--- title: 300 Sandwiches Blog Girl Finally Gets Engaged After Sandwich 257 description: She made sandwiches to prove she was "wife material" canonical: https://time.com/106293/300-sandwiches-girl-engaged/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-20T17:02:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:50.726Z og:title: It Only Took 257 Sandwiches for 300 Sandwiches Girl to Get Engaged og:description: She made sandwiches to prove she was "wife material" og:url: https://time.com/106293/300-sandwiches-girl-engaged/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: It Only Took 257 Sandwiches for 300 Sandwiches Girl to Get Engaged twitter:description: She made sandwiches to prove she was "wife material" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # It Only Took 257 Sandwiches for 300 Sandwiches Girl to Get Engaged > Sponsored content. 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On Tuesday, New York _Post_ reporter Smith wrote that her boyfriend Eric Schulte proposed to her in Barbados after only 257 sandwiches. “Words cannot express how extraordinarily happy I am. 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,” she wrote. “My mouth hurts from smiling.” His mouth hurts from eating all those sandwiches. Smith sparked [Internet](http://gawker.com/bitch-make-me-300-sandwiches-orders-beautiful-woman-1383577562) [outrage](http://jezebel.com/lady-earns-engagement-ring-by-making-300-sad-sandwiches-1383822830) last year after [penning an article](http://nypost.com/2013/09/24/i-wooed-my-man-with-a-sandwich/) about how her blonde boy-toy woke her up with sweet declarations like “You’ve been up for 15 minutes and you haven’t made me a sandwich?” She then decided to make him 300 sandwiches to prove to him that she is “wife material.” Guess he finally got the message. 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