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Proposal of the Month: August
The Couple: Elizabeth Durkin & Ben Cassady
Wedding Date: October 9, 2010
The Proposal (according to Elizabeth): After finishing law school finals in December (both in our last year at GW Law School), we took a five day trip to Paris. I tried to convince myself that Ben wasn’t going to propose yet; but, of course, it was in the back of my mind the entire trip.
On our third night there, Ben suggested we take a nighttime boat cruise along the Seine River. I thought: If he’s going to do it, it’s going to be now!
For the first half of the boat cruise I was calm, but after we started to turn around, I truly believed that Ben wasn’t going to propose, and spent the rest of the time on the boat trying not to be upset and ruin the trip.
We walked back to the hotel in the freezing cold, and I was being noticeably quiet. When we arrived there, I changed clothes and was fixing my makeup in the bathroom. When I walked out, Ben kneeled down outside the bathroom and said, “I know you are grumpy and your feet are cold, but will you marry me anyway?” Of course, I said yes, but then asked why he had waited so long! We ended up getting food poisoning the last two days of the trip, but, hey, in sickness and in health, right?
