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AWish: Today! and an intro

Today is my five year anniversary with FI! It is also 1 year since we got engaged, and our wedding is in 12 days! So excited and happy!

I never introduced myself before I started posting, so I thought I'd add that here as well.

I'm a PhD candidate in the life sciences and FI is in retail. He is planning on going to law school, so he is preparing for the LSAT and is going to be starting some classes in the fall. We met on eHarmony. I almost deleted my account 2 days before we were matched, and then I told him I wasn't interested in him because he lived in a suburb outside of the city I was living in. He asked me to reconsider, and luckily I did. We moved in together after dating for 6 months, and then moved from Ontario to BC when we had been together for 2 years. When we moved to BC I told FI that I was ready to marry him. Shortly after that he began saving for my ring and planning "the perfect proposal" (as he calls it).

"The Perfect Proposal"
I always wanted to go to Paris and visit the Eiffel Tower. FI has family in France and Switzerland, so we planned a trip to Europe last year to visit them. He booked his vacation time so that we would be in Europe during our anniversary. He casually suggested we should be in Paris for our anniversary, and then booked dinner at the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower day arrived and FI had food poisoning. He wouldn't cancel the dinner, so I enjoyed (not really, I was upset that he was sick and refusing to leave the restaurant) dinner overlooking La Seine while FI spent most of the time on the floor of the bathroom. After dinner we were supposed to go to the top, but he wasn't feeling up for it, so we went to a little park beside the Eiffel Tower. FI proposed there and I said yes! He was upset that the proposal didn't go as planned, but I told him that life doesn't always go as planned, and that I wasn't disappointed because, although the dinner at the Eiffel Tower was very sweet, the only part that really mattered was that he asked me to marry him, and that went perfectly.


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Re: AWish: Today! and an intro

  • Hi, welcome and congrats on the anniversary and the engagement!
    Fellow PhD candidate here (I work in language technologies).

    Any proposal is a perfect proposal, lucky for you that yours happened to be in Paris! (alliteration, much)

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  • Hi there!  congrats on your anniversary and good luck with final wedding details!

    I'm about to graduate law school and highly recommend Kaplan LSAT classes.  I teach for them and after seeing the company from the inside, it's clear they really know what they're doing.
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  • phiraphira member
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    That's an awesome proposal story! Not like, "YAY FOOD POISONING" but more like, that's sweet and memorable. My partner got food poisoning on our second date, so, fun times. Doesn't always bode poorly :)

    I'm a PhD candidate too! Biology :D (well, right now >:( )
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  • @JCBride2014 Thanks for the tip! My FI has the Kaplan book and is starting the classes once we get back from our wedding. 

    @phira I'm in Microbiology and Immunology :D

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  • Hi! Your proposal will always be a fun story
  • phiraphira member
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    <3 immunology!
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  • I second the use of Kaplan for LSAT Prep. Though I will admit, for my bar exam, I went with BarBri
  • lc07lc07 member
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    You forgot about the part where you're going to save us all if we become zombies. People, we NEED @cmfarr

    I'm impressed that your FI still stuck to his plan to propose that night! Happy Anniversary!
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