I've found a love for me
So Helen and I met actually at Queen's, I think she was 16th or 17th birthday party.
I think I actually met her for the first time in the basement of Queen's new house when she had moved over to Vaughan.
That was about 13 years ago, so usually yearly we just hung out like in group gatherings and stuff.
We actually hung out like back in 2009 we actually hung out one on one where he suddenly messaged me one evening.
It was actually on New Year's Eve.
I actually made the first move, I think it was eight years ago for New Year's.
I called her to see if she wanted to hang out for New Year's.
We went to Nathan Phillips Square, she got drunk and it was a good time overall, yeah.
That's how we met and how everything started.
So the proposal was kind of random but not random to him I guess because he has planned it for a while.
I guess what sort of prompted the actual day was I got us some tickets to the Above and Beyond acoustic concert,
which is one of our favorite music groups and so I thought that was going to be a really nice setting.
And then it also coincided so that it happened to be the weekend of her birthday as well.
So it was like a lot of big things happening in one weekend.
The plan was that morning, it was our anniversary and we had a concert to attend.
So like usual on the Saturday he came over and I was still sleeping in my bed and he came into our room
and then he was like, oh do you want to open your gift for anniversary or something like that?
I remember for her actual birthday present I got her from the movie Up they had the My Adventure Book.
So I got her the Big My Adventure Book custom made for her birthday and then for the actual ring
I got her a little mini version about that big made with a little foam cut out where I put the ring.
He told me to open this other package which was a little book.
I opened it and then I was like, oh this is really cute.
I opened the first page it said something in there I can't remember what it said but the second page I opened
it was actually a box and there was a ring inside and then suddenly he just like bent down on his knees
and started saying a bunch of mushy stuff.
Originally my plan was actually I was going to do it at the I guess the Sound Hall or Massey Hall
but I figured it was going to be a really romantic show and it would kind of take away from the experience
if like four other couples got engaged that weekend.
So I kind of hit it with her present I gave her her present she opened it up
and then she saw the little box she's like oh what's that and then she opened it up and she saw the ring
and immediately like she started crying because you know Helen's a big softy.
I picked up the ring and asked her if she wanted to marry me and obviously she said yes because that's why we're here today.
Yeah that's how I proposed.
The thing that I'm looking most forward to on a wedding day is to just see how happy he looks
and while I walk down the aisle and then us holding hands while we say our vows
and just for the wedding to go smoothly I guess and just to spend the rest of my life with him after that.
I think the thing I'm looking forward to most is I mean I'll finally get to see Helen
in her wedding dress walking down the aisle.
I've probably pictured it a thousand times in my head how it's going to go.
I mean obviously I hope it goes smoothly but I think the thing I'm looking forward to most is that
I can actually call Helen my wife.
Babe by the time you see this we are already married.
I just want to tell you that I will love you forever. I will support you and care for you just the way you have done for me.
Experiencing thanks for helping me through I mean thanks for being with me through the happiest times in my life
and also helping me through the darkest times.
You have always lifted me up, supported me, helped me through and encouraged me to be the best self that I can be.
I just want to let you know that I'm so happy to marry my best friend in the whole wide world
and that you, me and Wally are going to have an awesome life together continuing from this day on.
Helen, if you're watching this I want you to know that you are absolutely the most amazing, caring, funny,
just all around coolest person I've ever met.
I love you with absolutely all of my heart and I honestly couldn't picture a day without you in my life.
Now that we're married I look forward to going on a lifetime of adventures with you
and we're going to fill up that memory book that I got you. I love you.
