Wedding Date on Aug 17, 2019

We went to a Cork & Chroma class the week before Christmas and we had to draw each other’s faces. Lol. We left and the whole of Southbank was lit up with fairy lights, one of my favourite things. We could just see that the big tree over at QUT was all decked out with lights, so we walked through the Epicurious Garden and went down to the river walk. We sat and just talked. As we had already made a decision to have a surprise wedding (on the date we’re getting married anyway), it was no surprise to me when Dan said ‘we’ll be married come this time next year’. I agreed. We spoke about our household being 4 names and coming down to 3...I agreed. Then Dan said ‘I have a present for you’ and pulled out a navy ring box and sat it in his hands, on his lap. ‘No you don’t’ I said. ‘No you don’t’. ‘Yeah, I do’. ‘Well this is ridiculous‘. I repeated that a fair few times. I completely thought that he would open the box and it would be empty, as we had spoken about me not needing an engagement ring, especially if we were having a surprise wedding. But there was a ring. The most perfect of all rings for me. Dan then waited for me to say ‘yes’, but from my tears and reaction, it was fairly clear. I then proceeded to say ‘I don’t know if I need to spew, wee or eat’.