Happy New Year!
My husband and I met up with our favorite friends from Arizona in Las Vegas! It was a fun couple of days hanging out with this terrific couple. Its always a ton of laughs and craziness with these two.
I had to share a quick story about a marriage proposal we witnessed.
We were having dinner at Carne Vino, another Mario Batali gem in the Desert. It is located in the Palazzo casino. Luckily, our trip to Vegas was outside of the annual New Year Eve insanity so it wasn’t busy or completely booked. I highly recommend trying out this restaurant if you like steak. They have these awesome dry aged steaks that are really special and quite delicious. The service there is awesome too.
Oh yeah, back to the proposal…
We were at the tail end of our dinner on December 30, when a huge pack of women came through the dining room. There were probably 12 girls and 2 guys that walked through entourage style. They were heard saying that it was a birthday party for one of the girls in the group.
When everyone was seated and bottles of wine were opened, the birthday girl’s boyfriend stood up to make a little speech. The boyfriend I have to mention, was dressed in a tux complete with tails and everyone was dressed to the 9s in cute dresses and heels.
Birthday girl’s boyfriend started off by saying happy birthday and then talked about how happy he was and then he got down on one knee!! Thats sweet that guys still do that, I adore that type of proposal.
The birthday girl was definitely surprised and was crying her eyes out. Of course she accepted and then promptly left for the bathroom with all 12 of the girls to discuss what had just happened.
It was sweet how the guy got all of the birthday girl’s friends together to witness this special engagement. I’m sure that everyone was in on it and was just waiting for the moment. We didn’t see the rest of the evening, but we did see the relieved enfianced guy outside, so we congratulated him and went on with our evening.
What a nice way to start off 2009! She’ll have a lot of fun wedding planning ahead of her.
