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Original message:21 days 5 hours 12 minutes ago

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Member: eds1275

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Tomorrow is the big day; my favourite holiday of the year, and I'm throwing a massive party in my bac yard and the kicker is I'm proposing to my long-time girlfriend of 8 years.

Reply:21 days 4 hours 24 minutes ago
Member: ibzRG

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8 years is long... Good luck! And happy partying!

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Reply:21 days 4 hours 19 minutes ago
Member: Steve Aguilar

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So this will be the last we shall speak Eds?

I joke... :) good luck with everything.

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Reply:20 days 8 hours 44 minutes ago
Member: robbiusa

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Good luck eds... party hardy, man.... not so much that you forget to propose, though.

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Reply:20 days 8 hours 13 minutes ago
Member: Alex Koepp

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yeah good luck buddy, have fun

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Reply:19 days 21 hours 41 minutes ago
Member: farlow

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So, what happened?

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Reply:19 days 14 hours 43 minutes ago
Member: Father Dougal Maguire.

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Maybe he's been transported to a world of bliss, tender loving kisses, happy new fiance and a guest appearance on Cloud 9................either that or he's dead.

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Reply:19 days 14 hours 42 minutes ago
Member: Father Dougal Maguire.

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Hope it all worked out bud, and it all went according to plan. :-)

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Reply:19 days 3 hours 40 minutes ago
Member: eds1275

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It was pretty good actually, I started off singing her this stupid funk song we both love, which threw her off guard because I never EVER sing without a guitar, cause I have no clue what to do with my hands.... but she was confused so she just started dancing, I had borrowed all these stage lights from work so the lights were pumping different colours to the beat of the funk song. Afterwards she tried running away but everyone pushed her up to the front of the crowd, I asked her and my friend Steve burst into tears which was hilarious. She said yes and we lived happily ever after. Actually we partied hard and got really drunk, neither of us have hangovers which is good. I'll post some pics soon.

Reply:19 days 3 hours 30 minutes ago
Member: Father Dougal Maguire.

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Ed, congratulations dude. And I mean that with all my heart. All the best to you both for now and the future.

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Reply:19 days 11 minutes ago
Member: robbiusa

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Yay... a happy ending. Congrats... glad it all went according to plan.

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Reply:18 days 21 hours 22 minutes ago
Member: Erk

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My condolences dude.

Ooops, I mean congradulations.

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Reply:18 days 9 hours 29 minutes ago
Member: sallan

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Congratulations Eds!!!!

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Reply:18 days 8 hours 32 minutes ago
Member: frumsapap

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That is what life is made of, bro. Finding someone to share existance with, your confidant, your muse, and friend. I will tell you of my story of how I met my wife one day. It is an interesting one. We've been together almost 8 years, and married almost 6. I seem to want and need her more and more every day. Sorry this is sappy, but I think it's cool when someone finds that one person, who gives you support when needed, especially us musicians, we need all the help we can get.

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Reply:7 days 21 hours 5 minutes ago
Member: this dying soul

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congrats eds... that's a great story about how you did it too, very clever.

Good luck with the wedding, hope it goes off as well as the proposal.

when I proposed to my wife it wasn't exactly the timing I'd had in mind, but it all worked out anyway.

She was going through a depression at the time because she'd gone through a spell where it was hard for her to keep a job (which actually ended just a few months before) and her family (my mother-in-law in particular) kept telling her I was going to leave her if things didn't change; which wasn't true. She was actually starting to believe her family and was about to leave me rather than burden me.

Apparently part of what convinced her that her mother was right was all the extra time I was spending at work on the weekends. She thought I was doing it to avoid being around her, rather than make a commitment to be there forever. The fact I was always broke desite working 6 or even 7 days a week over a 6 month period also had her suspicious.

I gave her the ring a month sooner than planned to prove to her that what her family was saying was false. When she realized this was the reason for all the extra hours I was working, she felt kinda silly but next year we're celebrating our 5th anniversary and our 9th year together and it only seems to get better every year.

My original plan was wait until the night before Christmas Eve and take her to the nightclub where we met and propose on the exact spot we were standing when we were introduced by a mutual friend.

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Reply:7 days 10 hours 9 minutes ago
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That is a very nice story... mine isn't half as romantic...wait, actually mine isn't romantic at all. LOL.

My wife said we either get married or she was moving... way far away. I mean we'd only been together for 10 years prior... I guess she was getting impatient or something....

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Reply:7 days 8 hours 37 minutes ago
Member: this dying soul

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to add a little more detail to that story...

I'd paid off the ring ahead of schedule and was still working every other weekend to get a few other gifts for Sylvie so that I could throw her off the trail by putting something under the Christmas tree that wouldn't get her suspecting anything. She'd gotten upset that I was basically shafting her for the weekend and was literally starting to pack her things and leave.

Since this was the opposite of what those extra hours at work were intended for and I had to do something to get through to her that I was not avoiding her and that her family was wrong about my intent to leave her; I went to my guitar case and pulled the ring out of the storage compartment, sat her down on the edge of the bed and showed her what I'd gone into the case for.

She cried for 10 minutes before she said "yes", because now she understood why I was working so much and saw that I definately had no plans of going anywhere.

... by the way, as handy as the guitar case is for hiding small gifts since your significant other will probably never look there; don't stash an engagement ring there for the very reason that you wind up in a situation like I did. Sylvie was about to walk out because she'd convinced herself I didn't want her around anymore, so I had to propose early. When I took out the guitar case while she was packing her things, it understandably looked to her like I was more interested in playing guitar than stopping her from leaving... although it did add to the surprise when I produced a ring from the storage compartment, it does somewhat ruin the moment by causing your potential bride make themselves look like an ass.

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Reply:6 days 20 hours 44 minutes ago
Member: robbiusa

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Plus now she knows one of your hiding places for those small little things you may not want her to find. LOL

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Reply:7 days 9 hours 48 minutes ago
Member: jesus bikerfreak

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Congrats Ed. That is a great story and a proposal I had not heard before. Your friend Steve crying cracks me up, but he must be a good friend to get so worked up. Were they tears of joy or tears of sorrow? Just kidding :-) My wife and I have been married for going on 25 years. May you and your bride be as happy!

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