It is time for you all to vote for who has the best story and who will win the cigars and cigar box! We could not pick out 5 top stories, we like them all! So, we are going to go ahead and open the voting up. You can put your vote in until next Friday (May 22nd). Whoever has the most votes, wins! You can either leave your vote as a comment at the bottom of this post, or you can email me at natasha@allureeventconsulting.com.
Bride #1 - Ashley Bobbitt
My Groom deserves the Boss Box for many reasons. However, the main reason is because he was the most patient friend I ever had. We were friends and dated, but were not in a relationship, for almost a year and a half. He pursued me, but to no avail during this time. Finally, after a year and a half, we agreed that it was the right time to take our friendship to the relationship level. Two months later, he proposed and I said yes! I knew he was the one because he never gave up and always respected me. So we're getting married 10 months after he proposed. Even though patience paid off for him, he still deserves a good smoke after all the waiting!
Bride #2 - Lauren McKinney
My fiance deserves the 'Boss Box' because my family gives him such a hard time. My parents didn't get married until they were 27, so they think we are young at 21. They are always commenting on how we should wait at least another year, even though they love my fiance. He has to put up with not only this, but also my family causing so much drama with the planning. Because they are not into the idea so much, my fiance has had to help so much more with the planning than he would have otherwise. He enjoys it, but definitely wishes I wasn't getting him to do so much! My fiance is so wonderful in every way, and I want some way to show him how much I appreciate his help and patience.
Bride #3 - LeRae Edwards
My groom has been surrounded by women! He deserves the Boss Box because he's spent the past year not only helping me plan the wedding, but also coaching girls. Yes, my fiance has 12 other women in his life--his girls' basketball team. After moving to my hometown to be near me, he took a teaching position at my alma mater. As a first year teacher, he was asked to coach the team or they wouldn't be able to play. Despite the fact that he didn't have basketball experience, he stepped up to the plate (baseball is his sport of choice) and took on 12 girls who needed a coach. After spending every night reading coaching books and going over plays, he coached the girls to a winning record and second place in the district!
For the wedding he's had one request: a cigar bar. This would fulfill his request. My groom deserves his cigars for spending the year surrounded by women! (And yes, his players will attend the wedding!)
Bride #4 - Name concealed
My fiance deserves a good cigar as his reward for putting up with me the past year and a half. We've had a very long engagement and I've been constantly planning for the wedding throughout all of it. I change my mind so many times with the little details. And I waste our money buying decorations and then changing my mind months later! It drives my groom-to-be nuts! I'm sure he will be very happy after the wedding when we are finally married and our lives can go back to normal. A good cigar would be the perfect way for him to kick off the celebration of our return to a normal couple instead of the crazy wedding-obsessed couple that we currently are! I'm sure all of the groomsmen and our fathers would enjoy these cigars too. I could just envision a classy b&w photo of all of them smoking them outside at night! :)
Bride #5 - Amanda Woodward
My fiance deserves the Boss Box because he is the most amazing and compassionate man I've ever met. He always puts my well-being before his own desire and always wants to make sure that I'm happy. Before I had major surgery in January, the surgeon told me that I could not be around any kind of second hand smoke for at least a month before surgery and two months afterwards or I would not heal correctly. My fiance used to smoke mini-cigars like cigarettes, in our house on a daily basis, so this was going to be a huge deal for us (or so I thought). Much to my surprise, we came home from that appointment, and he quit smoking immediately. He wanted to make sure that I would be able to recover properly and gave up something he loved so that I would not have complications with my surgery. He still loves cigars but isn't smoking as much anymore and I think that this Boss Box would be a great way for me to express my thanks to him for all that he does for me every day. Thanks!
Bride #6 - Future Mrs. Rickles
I love these cigars. My FI doesnt smoke but I would love to win them for my stap dad. He is one of the greatest men in my life. He has always been there for me. I always have a good laugh when i am with him. On every good ocassion he hands out cigars so this is the perfect gift. At my brothers wedding I have a great picture of my step dad and I smoking cigars on the porch during cocktail hour. He looks so proud and it is one of my fondest memories of us. So not a funny story but still a sentimental and cute one.
Bride #7 - Nicole-Lynn
My groom deserves this Boss Box because he has stood by my side for 7 1/2 years and has promised me he will continue to do so. He is my rock and is always such a big supporter in anything I do. On a serious note, my parents are getting a divorce after 24 years together and it has really taken a toll not only on our family, but on my emotions. He has comforted me and been there for me through it all and without him during this trying time I would be a mess. I think he and his guys deserve this box of cigars so they can sit back, relax, and enjoy them at his bachelor party!
Bride #8 - Holly P.
My groom deserves this cigar box for waiting seven years until I was ready to get married, and quitting his job and moving to another state just to be with me. When he decided to move to Illinois to live with me, he would work 3rd shift at his job in Michigan, drive to Illinois when he got off in the morning, change in a gas station bathroom in order to make it to a job interview in Illinois. Then he'd drive back to Michigan for work that same night. This is just one of about a million things he's done without me asking, just to be with me. Since we've been engaged, he has helped me SO much with the wedding planning, I can't even begin to express how much I appreciate him. I would love to be able to give him a fancy cigar to light up to celebrate our wedding night!
Bride #9 - Amanda
This box would be such a great gift for my groom for so many different reasons! Firstly, I'm finishing up my last semester in college, while he has been out for about a year. In this market, he isn't making much, and very few companies are willing to hire a girl with such a sporadic schedule as mine, so he has been basically supporting me for a year now. He definitely didn't sign up for that, but he has been so great about it, and I can't wait to make it up to him in the years to come! Secondly, I can't figure out why for the life of me, but my mom is really quite mean to her. His family has been nothing but welcoming of me, and they are so excited to have me as a part of their family, but my mother refuses to accept my fiance. If I tell her he says hi (which he always does, because he is just too sweet) she completely ignores it or changes the subject, blatantly not saying hi back. If I bring him up in any way, she just changes the subject. It's so rude, and when I've tried to talk to her about it, she again just changes the subject. It really hurts my fiance, but once again, he's a trooper, and just points out that he's marrying me, not her. :) Finally, he graduated from The Citadel, we can't wait to move back to Charleston, and our wedding will be down there! This would be such a great gift! Again, with me not working, and the fact that we are paying for this wedding ourselves, money is super tight. He keeps talking about how he absolutely must have a cigar with his boys on the day of the wedding. I want to make that happen for him so SO badly!! Please pick me, it would just be a really great touch for our wedding day! :)(And so ends my novel of love and gratitude for my amazing man...haha)
Bride # 10 - Tara Handren
On 9-19-09, I will marry my "buddy" Clay. When I saw this giveaway, I just about jumped out of my chair! Clay is definitely a lover of cigars and we have yet to incorporate that into the wedding. I was thinking of getting a baker to make a groom's cake that resembled a cigar, but think this would be much more enjoyable for him. As for why he deserves this... many reasons, but one that is fresh in my mind: this past weekend, I had to go out of town to a friend's baby shower. I was almost embarrassed at how much I missed him until I came home and realized why. He had cleaned our entire apartment ceiling to floor and had done all my laundry for me. Clay is a giver and is very patient and for that, I think my cigar aficiondo deserves the Boss Box.
This is a great picture from http://www.sakuraphotography.com/!
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