DH had gone over to my mom's apartment to help her do a few things and I stopped by when I got off work. He met me in the parking lot and when I got out of the car, he dropped to one knee and asked me to marry him. I thought he was joking so my first response was, "Get up!". Well, he did and said "Well, I guess that means no". Naturally, I grabbed him and said hold on a minute, not so fast..LOL! I didn't get my ring that day because he was having it made, told me it would take about 3 weeks for it to come in. Like you, we had been talking about it and ring "looking" so he knew what I liked. Well, that week-end was my mom's birthday and we took her out for champagne brunch after church that Sunday. As soon as we were seated, a waitress comes out with a silver covered dish and a waiter right behing her with a bottle of champagne. She put the dish down in front of me and said it was for me. I looked at her and said, "It's her birthday (pointing to my mom), not mine!" Waitress said it was for me. As I lifted the lid off, the waiter popped the champagne, and there lay my ring. I was totally surprised as I wasn't expecting the ring for another couple weeks!! DH came around and put the ring on my finger and then all the people around us stood and clapped. We celebrated our 20th anniversary this past January.
Best of luck to you and congrats on the impending engagement. Can't wait to read the post on how he proposes to you
Suzi