{"id":12,"date":"2010-04-24T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T01:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2014-03-22T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T04:03:07","slug":"seattle-marriage-proposal-golden-gardens-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"A Surprise Proposal- Timothy &#038; Bonnie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy&#8217;s plan was\u00a0to bring Bonnie to the docks and surprise her with a boat ride on the bay. But the <em>real<\/em> surprise occurred while they were out on the water- asking for Bonnie&#8217;s hand in marriage.<\/p>\n<p>On the the afternoon of the proposal, Tim decorated the boat&#8217;s cabin with curtains, tablecloth, and a complete dinner setting. He also had a bottle of chilled champagne, blankets, pillows, lights, and even some chocolate covered strawberries. The entire time during the set up, I couldn&#8217;t help but notice how much he truly loves her. Not a single detail was left unattended. For instance, before closing the cabin door, he scattered flowers over the table, floor, and stairs.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was for me to hide in a different boat and take candid shots of them (Bonnie had no idea I was there). While we were planning, he said to me, &#8220;<em>We&#8217;ll be walking up the dock and I&#8217;ll be on the side closer to the water because I don&#8217;t want to put her in danger<\/em>.&#8221; In everything he told me, his first thoughts were to make everything perfect for Bonnie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tim_Bonnie6\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie6-1024x680.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tim_Bonnie10\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie10-1024x716.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"716\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-31\" title=\"Tim_Bonnie4\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie4-1024x748.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie4-1024x748.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie4-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie4.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-32\" title=\"Tim_Bonnie5\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie5-1024x721.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie5-1024x721.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie5-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie5.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-40\" title=\"Tim_Bonnie12\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie12-1024x640.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie12-1024x640.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie12-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tim_Bonnie12.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two are pure energy, joy, with a heavy dose of love. One day Timothy approached me, asking if I would take pictures during his proposal to Bonnie. I was absolutely delighted! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[10,11,7,96],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engagement-photographer","tag-boat","tag-golden-gardens","tag-proposal","tag-seattle-engagement-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"http:\/\/www.mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mandevsidhu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}