I am a self-confessed hater of surprises so I would be lying if I said I hadn’t dug around a bit (or a lot) to figure out when Brian would be proposing. Well, this definitely backfired on me and led to the best surprise (and hopefully only one) I could have ever asked for. I had been thoroughly convinced that a proposal would be coming on my birthday, so the day before I was giddy all day thinking that it would be the last day before we would be engaged.
We spent the day with Brian’s family, who had come to town to celebrate his two brothers’ impending moves away from Nebraska. After family activities had wound down (with no hints from anyone that a secret was being kept - I definitely watched out for them), Brian asked if I wanted to go for a quick walk through Pioneer’s Park. We began our usual route through the park, eventually leading to my favorite clearing. I instinctively went to sit down in the spot we usually stop to talk, when to my surprise Brian got down on one knee to ask me to be his wife! Of course I said yes, albeit through many happy tears. He even had my mom and sister there hiding in the bushes to capture the moment. After collecting myself, we left to go celebrate at what I thought would be a family BBQ. Instead I walked into a surprise engagement party with all of our closest friends and family (cue the waterworks again)! Brian had even brought in my best friends from Texas and Oklahoma to help him plan and celebrate with us. To top it all off, the next day I got to have the best birthday ever as the future Mrs. Wurster!
