Ok, so our one month anniversary has been and gone and I still haven’t had the time or energy to write about the big day! This is, in part, due to a bit of hassle we’ve had with our TOG, but I think we’re moving on from that now!
So, my report!
How We Met
Myself and OH actually met around 4 years before we got together and the story of how we MET is a little more romantic to how we actually started going out…
My mum had started taking Modern Jive classes and after returning from Uni she took me to the weekly classes. One week I was changing into my dancing shoes when I spotted a tall man dancing really well and smiling away and I asked mum if she knew who he was. She remembered he’d been before but wasn’t really sure who he was. Needless to say that with a mixture of the classes mixing up the couples and some gentle persuasion introductions were made and we danced. At this point he was single and I found out on our wedding day that he was meant to be working that night, so we might not have even met if he’d not been given the night off.
While we got along really well he, being a little oblivious, decided to go back to his ex and eventually moved down to Cornwall to be with her and I found another relationship. Both of which, clearly, did not work out, so if we jump along another 4 years and cut a long story short - life brought us back together and it was like we’d never stopped talking!
Despite the distance we managed to make it work, spending long nights talking (on Skype, in person and on the phone) and OH spending a lot of his time off traveling to see me, due to his shift patterns. We saw the best and worst of each other in various different ways and learnt that we didn't ever want to be a part. We agreed we should be sensible and so we waited until year later to move in together as he moved out of the forces into “civvy street”. And the rest, as they say, is history!
(This is one of my fave "early days" photos of us together on OH's 'thinking' beach)
The Proposal
Ok, so this part isn’t the most romantic, but it was an incredible day. We went away on our first week away together away to a lodge in the Forest of Dean, away from friends and family. I had booked and researched it all and I was just very excited to relax with my Boy. It was a couple of years in to the relationship and seeing as we’d discussed the idea several times before (and VERY early on) I thought this could be the perfect chance for him to propose.
We left on the Sunday and were coming back on the Friday, so I’d arranged a few things to do, including a nice relaxing chill out day on the Thursday. I had kind of resigned myself to the idea it wasn’t happening by Wednesday afternoon… but on Thursday morning we were just about waking up when he brought me in for a hug and I felt his finger tip writing on my arm “W-I-L”… but he stopped and asked me to look up at him and he said it outloud - “Will you marry me?”
After all the waiting, I didn’t really know what to say or do! We kissed and cuddled a lot and he asked if I wanted to see the ring and I was surprised he’d managed to keep that a secret, too! He got up and brought it over:
Silver coloured, small, simple. Just what I’d always imagined. I put it on and he got more hugs until he realised I hadn’t ACTUALLY given an answer yet! I cheekily told him to ask again, at which point he got his “Yes!” 
He later told me he’d asked dad for his permission the night before (which made me really proud) and he’d had the ring for several months, just hidden on the top of his PC! I spent the rest of the morning calling family to tell them (parents, siblings, grandparents) before I put it on Facebook. The rest of the day was lovely. We had our massages and went in the hot tub, then we went out for a meal in a pub we’d driven past a few times nearby to celebrate and promised to do a proper dinner once we get back with our immediate family so that they can meet up at least once before we tied the knot!
It's taken me long enough to get this written up, so I will do the planning and day asap! Sorry all, but I'll leave a couple of my favourite photos below:
