LOVE HAS NO LIMIT.

On a sunny, and cool autumn day, the Phillips family jostled through the wineries of Seneca Lake. Merrily joking, smiling constantly, the day was much more than one would seem. As dusk approached, the family came to the ole castle to finish the evening with a a rich dinner. Suddenly pulled away by Angelo, we sat on a bench overlooking the lake. Birds noisily quacked below us, and Angelo's jitters became tears. Watching him get up from the bench, looking me in eyes, I asked "You're not proposing, are you?" With a smile and a tear he choked, "Yes." On one knee he read aloud a letter written to me. His words so pure, his face so gentle, of course I said "Yes."

Fast forward to exactly a year later. Sterling and I wanted to celebrate our engagement and I thought it was going to be a simple dinner, somewhere in Sarasota. Nope; I woke up that morning, as I walked out the door to head to work he says "oh, by the way, you're going on a scavenger hunt." I receive an email at about 5:00 p.m. that day with a riddle . . . and the adventure begins. I bump into our friend Kelsey at the Players Theatre, I ended up at the Venice Performing Arts Center, I got to see my sister who flew all the way from New York who wanted to witness all this and eventually got home. As candles lit up our apartment living room and as the song "This I Promise You" covered by Anthem Lights in the background that got me emotionally teary-eyed; Sterling walked into the living room with the ring he bought during our summer vacation with his parents in Arizona, got down in one knee and asked me to marry him. I (of course) said "yes."

We wanted our rings to tell a story and that the other person would write that story; creating Our Narrative. We never got to see our individual rings until (pretty much) the proposals. Both of our rings are very different from one another, and each stone, grain of wood and piece of metal represents that person's life stories.