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Got engaged at a Green Day show


Jet Taman

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After seeing my sig, a lot of people have asked me about the story of asking my wife to marry me at a Green Day concert....

If you don't feel like poring through my intro and my about me page, here it is....it gave me chills rewriting this....

June 24th, 2001--Warning tour

"I've been waiting a long time, for this moment to come I'm destined for anything at all"...

As soon as that line of the song "Waiting" played, my heart beat a mile a minute. I was with my girlfriend at our first Green Day concert together, and I had an engagement ring in my pocket. I was going to propose during this song. I practiced doing it over and over, the timing, the question, I even went to the concert the night before to make sure they played "Waiting" and when.

So during the middle of the song when all instruments stop except for Billie Joe's guitar and his voice singing, I turned to my girlfriend and sang along with Billie Joe...."I'VE BEEN WAITING A LIFETIME FOR THIS MOMENT TO COME I'M DESTINED FOR ANYTHING AT ALL..." then during the silence I got down on my knee and said "Will you spend the rest of your life with me?" she screamed "OF COURSE I WILL!!!" the music came in with a loud

"DUMBSTRUCK, COLOR ME STUPID, GOOD LUCK YOU'RE GONNA NEED IT!!!!" I picked her up, kissed her, and we left the concert.

The next year we got married and the song as we walked down the aisle was "Church on Sunday" opening with "TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF OUR LIVES".

We were then re-introduced as "Waiting" played for us.

My wife and I had our son in 2006 and he is a huge Green Day fan....

check him out at these YouTube sites.....

Singing Jesus of Suburbia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JFmoB1Sle0

Singing American Idiot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpYKkE5c4uM

American Idiot again...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6VIVnUijuo

And my favorite....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HE29kKhE38

...looking forward to watching the show from the seats in DC with my wife next week. Can't wait to take my son and have him saved....

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cute :)

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How Sweet. :)

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I think that is one of the most romatic things I have heard in a long long time :wub:

And your little boy is so adorable :wub:

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Awww. What a lucky woman. :)

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If I ever came relatively close to getting married, I'm quoting that :)

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That is amazing!!

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Aaw that is awesome. :D It makes me happy.

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Awww! That is so amazing!

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That is so romantic. Really brightened my day. :)

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I need to meet a man that would propose to me at a Green Day concert.

Your story is adorable, you must have the coolest family. :)

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oh that's an amazingly beautiful story :wub: it made my day.

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awwe :wub:

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Ya know...................it was my dream to be proposed to at a Green Day concert during Waiting. Didn't happen that way.

When we actually have the wedding, I also want Church on Sunday played as I walk down the aisle. And when 21CB came out I decided Last Night on Earth will be played too.

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Aw man that's awesome. I'm gonna listen to Waiting now in honor for you guys. Hope all goes as planned at the show you're going to.

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Your son is the most adorable thing on earth. That's also possible the sweetest story ever. Congratulations to you two. (:

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That's sooo cute! And I really like your Read Day project! If I was in the 4th grade I would love to be taught through Green Day's music! And, I also try to channel Green Day into everything I do, so I know how awesome it feels like :D

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Naww how sweet!

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That's so awesome. <3

Your son is adorable, too.

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Awwww thats so sweet! Will you marry me? lol :P

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Goddamn, sir. That is pure awesome. You've just upped the bar for marriage proposals everywhere.

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I hope my future husband wherever he is, is reading this...

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Thats really nice :)

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I remember this

you mentioned it in some recent concert's thread right?

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