His Story

I had just arrived in Canada, my head was seemingly calm, but under the surface, it was racing with nervousness. I was in a distant land, a land of cold snow, hot coffee & a seemingly endless supply of Amanda's relative's to meet. But the nervousness of what I had come to do dwarfed everything else. It was the day before i was proposing, & the ring had not yet arrived, it was coming from New York & was supposed to be here the day before !! I was freaking out, but my engagement support team over in Australia (Morgan & Sara) who helped me and Amanda find the ring in the first place, were encouraging me that she loves me & it's not about the ring, Mike even emailed me from Australia with his story of how he proposed without the real ring, because it didn't make it in time & how Jess (His wife) had loved it just the same. So i was encouraged as i went to sleep that night.

The next day I was out at the mall with Ron (Amanda's Dad) & Amanda, and Ron got a call from Myrna, (Amanda's Mum/Mom) & he quietly (so that Amanda couldn't hear) told me it had arrived !! I later found out that when Ron & Myrna Called Fedex the lady there called the driver who had the package & told him what it had inside & that it had to get there before 2:00 !! So I was elated !! quietly rejoicing in the shoe store in the mall, but still nervous about actually having to do the deed the next day !!

The next day, i awoke in Kelowna after we drove up the day before. I was quietly trying to keep it together, Ron told Amanda that they booked her & i tickets for a winery tour that day, so she thought nothing of it & we went along to the Mission Hill winery around 1pm. The tour was fantastic, it was snowing that day beautiful flakes of snow, & there was only two other couple's on the tour. We went into the cellar & then up to the tasting room for some nice wine. after we tasted the last bottle, the lady, Elisabeth from Poland, announced that i had an announcement, and so i got on my knee and asked her to be my wife. It was the biggest high ever, the adrenaline when my knee hit the floor was unreal !! Amanda went all red & said yes !! Then Ron & Myrna came in with a huge bunch of pink roses & we the rest was a blur of excitement as we hugged and kissed and took many photo's.

So that the story of the best thing that's ever happened to me, Amanda Leanne

*sjb