Marry Me

Travelling back from a conference in Las Vegas this past Sunday, I stopped at the curbside skycap counter to check in my bag. The handsome man came from behind the counter and met me at the curb to get my bag, “Heading out on Southwest?” he asked with a gorgeous smile.

After handing him my driver’s license, he asked if Weaver was a married last name. ”Yes, why?” I asked. I wasn’t thinking he was hitting on me because men very rarely -if ever- do that. I think the huge smile on my face must tell them, “I’m soooo happily married don’t even bother!” But this guy ventured into inquiry territory.

“If you weren’t married, I would be initiating a completely different conversation,” he continued. I smiled. Compliments are flattering. But as to ensure my smile wasn’t misleading, “I’m not just married. I’m reaaaallly happily married,” I responded. He smiled and then said something that didn’t really hit me until, by happenstance, I watched the first minute of a Train video someone posted on Twitter this morning called Marry Me.

“Oh, don’t worry,” the skycap told me, “I respect the ring. When a man asks a woman to marry him, he’s serious. Men don’t just ask women to marry them. They mean it when they say it.”

He is so right. Men will date for decades before proposing to “the one.” Unlike women, it is not frowned upon for a man to be a bachelor and to be with a different woman every month. His friends will give him high fives. And women these days have made it far too easy for a man not to need to propose. You know the saying…why buy the cow when you can have the milk for free?

When a man proposes, as the skycap reminded me, he believes he’s found the one person who makes it worth it to forsake all others. Your husband had more women to choose from than he could ever count (all men do). And yet, he chose you! Don’t you find that fact awesome, fascinating, lovely, beautiful and just all around amazing? I certainly do.

As you go into this weekend, think about the love in your husband’s eyes when he asked you to marry him (whether or not he did so on bended knee). He pledged his life to you. And that, my friend, is incredible.

Question: How did your husband propose to you and do you remember the exact day?

Until Monday…make it a great weekend!

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Fawn Weaver

Founder at Happy Wives Club

Fawn Weaver is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage, adopting the same name as the Club she founded in 2010. The Happy Wives Club community has grown to include more than 1 million women in over 110 countries around the world. She’s an investor in real estate, tech sector and lifestyle brands. When she’s not writing or working, she's happily doting over her husband of twelve years, Keith (and sometimes manages to do all three simultaneously).