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I proposed to my boyfriend
And he’s proposing to me too
I was in a Taco Bell drive-thru with my boyfriend when we decided we would get married. I had been thinking about proposing to him for a while and floated the idea of me proposing to him, instead of the traditional man-proposes-to-woman.
When we talked about it, neither of us felt right about just one of us spending a lot of money on a ring and planning a big romantic proposal. We both wanted to have the opportunity.
So right there in that drive-thru, before we received our Crunch Wrap Supremes and Quesaritos (RIP), we decided that we were “unofficially” engaged. The plan was that by Spring 2021, we would each propose to the other.
Since I had already been thinking about proposal ideas that centered on a cute Christmassy date we went on in Willow Glen every year since we started dating, I got to work. COVID-19 second-wave shutdowns changed around a lot of what I wanted to do, but what I planned instead ended up being intimate, quiet, and beautiful.
With the help of his parents, I made our own little Willow Glen winter wonderland where I could pop the question without worrying about…
