She said "Yes"

I had just come through 6 months of unemployment in 2009 during the recession, and my girlfriend had stuck by me 100%. When I finally got back into the workforce, I knew where my first paycheck was going.

With the ring in my pocket, we drove out to Lake Louise where I'd taken her for our first Christmas together. She thought we were going for tea and I took her to a spot on the property where her parents had been on one of their first road trips 30 years prior. She told me about how her mom had posed in that same spot for a candid picture and I got down on one knee....