Editor's Blog: The Proposal

Kemi & Uche

I love the feeling I get when I see or hear of a really good proposal or wedding. While some people go all out, proposing while they are sky diving or something equally 'exciting', sometimes it's the simplest things that turn your insides to butter.

Kemi and Uche's proposal below did just that for me...

"...It's really difficult to surprise me cos I almost always figure it out but this time, I was truly surprised...
Uche insisted on having the car for the day even though I didn't understand why he absolutely needed to go to the gym on the day I had to go down to San Francisco for a meeting… he won, (only because he was visiting) and I had the pleasure of a very long ride from San Jose to SF on Cal train.


After a long day and even longer time commuting, I was so ready go off on him if he was even a minute late in picking me up. He met me at the station holding a sign but I was too tired to entertain the goofiness that I walked right past him without reading it but stopped when the guy behind him asked if I planned on answering…


Puzzled, I looked back, read the sign and slowly took in the "Will you marry me?" I still thought it was all a joke so I walked out to the front of the station (I was really slow that day, and if you know Uche, his jokes can be pretty elaborate). It finally sunk in when he got on one knee outside the station and whipped out the black box…after a little silence, at which point he was probably starting to worry about my answer, I said yes which was followed by hooting and blaring horns...”

This creative couple tied the knot September, 2008. Read more about them on their website Kemi & Uche

Written by Sugar Weddings