So I've been dealing with this awesome herniated disc in my neck for the past week, but luckily I was still able to go to her birthday/engagement dinner. Here's how it went down:
I was talking to her all morning about her birthday dinner with then-bf, his family and her sister. She walked into the room and saw his ENTIRE family, her sister, cousins, her dad came, all his friends and hers and started crying. She couldn't believe around 30 people came just for her birthday. They sat her next to me so I could calm her down because the night was only going to get better! She and I shared these fish bowl sized containers of alcohol and she calmed down and then we got drunk. Like very drunk.
She took me to the bathroom, "omg I can't believe he did this blah blah blah". I let her know that more birthday surprises were coming and she should get ready because she told me she didn't want to ugly cry all night. In my head I knew she was going to cry all night, but I tried to make her feel like she wouldn't. We did some breathing and went back out.
After dinner her birthday cake comes out and her then-bf is already on his knee next to her. She's very drunk at this point. It takes her a minute or 2 to read the cake that says "will you marry me" and she started freaking out. She then looked over at him and immediately started crying! She of course said yes, there were lots of cheers and all the cameras were out.
The ring is beautiful. The main stone was his paternal grandmothers. They're getting it resized today.
It was seriously awesome to be a part of it, I can't wait until her wedding!