On Monday, January 16th, 2012, I surprised the most amazing woman in my life, Kandice Cihlar, with a marriage proposal we will always remember.
The surprise went like this...
On that Monday, I left for a business trip for two days. Really, I didn't though. But that is what I told Kandice to make her think I was out of town.
Kandice's close girlfriends planned a random "girls night out" that Monday evening, including dinner and a movie.
But it wasn't random at all.
After dinner, Kandice thought she was getting ready to go watch a movie with her girlfriends. When they got in the theater, before the movie started, there were a number of movie trailers/previews that played (just like they normally do).
Then, to her surprise, a movie trailer played that was made specifically for this night...specifically for Kandice. A montage of famous love scenes were put together, played behind the song "Marry Me" by Train. It wasn't until the end, when Kandice heard the words "The Proposal...Coming to this theater...Right Now!" and a picture of the two of us appeared on the big screen that she realized what was happening.
After the special movie trailer played, with my heart in my hand, I surprised Kandice (with over 100 of our family and friends in the theater) and asked her to marry me.
Our engagement party followed immediately after in the bar & lounge area located within the iPic Theater of Bolingbrook, IL.
“The Proposal”: http://www.viddler.com/v/825d946b

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From our very first date (two and a half years ago) when I walked into her house and she had QVC on in the background, it didn’t take long for me to realize how much she was infatuated with the shopping channel. Once I started thinking of proposing to Eleanor, I realized I wanted it to be original and that is when I thought how meaningful it would be if I did something involving QVC. In November of last year I reached out to QVC with my idea of being a guest host and popping the question on live television. They responded and informed me it was out of their means to pull it off and wasn’t going to be possible. I instead found the contact information for Larry Denney, QVC manager of studio and tours. He was excited about Eleanor’s infatuation with QVC and loved my proposal idea. He jumped right on board, rounded up a group at QVC to help in the planning process and that’s when my crazy thought came to life. Idea after idea and months and months of planning the QVC proposal was finally set. For our two year anniversary I decided to give Eleanor a QVC a goody package which included two all access VIP tour tickets. She was thrilled, did not have a clue and we were off on a weekend I knew we’d never forget. Eleanor and I arrived at the QVC studios both excited and nervous, for obviously very different reasons. With ring in pocket I was ready to go. Miked up and cameras rolling Eleanor gushed about her fascination with the shopping network. After several questions from the prouder it was finally my time to ask the most important question of all. With her hand in mine I popped down on one knee, took her breath away, pulled out the ring and she said yes! Eleanor was not the only person surprised that day. QVC arranged to have her favorite host, David Venable, come out with a cake and a bottle of champagne to toast the special occasion. With us both shocked and elated we celebrated a moment that was truly unbelievable. Video on YouTube.