Some people say it with flowers. Some with an engagement ring.
For Keith Beggs, it was a brick surrounded by mortar and placed at Calgary’s Olympic Plaza that showed his true intent for the woman who would become his wife.
“She was saying, ‘Are we serious or not?’ So I said, ‘I know, I’ll buy a brick,’” Beggs recalled Friday as he and his wife, Barb, picked up the brick inscribed with their names.
Looking back, he said, there’s only one reason he bought the brick.
“So she’d marry me.”
As part of a fundraiser ahead of the 1988 Olympics, people could purchase and personalize a brick to line the ground of the plaza on the east end of downtown for $19.88. Over the decades, some of the bricks became so eroded, the writing was barely visible, while many others were cracked and gouged….