We’re getting married!

It's tradition in the Dunlap family to go to the beach every summer. This is not just any beach, but my childhood beach. I have been going to this small, family oriented beach since in my mom's stomach. Edisto Island in South Carolina; an island I will forever be connected too. A few months prior to our engagement, I had gotten sized for a ring. We knew that was a next step we both wanted in our relationship, but we were just going with the flow of life. Little did I know, Will had already purchased the ring and told our families. This years beach trip in particular was going to be extremely special, as Will's family were going to be joining us! I didn't think too much into it, as we had been talking about his family joining us since that Thanksgiving. I was just excited to get our families together. Vacay was only about a month away and I started thinking that the beach would be a great opportunity for him to propose to me. His mom, maw maw, my mom, and my sister would be there for a pivoting point in both of our lives. That was one thing Will always said, he 100% wanted his mom and maw maw to be present when he got down on one knee. I let him know my thought, and he assured me that it wasn't going to happen then. He would say, "That is way to obvious Olivia come on". Or it would be just a plain "nah not at the beach". I let it go, but I still had an eyebrow raised. I randomly got a text one day from a weird number that said "Hi William! Your scheduled appointment for Petora Jewelers is this Wednesday, __. Please reply Y to confirm or N to cancel". I immediately thought, "OMG. Did the jeweler just accidentally text my phone instead of Will's?..." I felt so bad that now I knew the day he was going to get the ring and I was debating on telling him, only because I didn't want him to be disappointed I knew. I ended up telling him, and I felt so bad. Here I am saying "you should go in there and let them know they slightly ruined your proposal. Maybe they will give you 10-20 percent off!" Haha. He said he would call, but his face and the sound of disappointment in his voice you could not look over. We made a positive light out of it at the end of the day, and just told each other regardless it was going to be special. So in my head, I now knew for sure I was not getting proposed to on our vacay. Fast forward to the 2nd day of being at Edisto. I was already completely burnt to a crisp from the sun per usual. Thinking I do not need a lot of sunscreen when in reality I burn when it is cloudy out, so I knew better. If you have ever been severely sunburned, you know it is honestly excruciating pain and you just want to lay down with a whole bunch of Aloe on your body, so that was exactly what I was doing! My sister comes into the room, "Olivia, everyone is out there hanging out can you at least come out and sit with all of us?" I agreed and made my way out to the living room with everyone. Will was sitting at the kitchen table drinking a shot of crown apple. I was looking at him so crazy! He had told me a hour before he was so tired and ready to lay down so I was so confused. He proceeded to go outside to hang, and his mom eventually went out there and they talked for a while. He finally came back inside, but I could just tell he was off. Eventually he addressed the entire room, and began to say how blessed he felt, which turned into him talking about how he felt about me and our relationship. By this point, I was starting to sweat lol. He goes over to his backpack to get a piece of paper; (A fib by the way); walks back around, looks at me, and get down on 1 knee and opens a box to the most beautiful ring ever. "Olivia, will you marry me?" A pivoting moment in both of our lives, in a place that is, and will always be special. We cannot wait to continue making core memories at Edisto Island together.