The Proposal
R.Jay and I had been dating for almost 7 years. We took a vacation to Italy last April visiting Verona, Venice, Bologna, Assisi and Rome. On our last day in Italy, we had a tour of the Vatican. His original plan was to propose in the Sistine Chapel - but it was very crowded and we lost our group. Then he thought he'd have a chance in St. Peter's Basilica to propose, but it was too vase and we kept getting swept in direction directions looking the amazing art various nooks of the cathedral. When our tour ended and our group dispersed into different directions, he stopped at the gates of the piazza and asked me to be his best friend for ever, and took out a ring, in his words "to balance you" as my right hand has a diamond and sapphire ring he gave me several years earlier. Now I had a ring on both hands! We spent the rest of the day sight seeing and showing off my ring in photos around Rome. It was totally unexpected and memorable.