Elliot & Claire
Claire will murder me for putting this online, but today is the day I pop the question.Hello friends, family and random Play This magazine readers! Today after two years of being with my loving girlfriend Claire, I will be proposing to her and I would like to take you all along with us for the journey.
Now she has a relatively good idea that this is happening, probably because she basically picked out the ring and told me numerous times I’d get slapped if I didn’t make this romantic enough, but at 3:15 p.m. on top of the Newseum Balcony (which has honestly one of the most amazing views of the city and capitol) I shall be proposing.
Just so this doesn’t sound entirely lame, for those of us who know our past history, Claire and I both met at the George-Anne Daily. She was my faithful news assistant (where she generally made me do her job and she wrote awesome columns) and I as her editor would often spend long hours in the news room together, putting out one of the best college papers of its time. Although that was some of the best times for us and our favorite job, we had to grow up and get big kid jobs, but newspapers are what brought us together and being at the beacon of international newspapers with a rather scenic view makes it the perfect spot to ask.
Sadly since we custom designed her ring it will be another couple of weeks before it’s completed, but the first gift I ever bought Claire was a Claddagh ring, which represents love, friendship, engagement and marriage depending on how its worn. I’ve also purchased a new one with her birthstone in it to use as a temporary sign of our engagement, but either way knowing Claire she will love it until the really shiny and expensive one gets here.
For all of our friends and family who know us all to well, this seems like the best way we could announce it to you. That being said, this article won’t post until noon tomorrow and will also show on Facebook and Twitter. So for the love of all humanity do not call or text her until 4 p.m. EST or I’m doomed!
As a result of our venture to live in Washington DC, I’ve also decided it would be a great time to flex those technological muscles and try to stream this to you all as well. So at 3:15ish if you go to our qik.com page you should be able to see it all go down.
The plan
On Friday we were planning on going to Woo at the Zoo, which was a dorky event with a bar at the National Zoo and some fun lectures about animal mating patterns or what not. We like dorky things, so meh. The blizzard on the other hand canceled that, so if anyone would like two free tickets to that, they are up for grabs. Instead we’ll just be going out to dinner and seeing Dear John (dinner means copious amounts of mind numbing drinks for the movie for me).
Tomorrow I shall wake Claire up with breakfast in bed (unless she gets up at 6 a.m. like always) and then I have a massage scheduled for her at 10.
At noon we will head into the city for a quick bite to eat and either go ice skating or to the wax museum (perhaps spy museum). By this point she should be thrown off a bit, especially because we will then be going to the Newseum. At about 3:15 p.m. we will hopefully be able to get out onto the balcony with the amazing view of the city, where my most awesome co-worker Heather and her boyfriend Ryan should be to take photos and the streaming video. It will be short and sweet, mainly due to the freezing cold and the balcony still being covered in snow (luckily I’ve been speaking with the amazing Pam Galloway-Tabb to help me make this special event still take place there – Thank you so much again!).
Then my little cheese loving girlfriend and I will make our way to the Frontpage and have some pre-dinner drinks and then head to the melting pot for a 3 hourish long dinner. She loves cheese, what can I say.
Sunday we will be doing another breakfast in bed and I’ll be taking her to Dave and Busters for some lunch and gaming fun. She isn’t much into games but this was totally her idea and I won’t turn it down!
That’s the story and I’m sticking to it.
Let’s hope the blizzard doesn’t cause any more issues as a train has already derailed today as a result. Lame sauce.
You all are more than welcome to call or spam her Facebook wall after 4 p.m. Thank you all so much for being the great caring friends and family that you are.
