And they lived happily ever after...
“Jack and I met at work;
and we hit it off right away. But I felt that he was coming on too strong and
that’s why I turned him down, which I soon regretted. A friend suggested I
should send him a card (mobile phones weren’t really a thing back then!) to ask
him to meet up again. He called me the same night… to tell me that he was now
seeing someone else. I just wanted the ground to open up and swallow me! The
company we worked at went bankrupt and we lost track of each other. Nine months
later we ran into each other again at a pub and we have been inseparable since.
Then one night, after we had been together for three months, he said to me:
‘you know… I never want to be without you again: Do you want to marry me?’ I said:
‘Yes, but when?’ He said: ‘within six weeks’ and that’s what happened… I was
only 22, but I knew: he is the one! We were married after five months of dating
and most people thought that we would never make it; those two party animals.
But by now it’s been 23 years! :-D”
“Exactly three years
after our first date, he proposed to me on the same spot where we first met. He
gave me a stunning ring, an heirloom left to him by his mother. We ended up
using his parents’ wedding rings to make our very own custom-made wedding
rings. It was a memorable day!”
“After a day of sightseeing in Venice and visiting numerous museums, we
walked into the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute, a magnificent church with
a fabulous view of the famous Grand Canal. My fiancé loves history and likes
to read every sign at a museum, a perfect match really because I love to walk
around and take pictures. It was rainy and cold that day, my nose had gone bright
red. We had already walked around inside the church a few times but my
boyfriend insisted on going around once more. He took me to a stunning, quiet
place and then went down on one knee and of course my answer was an unequivocal
YES. A photographer (who was fashionably
late, so my boyfriend had to read each sign 3 times) captured this moment and
unbeknownst to me took some beautiful pictures.”
“My husband has never been the romantic type and that’s why I always
used to joke about a possible proposal. I would say things like: ‘I think I
will burst out laughing if you ever get down on one knee!’ That’s probably why
in the end he didn’t go down on one knee to propose to me. It was a regular
Saturday night, I was sitting on the sofa, completely unsuspecting, and all of
a sudden, he just shouts out: ‘Isn’t it about time we got married?’ And all I
could say was: ‘Oh yes, that would be nice’. We started planning our wedding
right away and got married a year later. Luckily our wedding day turned out
much more romantic than the proposal and we’ve been married for 6 years now!” :-)
“These pictures are actually quite old now;
my love and I celebrated our 25th silver wedding anniversary last October. For
his wedding proposal in style, he surprised me with a 3-day ‘Chateau L’Amour
tour’. On the second night while we were having dinner at a beautiful castle,
he got down on his knee and proposed to me, ring and all. How could I say no to
that?! :-) 32 years and 2 kids later, I haven’t regretted it for a second… This is
my soulmate for life!”