Another belated hello! I feel very rude joining in all the wedding chat without doing this :-/
So I met my fiance at university, on my very first day in fact, and he was - in his words - a 'sleazy third year' looking for some action! I apparently gave him my number but nothing happened and he became a sort of friend, the type you stop to have a conversation with if you see them but nothing more.
Then two years later, in the summer break between my second and third year, most of the students had all gone home except me as I worked part time in the town where I went to uni. He hadn't gone home either as he had just graduated and had decided to stay to do his PhD. I bumped into him outside Waitrose and he said we should meet up, so a couple of weeks later I went to his house where he cooked a very nice meal, we then went out to the cinema and ended up doing sambuca shots and going clubbing just the two of us 'as friends.' We kissed that night and you can probably guess that soon we were more than friends and officially dating.
Fast forward 6 years later and we have a mortgage together and I'm starting to wonder when he will propose. The house we have bought needs a lot of work and my OH is very practical/systematic and tends to only think about one big project at a time, so I'm thinking it's still going to be a few years for him to pop the question.
Turns out I was wrong! He went to Venice recently with work and so we planned for me to meet him at the weekend, turning it into a mini-holiday. So I flew out after work on the Friday. On the Saturday evening after dinner we were wandering around with a bottle of wine (sounds chavvy I know) looking for a quiet spot to sit and chat/have a drink just the two of us. We came across a jetty out into the grand canal and sat down, glasses of wine poured. He then said 'this is the exact same spot we sat 5 years ago' (our first holiday abroad together was to Venice and we did indeed experience this same scenario with bottle of wine, jetty on the grand canal etc.). I didn't believe it could be the same place as there are lots of similar spots in Venice, but he got a picture up on his phone of us sitting there 5 years previous- it was the exact same place! I later learned that he had spent hours searching for it the day before I arrived and it was all planned. Muggins here though says 'wow, what are the chances of finding the same place we came to before!' And still didn't twig. He then said he had bought me a present. It was my birthday a few days later so I was just about to suggest he save it for then, but then he took a box out of his jacket pocket. It was a ring! I was so shocked and started asking 'are you serious?' And then eventually said yes.
We haven't set a date yet but I am already addicted to this forum and hope that I can both give and receive wedding related advice :-)
