I had it in my mind that I wanted to propose to Sean during the trip.

You know, we've been together like three and a half years, and we're going to Vegas.

What more romantic place is there?

Last June, my friend Courtney decided to propose marriage

in the world capital of spontaneous marriage proposals.

And I was like, yeah, but I don't know how I'm gonna do it.

I have, you know, I have the thing with me, but I don't know when or where.

Courtney waited and waited for the right moment until it was the last night of their trip.

When they were hanging out in Caesar's Palace.

We're sitting at the bar and we got a couple drinks, and we were kind of just killing time before a flight.

I reached into my bag and I pull out this small leather box that I'd been holding onto all weekend.

And I'm like, will you marry me?

Like, I think those are the words that I said.

I said it all was kind of a blur, but inside of the box wasn't a ring.

It was a Pokemon game cartridge.

Courtney and Sean love Pokemon.

And they've been wanting to play two versions of it called Ruby and Sapphire.

Things that were very special to us, and they're both gemstones.

Why not a ring?

For a lot of reasons, I was just like, I don't think that a ring is that important.

I think that something important to both of us, that'll be really meaningful.

But what I didn't realize about my like flawless plan to propose with something more meaningful than a ring,

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