Here’s another fun and unique engagement tale, this time from Lori and Duane:
“My (now) husband and I volunteer on stage crew at the Calgary Folk Festival. One year an artist, Ndidi Onukwulu, performed many times on our stage and we just loved her music and her personality – she was very kind and fun with the volunteers (not all performers are).
In late 2006 we saw she was going to be touring so we bought tickets for her show for us and my two sons from a past marriage.
My then-boyfriend emailed her reps and her booking agents to see if she would help him propose to me at the concert. Some of her people were adamant that it wasn’t going to happen, but others were willing to work something out.
So there we were, in the Jack Singer Concert Hall with 2,000 people at this amazing sold out show and Ndidi suddenly says, “This next song is for my friend, Lori” and she sang a beautiful song. My boyfriend tried to get me to stand up to dance, but I wasn’t willing to do that – it wasn’t a dancing crowd and we would have blocked someone’s view. He kept saying, ‘She’s waiting for us to dance’ and I still really wasn’t getting it, thinking that the Lori she referred to was someone she actually knew. Finally he pulled out the ring and proposed to me. I finally understood that the words to the song were meant for me (and the reason for his wanting to dance).
It was quite funny and totally magical!”
