When we had the great fortune of visiting with Wendy and Matthew on a very warm, Phoenix evening, we loved hearing the story of how they met and the proposal. They both had worked at the same higher education institution where he used to make faces at her across the room as to really woo her before they really hit it off with a budding romance via facebook. Matthew messaged Wendy, got her to go out, and she hasn’t been able to get rid of him since…at least that’s how she tells it. The proposal didn’t really go as planned. They had decided to go together to pick out the cut of her wedding ring stone and make the purchase, but it just sat around their house without a setting for some time. On one of Matthew’s days off, he took it to get it set. Wendy went for a walk at the local high school track, got frustrated, stormed home, and that’s when Matthew left to get the ring. She showered, napped, ate hotdogs for lunch, watched some football, played on her phone, and after all of that Matthew suggested getting a purple dessert (the stone is purple). She rashly said that there aren’t any purple desserts, looked up, and there Matthew was, on his knee, and he asked Wendy to marry him. She, of course, said yes.