This past Saturday Ben and I had the opportunity to help our friend KC propose to his girl friend Misty.
We have known Misty for a couple of years and she was actually one of my bridesmaids when Ben and I were married. We met KC when they started dating and quickly became friends with him. At the beginning of the summer Misty told me they were talking marriage. I was ecstatic. Soon after Misty and I started going to bridal fairs and doing some wedding shopping. At that point though, Misty and KC were not officially engaged.
About a month ago they started looking at rings and things were progressing nicely. Even though they both knew they were getting married and they had already kind of started planning the wedding, KC wanted to propose in a special way but he wasn't quite sure how. He asked us how Ben proposed and was gathering ideas. A couple days later I thought of having a pop up dinner party which I saw here. I have wanted to throw one of these since I read that post. I texted KC and prayed he would like my idea and...HE DID!! We got together to go over a few things, location, food, table and chairs, etc. Pretty much KC told me what he wanted and Ben and I made it happen.
Ben and I have a small four person table so we decided to use our table and chairs. The only problem was they are several years old and they look it. So I decided to give my table a makeover. I saw this on Pinterest a while ago and had been wanting to try it. On my way home from work I picked up some black and ivory spray paint and a clear coat. I already had lace I found at the DI for a couple bucks. Fifty dollars and a second trip to Walmart, for some more paint, later...and we have a brand new table. I was really worried about how this was going to turn out. It just seemed to easy. You put a piece of lace on the table, spray paint it, take the lace off and bam, you have a lacey table. It turned out a lot better than I hoped it would.
As for the location, we went with Thanksgiving Point. They have beautiful gardens and it doesn't cost a thing to get in...well at least the part we went to. Thanksgiving point is huge and has tons to do and some of it cost money. Anyways, Ben and I left about 3 o'clock to make the half hour trip to Thanksgiving point. I wanted to have plenty of time to find a spot and get everything set up (our table with the legs on it was too big to fit in our car so we had to take them off and put them back on once there). The first section we went in to was called Hidden Falls. Amazing. There was a gazebo with an awesome chandelier, surrounded by beautiful flowers and had a back drop of a waterfall. Both Ben and I knew that was the spot. We walked around the rest of the gardens just in case there was something as equally cool but there wasn't. We headed back to Hidden Falls and got to work.
Ben started putting the table together and I got to work on the flowers. I hadn't seen the table and chairs all put together yet so I stood there in awe for a couple seconds. It looked so good. Once I had recovered we got back to work and before I knew it we were done and it was only 4:30. We had to pick up the food around 5:30 at the Olive Garden in American Fork but that was only 10 minutes away. We had an hour to kill so we sat and enjoyed the gardens.
Ben went and picked up the food. When he returned we took the food out of the containers and put them on the china. All we had left to do was wait for the text that they were in the parking lot, uncover all the food, put the pie out and then run away before they saw us. Well that text never came. Ben and I were sitting there enjoying each others company when I spotted them walking up. I don't think Ben had ever seen me move so fast, but I wasn't fast enough. We greeted each other, took a picture and got out of there.
Ben and I went to the cafe that is at Thanksgiving point and waited for KC to let us know when they were done. That text did come and we went to clean up. We were done pretty quickly and we headed home. About half way home Misty called to let us know that KC had proposed and they were officially engaged! Yay!
When I think about all that needed to be done in order to make this pop up party a success, I get tired. It was a lot of work, but so worth it. The dinner was beautiful and it was great to be able to help out friends with such a huge moment in their lives.
Congratulations Misty and KC! Marriage is the bomb!
Courtney
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