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Each month one couple is featured in The Happy Brides™, our monthly e-newsletter to area brides as well as here on the website. If your story is selected, you can win free gifts and prizes.

Submit your proposal stories to proposals@foreverbridal.net. Please include your name and address in the body of the email (we'll edit it out before publication) and don’t forget to include a photo.

• Sheri & Austin •

Back in May, I noticed a customer of mine was tweeting about some contests regarding the Indy 500 and it got me thinking about ways I could propose to Sheri. She is a huge race fan, loves cars and we've gone to the Indy 500 and the Brickyard 400 together the past couple of years. I wanted to come up with a unique way to propose to her that incorporated some of her favorite things. I contacted the Director of Digital Communications at Hare Chevrolet, the customer using our software to create online forms for the contests, and asked if I could get involved in one of their events to propose to my girlfriend. Keep in mind I had never spoken to this customer and emailed him out of the blue. He responded in minutes and was immediately on board. Receiving the go ahead from the owners, he secured an invite for their Corvette owners-only event where we'd get to go by police escort to the track, gave me a Corvette to drive for the weekend and helped get permission for me to propose on the bricks at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. We had to contact both General Motors, who was sponsoring the event, and IMS officials in order to get clearance to get out of the car and step onto the track.

I had to have a cover story for all of this so I called Sheri one day at work and told her a client of ours at Formstack gave my boss tickets to a Corvette event, but he couldn't make it. I also wrote an email explaining the event and had my boss send it to me so it'd look like it came from him. It mentioned that I would need to take the Flip camera to record some video so I could write a customer spotlight post for our blog and put up a video of it. Really I just wanted to be able to record everything without it being suspicious. Sheri was under the impression that this was all for work and didn't have the slightest clue what was going on. She was just incredibly excited about getting to go to the event and didn't even know we'd get to drive a Corvette. I told her we'd be driving my Jeep and doubted they would let us on the track with it. I said we would most likely just meet everyone at the track for the dinner. She was still incredibly enthusiastic about it all and talked about it to her coworkers and friends during the two weeks leading up to the event.

Throughout the whole planning process, I really came to appreciate the tight-knit community we have here in Indianapolis. I sent a few emails to complete strangers hoping for a response, and within hours I was connected to executives at the IMS, Chevrolet, Andretti Green Racing, and even Sheri's favorite driver, Tony Kanaan. It was amazing how excited everyone was to help out and go out of their way for someone they had never met. I was even fortunate enough to be approached by the Vice President of Marketing at Chevrolet, Jim Campbell, during the event where he congratulated us and mentioned how they were talking about my proposal idea at dinner the night before. He was genuinely interested to hear about how it all happened and it was exciting to get to share it with him. Rather than give you the long story like I did with him, (as if this wasn't long enough already!), you can see it for yourself in the video below. Spoiler alert - she said yes! Sheri and Austin's proposal video.

• Heather & Cory •

The last 6 and half years of my life have been spent with someone who has not only made me happier, but has always been there for me, through good times and bad. Heather has been my best friend and the one person I know that I can talk to about anything and really be myself around. We share many of the same interests and goals in life. We love going on trips, playing with our dog Charlie, and watching sports together. My name is Cory, and I started an extraordinary relationship with Heather on January 17, 2004. Up until last month, that was the most important day in our relationship. That was until May 25, 2010, when I asked Heather to marry me!

Last year I began saving money to take Heather on a trip to Cancun in the summer. I gave Heather the trip as a gift on our six year anniversary and told her that we would leave in May after she graduated from NC State University. While everyone else knew that this trip would mean much more than just to celebrate her graduation, Heather had no idea what was in store for her. Before we left I had a conversation with Heather’s father. He was very excited for me to pop the question, but he also gave me a speech about protecting his daughter. Heather and I left for Cancun on May 23rd, and on the morning of May 25th I finally worked up the courage to carry the ring out to the beach. While we were laying out on the beach, my nerves began to get the best of me and I spilt my drink all over our bag and in the sand. Eventually, I asked Heather to go on a walk down the beach with me. Heather kept asking me to get in the water with her, but I couldn’t because I had the ring in my pocket! At one point, Heather mentioned that I was acting strange and it was then that I knew I needed to make my move. We sat down in the sand and I nervously said, “You know I love you, right?” and she of course responded by saying yes. I then told her that I wanted to do something to prove my love for her and with those words; I knelt down in the sand, pulled out the ring, and asked her to marry me. Heather had already started crying by this point, but was still able to shout out "Yes!!"

When I asked Heather what she loves about me, she told me that she loves my work ethic and my outgoing nature. What she did not realize is that those things are all characteristics that I have gained from her. She has never accepted less than the best from me, and having that kind of person in my life has made me the person I am today. I know that spending the rest of my life with Heather is the best decision I have ever made. I am so excited for the day that I can officially call Heather my wife!

• Diana & Jeff •

If I had to think of one word to describe Jeff I would say he was a "blessing.” Jeff and I have been best friends for 8 years. In that time we have been though everything together, good and bad. I was absolutely ecstatic when he finally asked me out on April 12, 2009 at 12:03 AM!!!! Jeff and I have a fabulous relationship and we talk about everything together. I gave him a book by Shel Silverstein called "The Missing Piece" because I called him my missing piece. Without Jeff I never felt good inside. This summer my family and I spent a week in Emerald Isle together and Jeff came with us. August is a special month for Jeff and I because we both have birthdays in August. This August Jeff exceeded my excitement for August and my birthday. On August 13th Jeff spent a good portion of the day teasing me about my birthday gift and drawing pictures in the sand to try and give me hints about my present, and of course I never caught on. On August 14th, Jeff woke me up before sunrise and asked me to take a walk on the beach with him. We walked down the beach and he eventually started to slow down. He hugged me and said "You know I love you right?" I told him "Of course I know." Suddenly he pulled a ring out of his pocket and asked me to marry him! I remember saying yes right away but Jeff said he thinks there was a good 20 second pause before I said anything. This was the best birthday gift I have ever received and I'm so excited that I get to spend the rest of my life with my best friend!!