This may not sound very romantic to you but the card pictured here is the card that was used when I asked my wife to marry me. Well, I didn't actually ask my wife to marry me. I had my dog Missy ask her for me but there was a reason for this. My wife and I met on Yahoo Personals. I had found her profile and wrote to her. She wrote back to me and then it got to the point that we talked on the phone several times a day. Not long after that we met in person. It wasn't until quite a while later that she told me why she responded to me when I wrote to her. In one of my photos I was holding my dog Missy and she said when she saw that picture she said to herself, "Anyone that could make a dog look that happy would surely treat a woman good." Due to this once I decided to ask Barb to marry me I decided to call her parents and ask them to invite us to dinner. I made the card asking Barb to marry me and insisted that Missy go along with us to dinner. After dinner we all sat at the kitchen table and I placed Missy on Barb's lap with the card. Actually it was a bit comical because Barb opened the card and sat there reading it to herself and just before getting to the part where Missy asks Barb to Marry her Daddy, Barb stopped reading and said, "Oh, this is so funny that I have to read it out loud." Just so you know, when she did get to the part of would she marry Missy's Daddy, the answer was YES! YES! YES! I later surprised Barb by creating a slideshow that totally describes the events from when I originally wrote to Barb up to and including the day we got engaged. With it being reduced for the computer it may be a bit difficult to keep up with the words but you will get the general idea. Here is the link: How I Got Engaged (Note: If this slidshow runs slow on your computer you can click just below the slideshow to download it to your computer and it will play fine once downloaded)
I also don't necessarily go out and purchase a gift for my wife for her birthday. I make her something that came from the heart and she tells me that it means much more to her then anything that could be bought in any store. Last year in the early morning of her birthday while she was still sleeping I sat here and made her a slideshow. Yes, that was her gift from me and she loved it. There is no reason for me to describe the slideshow to you. It can be viewed right here: You Got It! (Note: If this slidshow runs slow on your computer you can click just below the slideshow to download it to your computer and it will play fine once downloaded)
I will admit that this type of gift giving may not work for everyone but it always works for me and brings an unforgettable smile on the face of my wife.
