In a boat on a lake near Big Pool, the 22-year-old Williamsport native was fishing with Joseph Siler Jr., her boyfriend of about three years, something they had done many times before. Jade Jewelry “I stood up (in the boat) to get something and he turned around in his seat
with the ring box,” Hose said. “I was very excited and very shocked and very happy.” The couple, whose engagement announcement appeared Feb. 5 in The Herald-Mail, rushed home to tell their parents, who weren’t all that surprised.
“They just didn’t know when he was going to do it,” Hose said. Hose said they talked about marriage and went out to look at rings together about two months before, “and then he surprised me with one.” They are planning a Sept. 22 wedding. Tuesday is
Valentine’s Day and, like Hose, some women will be receiving engagement rings or other jewelry. Despite the sluggish economy, husbands-to-be still buy diamonds, according to several area jewelers. Ettinger said business was good in the weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day. If the economy has affected business at all, it’s just making people buy smaller-ticket items, but more of them, he said.
