He tried. She resisted. His friend insisted — again and again. She rolled her eyes, said “no thanks,” and kept her distance. But fate, as it often does, had other plans. One night, the music played, the lights dimmed, and she finally said yes — to just one dance. And that was all it took. One dance turned hesitation into connection, and the rest? Well… the rest is history.

They thought the engagement would happen sooner — that was the plan, anyway. But as life often does, fate had its own timeline. On the way to pick up her ring from Diamonds Direct, they found out it had been sent to their original base by mistake. Just like that, the moment was paused… but not forgotten. She knew the question was coming — it was only a matter of when. A month later, it happened in the most unexpected, perfectly simple way. He stepped away for a moment and came back holding a bottle of water. Nothing unusual — until she poured it into her green ceramic cup. And there it was. The ring. Sitting at the bottom, shining big and bright, catching the light like it had been waiting for just the right moment. He looked at her, smiled, and said the words she’d been waiting to hear for 12 years: “Will you marry me?”