Ken asked me to marry him....

At the VON.x conference in San Jose earlier this week, we shared the most momentous event of our life together. Many readers and friends have seen, but since it was live on stage at VON, and live streamed on the Internet. Now it's here on VOX too.

I can't begin to express how amazing this proposal was. First, it was a secret. Oh...it's not that I had no idea Ken would ask me. Of course I did. It's just...I didn't know where or when, or even how! I also didn't know anything about the ring. I suspected there might be one. I had NO idea what it would look like, How absolutely gorgeous it would be.

This is not the best picture out there of my ring. But it sort of shows what it's like. It's three center emerald cut diamonds with three princess cut stones on either side. They're colorless so they truly shine! It's just hard to express how beautiful it is.

To be honest, the ring, while magnificent, is not what mattered. Having my son there was a pretty phenomenal thing. David was with us for The entire event. He took many of the pictures including the ones below. He's a good photographer.

The other things that made it so wonderful, besides the obvious part where I proclaim my love for a man I have watched grow emotionally, and lived with, shared my life and family with, was that so many people who have come to genuinely matter to me were present or there shortly after. Alec Suanders, iotum founder and CEO was one of the videographers. So was Dean Elwood. Ken gave him our n95 to use for streaming live to our qik feed. Jeff Pulver was there also streaming live. He and Ken had worked this all up without my being privy to it, but also Jim Courtney, Andy Abramson, James Body (my pink friend of truphone) and Dameon Welch-Abernathy. Dameon was a personal friend prior to this event and he didn't quite make it on time but probably has the best pictures of my ring on his Ovi pic site. Oh and Carmelo Zaccone was there as well and apparently recorded the event. I haven't seen his footage yet. Also Pat Phelan wasn't right there because of meetings, but he was also one of our supporters and now our good friend. He knew Ken before but not me and not David. I know Ken shared in advance the impending event and Pat was excited!

I said yes. ;o)

Here's one of the videos that was streamed live on the Internet.