Lauren May looks at the pre-engagement ring she recently received from her boyfriend, Bailey Morgan.Bailey Morgan was shaking and a little clammy when he reached to the back of his car to get the ring he had bought for his 17-year-old sweetheart.
He had thought for months about this moment, saving and scraping the money together to pay for the $1,500 diamond ring. He prayed for three months about this promise: to one day get engaged and then to one day get married.
“I have something I need to give you,” he told Lauren May.
Morgan, 18, soon will leave McCallie School for college, and he wanted Lauren to wait for him until they were older and marriage made more sense. So, next to the Tennessee River, he recited the speech he had planned.
“I promise that I am never going to hurt you or leave you or put our relationship in jeopardy,” he said, pulling out the ring.