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"Loyal Save the Date reader Lauren_F thought she was joining her boyfriend in Chicago on a business trip. Little did she know ...The couple, reflected in the Cloud Gate aka &amp;amp;#8220;The Bean,&amp;amp;#8221; the famous Millennium Park sculpture. Here&amp;amp;#8217;s her story: About a month and a half ago, my boyfriend, Jared, a grad student, told me he would be presenting at a conference in Chicago and that his hotel room would be comped for several nights. We decided to make a mini-vacation out of it, which was particularly wonderful because I just finished student teaching (hello, slave labor!) and money is definitely tight, so no &amp;amp;#8220;real&amp;amp;#8221; vacations are happening anytime soon. We drove to Chicago on what happened to be an unseasonably warm day and decided to walk to the famously touristy Navy Pier. Though we&amp;amp;#8217;ve been to Chicago several times, we had never ridden the beautiful Ferris wheel there and Jared decided now would be a great time. Where it all went down. No sooner than we were loaded in and moving, Jared looked at me and said, &amp;amp;#8220;Before you say anything, let me finish.&amp;amp;#8221; Uh-oh. Where is this going? &amp;amp;#8220;There is no conference in Chicago this weekend.&amp;amp;#8221; WHAT?! Oh wait, I&amp;amp;#8217;m supposed to let him finish. I&amp;amp;#8217;ll be quiet. &amp;amp;#8220;The reason why I brought you to Chicago this weekend is so that I could tell you that I love you very much and I wanted to know if you would marry me.&amp;amp;#8221; Whoa, this is happening. Seriously, what?! Oh yeah, I&amp;#x27;m supposed to say yes now. &amp;amp;#8220;YES!!&amp;amp;#8221; Cue the waterworks (hidden beneath my sunglasses). He went on to reveal other plans he had made for the weekend, including a fancy dinner, a play, and a concert. It was an amazing engagement weekend. The (pretty, pretty!) ring. Getting engaged this year was not a surprise at all, but I never had any clue that all of this conference business was just an elaborate ruse so that he could pop the question on the Navy Pier Ferris wheel, something he&amp;amp;#8217;d apparently decided on awhile back. Looking back, I guess I should have wondered about a conference that would be taking place over Easter weekend, but I never did. I&amp;amp;#8217;m glad, because it ended up being such a wonderful surprise. How sweet is that?! Would your guy be able to pull off such an elaborate plan? (Rory proposed in front of our apartment and almost lost it!) Would you want to be surprised? Or are you a give-me-some-warning! kind of girl? Wanna share your proposal story? Click here to e-mail me! Don&amp;amp;#8217;t forget to send a picture&amp;amp;#8212;I can&amp;amp;#8217;t use the story without one! More proposal stories: * During a Treasure Hunt! * With Starburst Candy! * On the Brooklyn Bridge! More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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