Engagement Friday!!!

This Friday the 13^th I got engaged!!! Strange date to get engaged but I am sure my boyfriend, or rather I should say my Fiancé, had not planned it that way on purpose. It was such a surprise. I had the most normal and in truth quite tiring and boring day. It was gloomy and raining. I was in college the whole time and after that had to meet up with a friend to give her the dress I made for her during the week. The only thing I was thinking of doing that evening was getting home, have a hot bowl of borscht (Russian soup) that I cooked the other day and watch perhaps something not too scary with my boyfriend…however…little did I know, that that the very minute I was musing those thoughts during my lecture, my boyfriend was preparing a special three course meal at home for me and getting ready to propose!

As I came home, all soaked and wet from the rain I was too busy with getting the dress ready for my friend that I did not pay too much attention to everything. I just saw that my boyfriend had set up the dinner table in our room as if in restaurant and was cooking salmon. This is not unusual, since he enjoys cooking and is a romantic by nature, so he often surprises me with home cooked meals and romantic gestures.

This is how the table looked after I returned from the meeting with my friend!!! He cooked light pea soup as a starter, then roasted salmon with baby potatoes and cherry tomatoes and green salad, pasta with Bolognese sauce and then sweetcorn and beetroot salad. As dessert we had Turkish baklava that he brought back from his recent holiday in Turkey.

Needless to say that everything tasted as good as it looked.

These photos were taken before the proposal. We sometimes just take photos randomly, so again I paid no special attention to this. He did put on a jacket for more formality but I just thought he wanted to look nice in the photo and give our meal a more "restaurant type date" atmosphere. I, on the other hand, was wearing simple casual outfit. It looked more vintagy earlier that day, when I accessorized it with grey tinted tights, light brown suede boot type heels,  long black gloves and vintagy checkered cape-coat. However, since I came home wet, I took off all the wet garments and this is what was left of my outfit. 

So, after a brief meeting with my friend, I came home all tired and chilled, thinking only of eating hot salmon dinner and wrapping in warm blankets…Then, as we sat down to have dinner and after literally three spoonfools of soup and me talking about my day, my boyfriend proposed to me!!! It was very romantic and special and different…it was nothing like I imagined it would be as a little girl or even as I grew older, it was so much better than that … and before I knew it, I held the black little velvety box in my hands…and inside it….the ring. It is made of white gold, has a blue sapphire square cut stone at the center and diamonds all around it in a "flower" shape….very beautiful, elegant and kind of medieval looking….I love it…and well most importantly, of course, I love my boyfriend…so I said YES!!! And now I am ENGAGED to him!!!!

This is my engagement ring, looking all beautiful and shiny on my right hand. I don't really know which hand one is supposed to wear an engagement ring. Some cultures believe it is the left hand, some the right. Very confusing! But I just decided to wear it on my right hand because it looks better with the other rings I usually wear on my right hand. At the end of the day, it does not really matter...

Me looking all excited and thrilled!!!

That's us, after the proposal!!!

So from now on, Friday the 13^th is not a scary creepy ghost story telling day for me, but on the contrary, it will remind me of that rainy September Friday the 13^th 2013, one of the happiest and memorable days of my life, the day when my boyfriend proposed to me and I said yes.