Will You Marry Me?
I had been planning to ask Naomi for about a month, but we had NEVER
talked about it, so asking her in front of 400 of our closest friends was a bit
risky. To keep the whole thing a secret, I picked the ring up the day
before we left for Roswell and hid it in the spare tire area. When we were
getting ready for the costume party, I put the ring inside the Cone Head along
with 4 Herbies and put it on, then the rest of my costume. At one point Naomi
asked me why I didn't take the cone off to get all the other necklaces and stuff
on, but I confused her enough that she left me alone. My biggest fear was
someone might come up and pull off the cone causing the Herbies & ring to go
flying.
As soon as we got there, I mentioned to David I needed a few
minutes on stage. I thought I sent him an email a few weeks before, so he knew
what was going on. To the best of my knowledge, David, No-Show Tammy and a
co-worker Kim were the only 3 people who knew anything about it. I
mentioned something to David when I was on stage giving away the Herbies and he
said something like "Yeah, I know, wait until later", so I assumed he
knew what I was talking about, but he had allot on his mind. After all the
awards were over and the DJ started playing music, I went up to David again and
told him he forgot me. It was then we realized our signals were buggy, he had no
idea what I was planning. David gave the DJ a note and she called us up on
stage.
In full Cone Head Hippy costume and the ring inside the Cone I
got down on one knee and asked Naomi to marry me. She actually said yes (w/o any
threats of walking home or anything :) and the rest is history.
These are a few pictures from some of our friends. At
first I thought no one took pictures of the actual event but Judy & Eugena came through for
me.
