The story of Hup and Steph Part 1: They First Meet

Posted By Hup | January 8, 2009

As most of you probably know by now, Stephanie and I are now officially engaged. Yep, I asked and she actually said yes - pretty sweet, eh?

Since we’ve been back here in California most of our friends saw our official relationship status change on Facebook, so they’re well aware on our intentions to get hitched. But, even the people who know that we are engaged still ask how I proposed and how all of it went down on Christmas night when I popped the question.

I thought that it was about time to finally let all of you know exactly how I proposed to Stephanie and what my overall plan was to surprise her. It all started before we left for Indianapolis when I told Stephanie that I wanted to put a video together that would fill our family in on some of the details of the awesome relationship that we’ve had over the past year and a half. She thought that it was a cool idea so we both sat down one night and we interviewed each other about the major stages of our relationship together. Stages such as how we first met, what it was like when we first started dating, why we ended up moving to California, what it’s been like since we’ve been out here on the west coast and what we thought our future was going to be like together going forward.

I then turned the interviews into a bigger video that included videos, images and other random digital snippets that I could find that had to do with what we talked about while interviewing each other. Even though I told Stephanie that my intentions were to show our family the video once we got home, my real idea was to sit down with her to watch this video together and then to end it by proposing to her. I’ll get into more details later, but that is basically how it went down and I’ve got some video of me proposing to her as well as both of us talking just minutes after she said yes. You’ll see more of that soon enough.

But, to kick all of this off I first wanted to split up the video into smaller sections so that all of you can enjoy it as much as we have. After seeing these videos you’ll know way more about us than you ever wanted to find out about, but it’s really cool to see it all packaged up into one fluid story. After creating this I started thinking how other couples would probably love to have something like this, so who knows - maybe I’ll start doing this for other people, too? You know, with all of this spare time that I have these days.

Check out the first video below, which I have cleverly called ‘They First Meet’ or check out it out over here on YouTube.

Filed Under events, getting mushy, relationship stuff, video

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    3 Talkies! to “The story of Hup and Steph Part 1: They First Meet”

    1. Angela (Pflueger) White on January 8th, 2009 3:45 am

      Hey Ryan and Steph! Love watching your videos-too cute. So glad that you made it out to the Bay Area. It’s a great place to live…isn’t it? Hope you’re enjoying Palo Alto. Congrats on your engagement. Angela (U of I 2002)

    2. Hup on January 8th, 2009 4:24 am

      Glad that you like the vids and thanks for the congrats, Angela! Where exactly do you live in SF? We should meet up for dinner sometime up there!

    3. The story of Hup and Steph Part 2: The Fun Begins : Hup and Steph on January 9th, 2009 5:15 am

      [...] Yesterday I posted up the first part of the video that I showed to Stephanie before I proposed to her over the holidays. I went ahead and uploaded the second part of the video and posted it below and on YouTube so that you can check it out as well. It’s called ‘The Fun Begins’ and is all about the time after we first met and started dating and hanging out together. It was definitely the beginning of our fun together and it’s just seemed to keep on going ever since. Enjoy and I’ll be posting up more videos soon. [...]

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