Hi Megan here again. Last week I introduced myself as the Ask a New Yorker bride in waiting and now here’s more backstory on my big day to be. Now that we’ve properly met (the Internet counts, right?), it’s only appropriate to share my engagement story with you! After dating for just shy of a year and half (8 days shy to be exact), Boo and I got engaged on October 20, 2012 on our beloved Peaks Island. It was the best surprise ever…We had a late flight from JFK to Portland, Maine, and had dinner at Gotham before heading to the airport. Boo says it was all part of his plan to make sure I was surprised with the engagement in Maine (and it worked). While I can’t say that I “knew” we were getting engaged, I was hopeful every time that we went on a trip or had special plans that an engagement was possible. By going to a fancy dinner Friday night before heading to Maine, and not having a proposal, he threw me off the scent. Most all my friends who have gotten engaged reported their boyfriends to be very nervous and scattered right up to the engagement…many knew it was coming. But Boo was so calm and himself the entire time. We flew into Portland and had planned to charter a water taxi to the Island. However, due to gale force winds (can’t make this stuff up…) we had to stay at a local hotel. This didn’t phase him either! The next morning we took the ferry over to the Island. I won’t get into all the details (just a few!), but he got down on one knee on Maine’s rocky coast. It was spectacular. Just like my Boo…sorry, I had to! Boo had lugged small red pebbles from NYC to Maine so that he could make this (a monogram of my new, married initials, surrounded by a heart) on the rocks.We enjoyed champagne on the rocks before two ladies passed us in their golf cart and stopped after Boo shouted “she said yes!” This is so Peaks Island…quintessential island life. They took our picture and shared champagne with us. It had been misting all day and we learned the old wives’ tale that a “wet knot is a tight knot.” The light mist on our engagement didn’t deter us – we were getting married! I guess this is similar to “rain on a wedding day is good luck.” Our families were in on the surprise and my (now) fiance had arranged for our families to meet us (and surprise me!) at dinner, post engagement. I had known that we were planning to eat at our most favorite restaurant in Portland, Maine: Fore Street. But, I didn’t know our families would be there. Both sets of parents and siblings, as well as my aunt joined us. It was so good! We are big on family, and it wouldn’t have been the same without them.My mum brought a chocolate cake for dessert, it read: To a Lifetime of Happiness. Don’t you think engagement cakes should become a thing? Me too…We have begun making a menu wall which displays menus from special events in our lives. Appropriately, the first menu to be displayed is from our post-engagement dinner at Fore Street. We took home a clean menu, and my mum and aunt picked out a beautiful brushed silver frame with navy blue mounting. We just love it and now have it displayed in our apartment. You can read more about the menu wall on my personal blog The Domesticated Wolf (www.thedomesticatedwolf.com). I hope that brings you all somewhat up to speed. Be sure to check back for more details about the wedding planning process..
