About 6 months into dating, Patrick and I had a very intimate discussion about whether he would be open to having some kind of commitment ceremony, to which he said he would definitely do something like that. Neither of us wanted to get the government involved in our relationship but we wanted to have a private commitment ceremony and celebrate with our closest family. Quite literally the next day, I was out and about and just loving life and I was passing the Dollar Tree. I suddenly stopped off and said "I'm going to buy a pack of ring pops!". I had been thinking about it all day. **Side note** Patrick told me when we first got together that if the day ever came that he were to propose, it would be with a ring pop because if I said no because of the ring he'd know I wasn't the right person for him. I proceeded to tell him that it better be blue raspberry or else I'm definitely saying no. So, that day, I bought a bag of ring pops, set up my camera on a tripod in our bedroom and when he got home from work, I called him to help me out with something and proceeded to propose to him. Because why be traditional? We could never.