At 5:00 PM on Wednesday, October 16, Luba called and said she was coming home from work early. She asked David if he had time to meet that evening. (Prior to that call, David and Luba had thought they wouldn’t see one another that week until Friday night.)
David decided: tonight is the night.
Luba and David went to a political rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza for their first date, so that seemed an appropriate place to go to propose. They went there together.
Standing in the middle of the plaza, they each listed approximately 50 reasons why each found the other such a perfect match. This is a technique they learned from research they had studied on a scientifically proven method of falling in love.
On bended knee, David asked Luba, “Люба, Ты выйдешь за меня замуж?” (“Luba, will you marry me?”).
After a short pause to comprehend David’s very bad Russian accent, Luba replied, “Da!”
David gave her one of his maternal grandmother’s favorite rings, housed in a special marbled-paper box filled with glittery hearts that David’s father prepared for the occasion.
David then took Luba to easyInternetCafé, the world’s largest internet café. He showed her there this website, which he built as an engagement present for her.
David escorted Luba home and said goodnight at about 11 PM. Luba thought that the engagement surprises were over…. but then she walked in and noticed her room was filled with glittery hearts.
At 9 AM the next morning, Luba walked into her White Plains office (which is about a 30 minute commute from Manhattan), and found it also filled with glittery hearts.
How did the hearts get there?
That is a secret David will share only with men about to propose to their brides.
It took David and Luba about a month to really get started organizing the wedding (because of the shock of engagement, plus Luba’s many applications for graduate school.) Once they finalized a date, wedding planning became much easier.
