Excitement at Dilly Lily

This story came to me from a friend on Facebook, whom many of you know as a faithful commenter on our blogs - Nancy Leitz. This is almost verbatim from her email. Enjoy!

My daughter Carol, lives in Chicago and she has two sons, one of whom is named Ian. Ian and his girlfriend, Anne, walk to the train every day from their condo in Lincoln Park. They pass the Dilly Lily Flower shop and Anne always stops and admires the flower arrangements. When Ian decided to propose to Anne he went into the flower shop alone and told them what he wanted to do and they were happy to help him. They made an arrangement of Anne's favorite flowers and put it in their window. When Ian and Anne were coming home from work Anne stopped, as usual, to admire the flowers and when she saw the one they made she couldn't get over it. She said, "They are my favorite flowers." Ian said, "Well, let's stop in and see them." When they went in the owner took the flowers out of the window and gave them to Anne and Ian got down on his knee and proposed. The owners then brought out a bottle of champagne and flutes and they all celebrated the engagement. They had taken pictures of the entire event and posted them on their website Dilly Lily.com. Then Ian called me and told us all about it and to look on Facebook. Ian and Anne met at Illinois Wesleyan University and they both got their degrees in 2006. Then Anne went on to her Master's degree at University of Chicago. She worked for Senator Obama all through those years when he was running for US Senate and later for President. She knows him pretty well from working at his office. When he was elected President he presented her with a beautiful framed picture of himself personally signed "to my friend Anne with Love, Barack. "She has it in her living room in a place of honor. That is the story of the engagement. Below: The happy couple!