The Proposal

I began planning the proposal in the first week of November. Now I didn't want this to be any old thing - I wanted this to be a proposal that she would never forget...something completely over the top! While we were traveling in Arizona on her tour with ROC, I would spend my nights planning in my hotel room. Finally, the plan of action for proposing to her came down to the following:
1) I bought two plane tickets to San Francisco for December 14, 2007 (same day flights).
2) I always told her that in a perfect world I thought that after about nine months of dating we should be thinking about getting engaged...Dec. 14th was nine months to the day.
3) I purchased her ring and had it in my possession.
4) I secretly called her boss 2 weeks ahead of time and told him what I was doing that she would be asking for a December 14th off work, but it he wouldn't have two weeks notice and so I was giving him notice now for her so that there wouldn't be any problems for her in getting the day off.
5) For Marjorie's birthday (Dec. 11), I got her a manicure so her nails would look nice for the new ring when she showed it off to her friends.
6) I told her the following lie about 5 days before - The president of the company I worked for had received a call from one of my clients, HP. The informed us of a conference in San Francisco on Dec. 14 dealing with technology within Higher Education (I had just returned from presenting at a similar conference in Phoenix, AZ). The president said that instead of paying to stay over night, all five employees at work would be allowed to bring their significant others to San Francisco (all expenses paid). During the part of the conference we were interested in, the girls would go out shopping together.
7) I sent around an email to all employees and spouses of employees describing this story and the part they would play making her believe it.
8) I had our graphic designer make two conference badges for us and I pretended like they had been mailed to us from San Francisco.
9) My Christmas party was the night before the flight. Everyone played along and told her how excited they were to go to San Francisco the next morning.
10) Because my coworkers had children, they would take a later flight than us.
11) I contacted the Marin Headlands at Golden Gate National Park to find out about good places to propose.
12) I had Marjorie bring a change of clothes for the "conference" so we would both be dressed nice when I proposed.
13) We left the next morning and spent the day in San Francisco - a city Marjorie had always wanted to visit, but never had.
14) At 3:30pm, my coworker was suppose to call and tell us that they wouldn't be ablt to meet us at the Spinnaker Restaurant in Sausalito because of traffic, but that we should go ahead and eat without them and then meet them at the conference at 6pm. (My friend got stuck in a meeting and so I ended up faking a 5 minute conversation with him over the phone...lol).
15) After dinner, we went up to Hawk Hill over looking the Golden Gate Bridge for sunset (5:10pm). We then took a small walk up the hill and then that's where I got down and proposed to her. Marjorie looked absolutely beautiful! I couldn't of been happier. It was really funny though because I think she was more nervous for me than I was. I love Marjorie so much!