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BOOK PROPOSAL
Submitted by: Jeremy Layne Weathers
At the beginning of this year, I began looking for a suitable way to
propose. I was not able to come up with an idea that was good enough on
my own, so I started looking around and found "The
RoMANtic's Guide to Popping the Question". It was excellent and
a couple of the
stories really caught my attention, but of course I wanted to
personalize them so I did a little creative expanding.
I started by creating a list of attributes, and short explanations of
them, that described my girlfriend or our relationship - one for each
letter of the alphabet. (Okay, I used kiss for X - maybe I cheated but
it worked.) For most attributes I found one or more quotes from the
Bible and/or secular literary sources. (See Excerpt 1 below.) Knowing
that the ampersand was part of the English alphabet a couple hundred
years ago I created a special entry for my proposal using &. (See
Excerpt 2 below.)
I used this text to create a book. I laid out the pages, printed them,
cut them and sewed them into signatures, and hand-bound them to make a
book
approximately 3" x 4.5" x .5". I also created a book
jacket, complete with liner notes and an about the author blurb, out of
a stiff translucent vellum.
On the chosen day, my girlfriend and I took a walk to the park bench
where we had started our relationship just over a year and a half
before. She read the entire book and after she finished the last entry,
I kneeled in front of her, told her I wanted to grow old with her and
asked her to marry me. She agreed and we were wed on July 19. The book
is one of her most prized possessions.
Excerpt 1:
B is for Best Friend
She is the first person I want to see in the morning and the last in the
evening. We share our hopes and dreams, our daily experiences, our joys
and
sorrows.
"Of all the heavenly treasures that mortal men commend, what trusty
treasure in the world can countervail a friend?" -- Nicholas
Grimald, Of Friendship
"Some play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than one's
nearest kin."
-- Proverbs 18:24
Excerpt 2:
& is for Jer & Aleasia
Peanut butter & jelly. Horse & carriage. Yin & yang. Once
these things are put together, it becomes obvious that they are missing
something when they
are apart.
"He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the
Lord."
-- Proverbs 18:22
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