6 years and officially engaged!

Tim and I celebrated our 6th anniversary yesterday. 6 years without any break-ups -- so proud of that mahal!

This is the last year that we'll be celebrating our anniversary as boyfriend-girlfriend since we will be getting married on November.  With this, Tim made sure that this year's celebration would be meaningful and special and I can really say he did not fail.  The highlight of our celebration - Tim's proposal!

We've been planning our wedding since last year, but the idea to get married was a mutual decision.  There was no proposal involved and I told Tim I was already ok with that.  I did not expect that Tim had his own plans.  He said he really planned to give me my engagement ring before our wedding - and the way he proposed was really a surprise for me.  He's not really the "surprise" type of guy that is why I really appreciated his effort to make the proposal special.

As for our Anniversary dinner, I told Tim to let me plan for it.  What I initally told him was to go to our house before 6pm and I'll cook something special for him (yup, you read it right.. nagluluto na ko). I just requested him to wear something formal and at first, he didn't want to kasi pagtatawanan daw sya ng parents ko. Dinner lang sa house and then naka-formal pa sya.  I told him, I'll wear a dress para terno kami and I just to have our pictures taken kaya gusto ko naka-formal kami.

When he arrived at our place, I asked him to blow the 6 candles on our mini-cake.  He was surprised to see me wearing a black dress, naka-heels, may bag and naka-ayos.  After a few minutes, I told him na "alis na kami".  He was totally clueless and he asked me "aalis tayo?". I said "yes" and our direction should be going to Roxas Blvd.

I asked him to drive going to Villa Immaculada (place of our wedding reception), he was still clueless at this point. Inside Intramuros, we headed to Illustrado. He was surprised to see the place and I told him I made reservations for us.  It was the first formal dining experience for us and we really enjoyed the food and the ambiance of the place.  We stayed there for at least 3 hours, eating, reminiscing and talking about our future.