Marriage Proposal with Corvettes, Police, the Indy 500 and Tony Kanaan!

Marriage Proposal with Corvettes, Police, the Indy 500 and Tony Kanaan!


Austin's Marriage Proposal to Sheri On May 29, the day before the Indy 500, I proposed to my girlfriend (now fiancée), Sheri at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the bricks. She's a huge racing fan, loves cars and her favorite Indycar driver is Tony Kanaan. It took some help from the Indianapolis community to piece my proposal together, but I was able to incorporate some of her favorite interests into my proposal. Details of How It Happened I noticed a customer of ours at Formstack was using our software to create online contest forms for the Indy 500 and it got me thinking about ways I could propose to Sheri. She's a huge race fan, loves cars and we had gone to the Indy 500 the past couple of years. I wanted to come up with a unique way to propose to her that incorporated some of her biggest interests. I contacted the Director of Digital Communications at Hare Chevrolet, the customer using our software, and asked if I could get involved in one of their events to propose to my girlfriend. He responded in minutes and was immediately on board. Receiving the go ahead from the owners, he secured an invite for their Corvette owners-only event where we'd get to go by police escort to the track, gave me a Corvette to drive for the weekend and helped me get permission to propose on the bricks at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. I had to have a cover story for all of this so I called Sheri one day at work and told her a client of ours gave my boss tickets to a Corvette event, but ...