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We recently heard from a customer that a friend of his had purchased a Kissing Couple and used it to propose to his then girlfriend. We followed up and have this wonderful story to relate back to our Timberkits community.
First the email we received from Steve
My good friend Phineas passed on your request to mention my recent successful proposal with a Kissing Couple model. My fiancé, Virginie and I would be delighted to let you share this story in the Timberkits news letter. Below is an excerpt from a longer story I wrote to my friends and family about the evening when I popped the question.
I am going to be ordering my best men Timberkits as favors! We really do love building your kits and with the gifts Phin gave me, coupled with our full band, we have quite a growing collection going!!
The wedding is at the end of September, and we are going to use the Kissing Couple as a cake topper and will send you a photo!
Sincerely,
Steve DiBenedetto
And now the story ...
We have enjoyed building these wooden automaton models together, you turn a crank and a little wooden man does something through some gears and cams.
We have a band, the first one was built a few months into the relationship after she found it at the local science store, and I came out of it thinking 'that was pretty darn cool", we just managed to build this 50 piece wooden model and actually have a good time without getting into some sort of dust up or anything. I can only imagine doing something like that with some of my ex-girlfriends, not without bloodshed and tears. I took it as a good sign about Virginie lets say.
Then we got another one a few months later, and I got her the last two of the band for her B-day in October. Well, there is one of course called the kissing couple, where a girl is sitting in a guys lap, and you turn the crank and their heads turn to kiss. So I had been saving that one which I had engraved "VS + SD 4-EVER" since her b-day when I ordered them all.
And so in this box I took a ring that my grandfather had made for himself, out of a half dollar from the year he was born. I used to wear one from my Dad that he made from a half dollar of his birth year. So I put that ring in the box which will be my wedding ring and I figured that would be a good promise or thing for her to hold onto till the day I get her a proper engagement ring.
Well we finished dinner and desert, and as she was finishing a tea, I got up from the table without a word and tried to sneak outside to get the box in my car like a block away. I managed to pull that off and reenter with the thing tucked up my shirt.
And until right before I got up to get the box I was able to keep my cool throughout dinner, and still manage to hold up my end of the conversation but still have a million things running through my head, including, "Jeez, I hope these people around me leave so that I don't have to do this with an audience from the tables 2 feet away", where it's like you're dining with the people anyway!
Another one of my acquaintances just got engaged and said that she knew it was happening because he was so nervous, during their dinner. So luckily people thinned out, and in fact Virginie knew one of the waitresses from her lab, so that was nice, she brought us champagne a few minutes after the fact.
So after she said where were you? I reached back behind me and gave her the wrapped present. She opened it and saw the cover and was really happy to get the kissing couple gift and thanked me. I said "it's a little bit more than that', Then I did the whole get down on one knee thing, take her hand, look in her eyes and bluntly say "I love you, Will you marry me?"
After some stammering and uhh and me getting a sore knee, I got back in my seat and quelled the inevitable questions like "what are we going to do, you live in a different state, and I might be leaving after I finish my doctorate" with answers like "I don't care, I love you, it doesn't matter we'll figure out the details" and finally after saying "so the best I'm gonna get is a maybe?" I got a definite yes!! It wasn't pretty woman or like a Hollywood scene with fawning and long kisses, but now it makes me smile, and hey she still did say yes!
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