Archive for March, 2007

Robbins Bros. Makes Engagement Dreams Come True

March 9, 2007 at 6:30 pm · Filed under Dallas, Perfect Proposals, Texas, engagements, proposals

World’s Biggest Engagement Ring Store invites you to propose your idea for a chance to make your fantasy engagement a reality!

March. 9, 2007 – Have you ever imagined proposing to that special someone on a billboard, at a sporting event or during an intimate dinner on a private yacht? Or better yet, do you have your own creative vision of how your proposal will take place? This spring, Robbins Bros., World’s Biggest Engagement Ring Store, will help make the dreams of couples in love come true with their “Engagement Dreams” contest. Submit your love story and proposal idea to www.robbinsbros.com starting March 9 for a chance to have your fantasy proposal fulfilled. Each Friday, throughout the spring, one of the leading seasons to wed, one lucky winner will be chosen.

For consideration, entrants must submit an online entry which includes selecting one of the proposal options listed on their site or creating your own and submitting a brief love story in 200 words or less. Each entrant must be 18 years of age or older and a legal U.S. resident, located and residing in California, Texas or Illinois as of March 9, 2007. Each entrant must be single; unmarried and not yet engaged but are planning to do so. Robbins Bros. will provide winners with all costs associated with the fulfillment of the proposal idea with the exception of the engagement ring.

Winners of the “Engagement Dreams” contest will work with well-trained engagement consultants who are part of Robbins Bros.’ “Perfect Proposals” concierge service. The consultants strive to make customers’ proposals a pleasurable, memorable and stress-free event.

“Our concierge service is all about making the guy a hero,” said Rose Myers, general manager for Robbins Bros. Dallas location. “First and foremost, we are here to help our customers plan the perfect proposal.”

Robbins Bros. offers the Perfect Proposals concierge service year-round to all of their customers regardless of the price tag on the ring. Every Robbins Bros. location has an engagement consultant on hand for those men who don’t know when, where or how to propose, and for those men who have a plan but are seeking assistance in making it happen.

The engagement consultants play a critical role in bringing couples’ dreams to reality. Local engagement consultants Jacqueline Hardwick and Nikki James of the Dallas location have brought many locals’ proposal fantasies to life at home and afar. They have organized a proposal at a nearby winery in which they arranged for the label on the wine bottle to be removed and replaced with one that read, “Will you marry me?”

The ladies even assist with “do over” proposals for those guys who took the wrong approach first time around. Recently, a gentleman came in who had already proposed to his girlfriend, but she said no. The customer felt that in a different setting, she would have said yes. So, Hardwick and James organized a tour of France for the couple and on the last day of their stay, the gentleman proposed in front of the Eiffel Tower. She said yes.

In Houston, engagement consultant Leigha Pruitt helped coordinate the first-ever surprise proposal at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Justin Loos, a USMC corporal, consulted Pruitt and informed her that his engagement dream was to propose at the Houston Rodeo before he was deployed to Iraq on March 11. With that said, Pruitt began making calls and on March 3, Loos, in full military dress, proposed to his girlfriend over the stadium’s big screen monitor to a cheering crowd right before the Clay Walker concert.

We’ve all heard of wedding planners, but remember without the perfect proposal plan, you’ll never make it to the wedding!

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Local Marine Proposes Marriage to the Cheers of Thousands during Houston Rodeo

March 5, 2007 at 5:57 pm · Filed under Houston, Perfect Proposals, Texas, proposals

Robbins Bros., World’s Biggest Engagement Ring Store helps USMC Corporal pop the question before he is deployed to Iraq

Marine Proposal at Houston RodeoHOUSTON, March 5, 2007 – It was a first for the Houston Live Stock Show and Rodeo. Justin Loos, a Corporal in the USMC from Conroe, got down on bended knee before a massive crowd of over 61,000 attending the rodeo competitions at Reliant Stadium on Saturday, March 3, and surprised his girlfriend Christa Eberly with a marriage proposal. Loos, dressed in his military uniform, proposed over the stadium’s big screen monitor to a cheering crowd right before the Clay Walker concert. Robbins Bros., World’s Biggest Engagement Ring Store worked with Loos to make his plan for the perfect engagement come true before he is deployed to Iraq on March 11.

After purchasing his engagement ring at the Robbins Bros. Willowbrook location, Loos worked with Leigha Pruitt, one of the store’s Engagement Experts who assists customers with planning the ideal engagement, to put into action his plan for proposing to his girlfriend at the Clay Walker concert while he was home on leave. The engagement concierge service is complimentary for Robbins Bros. customers, and is a lifelong service when you buy your engagement ring at Robbins Bros.

“I got the idea to propose at the rodeo because I have never seen anyone do it and I have loved the rodeo since I was a little boy and go every year I can,” said Loos. “Leigha let me know that it might be hard to get the rodeo to agree to me doing a public proposal but she went ahead and contacted the rodeo and pled my case and after a couple of weeks of nervous waiting, the rodeo contacted me to let me know that they had agreed to let me do it.”

Loos and Eberly participated in the grand entry parade and then were led to seats provided by the rodeo. Before the bull riding competition began, one of the rodeo clowns with a video camera came over to where the couple was seated. The two were now on the big screen monitor and, at that point, Loos got down on one knee and asked Eberly to be his wife to the encouragement of the crowd.

“I didn’t suspect a thing since Justin’s mom is on the rodeo committee and so I assumed the special treatment was because he was in the military and is about to be deployed to Iraq,” stated Eberly. “When Justin got down on his knee, I realized what was about to happen and began to cry. I was so stunned that I didn’t respond to his proposal right away so he had to ask me again. Of course I said yes!”

Loos and Eberly both attended Oak Ridge High School in Conroe but did not date during that time. Eberly’s mom, who was one of Loos’s teachers his senior year once asked him why he did not date her daughter to which he replied “she is not someone that I would want to date, but someone that I would want to marry.” During his senior year, Loos decided to join the Marine Corps. Since he was only 17 years of age at the time, his parents had to sign off, a difficult decision for his mother, Loos stated. One month after graduating in the top quarter of his class in 2004, he was on his way to the Marine Corps Recruit Base Depot San Diego. It wasn’t until Christmas of 2005 that he and Eberly reconnected and began their romance, and Loos soon realized that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her.

Loos and Eberly are both graduates of Oakridge High School in Conroe. He is corporal currently stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton but will be deployed to Iraq on March 11. She is currently attending Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas where she is majoring in Fashion Merchandising.

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