{"id":2230,"date":"2010-12-17T15:28:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T21:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2010-12-17T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T22:04:05","slug":"platinum-proposal-bryant-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/platinum-proposal-bryant-park\/","title":{"rendered":"A surprise proposal in New York&#8217;s Bryant Park."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/islandofreality.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/big-news.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2232\" title=\"proposal-photo-collage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/proposal-photo-collage1.jpg\" alt=\"Proposal in Bryant Park.\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/proposal-photo-collage1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/proposal-photo-collage1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/proposal-photo-collage1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Exactly six months to the day\u00a0after old high school friends Jamie Brickwedel and Christopher Barlo reconnected on a chance bus ride, Chris surprised Jamie with\u00a0his <strong>proposal<\/strong> in <a title=\"New York's Bryant Park.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bryantpark.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York\u2019s Bryant Park<\/a>.\u00a0 During the December 2, 2010 Christmas tree lighting ceremony (and soon after Jamie had serenaded her soon-to-be fianc\u00e9 with Whitesnakes\u2019 \u201c<a title=\"Hair metal love song.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i3MXiTeH_Pg\" target=\"_blank\">Hear I Go Again<\/a>\u201d Karaoke-style while Rock of Ages performed it live on a nearby stage), the gentleman drew a ring box from behind his back containing a <strong>platinum engagement ring<\/strong> (Novell\u2019s <a title=\"Platinum engagement ring by Novell.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/products_info.php?product=1532\" target=\"_blank\">SE2459-LC<\/a>) set with a 1 karat cushion-cut center diamond. The young lady was pleasantly surprised, and recounts the experience fully in the post\u00a0<a title=\"Blog post about an engagement proposal.\" href=\"http:\/\/islandofreality.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/big-news.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Big News\u00a0on her blog The Island of Reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The future-bride is a Medical Editor at IMC-2 (pronounced \u201cIMC squared\u201d), while the future-groom is a Senior Electrician at Electronic Environments.<\/p>\n<p>Photos by <a title=\"Photgraphy by Reuben Henriquez.\" href=\"http:\/\/whrphotography.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reuben Henriquez<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On exactly six months to the day that old high school friends Jamie Birckwildel and Christopher Barlow reconnected on a chance bus ride, Chris surprised Jamie with a proposal in New York\u2019s Bryant Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[184],"tags":[28,293,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}