The church I was attending at the time celebrated the 3 major feasts that are written about in the Old Testament in the Bible. It was a time to gather together, meet old friends, go to meetings (and boy howdy, there were a lot of meetings), and meet new friends. It was also one of the best times to introduce someone, as the grapevine was pretty alive. So everybody who knew me got to meet Miss Library. It really was obvious we were in love and that marriage was inevitable, but I was so introspective (too much so and still am) that I “wasn’t sure”. It really took me awhile to realize just how in love I was with her.
I was a library regular. Every weekend I’d go to the library and load up on books to read for the week. One of my big fears was running out of books to read during the week, so I always took a big stack. I became a familiar and knew the librarians and got to know the Head Librarian. So it wasn’t a big stretch to get them to open the Wadlicus up one Sunday afternoon so I could “show” Miss Library the library and spring the proposal. She tells me she had no idea. I believe her because she’s very similar to me in the subtlety regards, ie, we’re as subtle as hammers. But it was perfect. We both loved books and what could be more fitting than a proposal in a whole building dedicated to books?
Stay tuned for next week’s post-wedding adventure in… The Land of Snow and Ice!
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Is there a graphic novel version of this?
Post-wedding adventures? Keep it PG, Booky.
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Unfortunately, I was only able to commission 4 pieces of artwork for this little present, so a whole book would be outside my price range 😀
PG, that’s why it’s post-wedding. I skip that altogether and move to our first year as a married couple.
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If she had loved VHS would you have proposed in a Blockbuster?
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If she had loved movies that much, I doubt I would have proposed at all 😉
Besides, I think the blockbusters had all closed by this point in our area.
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You guys! SO romantical! What is a wadlicus?
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Thanks Fraggle. It was what meant the most to us 🙂
It’s the fake name of the Library. The real name is similar, so I just kind of changed it to match the Libraricus spelling to keep it thematically linked 😀
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Love the story, man. It’s romantic and inspiring. 🙂 I love that it was done in a library that you were 200% familiar with too. And I gotta say… Wadlicus Libraricus is a brilliant name, rolls off the tongue beautifully. 😀
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My Warhammer 40K reading hasn’t gone to waste then, hahahahahaa 😀
With my acceptance and adaptation to ebooks, our library days quickly passed into the history books. I used to feel kind of guilty but I’ve realized that was a specific stage in life and now I’m in a completely different stage…
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And here I was thinking I was the only one who got engaged at the library! My husband hid the ring in a book with the assistance of the head librarian. That is awesome! I have to give you a high five for that one – well done!
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That is really cool! 😀
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Getting your personal friend the head librarian to open the library specially for you is a power move. Combined with the smell of books – a well known aphrodisiac – that made for a proposal that no sane woman could resist.
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And it worked! 😀 We were married 6months later…
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Well, given the main interest of your blogging audience, a proposal in the library sounds just perfect – and even romantic! (I can’t believe I just used that word….) 😀
And as an aside, your mention about stacking. up on library books brought me back to the time when I regularly visited my local library and always came out with the max personal allotment of volumes…
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You could always tell who the voracious readers were in the checkout lines 🙂
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Wow, nicely done, Bookstooge! “The Library Proposal” sounds like a Nero Wolfe book, or maybe a PG Wodehouse one! 😉
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Thankyou, thankyou
* bows* 😀
Thankfully, it was much closer to Nero Wolfe in tone than Wodehouse. No ex-fiances busted in, nor did irate and angry aunts 😉
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A proposal in a library! Oh my goodness, that is so incredible and romantic! Book lovers everywhere understand!
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Even back then, I realized that in terms of romance, that was probably going to be my highpoint for our lives. Thankfully, Mrs B understands 😀
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Some great reading about your journey together Stooge. Happy for you both.
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Thanks Dave. It was fun putting this together 🙂
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This is awesome.
My husband proposed to me in the Barrett/Browning library, but I absolutely knew what was going to happen because we had to drive two hours down there.
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This is great! I have learned that so many other people have done the same thing and that makes me happy.
book worms unite!
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