My husband, Eric, and I kept bumping into each other over the course of many years, as we shared a common friend. However it was at a wedding, about 4 years after first meeting, when we started getting to know each other.

Many frequent-flier miles later (he lived in Seattle, I was in Santa Barbara, California) he proposed. The proposal was perfect. He had arranged for a friend to meet me on the beach for an after-work walk. When I arrived, she wasn¹t there, but he was (he had secretly flown down from Seattle that morning) with a picnic, and a ring. My first engagement ring was made from a flower, my beautiful platinum engagement ring arrived the next day.

After a year's engagement, we had a beautiful Christmas wedding.?Every detail was exactly as I wanted (I had always dreamed of a holiday wedding)-- from getting married in front of a stone fireplace, to our arrangements of roses and orchids and about a thousand candles.

We wrote our own vows and sealed our commitment with platinum wedding bands. I couldn't have imagined a better day.

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