Every year Chris's dad would visit Hawaii from California. And every year he would ask Chris and Nina, "So, when are you guys getting married?" And every time Chris would tell his dad, ask her?

Then the following year Chris's dad came back to visit Hawaii. They all went out to dinner at Pinky's Pupu Bar & Grill in Kailua, Rick, Chris's dad turned to Nina and asked her, "So, when are you marrying my son?" And Nina said, ask him? Rick replied, no, no, no, he said to ask you.

After that Nina and Chris went home and Nina turned to Chris and said, "You can ask me to marry you now. But, not until next year after my birthday in April." Nina laughed. Chris looked at Nina and just smiled.

Later that year in December, Nina and Chris were planning a trip to New York so Chris could meet her dad and all her family members. They stayed with Nina's sister, Vivi in her Madison Ave apartment in Manhattan.

They all planned to visit, "The Edge" which has a 360 degree view of the whole New York City. Vivi told Nina and Chris that she wanted to do a photoshoot of them. This is not an uncommon thing for Vivi to do because she is a photographer. Nina is used to her sister taking tons of photos. Nina was excited to take pictures with Chris in The Big Apple. It was Chris's first time visiting New York.

So, Nina Curled her hair and put on her lashes. Nina despises getting ready but wanted to look nice for the photos. They get to, "The Edge" and all three of them are on the rooftop. Vivi turns and says, "I'm going to get us hot cocoa. Nina and Chris are waiting for Vivi to come back and she sees her sister with her lighting and camera taking selfies. Nina tuned to Chris and said, "I thought she said she was getting us hot cocoa?"

Finally, Vivi gathers Nina and Chris and starts to take pictures. She has them standing side by side looking at the camera. Vivi tells Nina to turn around and look to her right and pose. Nina thought to herself, "how awkward" but listened to her big sister. Nina always listened to her big sister and just trusted her vision.

Then she tells Nina to turn back around and face Chris. When Nina turned around Chris pulled a bouquet of 12 dozen roses from behind his back and handed it to her. Before Nina could have a chance to think where these roses came from Chris was already down on one knee with a ring in his hand. Till this day, Nina doesn't remember what Chris said. She was so stunned. All she heard was, "Nina will you marry me?" and she bursts out in tears and said, yes!

Little did Nina know Chris and Vivi had been planning this engagement for weeks. Chris called Vivi up and asked for her help. Vivi knew how much Nina loved, The Edge. Vivi had taken her and Nina's son, Makaiah there before. They met up with their cousin Roland and his wife the previous year. Nina always loved the breathtaking city lights of New York City. So, together they decided that would be the perfect place for the proposal.

Throughout her happy tears of joy all she could think about was her dad. She asked Chris, does my dad know?" Chris said yes.

The previous night they all had a family dinner at her cousin, Robyn's house. All Nina's and Vivi's cousin's were there including her dad, Edwin. Chris said that when he went with Edwin to park the car he asked her father for her hand in marriage. Edwin gave Christopher his blessing.

This made Nina so happy and more happy tears came. Then she turned around and her family members were there watching her proposal. They all went and had an engagement dinner right after. They set the date for August 2024 so all of their, out of state family members had ample time to plan to come to Hawaii. <3

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