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A Marriage proposal with a little help from Cinderella -Updated with Photopass pictures on 4/19
Ok, just a brief entry at the end of this amazing day. Some of you know that Smilechaser and I are engaged, but there was never an 'official' proposal by me. (Much to my chagrin I am remiss in this area from time to time). So here we are at Disney on a rather spontaneous long weekend trip, so I figure this will be the perfect time to make this right. We walk up to 1900 Park Faire at 4:30 with NO ADR. ( I told you it was a spur of the moment trip) and we get a table!!! Wooot! Wooot! Those of you who know me, know Cinderella is my favorite princess in the whole world, and yes I realize it is unusual for a 41-year old man to be this way, but I don't care. . For more on this, there is a trip report in here with Smilechaser and myself in it entitled, "Prince Charmings met his match".
So Cinderella comes up to our table, and kneels down on one knee and starts chatting with me. I talk to her explaining that she is my favorite princess, but she is a story book princess and we don't live in a story book, we live in real life, and in real life we have to find our own princesses. (By this time Smilechaser is no doubt looking to see which exit is closer because she has no idea where I'm going with this and my Cinderella issues have gotten me in a few close calls before.) I then explain to Cinderella that I wanted my favorite story book princess to be present when I asked my real life princess to marry me. Handed her the ring, then tears, outbursts, and massive picture taking ensued! Cinderella was the picture of poise and grace, recruiting another diner to take a picture of all of us, and wishing us well.
More of our trip and pictures later! It's truly been a magical day!
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Hey Guys! Its smilechaser here! I know, I know, I am logged in under disdadnmi's name, he (the wonderful man that he is!!) went out to get me breakfast while I am all warm and comfy in the room on the computer. What a man!
Last night was honestly the most magical day of my life! I still woke up this morning thinking "WOW!!!" Totally amazing! It could not have went more perfectly, it was flawless~~!!! I have to tell you, I did not think we were going to get into 1900 Park Fare and when we did I was thrilled since it holds a special significance for us. I had NO idea what Brent was planning. When he first started telling Cinderella this story about how she was his favorite storybook princess and she got down on her knees at our table I was really thinking........"Brent, what the heck are you doing......we can't get kicked out of WDW our first full day here!" LOL I was still totally clueless at this point. When he went on about finding our true life princesses I was getting curious and when I saw the ring I was soooooooooo surprised!!! For something like that to come off with no clue......just amazing. Cinderella was so full of grace. I jumped up and hugged her, crying, laughing all at once. And of couse babbleing, she looked at me with all seriousness and said "you did tell him yes, right?!?!?" Then she grabbed some customers to take pictures and lingered awhile with us. I felt like we were the only three people in the huge dining room. At this point it became very clear the attention we had drawn. Cameras were flashing and everybody was looking. I had sooooo blocked out the audience. I still can't believe how well orchestrated it all was!!!!! Nothing short of amazing and magical.
Ok, gotta run. Off to the studios and Epcot. Breakfast is over, Brent has chickened out of a very chilly morning swim and opted for a hot bath and I have to get ready. He has this thing about schedules and being there at opening.
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. For more on this, there is a trip report in here with Smilechaser and myself in it entitled, "Prince Charmings met his match".
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