Upstate congrats. I also asked my father in law back in96. I asked her mother first about a week before an ask her what she thought Gins father would say. He is now a retired Chicago cop and I was not always the best of a kid growing up especially right around the time I meet her. I was always in trouble an fighting when I was a teenager.
When It came time for me to ask he was at work, so I called him and asked him if I could meet him for lunch, I think he knew what I was up to. I told him I had to see him in person and he told me outright I could marry his daughter and he was sorry for spoiling her and she was now my problem. LOL
P.S my daughter is 3 and also is never getting married!