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Contest Winner Story

Rebecca Pollok
We met at work and were friends for several years before our first date—watching a Bears playoff game at my house. We had pizza, beer and our first kiss. The only bad part of the evening was that the Bears lost.

He proposed right before Christmas in 2005. We had spent the day downtown before leaving the next day to spend the holidays with his family. We began the day at the Field Museum. I sort of knew something was up when he refused to check his coat there. Afterwards we had planned to go ice skating, but it was eight below out.

He then suggested that we go to Belmont Harbor, where my family put my father’s ashes in the lake. I wanted to go but thought it was too cold. He kept insisting. So we went and after two minutes I was frozen and ready to leave. He then took off his glove and his hand was violently shaking. I started crying as he got down on one knee and pulled out the ring box. He said, “Since I could not ask your father in person I wanted to ask you here in front of him and the entire city. Will you marry me?”

We started planning. I shopped for my dress with my mom. What was a bit strange was that at the first bridal store, I had asked for light dresses preferably made of chiffon or organza. But the sales attendant brought me the exact opposite. Most of the dresses I didn’t even want to try on. But among the dresses she brought there was this lace dress. I didn’t think I would like it, but tried it on and loved it. Still, I decided to go to another store and there I tried on some others as well as the same dress. I realized the lace dress just felt right and looked beautiful. It even brought tears to my mom’s eyes.

When it came to choosing a hall another one of those strange accidents pointing me in the right direction happened. I had decided to look at the Chevy Chase Country Club in Wheeling. The night before going to look at it, my maid of honor and I had joked that if we did have it there we would have to enter to the theme song from Caddyshack. The next day, when my maid of honor and I pulled into the parking lot at the club, that song came on the radio. What are the odds of that song coming on! I took it as a sign.

Right now I am looking forward to marrying the man I love on June 16, 2007, at the Half Day Forest Preserve in Vernon Hills. Our plans for the future are pretty simple—buy a house and have some babies.

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