Hester and Scott's Alaska Surprise 5000 Mile Best Wedding Marriage Proposal

We're Expecting Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCG1R7rCb5Y
Our Wedding Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooqu_Awrt-U&fmt=22
After months of planning and alot of hard work, I was finally able to propose to the love of my life. My wife (then girlfriend) thought we were just going to Alaska for 2 months to visit family, and to show her where I grew up. Little did she know that for months, I had been planning to pop the big question once we got there.

In preparation, I had to get the following details in order:

1. Design the artwork for a custom ring box.
2. Find someone to laser etch my design into my heart shaped box.
3. Assemble the box.
4. Pick out an engagement ring all on my own with no help from her or her friends.
5. Figure out her ring size without tipping her off that I was planning to propose to her.
6. Make a fictitious video supposedly for her parents to ease their fears about her driving to Alaska, when in actuality it was the video I would be using to pop the big question.
7. Find someone fluent in Vietnamese to translate the big question at the end of the video into Vietnamese for her parents.
8. Ask that same person to help me pick out the perfect Vietnamese love song for my video.
9. Burn 2 DVDs to mail to her parents after she watched the video in Alaska.
10. Have a car lined up and waiting for us in Anchorage so that my cousin and his family could drop us off in Anchorage for the final 230 miles to Homer.
11. Have the camera ready so I could pretend to take video of us in front of the big Welcome to Homer sign.
12. Set the camera up to record her watching the video without her getting suspicious.
13. Have the ring in my pocket without her noticing I put it there so I had it ready after the video was done playing.
14. Act completely normal even though all I could think about was slipping up and wrecking months of preparation.

In the end, I was able to pull it off and the smile on her face, and her laughter of joy, which I've never heard so full of happiness was worth all the months of hard work!

Thank you to my wife for putting up with months of odd behavior from me as I planned the proposal. I love you :)

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[AnchorageDentist]

Love it!

[warkilla]

@AnchorageDentist Glad you enjoyed our video, thanks for watching :)

[neffie77]

Amazing! I cried when I watched it.

All the best from Germany!

[warkilla]

@neffie77 Awww, thanks! What was your favorite part?

[mougess1]

amazing thing is americans hype to get engaged/proposed but divorces are too often too. be a couple for ever.

[warkilla]

@mougess1 I agree, marriage is for ever.

[neffie77]

@warkilla just everything! Your whole plan, her happiness, your whole family! Awesome! <3<3<3

[AnchorageDentist]

Yeah for sure keep us posted on any new up-dates.

[AnchorageDentist]

Yeah, for sure keep us posted on any new up-dates.

[warkilla]

@BrandieHoward Well, we're glad you enjoyed it :)