On the coldest Christmas Eve in over 30 years and on the eve of his birthday, Chris proposed to Laura at the Molly Pitcher Inn of Red Bank, NJ. He had tricked her into thinking he had won a gift certificate for a Christmas Eve brunch at a work holiday function, so although she was on the lookout for a ring in her near future, Laura did not expect that this would be the setting for their engagement. Much to her surprise, Chris was on one knee only minutes into being seated at their table and with a photographer snapping pictures in the background, Chris asked Laura to be his wife. She gleefully accepted and the rest is history!