We're getting married!

It was a Saturday night at classy downtown establishment called "Venom". Chris was there for a birthday party with Teresa's cousin, Christian. Christian knew that Chris thought Teresa was beautiful because he told him so the first time he saw her at their workplace. To be nice, Christian introduced Teresa to Chris at the nightclub and told her she should dance with him, so she did. Afterwards, he also told her "Don't ever do that again", but obviously that didn't happen ;)

It was New Year's Eve morning and Chris and Teresa just realized they had 20 minutes to shower, pack and check-out of their hotel room in Vernazza in order to catch the train to Venice and arrive before sunset. Even though they were able to make it to the train station in time, they weren't able to purchase tickets so close to boarding, so they walked back into town to have breakfast and wait for the next train. Chris was secretly happy that they had missed the first train because he was planning on proposing to Teresa that morning. So after breakfast, he suggested they have mimosas on their hotel's private terrace overlooking the Ligurian Sea. The only problem was that they had already checked out of their hotel, so they didn't have a key to enter the building to get to the terrace. In their "go-with-the-flow" vacation style, they decided to see if the door to the building was unlocked. To their surprise and delight, it had been propped open! So they headed up the spiral staircase with backpacks, champagne and orange juice in hand when they were stopped by housekeeping. The housekeepers asked if they were guests at the hotel and what room they were staying in, which Chris and Teresa replied "Yes, room #XX". The housekeepers replied, "Didn't you already check-out?" which Chris and Teresa responded "Yes, but we want to take pictures on the terrace". After a debate among the housekeepers, they agreed to let us take pictures on the terrace, but only for a few minutes. Once Chris and Teresa got up to the terrace and had a sip of their mimosas, the sun broke through the clouds, Chris got on one knee and asked Teresa to marry him, and she said yes!