Proposal (Montevideo)

This is the story of how I proposed… Claudia had been asking me to shoot a zombie movie for a while; she knew how much I wanted to make one and since zombies are very close to my heart, I wasn’t going to deny her. It was also around this same time when the subject of marriage started sneaking its way into our conversations more and more often… Now she took some of the suspense out of the moment by saying, almost verbatim, “I’ll say yes whenever you ask me, just as long as the proposal kicks ass.” This is great news to hear, no doubt, but it also adds a little pressure to the situation. So I decided that the best bet was to add more pressure by not only proposing, but shooting a zombie movie as well! When I told Claudia that I had written up the zombie movie, and that hopefully we would start the production soon, she was very excited and immediately wanted to know if she could be in it. I told her that she could play a brief part as my zombie love interest if she wanted, which she did. But she didn’t realize that the whole film was going to be about her… Then the planning started…I sold my car to get some money for the movie but more importantly for the ring, and I started talking to my coworker Ronni about how to make this happen. Luckily for me, Ronni is awesome and has a crew of great friends and talented artists that were able to get things underway. Claudia surprisingly didn’t ask me too many questions about the movie during this time, and those questions she …