Cheryl & Michael
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Welcome, congratulations and best wishes to Cheryl and Michael and to their respective families: Peggy and Peter Albano; and Marie Shffman.
The two: An Elementary School Teacher and a Cable Technician, both from Babylon were engaged in Lavalette, New Jersey on July 14, 2009.
'Not a quick and simple story because things didn't happen the way he planned them apparently. He made a 'date night' plan to do dinner on the north shore and then go horseback riding in the sunset On this Sunday (July19th). He planned on doing it then. (Rewind a bit) Mike's family rented a house on the beach on Jersey Shore from the 10th-the 18th. I planned on going for the weekend because I couldn't take of summer school, Mike was staying til Wed. On Sunday his family planned on taking family portraits on the beach, which they hired a photographer for. She had to cancel and reschedule til Tuesday. This messed things up for me because I was planning on leaving Sunday because I had work on Monday. I decided to drive back up to Jersey after work on Tuesday so that I could be in the family pics. Meanwhile, Mike was picking up my ring on Tuesday because I wasn't supposed to be there originally. Since I had to come back for the pictures, it was kinda throwing him off because he wouldn't be at the house when I got back so he had to make up all these lies. While Mike was waiting to pick up the ring, he was thinking how 'great' it would be for me to 'officially' be part of the family in the family portraits. His whole fam thought he was doing it Sunday, but he changed his mind and decided to do it Tuesday since everyone was there, I'd have the ring on in the fam portraits, and the photographer might be able to take some 'engagement' pics of us. So he asked me to go for a walk on the beach. We walked down to this spot with rocks that we had walked to a couple of days earlier (its in the photo album from the weekend). So we walked down there, he started to say how he was so happy I came back for the family photos, and thinks we should make it official (being part of the fam) and blabbing on about how much he loves me and thinks I fit into the fam so well....then gets down on his knee....meanwhile I totally think he is joking and doing a 'fake' proposal to 'make it official'....so I'm saying things like Stop, get up, this isnt funny, don't joke about things like this......Then I see the ring box.....and that's when i started freaking out, and wishing I was paying attention. So he asked me, I said yes, etc etc...we walked back to the house now to tell his fam who had no idea (they werethinking he would ask this Sun) So it was really cool to see their reactions and share it with them. The best part was....the photographer came about a 1/2 hour later to do the beach family portraits, and after all the group shots, she walked down with us to our spot and took photos for us there....so now we have some engagement day pics!!!
They look forward to an August 13, 2010 celebration at Floral Terrace.
We wish them all the very best.
