WE'RE GETTING MARRIED!

Ben and Cait met through the dating app Bumble. They hit it off chatting a bit through the app and Ben asked Cait out for dinner and drinks pretty quickly. Their first date was on 07.17.17 at Mick's Bar and Grill in Mount Joy.

Ben had a very special proposal planned for Christmas Eve of 2020 with all of Caitlin's family there when he popped the big question. He had shopped for the ring a few months earlier with Cait's Sisters and Brother-In-Law while she was on a trip with her mom in Los Cabos, Mexico. Cait had no inclination there would be any upcoming proposal. He gave no hints and even before, and after he had the ring Ben liked to joke that he was never getting married. Not long before he was planning to propose he had injured his knee playing Hockey so there would be no kneeling down when he proposed. But that is not even the crazy part of the story... Right before Christmas he got COVID! So he had to quarantine. He tried to push it back to Cait's Birthday on December 29th. Then she started to show symptoms and they were both quarantining together! So the birthday celebration and surprise proposal wasn't going to work. Ben's quarantine was up and Cait's last day of quarantine was New Years Eve. So they drove together to grab some Chinese Food takeout. Cait stayed in the car and when Ben came back out with the food he gestured for her to open the passenger door. She thought he was just going to hand her the food to hold for the drive back to the house. But he had a gorgeous ring in his hand. And he said "I found this." Then something along the lines of "Do you want to get married?" Cait's first thoughts were... he is punking me. This is just a cracker jack box ring and he is messing with me, and playing a joke. And it is not funny! This can't be real. I'm going to be so mad if this is a joke. But the ring looks really real! And gorgeous. And sparkly. This can't be real! OMG! After quite a few times of Cait saying out loud "What is that? What are you doing? What is happening?" She finally realized that it wasn't a joke and Ben really was proposing. She made him ask again just to make sure. This time he officially said "Will you marry me" And she said "Yes!"