In Tajkia's words, "We met during a conference that the MSAs put together from our respective colleges each year. We both attended this from our schools, which was held in Austin, TX that year, and ended up briefly meeting there. Then we became friends on Facebook and realized we’re both from colleges in Dallas, TX. He went to Southern Methodist University and I went to University of Texas at Dallas. We eventually met up a couple of months later and started to hang out once in a while. About a year after we met, we started dating!"
The Proposal
According to Tajkia, Nafees is a true romantic at heart. This is how Tajkia describes her fairy tale proposal:
"Before our engangement party Nafees surprised me by setting up this plan secretly with our photographer. He asked photographer Axel Leong to e-mail me asking if I wanted to do a complimentary photoshoot before the party. And of course I said yes! So the day of the photoshoot I got ready and went to the Dallas Arboretum and started walking around with Nafees waiting for our photographer to arrive. An hour or two passed by and I kept texting Axel asking if he is on his way. He said he was stuck in traffic, he’ll be there soon, etc. Then finally we decided to rest and sat down under a tree. I was getting fed up by this time lol! And we laid out on the grass on a perfect spring day in 2012. And as we’re laying there Nafees pulled out a ring, the first thing he said was that he forgot about the ring I was eyeing so he picked a different one, and if I would still marry him with this ring! I started laughing and said what in the world?…aren’t we supposed to be doing a photoshoot today? What!? You’re proposing?? Then, of course I said yes! He explained how he ordered the ring he wanted to get me, but he wanted me to see it at the party which was coming up in a week. It was a low key proposal and the people around us didn’t even realize what he did but it was our moment and I loved it. And about our photoshoot..it was a set up! Axel played along with it for the sake of the surprise and I totally fell for it!"
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"Before our engangement party Nafees surprised me by setting up this plan secretly with our photographer. He asked photographer Axel Leong to e-mail me asking if I wanted to do a complimentary photoshoot before the party. And of course I said yes! So the day of the photoshoot I got ready and went to the Dallas Arboretum and started walking around with Nafees waiting for our photographer to arrive. An hour or two passed by and I kept texting Axel asking if he is on his way. He said he was stuck in traffic, he’ll be there soon, etc. Then finally we decided to rest and sat down under a tree. I was getting fed up by this time lol! And we laid out on the grass on a perfect spring day in 2012. And as we’re laying there Nafees pulled out a ring, the first thing he said was that he forgot about the ring I was eyeing so he picked a different one, and if I would still marry him with this ring! I started laughing and said what in the world?…aren’t we supposed to be doing a photoshoot today? What!? You’re proposing?? Then, of course I said yes! He explained how he ordered the ring he wanted to get me, but he wanted me to see it at the party which was coming up in a week. It was a low key proposal and the people around us didn’t even realize what he did but it was our moment and I loved it. And about our photoshoot..it was a set up! Axel played along with it for the sake of the surprise and I totally fell for it!"
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