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Nancy, Mina and the evergrowing smile... send 'em a congratulations!!

Yesterday we went down to the Millenium Park in Chicago. Mrs. Elvis and I went along with another couple. We'd been to Millennium Park before, but we had an event to attend that evening, and thought we'd spend the afternoon at Millennium, and then experience the new wing at the Art Institute of Chicago (future blogginses!).

As part of Millenium Park, the Lurie Gardens are set up to display the best of indigenous plantings for the Midwest. It's a beautiful garden, and the perfect setting for beautiful things. And that is precisely where we encountered Nancy & Mina.

They were chatting animatedly on one of the walking paths... (that's them in the upper right photo)... and she seemed excited... surprised... and yelling "How long have you known about this?? When did you figure this out??!?"... as we approached, we discovered that Nancy & Mina had just gotten engaged.... I mean JUST. He had chosen the natural beauty of the Laurie Gardens to propose to his natural beauty and He had just proposed, as we approached... and she was about excited as she can get.

I asked if they'd like a photo (cause as most of you other bloggers know, we don't go anywhere without a camera... right?), and I'd forward it to them.

They were excited and said "yes", as a camera was the one thing that hadn't been planned. So I'm going to send them the photos above shortly to their e-mail address (which they provided).

I think it would also be a lot of fun, if all of the Realtors reading this blog would send hearty congratulations to Nancy & Mina too... at MJKaddis@gmail.com.

ALAN MAY, Realtor®
Specializing in Evanston Real Estate and North Shore Real Estate
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Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, 2929 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
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Posted by Alan May, Coldwell Banker Evanston Realtor, North Shore Realtor on 10/18/2009 03:40 PM

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45 Comments on Nancy, Mina and the evergrowing smile... send 'em a congratulations!!

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Fabulous post about local folks. They will surely remember the nice real estate agent that captured their happiness on that special day.

Gonna send them a congrats in a minute... Thanks for sharing this really cute story!

Alan...timing is everything and there will be plenty of opportunities for bad timing in ones life...its great that good timing (and a camera) happened to prevail in this case. Best wishes to the happy couple.

I sent an email! How fun!

Wonderful, feel good story. And the newly engaged couple look sooo happy. No wonder! Such good fortune that you were able to catch in on camera.

I'm sure you'll be reading this post and passing it along to friends Nancy and Mina. Wishing you both the very best for the future. Denise

Congratulations balloons

Awww...they look so happy! I'm so glad you were there, and thoughtful enough to capture the moment for them. I'm sure they'll never forget it! I'm sending them an email now. How special.

Nice story today, thanks for getting it out there on AR today.

Patricia /Seacoast NH

Alan - Lucky for Nancy & Mina that you happened along with a camera to capture the moment.

Alan, how sweet of you to take their photo, send them a copy and ask the AR members to send congratulations...I Did!!

Alan - You are a master networker, my friend. Thanks for sharing this story and the photos as well - cool stuff!

Lenn - to be honest, I didn't mention that I was a real estate agent... it just didn't seem the appropriate moment to bring it up.

Linda - I'm sure they'll like that

Steve - timing IS everything, isn't it?

Dawn - thank you... I'm sure they'll enjoy that.

Denise - I gave them the link back to this blog... so they can read along, if they so choose

Lina - they DO look so happy, don't they... thanks.. I'm sure they'll love all the e-mails.

Patricia - I consider it my duty...:-)

Judy - I consider everyone lucky, when I come along... ;-/

Rebecca - thanx... I think they'll find it fun.

Mr. Crouch, Sir... thank you. I do the best I can to follow in your substantial footprints... sir!

Alan...

Why you old softy you ... how nice to capture the moment for them!

Touching, very sweet! Now that they are going to be a couple, will they need a new home? :)

Alan - I forgot to mention that I will shoot them an email as well. Love it!

Richard - c'mon... I'n not that old

Renée - I'm not going there.

