'300 Sandwich' Woman Engaged After Only 256: 'I Would've Married Her Without One,' Says Fiance
The "300 Sandwiches" woman got engaged last week after making her boyfriend sandwich no. 256. Stephanie Smith, a reporter for the New York Post's Page Six, was on a quest to make 300 sandwiches for her boyfriend Eric Schulte in exchange for an engagement ring when he surprised her on a vacation to Barbados.
The 300 sandwiches engagement took place the day after the couple and their friends landed on the tropical island. Smith was working on sandwich no. 257, the Fishkiller Fish Cutter, when Schulte stunned her with a proposal by the pool.
"On the deck was a giant heart, artfully arranged out of hundreds of petals," Smith wrote for The New York Post. "The sun was setting over the ocean, and the pool was illuminated by a ring of paper lanterns. Then Eric lowered to one knee and reached for a clam shell the size of his palm. He removed the top, and a diamond ring was nestled inside."
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"I was crying so much, I barely heard him ask, 'Will you marry me?' Of course I would!" she added.
"Words cannot express how extraordinarily happy I am," Smith wrote on her blog. "Not because I have a engagement ring, but because I'm going to spend the rest of my life having ridiculously amazing adventures with my soul mate."
Smith was very much caught off guard by the early engagement, especially after her then-boyfriend had told her he definitely wouldn't be proposing in Barbados.
Smith's 300 sandwiches blog began after she made her boyfriend a classic turkey and Swiss in June 2012. At the time, Schulte joked, "Honey, you're 300 sandwiches away from an engagement ring!" and Smith held him to it, constantly coming up with new ways to make great sandwiches. She documented her journey on her anonymous blog.
When Smith revealed that she was the one behind 300sandwiches, she got a lot of publicity and a lot of criticism. While some liked the idea, others felt she was being too submissive to her potential husband and was looking for fame— she did sign a book deal with Random House imprint Zinc Ink late last year.
Still, fans of the 300 sandwiches journey have pointed out that Schulte does most of the cooking for the couple, and he himself said he never needed sandwiches to make Stephanie his wife.
"I would have married her without one sandwich," he said on the Today show last September.
