Alicia Minshew, who plays Kendall on All My Children, is engaged to Richie Herschenfeld.  The 33-year old actress received a uniquely romantic and surprising proposal last month, all wrapped up in holiday trimming.

Minshew gave details of how Herschenfeld popped the question, and more importantly, creatively hid the all important hardware, in an interview with Soap Opera Weekly.

"Richie and I have been talking about getting married sometime in 2008, and I figured maybe sometime in 2008 he'd propose to me,” Minshew recalled.  “He completely surprised me by doing [so] on December 13."

She went on to describe the magical event as it transpired on that fateful day.  According to the All My Children star, she had just arrived at the apartment she and Herschenfeld share, following a grueling day at work.  Herschenfeld then told her that he had prepared dinner for her, something that took her by surprise, especially since it came with some wine.

"Richie said, ‘Lish, I cooked you dinner,' and I was like, ‘Awesome!'  He poured some wine, and I was like ‘Wow, wine, in the middle of the week?'  He never does that," Minshew narrated.

"We sat by the Christmas tree, drank some wine, and the next thing I know we're cleaning up after dinner, and he says, ‘Lish, can you go check the Christmas tree to see if it has enough water?'" the actress continued with her story.

Minshew recounted how she obligingly went to check on their tree's water supply, at which point, her then boyfriend turned her attention to something on it.

"There was a big red bow that was not there two seconds [before],” Minshew carried on with the rest of the romantic anecdote.  “Apparently when I was leaning over to check the water he stuck it to the tree.  I looked closely and dangling from the bow was this silver Tiffany's charm bracelet and I thought, ‘All right!  An early Christmas present!  Nice!'  It said, ‘I love you,' on one side, and I thought, ‘Oh, that's sweet,' and then I turned it on to the other side, and it said, ‘Will you marry me, my sweet Lish.'  I swear to God my whole entire body went numb.  He said, ‘I've waited my whole life for you.  Will you be my wife?'  I combusted into tears."

It was then that the All My Children actress appeared to search for the particular fashion accessory normally associated with such a momentous occasion.

“I looked at his hands, thinking he'd have a ring, and he said, ‘I know what you're looking for.'  He went to the kitchen and opened the cabinet where he keeps all the pots and pans and pulled [out] a ring,” Minshew continued.  “He said, ‘I know you would've never found it in here, since you don't cook.'  [The ring is] so beautiful.  It doesn't look like any ring I've ever seen.  He designed it himself, just going by the kind of person I am and what he thought I would like.  We called our parents and our families and we woke everyone up because it was late - it was like 11 o'clock at night.  I love it because it was so unexpected.  We weren't dressed up or out to dinner.  It was phenomenal."


-Rosario Santiago, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: Soap Opera Digest, Soap Opera Weekly
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