Our engagement, Friday, 2 June 1995

Bonny proposed to me on our second date in January 1995 with a poet. I did not accept his proposal. How could I when I had just dated him twice? But we dated. After about 6 months of courtship, he proposed to me again and wanted us to be engaged for six months before we got married in December. As “wild” as he was before he met me, he was a pretty conservative man and had a set of tradition he wanted to keep. So he invited our then Senior Pastor of Community of Praise Baptist Church to conduct a brief ceremony with God as our witness and it was attended by some close friends. Even though he was not rich then, he bought me a diamond engagement ring and he was very proud of himself for being able to do that.
I still wear that engagement ring that he gave me and remember his smiling face beaming with pride and joy when he put that ring on me finger that evening, Friday, 2 June 1995.