We went to Hawaii (Waikiki Beach) last September for a vacation. Amy didn't want to get her hopes up too high that there would be a proposal, but she was fairly certain it was going to happen. Dustin had been looking at rings (for quite a while) and then when we talked about scheduling the vacation he needed for it to be after a certain date (basically the date the ring was going to come in or be done)! We arrived in Waikiki on a Saturday and we really didn't have any set plans for the week-just was going to play each day by ear with what we felt like doing. So on Sunday we woke up and decided to just sorta relax and get to know the area. We decided it would be fun to make a picnic and eat dinner on the beach that night and watch the sunset and hangout there. Amy wondered if maybe this would be "the" night, but then thought there was no way he'd propose right off the get-go...he'd make her sweat it out. But she was wrong! We didn't even get started on the food and dustin "proposed" by getting out the box and plopping it down in front of Amy. No speech, No "will you marry me", etc. So Amy nervously sat there for what felt like at least 10 minutes too scared to look in the box for fear that Dustin had put together some horrifying looking ring. As we were sitting there he goes on to tell me how he designed this ring himself and the jewelers have never seen anything like it. Okay, that does not sound too good or positive! But she opened the box and absolultely LOVED it! So it was a great start to one of our favorite vacations ever!