Jason - I knew you would :-)

Awww.... how sweet to be so in love and have it captured :-)

Nice job Alan and it's is fun to catch people in that very rare moment!

Thanks a million for capturing that moment! If I'm ever looking for a home in the Chicago area...

OCT

That was a case of being in the right place at the right time and having a camera ready!

Not knowing anything about engagement rings or the opposite sex, I didn't know that engagement rings were worn on the right hand.

Interesting. I don't go around sticking my business card into everyone's hands either.

How sweet, just sent then a congrats e-mail!

Alan That must have been almost as exciting for you as it was for them - well close to almost :) Karen

Hey, hate to tell you Russell is right! Right hand is wrong! She's so excited I guess she said who cares! Nice that you were there to capture it for them.

Nice new header of the park too.

Jennifer - kinda a poetic moment... wasn't it?

Russell - it was wonderful to be able to share in that very intimate moment.

Iris - I'm glad we were able to share it with you... they were so, so cute... She was about to pop out of her skin, she was so excited... and he had a full grin from ear to ear... (clearly she'd said "yes").

Sybil - #1 rule of blogging... be prepared (no, wait, that's the boy scouts)...

Russel - I wasn't sure if there was a "cultural" reason... not all cultures use ring finger of the left hand...

Lenn - especially not at that moment... what a way, that would have been to totally change the focus, and ruin the story for Nancy and Mina. Nope, I'll leave my business card in my pocket... where it's nice and warm.

Jean - thanks... I'm sure they'll appreciate it. We'll all be part of a story to tell the grand kids (who of course will ask them "What's e-mail?")

Karen - yep... "close" to almost.

Lyn - the park was beautiful that day...

Thank you so much for all your well wishes! Nancy and I were so excited that you were there to capture this moment!

Thanks so much for sharing this!

Hey, Mina... glad you found your way here, and were able to view the blog, and see how excited everyone is for you... it's contagious. You brought an extra amount of cheer to a bunch of other people this weekend. Fun!

Alan, thanks so much for this! The pictures were great--the next best thing to being there, which would have been a bit awkward :)

PS-And you're right. Wearing the ring on the right hand was deliberate. For us, engagement=left hand, marriage=right hand.

typo: I meant: engagement=right hand, marriage=left hand.

Marian - I'm so glad that we were able to "bring the family" into this intimate moment. And, yes, it might have been a bit akward, had you all been there.

they were just soooooooo cute! We were talking about them, and smiling for a half-hour after we left them alone.

Hi Alan ~ Thought I'd chime in on the right hand, left hand conversation. The engagement ring on the left hand is not universal. In Germany it is also the practice when you get engaged you put the engagement ring on the right hand and it gets transferred to the left when you get married.

In Germany it's also customary to wear the Wedding Band on the right hand. Don't know about other parts of Europe. (Although the UK is the same as the US).

Denise

So in our church from Egypt (the Coptic Orthodox Church), we wear the engagement ring on the right and transfer to the left upon marriage, since the left hand is closer to your heart...

Denise & Mina - I thought it might be something like that.

Alan - What an exciting moment and I learned something new about engagement ring on the right and marriage ring on the left.

Alan: This is so cool ... what great fun. What perfect timing!

What a wonderful thing you did! Will send them a congrats in a few minutes!

Michelle - I knew there were some cultures that do the left hand/right hand thing... but I didn't want to make an assumption that Mina & Nancy were of another culture... (although as it turns out...they were!)

Kathleen - I know... the "feel good" story of the day.

Jackie - we thoroughly enjoyed our small part in it.

It's not as small as you think Alan :)

that's usually my line, Jackie.

Congratulations to you both! What a wonderful celebration in the park! It is a beautiful day for the first day of the rest of their lives! You and Mrs. Elvis looked good yourselves you know...don't ever forget it.

:-) Deb

What a lovely couple and what a lovely Kodak moment for them to remember!

Alan, thank you so much for capturing that beautiful moment for us, and to everyone who has congratulated us, thank you! We are so excited and so blessed.