How Scott proposed. He wrote this for our wedding website.
Hands down, the craziest 8 hours of my life. I was under the impression I wasn’t going to be able to pick up the ring until Wednesday or Thursday that week. At 3:30 on Tuesday, I found out the ring was in and I could come pick it up! I stopped EVERYTHING I was doing, running around our apartment getting ready for the night. I had gotten Kelsey and I Minnesota Twins tickets for her birthday for that nights game. So I had to drive down to Prior Lake during rush hour, pick up the ring, go to her dad’s house and ask him for his daughter’s hand in marriage. And then make it back up to the cities to meet up with Kelsey without her knowing what I had been up to. It is hard to keep anything from that girl.
I definitely could have asked Don (her dad) a while ago if I had his blessing but I wanted to have the ring with me when I did it. When I showed up at his house, he didn’t even blink. Went right into talking about his big 5th wheel trailer and the camping trip we were going on with him that upcoming weekend… (he loves camping and was super excited that myself, Kelsey, Codi and Brooklyn were joining them that weekend). Didn’t even ask why I was there. After about 20 minutes of walking around the trailer and talking about the upcoming weekend I finally had my opening. I had originally sent him a text saying that I was stopping by drop some large items off for the weekend. I asked him if he saw my message and he said no. I laughed and said, “good because it was a lie anyway, I actually came here to talk to you about this” and I pulled out the box and handed it to him. He immediately said something along the lines of “Scott, I think you’re a great guy I would like for you to marry my daughter.” That may not be verbatim but I think it’s fair to say that everything that happened that night was a blur. He had a feeling it was coming soon because he was anticipating that I would do it when my parents come to visit at the end of July and we have been together over 4 years, nobody was surprised. I wanted to have it done before then, so that weekend could more about our families finally meeting and also coming together as one from here on out.
Shortly after Don and I shook hands on the fact that we were going to be family, I had to go! I had to make it back up to the cities to meet with Kelsey after work so we could grab some dinner and make our way to the game. I put the ring in one of those “Icebreakers” mint containers so she wouldn’t know it was in my pocket. We went to a rooftop in Minneapolis, Cowboy Jacks, before the game, sat side by side at a table because it was SO busy there. It was brutal for me, she kept putting her hand on my leg and it was inches from where the ring was. Best part was she had no idea. The people that we’re around the most know that we definitely talk about getting engaged and married and all that because we all knew it was going to happen eventually. So that night she was throwing out all kinds of jokes out there about proposing either on the patio at Cowboy Jacks or at the Twins game and had to play it off like it wasn’t an option AT ALL. Meanwhile that’s literally all I was thinking about. Where can I do it? Are there too many people around? Can I get someone to take a picture? Will she kill me if I do it right here, right now? There really wasn’t a good time the entire night and it was taking over me. I honestly didn’t listen to half of what she said that night while we were out because all I was thinking about was how I was going to pull this off.
At the end of the night we drove home. She got changed right away and went to the couch to relax before bed. I took my time getting there. I got changed, relaxed for a minute by myself in our room and then started to make my way out to her. I stopped in the kitchen for a second and trying to gather myself because my nerves were going crazy! I walked to the table, stood there for second and contemplated going on my computer for a couple minutes to calm down. Decided against that and made my way to the foot of the couch and stopped awkwardly right at the edge. She looked at me and said “Hi!” and I said “Hi!” she then followed up with “are you going to sit down?” so this was my chance. I responded with “Yes, but I have one more birthday present for you…” I pulled the box out of my pocket, got down on one knee and said…
“Will you marry me?”
Again, that whole night was a blur but the more I play it through my head the more I remember…obviously she said YES, hugged me like she’d never hugged me before. We then sat there for about 10 minutes letting the fact that after 4+ years, long distance situations, plane tickets, train rides, long road trips in horrible weather that we finally got to this point in our relationship.
WE WERE ENGAGED!
