The Engagement
Our engagement tale is more comedy of errors than fairytale, featuring a mix-up that ended with the perfect moment. Amanda and I were heading to San Diego, but our flight cancellation nearly derailed my proposal plans. Amid my panic, Amanda suggested catching a flight the next day, unaware of my urgent timetable. By some miracle, we found another flight within 30 minutes and dashed to board it.
Arriving at our friends Trevor and Emily's at 1am turned our day into an unexpected endurance test. The following day, I steered us to Sunset Cliffs for the sunset, under the guise of a casual outing with friends Emily, Trevor, and Allie in on it. A 'spontaneous' champagne stop raised no suspicions with Amanda, who brushed it off as typical Mitchell behavior.
The search for parking felt like the universe’s final test, but we made it just in time for the sunset. Nervously, I asked Trevor to take a photo of us by the ocean's edge. I got down on one knee and asked Amanda to marry me.