My sister is getting married this summer. My younger sister. Well, I only have younger sisters. I can't imagine myself ready to get married, but I can imagine her ready to get married, and I'm pretty happy for her. She wrote a great description of the proposal, which even I found moving. Here's an excerpt:
Feb 14, 2010 - Enter the Japanese Garden
When I told Jack that Julie was getting married, he responded "I don't want to marry you." That made me laugh. I like that he understands me.-Denny inquires where my favorite spot in the Japanese Garden is; I tell him it's the little dock down by the water where we sat in the summer and talked about winning the lottery-Buy fish food by the straight bridge and feed the geese and ducks who some how manage to survive the freezing water (???)-Circle the Japanese Garden and arrive at stepping stones that descend to above mentioned dock. Stepping stones are gated off. Denny wishes to hop said gate, I refuse at it's bad manners.-We decide to walk through the English Wood Garden to "our tree".-We arrive at above mentioned tree. Denny tells me to close my eyes. He then continues to spin me around until I am somewhat dizzy. He holds my hands to steady me. I feel him let go of one of my hands and the other is leveraged downward ever so sightly. He tells me to open my eyes. He's holding out a beautiful silver ring. He kneels in the snow and asks if I will marry him.-I stutter slightly and say that I thought he had said not until later. Then I come to my senses and tell him, hell yes I'll marry him!-Ensue hugging, tears of joy, more hugging, many kisses.
