We almost missed the ferry!
A lof of brides say that their guy was acting strange the whole day and was very on edge. Not Cliff! It was a typical Saturday morning in early November. We woke up and walked to our favorite breakfast spot in Carolina Beach, went to run several errands, and came home to settle in for the day. Around 1:36 (Laura still has the texts as proof -- but Cliff will try to tell you it was 1 pm!), our friends who were coming to visit us for the weekend texed us asking if we wanted to meet for dinner in Southport around 5. Laura thought this was weird because it would have been easier for them to meet us at the house and then take the ferry together, but whatever! Cliff suggested taking an earlier ferry over to Southport so that we could walk around downtown a little before dinner. By earlier - he meant 3:15! That gave Laura about an hour to change out of sweats and get ready before they had to drive down to the ferry terminal.
Unfortunately....Laura takes a loooooooooong time to get ready. They finally made it out the door at 2:55. When we got to the ferry, the 3:15 ferry was full and there was a line for the 4 o'clock ferry! Cliff was freaking out!!! Thanks to some very quick thinking, he quickly paid for walk-on ferry tickets, parked the car, and suggested we had the friends we were meeting pick us up on the other side. Halfway through the ferry ride, Cliff proposed to Laura on the upper deck of the ferry! Little did Laura know..there was a photographer capturing the entire moment! We snapped a few pictures on the ferry and were the last ones to walk off to lots of cheering and honking of horns!
But the surprise wasn't over...Cliff had coordinated wtih our friends and family to have them waiting on the other side! We celebrated with our best friends and family who came in from all over North Carolina and even some who came all the way from Georgia and Maryland.
