Vintage Fall Wedding

Marcus proposed and I was honestly so shocked but obviously over the moon happy! I got a text at work on December 23rd, 2018 and Marcus had asked if I wanted to go to The Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo and I said OF COURSE I DO! (I love all the festivities that come with the holidays whereas Marcus doesn’t really care for them, so when he does go it’s because he knows I love all of that stuff). Festival of Lights was sold out so he picked me up and took me to Kings Island Winterfest which was just as pretty, wintery, and fun. We walked around in the freezing cold, ate Skyline Chili, and then went into a photo booth. (This should have been my red flag that something was happening because Marcus thinks photobooths are a waste of money and never wants to go in them even when I beg him to lol), it was the smallest photobooth you could imagine sitting in and I remember saying to him “will you sit still and take the pictures?” (What I didn’t know was that the ring was in his wallet and it had fallen through a hole he had in his wallet so he was kinda panicking). After we got done taking the pictures we laughed at how terrible they turned out, walked around a little longer, then decided to leave because we were freezing. We get to our car and I am trying to open the door because I was freezing, but Marcus asked me to “hold on”. He started by saying “Thanks for coming with me to Winterfest” and I just responded with “Okay? haha” and he hugged me, and then said “You know I love you very much right?” and me still thinking he was being weird said “Of course, I love you too babe”, and I turned to open the car door and all I heard him say was “Wait I have to do this first” and me being confused, turned around and saw the man I have loved since the 7th grade down on one knee and he said “Please, you have to marry me. Will you marry me?” and then I started crying and said “Oh my god yes yes yes yes”.