Rugby Video Monday: We’re getting hitched!

This week’s Rugby Video Monday is a little different as The Girl and I are officially announcing to the world that we are ENGAGED! If you want the gooey details, go below…

Our date is November 13, 2010 and we will be getting married on a boat in Austin, TX. We  love water and being outside, so we couldn’t imagine getting married anywhere else. I like to say that I am getting married on a mother f’in boat and The Girl won’t let me put that on our invitations…so I have been watching this video all the time:

How we met
Almost 10 years ago The Girl and I played rugby at rival colleges. The Girl played at Texas A&M and I played at Oklahoma. The rivalry between Texas A&M and Oklahoma is still strong and for our rugby teams at the time we were the best college teams in our region. Our teams played each other often and the games were intense and close in score.

After college we played on a few LAU and All-Star teams together and then in 2006 we each moved to Austin. The Girl moved in early 2006 and began playing with the Austin Valkyries. Unknown to me, I moved to Austin in June 2006 as well.

Date of engagement event
12/17/2009

How we got engaged
This part was written by The Girl: We decided to have date night (movie and dinner at Alamo Drafthouse) which we do almost once a week.  We went to the theater where we had our first date 3 years ago.  Now, I didn’t think anything of it because we go to this theater all the time.  I just thought it was a typical Wednesday night dinner and a movie.

Well after the movie we got in the car to head home.  Wendy decided to turn down a row in the parking lot in the opposite direction of the exit.  Claiming she was “turned around” and forgot where the exit was.  I proceeded to get a little impatient and questioned how she could possibly be “turned around” in a parking lot.

She then parked, turned off the car, and took off my seat belt.  She asked me if I knew where I was. Umm hello, I’m in a parking lot at the theatre.  She then replied with “this is where is all started.” (She parked in the same location we parked 3 years ago when we had our first date.)

She then handed me a present to open.  Those who know Wendy know she cannot stand looking at presents and not opening them, so it wasn’t a surprise that she wanted me to open an early present.

The present was a Shutterfly picture book.  She wrote a story of our first 3 years together.  It was very creative and very sweet, she has such an imagination.  She called us rugby knights from different kingdoms, fighting evil to find our way to each other.

The last page of the book had a picture of the ring and read “they lived happily ever after”.

She pulled out the ring and asked me to marry her and of course I said YES!