My, now soon to be future son-in-law, called me about 3 weeks before Valentine's Day and asked me if he could marry my daughter. I'm so excited because I totally love the guy and think he is going to be the BEST son-in-law. I thought it was so special that he asked me to marry my daughter too. Long story, but her father has never really been a part of her life since she was 8 years old when we divorced... So he asked me to marry her, which I thought was very special

Anyway, I have to tell the story behind it all, kind of long, but funny, so here we go.....

It all began with him calling me of course, then him saying he wanted to get her ring and give it to her on February 16th when he flew down here to see her after Valentine's Day... he lives in Virginia, she lives here in Louisiana .. they met while he was down here on a assignment for about a year, fell in love and have managed to keep the long distance romance alive for over 2 years now They both agreed to wait on Valentine's Day gifts and give them to each other when he flew down instead of trying to have them delivered or mailed to each other ... so he asked for my help and we started planning how and where he was going to do the marriage proposal as he knew she wasn't expecting it and wanted it to be a TOTAL surprise ... he was going to take her to a romantic dinner but things happened (she has 2 children and lives with my niece that has 2 children) and babysitting 4 children, trying to find sitters for 4 to take her out for dinner, just wasn't working out. He decided to do the marriage proposal over lunch instead while all 4 children were at school/daycare. My future son-in-law also wanted me and asked me to be there when he proposed to my daughter, so he asked me to suggest she, him and myself all go out to lunch after his flight arrived here in town. My daughter always, always questions him about what he gets her for any occasion and of course they play the game of him giving her hints and her trying to guess what it is.... well, she usually always guesses it... so this time, he had to not give her any information at all about what her gift was to be .. being the nosey thing she can be at times, she made him play a game (a real game) called 20 questions... she'd let the game ask the questions and he'd have to answer them truthfully, which he did, all except for one question, to which he didn't totally lie but just said "unknown" .. the game guessed she'd get a skillet, lol ... now my future son-in-law called me to tell me all about the 20 questions game and to let me know she was going crazy trying to work out what he'd gotten her for Valentine's Day ... so later on, while going out for dinner with her 3 days before he arrived and playing totally dumb, I asked her if she had any idea what he was getting her for Valentine's Day.. she told me she had no idea but it had best not be a skillet or she'd hit him over the head with it (now you got to know where I'm going w/this one, lol) ... of course I had to act as though I knew nothing about the skillet and let her explain... later I called my future son-in-law and told him we HAD to get a skillet to give to her at the restuarant as her Valentine's gift from him to her as a joke ... I bought the biggest Wok I could find and put it in a beautiful pink bag (her fav color) and had it at the restaurant waiting for them to arrive ... she comes walking in and finds me and the first question out of her mouth is "What's that?" I told her it was her Valentine's Day gift from her boyfriend, that he'd asked me to pick it up for him because it was too large for him to carry down here... God forgive me but I SOOOOO lied!! lol Well, he came walking in a couple of minutes behind her (had to smoke a cigarette to calm his nerves) and I could tell he was a complete nervous wreck, which he'd been text messaging me the entire time he was in route here telling me he was nervous but very much ready to do the proposal... so he looks at me and says, "Go ahead and give her the gift I got you to get for her"... I hand the bag over to my daughter and she looks at both of us after pulling out the huge Wok from the bag and just says "Ha, Ha, very funny you guys!!" .... of course we were killing ourselves laughing at her ... then he tells her to close her eyes and he'll give her the Valentine's Day present he got her... to which he gets the ring out of his pocket, slides it on her finger, tells her to open her eyes and then proposes .... and of course she said, YES!!! She did not have a clue at all that he was proposing to her .... we managed to keep it a total secret The date has been set for Memorial Day weekend 2008 so we do have time to prepare Guess who gets to do her wedding cake??? and my sister is a florist so she'll do all the flowers We're going to have so much fun!!!! I just had to share the great news with all my CC friends!!!

That is such a neat story!! And what a sweet future SIL you have. Congrats.

Way cool, congrats.

Congratulations! That is so sweet and funny too.
Can't wait to see what you are going to do for her wedding cake!

Cindy

that is awesome, wtg not telling her anything, not sure i could have help my tounge lol

Congrats!!! I think that it was really neat that he involved you in the proposal. What a great story!!

Reading this post made me smile and laugh pretty hard a couple of times. NEAT story! Thanks for sharing and congrats on your new soon to be son-in-law. Sounds like a great guy!

What a great story! I just knew you were going to say you baked a cake that looked like a skillet!! Congratulations to them, and to you!

How cool it that!! Thanks for sharing.

aaaaaaaaaaaaw...I need a tissue! That was sooo sweet.

what a great story, he sounds very sweet!

I forgot to add she had seen an engagement ring in the Cosmopolitan magazine, called a "callacut" diamond and just fell in love with it ... Shey had mentioned this to me before in the past ... to which I mentioned to him and he did some research on it ... there just so happened to be a jeweler not far from him that deals with this cut of diamond .. he got her the ring she dreamed of in a beautiful platinum setting .. it is gorgeous!! Of course she started crying when she saw the ring that she'd only dreamed about having and she actually got

And now for every anniversary he has to get her a skillet.

ROFL

Rachel

Cheryl,

First off, a big congratulations to your daughter and future SIL

Secondly, I know you are on cloud nine...it was so nice of him to include you in the proposal.

Thirdly, I can't wait to see the CAKE

Congrats, Great story. Sounds like a sweetie.

Ahhh that story was soooooo sweet. I just love stories like that. He is a sweetie for having you involved.

Good luck to you all

I can not wait to see pics of the cake.

Hahahaha .. great idea Rachel... I'll have to make her a skillet cake now!!

Wow, how romantic and thoughtful of him to include you in everything. He certainly sounds like a very respectful guy. How lucky of you to have him in your family.

Awh, what a sweet story! Congrats to you and your daughter!

How cute! I got goosebumps reading the story!!

Congrats!

congratulations!!!! That is just wonderful and he sounds like a super guy!

..can't wait to hear about the cake!!

I've got chills reading how excited you are! That's a sweet story. You should print out a copy to keep while it's still fresh in your mind. Tell the happy couple Congratulations!!!!

Isn't this a Hallmark movie?

Congratulations

now that's a sweet story!

Congrats to you and your daughter and future SIL! That was a great story! Skillet cake would be awesome!

COngrats!!!!! That story is awesome!!!!

Ok, so I think you shouldn't make her a skillet cake and make one as the groom's cake and surprise them both.

That's great news!! I agree that making a skillet cake for one of the marriage occasions would be cute! Thanks for sharing!!

How sweet!!!!!! I very nearly cried. Can't wait to see that cake!!