I had been dating Edward just three months when we started talking marriage. We had been set up on a blind date during
a brief visit I had to Charleston over Christmas before heading back to New York where I was in graduate school.
No one used email back then, and so he wrote me a letter every day in addition to giving me a call. It was a sweet, sweet whirlwind romance – half of it experienced on Edisto Island and Charleston and the other half in Manhattan where we attended the opera (standing room only tickets for a professor and grad student, of course) and cheap off-off Broadway plays, and ate inexpensive but romantic dinners from street stands or noodle shops.
The proposal was the best. It was my birthday, and we were staying with my parents on Edisto Island. He snuck into my room just before sunrise and we walked, bleary eyed down to the dock and then puttered in his old aluminum jon boat down the salt marsh creek and out into the North Edisto River where he got down on bended (wobbly) knee and clutched (with a death grip) a little velvet box he opened as the sun rose.
Relieved at my “yes!”, he carefully slid the ring on my finger and as if God had not smiled enough on us that early morning, we saw in the distance, an older couple in a boat in the distance watching the same sunrise, leaning into one another.
It was a miraculous morning.
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6 comments
Julie Cantrell says:
February 5, 2013 at 8:01 am (UTC -5 )
Sweetest. Story. EVER! What a romantic. Love it. Lucky girl
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Lisa Wingate says:
February 5, 2013 at 8:58 am (UTC -5 )
“Relieved at my “yes!”, he carefully slid the ring on my finger and as if God had not smiled enough on us that early morning, we saw in the distance, an older couple in a boat in the distance watching the same sunrise, leaning into one another.”
Awww! Beth, you made me cry! What a guy and what a sweet story!
Rachel Hauck says:
February 5, 2013 at 9:34 am (UTC -5 )
BW, what a sweet story. I love the echo of love with the older couple watching the same sunrise.
Edward is a keeper for sure!
Rachel
Jasels says:
February 5, 2013 at 9:49 am (UTC -5 )
My goodness! A scene right out of one of your books! No wonder you write such good books with material like that to draw from.
Beth Webb Hart says:
February 5, 2013 at 10:54 am (UTC -5 )
Thanks for the super sweet comments, y’all. He is a romantic and definitely swept me off my feet. Nice to think back and remember….
Xo,
BW
Shellie Rushing Tomlinson says:
February 5, 2013 at 3:08 pm (UTC -5 )
Sugar sweet post, BW. Love God’s tender touch at the end with the older couple. Wishing you and your Edward many more years together!