look through the window and saw three rings I liked, this would be my first stop tomorrow morning.
Bright and early the next day after having my cappuccino and doughnut, I headed back down to that shop, now bearing in mind I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt, it was very hot in HK, and this shop is quite posh, I got amazing service, I was in there for nearly the whole morning looking at all the rings and then comparing them against each other, the young man helping me was a good lad and very patient, I finally got down to 3 rings, all very beautiful, how to decide I had already gone over my original budget but this is once on a lifetime and I wanted it to be perfect, I finally choose the DTI certified diamond single solitare with a perfect diamonds and hearts cut, and excellent color and clarity, it also had a platinum band, this was the one, I handed over my card and we were done.
Time to go home and hide it, in an old suitcase I think she’ll never look there.
Now onto the party night, we had arranged all our friends to be there for Julia’s birthday party and there was plenty of wine and beer, music and dancing, it was all good, now Darren had arranged a cake and champagne and at 12 o’clock I went out to get a cake, light the candles and make a dramatic entrance, so there we were trying to light the dam candle and keep the from going out as we walked into the next room, my mate Ben had go Julia to make sure she came to the front of the crowd, we all sand the usual ‘happy birthday’ song and then as she was just getting over that, her face was in shock, I said ‘now most of you know were here to celebrate my darling Julia’s birthday, but what you and she doesn’t know is, that there is one more surprise, Julia I love you so so much and you make me happier than I could ever imagine, I want to spend the rest of my life with you, (getting down on one knee now) Julia will you marry me?’ Now this is where its a little worrying, she didn’t say anything just stood there star struck, and in surprise, we what seemed like ages for me, she finally came too and said ‘yes’.
Champagne was opened and congratulations were coming from all sides, strange how you get congratulated individually also, normally boys to boys and girls to girls….. Well after that the party really got going and we ended up getting in at 5:00am a first for Julia.
Location now that was easy, I wanted to have all my friends around and share this with them, so my friend Darren offered me a room in his pub, our local pub as well, so it was very homely. Now were onto invitations, ok Julia’s birthday was on the 28th June so i could combine it with that and use her birthday as the front for the engagement. I designed a really cool party flyer as you can see, ahh Kung Fu....
How getting the ring and making sure it was the right size was a completely different matter, ring size first, Julia and i were messing around on the sofa while watching TV one night, and she was saying how her hand were as big as mine (there not), this gave me the opportunity to get her finger size and match it to one of mine, I know sneaky but when needs must. So having the finger size, I had to buy a ring, now living In GuangZhou China, this isn't the place to buy a nice ring and know the quality is good, so off to Hong Kong I must go. Now getting down to HK for 2 day would be the next challenge if I go normally its only for 1 day, a plan had to be formulated. Now I am no way proud of this but I had to tell a little white lie for the greater good, 'I'm have to go to HK for business luv, and see my accountant will be there 2 days' now after some discussion it was ok.
Once in HK I hit every jewelry store in Kowloon and i can tell you after looking at diamond rings al day they soon start to look the same, it was very difficult to a platinum diamond ring and all seemed to be white gold. Well the 1st day had gone and nothing yet, some nice rings but wasn't sure and the attitude of some staff members left a lot to be desired.
So off I went for some food and to work out my next move. I headed down to one of my favorite little eating places, as I was walking down the road past all the nice shops, just as I came to the shopping centre where I was going to eat, I saw a nice jewelry shop ‘Chow Sang Sang’ now this was more like it a very classy shop and huge amounts of choice, but it was closing. I got a quick look through the window and saw three rings I liked, this would be my first stop tomorrow morning.
Bright and early the next day after having my cappuccino and doughnut, I headed back down to that shop, now bearing in mind I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt, it was very hot in HK, and this shop is quite posh, I got amazing service, I was in there for nearly the whole morning looking at all the rings and then comparing them against each other, the young man helping me was a good lad and very patient, I finally got down to 3 rings, all very beautiful, how to decide I had already gone over my original budget but this is once on a lifetime and I wanted it to be perfect, I finally choose the DTI certified diamond single solitare with a perfect diamonds and hearts cut, and excellent color and clarity, it also had a platinum band, this was the one, I handed over my card and we were done.
Time to go home and hide it, in an old suitcase I think she’ll never look there.
Now onto the party night, we had arranged all our friends to be there for Julia’s birthday party and there was plenty of wine and beer, music and dancing, it was all good, now Darren had arranged a cake and champagne and at 12 o’clock I went out to get a cake, light the candles and make a dramatic entrance, so there we were trying to light the dam candle and keep the from going out as we walked into the next room, my mate Ben had go Julia to make sure she came to the front of the crowd, we all sand the usual ‘happy birthday’ song and then as she was just getting over that, her face was in shock, I said ‘now most of you know were here to celebrate my darling Julia’s birthday, but what you and she doesn’t know is, that there is one more surprise, Julia I love you so so much and you make me happier than I could ever imagine, I want to spend the rest of my life with you, (getting down on one knee now) Julia will you marry me?’ Now this is where its a little worrying, she didn’t say anything just stood there star struck, and in surprise, we what seemed like ages for me, she finally came too and said ‘yes’.
Champagne was opened and congratulations were coming from all sides, strange how you get congratulated individually also, normally boys to boys and girls to girls….. Well after that the party really got going and we ended up getting in at 5:00am a first for Julia.
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Well done bro :-) Becoming an honest man at last!
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