A BWF Engagement Announcement: Alyssa & Lyle September 10th 2011

Photos: Glamour Magazine

What came first the Chicken or the Ring?

We always love to know how our couples pop the big question and just had to share this incredible story with you from Alyssa:

I work at marlo marketing/communications, a public relations/marketing agency in Boston and we have a daily blog called, m.blog. Each week, all of the employees write a blog post. The engagement chicken is a recipe that Glamour magazine published in 2004. A few Glamour staffers made it for their boyfriends and soon after got engaged. I was introduced to the engagement chicken in 2005. My 3 best friends from high school (who are now my bridesmaids) used to have dinner parties when we were home in Cheshire, CT from college. My friend, Katie-Lyn made the chicken for us girls and told us about the legend. We all laughed, totally not in the state of marriage at age 20 and it became an inside joke within our group. Anytime one of us was dating someone, we’d say “Are you going to make the engagement chicken?”. I had the recipe printed & saved in the back of my cookbook for years.

 
I finally made the chicken for Lyle in June 2010 and two days later, he proposed. I had absolutely no intention of it being a magical recipe or that it would lead to engagement, in fact, I told my girlfriends, “I’m going to make the engagement chicken this week” and they laughed along with me.

After I made the chicken and got engaged, I wrote a post on the engagement chicken. We utilize social media to promote the blog and tweeted the post at Glamour magazine. Within hours the magazine called me, asking me my story. Apparently they have a list of about 60 women who have made the chicken and gotten engaged soon after!

Additionally, the magazine was working on a feature for the February, 2011 issue of the magazine and needed real brides-to-be to model the new collection WHITE by Vera Wang. I was chosen along with three other brides and was flown to NYC. We did the shoot in November 2010 at Pier 59. Patrick Demarchelier was the photographer and Vera Wang and the Glamour fashion team styled us for the shoot. We had hair, make-up, nails done and were dressed from head to toe. It was amazing! I was in the land of Manolo Blahniks and amazing bridal accessories like feather hairpieces, gorgeous veils and lush bouquets.

Above photos and original article by Glamour Magazine.

Congratulations Alyssa & Lyle!