How he proposed...
Not long after we started dating did Teye make his intentions known to me, he is an absolute open book. It’s very hard for him to hide his feelings, so yes he showered me with sweet er’thangs. He would serenade me with songs he remixed, and send me gifts just because it’s Tuesday. He is the definition of romance; before he actually proposed, he had already proposed to me more than 10 times! He will just come out of nowhere, get on one knee and ask me to spend the rest of my life with him, and I will say Yes every time he joked around. With the kind of relationship we built, I knew I was getting a ring, but no I did not know he was still planning a humongous surprise proposal. So this is how it all went down…..
Teye’s oldest brother host annual thanksgiving dinner for family and friends in Poconos, Pennsylvania. It wasn’t out of the ordinary either, for my sister to want to fly down from Houston to be with me for thanksgiving. He also asked me to invite my friends, and that wasn’t weird either, but what was weird is that they all agreed to come. He had already spoken to them earlier, he just wanted me to invite them myself so it wouldn’t suspect anything. During the time he was planning all this with my sister and my friends, I was in the middle of studying for the biggest exam of my life, my graduate board oral exams (GBO). It was such a stressful time for me, I spent all my time in library, and I was hardly ever home. Teye was extra supportive, extra sweet and extra careful not to get me suspecting, and I didn’t even think twice. He’s been telling me for weeks that he wants me to take him to the nail salon to get the pedicure we’ve been postponing for a while. So this Wednesday evening we went, I got a Medi-Pedi but apparently he had told my nail person that he was going to propose so she suggested that I do special design on my ring finger and I agreed (Praise break).
After one year, seven months and twenty eight days, on November 28th 2013, in the presence of our friends and family, after a long winded thanksgiving speech; Teye’s niece walks in with a little brown box wrapped in a bow, and he went down on one knee said a bunch of things I couldn’t hear, looked into my eyes and asked me to spend the rest of my life with him. After all the pictures and screaming… I said Yes! Yes! Yes! I thought that was it…but Noooo….. Everyone started taking their shirts off; Teye had designed customized shirts for everyone that says "Tobi + Teye Noni", even for the people that couldn’t make it, they Skyped in with their shirts on. He led me to a room where, he laid out my outfit of my KEEP CALM shirt. He thought of everything, from my nails to my clothes. That day was the most important amazing and mind-blowing day of my life. Remembering that day brings me pure joy!
--By Tobi
My greatest moment was the Yes! part... and the rest of the story by Tobi is very true.
--Ilesanmi
Teye’s oldest brother host annual thanksgiving dinner for family and friends in Poconos, Pennsylvania. It wasn’t out of the ordinary either, for my sister to want to fly down from Houston to be with me for thanksgiving. He also asked me to invite my friends, and that wasn’t weird either, but what was weird is that they all agreed to come. He had already spoken to them earlier, he just wanted me to invite them myself so it wouldn’t suspect anything. During the time he was planning all this with my sister and my friends, I was in the middle of studying for the biggest exam of my life, my graduate board oral exams (GBO). It was such a stressful time for me, I spent all my time in library, and I was hardly ever home. Teye was extra supportive, extra sweet and extra careful not to get me suspecting, and I didn’t even think twice. He’s been telling me for weeks that he wants me to take him to the nail salon to get the pedicure we’ve been postponing for a while. So this Wednesday evening we went, I got a Medi-Pedi but apparently he had told my nail person that he was going to propose so she suggested that I do special design on my ring finger and I agreed (Praise break).
After one year, seven months and twenty eight days, on November 28th 2013, in the presence of our friends and family, after a long winded thanksgiving speech; Teye’s niece walks in with a little brown box wrapped in a bow, and he went down on one knee said a bunch of things I couldn’t hear, looked into my eyes and asked me to spend the rest of my life with him. After all the pictures and screaming… I said Yes! Yes! Yes! I thought that was it…but Noooo….. Everyone started taking their shirts off; Teye had designed customized shirts for everyone that says "Tobi + Teye Noni", even for the people that couldn’t make it, they Skyped in with their shirts on. He led me to a room where, he laid out my outfit of my KEEP CALM shirt. He thought of everything, from my nails to my clothes. That day was the most important amazing and mind-blowing day of my life. Remembering that day brings me pure joy!
--By Tobi
My greatest moment was the Yes! part... and the rest of the story by Tobi is very true.
--Ilesanmi