The night that Heath proposed was just an ordinary Sunday night on the couch, watching movies. It was August 15th , 2011, (I don't think that I would remember the date, its only that it was my girlfriend Lauren's birthday and all my girlfriends were celebrating in Bali. I was so upset that I wasn't there, but in the end I obviously wasn't meant to go :)) and Heath and I had been together for roughly 8 and a half years.
It was no secret that I had wanted to marry Heath. Every cat and its mother knew I wanted to be this mans wife, and honestly I was getting very impatient. Haha.
As I was saying we were sitting on the couch having a Doona Party, (A Doona Party is something that Heath and I used to do before Fynn came along. We would sit in our underwear and drag all the doonas in the house into the Lounge room and watch movies.) we had hired the movies Valentines Day and the Bounty Hunter. The movies were finished and I was sooooo tired. Heath called me over to him and I layed on his lap while he cradled me in his arms. I was so close to falling asleep when Heath looked down at me and said "matey, will you marry me?" I couldn't believe it. I burst into tears and couldn't say anything but yes from my tear soaked lips.
The sweetest thing that I remember is how much Heath was trembling. I later found out that he had purchased a ring for me in February of that year and asked my dad's permission in the April! It was a simple white gold wedding band. It was perfect. My absolute favourite piece of jewelery that I possess, by far. We later had an engagement ring made at Heaths request, but honestly as beautiful as my engagement ring is, that little ring was all I needed.
It was 9pm and we both kind of stood there looking at each other thinking what do we do now. Amazingly my mum and dad were having dinner at Heaths parents house. We called and had my mum put us on loud speaker and announced our engagement to all 4 parents at the same time. Perfection!
We started calling the rest of our friends and family. I got through to as many people as possible except the 5 girls in Bali. I called them at least 10 times......... Finally Kellie called me back. She had found out from her boyfriend Chicken and immediately called me back. She is so gorgeous, she waited until she was with all of the other girls and to hear them all scream together was sooo exciting. My girlfriend Kylie was also hilarious. Her daughter Scarlett was 7 months old and had just gone to sleep and when I rang to tell her she did the cutest little silent scream. haha. Its funny the things you remember when you think back.
So after a long night we went home jumped into bed and I hardly slept a wink. I had wedding on the brain. It was lucky that I started mentally planning straight away because we had decided that we wanted to get married in February. That's right, I had 6 months to plan my wedding!
Arghhhhhhhh.
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| Central Park, New York 2009 |
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| The most recent photo of the 2 of us xx |
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One of the earliest pictures I have of Heath and I on my laptop, I think we were 22 years old. Age 24 |
