I need her to be mine forever. I need to ask her to marry me. To spend every day, month, year and eternity with her, through all hurdles! For me to achieve this I hear I have to become Van Vicker and Ramsey Noah put together. I know the ring is very important, going down on one knee (I would go down on both)…. I would stop rambling and just go straight to my question. Can’t I just use my Mini-flat? Leave out all the Jade’s palace, Radisson blues and you know what. I met with an old friend of mine last week and she gave me a load down of how I could have a dinner party in my Mini-flat and equally propose. For me to throw a dinner party in My Mini-flat, I must be ready to make changes, and be creative.
SPACE
This exciting task starts with creating space, how do you achieve this? By rearranging your furniture. On this spectacular evening, you won’t need your cushions… you are about to have a romantic dinner, not sit around. Make your room your storage for the evening, items such as throw pillows, side stools should be transferred into the room. All these should make your sitting room spacious enough to invite guests over. Just like the fancy Proposals, you get to invite few of your mutual friends over!
MOOD LIGHTING
What is an event or a small dinner without lighting, dull yeah? Mood lighting would greatly affect the ambience and décor of your event; it would also help hide stains and dust. So for this night the stains in your mini-flat become invisible (if you have any). There are various options at your disposal to help brighten this special evening; you have candles, tea light and string lights to choose from. So what is it going to be? Guess what? You can use it all. The candles and tea lights can be placed on the table, which by now is covered with a beautiful table cloth. String light could go over the dinner table, or round the sitting room. Shelves and curtains can serve as hangers for the string light. Yours is a romantic dinner, so pleaseeee dim the light and put on some blues.
MENU
Now why is this important? All these fancy restaurants use them, so why should your small dinner party be devoid of them. More so, it adds a feel to the event and if you have a hidden agenda like me, you should totally use it.
THE STORY
Most proposals have effect and a story attached to it, mine involved 2 friends and a glass of ice cream. For my proposal, my girlfriend was involved all the way; she helped with the menu, in fact all the process. WHY?? Well, she thought we were throwing a PROPOSAL dinner party for our mutual friends Shade and Ayo. My girlfriend is smart, romantic and most importantly she happens to have a lot in common with Shade, so this was quite easy. At first, she didn’t agree to the sitting room idea, but I insisted and also told her Ayo wanted that.
She however, fell in love with the idea along the line…. ‘’Not bad, a cozy dinner for four, and a shiny ring”. She was really helpful; I would have sucked at this, the female touch to it almost made me cry. The major thing I helped with was the menu…hidden agenda. I know how this sounds, why should a lady plan her own proposal? Make she kukuma do part of the work (just kidding).
The truth is: I wanted the proposal to be her and for her, if you know what I mean. The Ring had been with Ayo for about 2 weeks now, so he brought it along with items on the menu and the menu itself.
THE PROPOSAL
The special night came; we were all looking radiant and happy, why shouldn’t we? We were all about to make two become one. My girlfriend was blushing all the time, her clueless girlfriend was about to get engaged and she helped make it a reality. The menu was decorated by Ayo, and the content from a heart in love (Moi). My girlfriend gave me the eye which read; you no try at all o. I smiled back and said short time frame. It was time for desert, ice-creammmmmm.
And my girlfriend suggested that the guys get the ice-cream. (In her mind, she was the writer of this movie). We now had a glass cup of ice-cream in front of us; as usual my girlfriend was smiling at me, and once in a while she would steal a glance at her friend. “You guys can’t do anything right!” It was obvious; she had just hit the rock…
Finally, I was now in front of her, on one knee as I had promised (by now she was crying). The original menu was handed to her and it read
I had no idea what love was
It has so many meanings, I found myself
Lost in its search
But then I found you and I knew I had to stop searching
It’s not about the ring going round your finger
But YOU being in and around my life
BIMPE ADAMS
WILL YOU PLEASE MARRY ME?
