Stone Fox Bride: Love, Lust, and Wedding Planning for the Wild at Heart [Hardcover]

CNNamed one of the “Most Creative People” byFast CompanyandRefinery29’s “Top 30 Visionaries,”Molly Rosen Guyis a contributing editor atVogue,the executive weddings editor atDomino,and the creative director of Stone Fox Bride. A graduate of Brown University with an MFA from The New School, she lives in Brooklyn with her family.Chapter 1

Bling It On

The Lowdown on Low-Key Proposals + Rings

The day after M asked me to marry him, I went to work at my fancy cosmetics job, where I was as a copywriter. I remember it was a Friday, which meant that we were allowed to wear jeans! Yay! Huge deal. The office environment was super corporate and buttoned-up—we were definitely not encouraged to share the details of our personal lives with one another.

Still, I couldn’t resist sharing the news with my coworker.

“Guess what?” I whispered over the partition between our cubicles.

“What?”

“I’m engaged! We’re getting married.”

“Shut. Up.”

She stood up fast, eyes wide, and grabbed my hand. Only there was nothing to see! My finger was totally naked.

“M didn’t propose with a ring.”

“What?”

“He just asked. There was no ring.”

She sat back down, eyes returning to her computer screen.

“Mmm. Congrats.”

And that was that.

Her reaction wasn’t anomalous. The rest of the day, whenever I told someone the news, the first thing they’d do was grab my hand excitedly. But once they realized it lacked any bling, the conversation ended. It was almost like the proposal wasn’t important. Shit, who cared about everlasting love if there was nothing sparkly to corroborate its existence!

I think M got the memo, because one week later, he got me a ring. From a pawn shop in Daytona, Florida lC$