On Mother's Day Weekend 2025, his parents and my parents met at Audie's for Dinner. My mom was being weirdly quiet, but had a reason to as she had injured herself the day before. I had NO idea why Ben wanted me to wear blue, but it is my favorite color so why not? I had my nails done as I wanted to feel fancy for dinner.

The start of dinner included me going to the bathroom and getting a salad from the salad bar, which is great, because Ben's mom passed him the ring at that time. After I ate my salad I held Ben's hand and pointed to my empty ring finger as a joke, not knowing what was ahead. Ben seemed completely normal, not nervous at all.

After dinner my mom asked for the Dessert Menu (Red flag I did not notice until later) and then a Turquoise cake hit my eye view and "Rita, Will you marry me?' was written on top.

I could not believe it, everything fell into place, and I could not stop crying, and tear up every time I think about it. It was the best night!

(the cake was delicious by the way)

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