Finola and TyFong first met in 6th grade in the same classroom. However it was not until they started college, TyFong messaged Finola and they started talking. TyFong came out to Finola's college Homecoming event and that is where everything began...

I hadn't planned for anything extravagant. Finola and I talked about how I would propose, and I would always say that I would dress up in my favorite medieval fantasy garbs and ride in on a horse to propose to her. But that obviously didn't happen. All I know is that I wanted to propose and surprise her in the process. During the weekend before the proposal, she was going out of town and I thought that this would be the perfect opportunity. I spoke with my dad and her parents about what my plan was and hoped that they would support me in this endeavor. Thankfully they did and I was given the money to go and buy a ring the next day, which was the same day Finola was coming back home from out of town. As short as I can make this, I got the ring but not without almost blowing my cover. On this day, Finola was coming back, I had JUST bought the ring, it was our 5 year anniversary of being together so we had plans to go out, and to my surprise, things went pretty smoothly. But in the process of buying the ring, Finola called me to ask me where I was because I was supposed to go pick her up to go out. She was pretty mad for the most part and I just kept on telling her that I would make it up to her. We went to the park to exchange anniversary gifts and she had about 5 different gifts for me. Each one was something I loved. I on the other hand... only had a single gift for her. But little did she know, my gift would trump all of hers put together. After I opened all of the gifts she got me, I feigned that I had no gifts for her and that we should get going to our dinner reservation. At that moment I reached into my pocket, stayed kneeling, and revealed my gift. I asked her to marry me, and she couldn't believe it. Literally. She thought it was a joke at first, but I put the ring on her finger and that was that. We were officially engaged.

It was on our 5 year anniversary... on a Monday night. I was waiting for TyFong to come pick me up to go on our date but he had told me that he was late. I was upset because it was getting late and I was waiting all day for our 5 year anniversary date. When he came to pick me up, he said that he was going to make it up to me. I thought "how will you make up for the loss of time?!" We decided to stop by the park so that I could give him my anniversary gifts. We set out a blanket by the lake, I gave him my gifts and watched him open each of them. After he was done, we 'awkardly' sat there until I said that we should go to our dinner place. As we got up, he pulled me towards him and started talking about how he had went over to my parents the day before while I was in Mankato. He had asked for my parents blessings then he got on his knee and asked to marry me. I started to cry and asked if he was joking. I knew it was for real when I looked down and saw the ring! Of course, I said yes!