The Proposal

[as narrated by the groom...]     It was a beautiful night on Palm Beach in northwest Aruba. We were walking on the beach at about 9pm (November 9th, 2014), after an Italian dinner at the Palm Beach Occidental. It was our second night in Aruba, so nothing very special outside of discovering the vast glories of this beautiful tropical heaven and planning our adventures for the next few days. We decided to lay by the beach with a clear sky and the moon glowing very bright. After annoying Stephanie for a few minutes about a light on top of a boat parked slightly off-shore, I asked her to stand up. She became nervous for a second as I knelt on one knee, unlocked the ring (which then sparkled against the moonlight) and I asked her to fulfill my dreams.