special/sentimental moments

STA · October 15, 2011, 10:00pm

Re: special/sentimental moments

I met my fiance in college and was a little nervous about telling my Mom about the way I felt. My Mom had already met her twice before at other parties, but didn’t know she was the ‘one’. When I told my Mom about the way I felt my Mom surprisingly said “I couldn’t have found you a better girl myself, I love (her name)”(she said all that in Urdu) and I was ECSTATIC. It was a really special moment for me. My fiance was thrilled too…her future mother-in-law gave the green light at the very first step! And ever since then, my Mom has treated my fiance like her own daughter. Alhamdullilah.

My fiance and I have so many special moments that it’s hard to list MashAllah…but our favorite ones are of the initial stages when we first met. Everything was so exciting and thrilling back then b/c you didn’t know what the other person was thinking and were just getting to know each other. Whether it was our first email to each other or our first dinner together with one of my friends and one of her friends..it was super special.

I remember I’d read over and edited my messages a million times before I sent them to her just to make sure I sounded suave and smooth, haha. And the first time we were going to have dinner with our mutual friends I thought about what I was going to wear a week in advance b/c she was going to be there. I’ve never done that for anyone in my life! haha. I picked out this light green button down Express shirt and she happened to ironically wear green to that dinner too - and it wasn’t even planned but we ended up matching.

Also, I remember when I burnt her the first CD I gave her I specifically downloaded every song that was really romantic to me or one of my favorites from the past. The funny thing was her friend took the CD from her right away after we left and she put it in to her laptop…her friend then started going through each song to analyze my feelings for my fiance and my fiance just sat there and listened to her friend’s analysis. Bichari couldn’t even enjoy the cd. haha. I had no idea all of this was going on and found out months later, lol. My fiance and I still laugh about memories like those; when we were much younger too.

If I told you guys the special things my fiance has done or special moments she’s created for me you guys would be amazed…she’s pretty awesome. I’ll just give one example: for my birthday she knew I love chocolate so she got me 100 hershey kisses. You know the little white thin piece of paper that comes out of each hershey kiss? Well she unwrapped all 100 hershey kisses and took the white piece of paper out. She then then typed out ‘100 things that she likes about me’ in one line statements and printed them out. She then cut each one line statement of things she likes about me in to 100 different tiny thin pieces of paper, placed each one in to a different hershey kiss, and wrapped them all back up so the piece of paper stuck out a little and I could pull it out just like the original hershey kisses. To top it off, she put special heart shaped stickers on the bottom of each one of the 100 hershey kisses. Then she put all of those in a really nice cylinder decorative box. It must have taken her days and hours to do that!
But each time I opened a hershey kiss(I opened one a day) I read another reason or thing that she likes about me and it was 100 days of bliss. I would look forward to the next message everyday. The amount of effort she put in to that was amazing.

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Thanks everyone I didn’t think my stories were all that special, but I’m humbled by y’alls comments. It means a lot. I’m truly blessed to have an amazing girl like her in my life.

I have tons of more stories, but what about you all? Share some stories too, we can swap!

For our first valentine’s day I was in a different state so we knew we wouldn’t be seeing each other. I wanted to make it very special for her b/c I knew how big of a romantic she is and that I would be the first guy to give her anything for Vday. So I thought about overwhelming her with a bunch of gifts, but they had to be within my student budget and have a meaning or thought behind it. I came up with four. Everything was delivered to her dorm room before midnight on Vday with a help of a friend who went to the same university.

I’m in medical school and she thinks of me as her “teddy bear” and sometimes would call me her “big bear” as a nickname, lol. So I ordered a little teddy bear from online that was in a doctor’s outfit - blue scrubs, surgeon mask, holding an x-ray and I had “Dr. Big Bear” written on the front of it’s surgical scrub shirt. I then recorded a voice message through the online system and they inserted it in to the bear so every time she pressed the teddy bear’s little hand she could hear my message. It was really cool - she still has it. Every time her friends came over to her place they would press the teddy bear’s hand to hear my message b/c they thought the concept was hilarious. She hugged that bear to sleep every night for almost two years.

She’s a big fan of fresh flowers. It was funny bc she had mentioned flowers several times but I couldn’t remember what her favorite ones were. So, I remembered a conversation we had once online where she mentioned her favorite flower. So I went online and spent over an hour going through all my old messages to find where she talked about her favorite flower. I finally found it and they turned out to be Tulips. So I ordered her an assortment of Tulips to be delivered to her dorm in her university housing. She was SO surprised b/c she had only mentioned to me that she liked Tulips ONCE and she had no idea I would have remembered over a year later She dried the flowers and still has them years later 'till this day.

She’s unfortunately not a fan of chocolates and sweets like I am and I always tease her about how “boring” her sweet tooth is. She prefers more fruity and nutty desserts. I told her I would never pay for dessert that’s not chocolate aka ‘real dessert’ and we would always tease each other about this. In fact, a few times she tried convincing me to get dessert that she liked, the ‘boring kind’, and I refused every time and I think once she even got a little upset cause I was being stubborn. So to surprise her and make up for that I ordered myself and her a tower of treats filled with all sorts of edible sweet fruits, dried yogurt covered pretzels, dried nuts, etc. There was everything in it without all the chocolatey goods that I like so she was REALLY surprised I finally gave in, spent money on, and bought myself and her ‘not real dessert’, haha. We both finished everything in a couple of days and there was a lot of stuff in it…so it was good! I admitted to her that her taste in dessert was in fact GOOD and I was wrong Ever since then we’ve been willing to try things that the other person likes and it’s really cool b/c sometimes I really end up liking something I would have never tried if it wasn’t for her and vice-versa.

The last present was the best in my opinion and didn’t cost me a penny. She’s a huge artist and draws really well. She does bridal henna too. I’ve never been an artist and can’t draw AT ALL so I decided to draw something for her myself! I wanted to show her my appreciation for her skills and make something that required time and effort on my part. SO, I found my favorite picture of her that I had saved on my computer. I printed it out and I tried copying it and drawing it by hand myself on a white sheet of drawing paper. I sketched it on pencil a million times first and kept erasing and redrawing it. Then when I finally had it down I outlined it with a pen. I would work on it constantly instead of doing my homework because I was so excited to finish it that week, lol. I think the end result was a lot better than I expected. A couple of my friends saw it and they thought it was pretty good. When she saw it her reaction was and she couldn’t stop saying “OMG I can’t believe you drew this yourself!” Her reaction and seeing her smile and laugh so much TOTALLY made my day.

Oh, and I asked her to open all the gifts on webcam so I could see her reactions. She did it at midnight of Valentine’s Day. It was such an awesome moment. And guess what? She had sent me stuff too. It came in the day before so I had to impatiently wait to open my gifts with her. Her stuff was amazing again. We opened our gifts together on webcam and that was honestly one of the most exciting experiences we had that year. Even though we were separated by miles, we still found a way to celebrate the day of romance together and make each other smile.