He finally put a ring on it!

We met through a mutual friend. From the moment we met it was a love-hate relationship... we loved to hate each other and pick on one another since we always hung around the same people. It seemed almost impossible to stay away from each other. Although the banter continued the attraction started to grow. Our wandering gaze would always meet, but we would quickly revert back to banter. One day Gio made the first move to start to get to know me. Come to find out we have a lot of things in common like our love for giraffes and sports, even though we will never agree on a NFL team (Go Niners!). From then the first "it's not a date" date came about keeping with our banter but now adding flirtation. This was the beginning of our love story... the beginning to our forever.

Finding a perfect place to propose is just as hard if not harder than finding a ring for the occasion. Luckily, our anniversary happens to be during baseball season so Dodgers Stadium (our home away from home) seemed very, very appropriate. But it still didn't seem like enough. With the help of some family and friends I was able to have a handful of them attend the same game, be in the same area, and hide as best as they could to not blow the surprise. With my heart pounding knowing that the time was about to come to muster up some courage, it was game time.... With family and friends by my side and behind my back supporting my every move, not to mention the hundreds of strangers also watching, I got down on one knee, and my life changed forever.....