I SAID YES

Story Time:)

Two years ago I said yes to the BEST adventure of my whole life!!

Ever since I was young, I have been obsessed with Hawaii. Guys.. I mean obsessed, hahah dolphin themed room, hibiscus favorite flower, emails and passwords all have something to do with Hawaii, dolphin stuffed animals, everything haha but I had never been. Sooo for Valentines Day Zach surprised me with a trip to Hawaii. I was so beyond excited I couldn’t wait for April. If you know us, you know Zach has traveled a lot, so he knows what he’s doing when it comes to traveling and planning a trip.. there is no one better hahah .

Zach tricked me into thinking the sole purpose of the trip was to shoot photo and video for the Sheraton Maui. Which we were doing, but that’s not why we were in Hawaii. :)

We got to Hawaii, explored and took a million pictures obviously :) ^^ haha

and Zach had been mentioning the whole week how he was trying to work with Sheraton to get a sunset sail cruise. My dad passed away five years ago and he had a huge love for sailing, he had a beautiful boat and I used to go with him a lot, but I had not been sailing since he passed. I told Zach to not even worry about it because the week in Hawaii was more than I could ever ask for, I was so happy!! But little did I know he already had everything planned! The morning of the proposal he flew in my best friend Haley from a different island in Hawaii, for what I thought was to help us shoot for Sheraton! We had a freakin blast adventuring around Maui and shooting with Haley!

While we were at the blow hole.. Zach told us he got the sunset sail and we needed to go back and get ready for it! He told me he had worked it out with the sail company to do a video of a couple on the sunset cruise!!

You guys.. this sail was beyond everything I could’ve imagined. We got on and I was so emotional, the whole feeling was unbelievable, it honestly didn’t feel real. I was thinking of my daddy, there was a huge rainbow over Maui and a whale breached! Full out of the water, you can see that all in the vid I’ll link at the end. but they told us, the whales hadn’t come up in about a month like that! chills. it was amazing..

I just remember thinking it was going to take a long time for me to get over this night.

having absolutely NO idea what was coming!

Haley was filming us on the front of the boat… now remember I am thinking we were doing a lovey-dovey couple video for the boat, which wasn’t really the truth. As we were standing on the front of the sailboat.

Zach knelt down..

It was the most surreal moment I’ve ever experienced! I was so shocked, I had absolutely no idea at all that he was going to do that! Literally no idea. The ring was perfect, the moment was perfect, my man is perfect. He is amazing, every single thing he does for me has meaning and is made so special. Every moment of my proposal was thought out for how it could mean the most to me and us. I love him so much. and I love that I get to be loved in a cheesy, adventuring, snuggly, eskimo kissing, fairytale way the rest of my life!

and the video made by the one and only Haley Bateman!!

love // anna