Lily and I are not often serious people. We love to live our lives together filled with lots of laughs and jokes. While it was not my intention, my proposal was no different. Lily is obsessed with her family pup, a Jack Russell mutt named Didi (dee-dee). On the morning of my proposal, I figured I could get her out on to Venice beach alone, if we had the excuse to bring Didi on a walk. She didn't know that I couldn't sleep since 1 am, but I wake her up at 6:30 AM, for a walk. Lily: "why are we awake so early?" Hunter: "Didi is CLEARLY suffering, we have to let him out to do his business!" Lily: "what are you talking about, he is fine!" Cut to Didi, snoozing in a ball on the bed, not knowing how important he was in my proposal plan. We agree to go on a walk (the first argument I have ever won) and in my enduring wisdom, think about how great it is to be proposing to my life partner while she is livid at me for waking her up. Lily, despite knowing that I am nearing a proposal, then decides it would be a good time for Didi, a notoriously stubborn and combative dog, to go off leash. I've already dragged her out of bed, so I concede, thinking that 'Didi can run around while I recite my prepared lines'. I knew that I could never get through it all if Lily knew I was reciting a speech, so I started off fairly innocuously, asking her if she could remember when she first realized that she wanted to spend her life with me, so I could later tell her mine, without suspicion. As we talked, and I extolled her many virtues, I was interrupted by Lily rushing away, yelling "DIDI NO!". Didi had stumbled onto a large dead bird. We collected Didi, and I requested he come with us on a LEASHED walk, further down the beach. As we walk and are alone, Lily again, despite the experience so far, requested that Didi be let off his leash. This time I hemmed and hawed, wishing she could understand that I was TRYING to propose!!! But of course, my sweet, future fiance gets what she wants, and Didi was free again. I continue my speech, explaining to Lily that the picture of us on my phone background was incredibly important to me, even though she didn't like it. This was because it reminds me every day, of the moment that I knew I wanted to marry her. She was the most important thing in the world to me and- "Oh no Didi is pooping, can you get me a poop bag?". You can probably imagine me, the most dejected looking man, stumbling over to pick up after Didi. Now, people with less determination than I, would have given up, picked a different time of day to propose. I racked my brain for another idea, but in my enduring wisdom, I packed the rest of the day with Post-engagement plans, so there was simply no other time. Honestly though? I couldn't spend another second not engaged to my best friend. As Lily took a video of Didi spreading his scent in the sand, I got behind her and got down on a knee. In that video, you can hear me get her attention, and that is how the rest of our life begins.