Heather Eagleston always planned on having a year-long engagement.
But that was before she met Tyler Beus.
Heather dated the Woodland Hills-raised boy for eight months, and they were planning on getting married a year later in June 2010. But then Tyler had a job opportunity with the military come up in Iraq (he’d already been deployed there twice), and they thought, “What are we waiting for?”
So the month-long engagement began! But first, they had to get engaged. (Details, details.)
“We had our engagement pictures scheduled, and I still had no ring!” Heather says. “Tyler kept saying it would be OK — that we could just Photoshop the ring in later. But I was upset because I felt stupid having my engagements taken without an official proposal.”
Little did Heather know, Tyler had a proposal — and a plan. On the day of their engagement photos, he sent her to a salon where she could get a facial, massage, and hair and makeup done. Afterward, she rushed off to meet Tyler at a local park where they were interested in having their reception. When they got there, Tyler, who Heather says was “acting strangely” (Future brides: This is code for “he’s about to propose!”), walked up to a woman and asked her if she would take the couple’s picture.
“I was so embarrassed. We don’t take pictures. Plus, I wasn’t engaged yet, and now Tyler was bothering this lady to take a picture of us for no reason!”
But before the woman captured the memory on film, she asked Heather to hold her brand new puppy. Heather obliged, and when she looked at the collar, the tag said, “Heather, will you marry me?”
“I said, ‘You jerk! You tricked me!’ But Tyler said this was our love puppy, and it would take care of me while he was gone to Iraq for the next year.”
And they called it puppy love.
