The Proposal

Perfect.....

Well, where do I start!! October 2007, I took Paul to Dublin, Ireland for his 30th Birthday. It started well, when we arrived at the hotel at the airport, they has upgraded our room from a double to a suite, fantstic room with a spa bath! The following morning we went to breakfast expecting to have to pay for it to be told that it was complimentary with the suite, "I wonder whats next" I joked, "Good news comes in 3's" little did I know what Paul was thinking! We decided to take the short taxi ride to Malahide and walk along the beach to Portmarnock, where Paul had spent a year while at university. As we walked through Malahide I was looking in the jewellers windows longingly at the beautiful rings on display wondering when it would be my turn to put one on my finger.....
We walked to Portmarnock and he showed me where he used to live and then we walked down to the Golf Club he worked which was on the beach and he said should we go down onto the beach. The weather was beautiful for October...the sun was shining and the sky was blue....."We need to caputre the moment" I said, to which he replied "You need to sit down on that log", there was a log on the sand which looked like it had been washed ashore...."Why?" I said as I sat down....he got down on one knee and replied "Will you marry me?"......I was so blown away by this that I forgot to answer him!!! "Well, will you?" he said after I had hugged him!! He took me completely by surprise...only 24hrs earlier had I been helping my cousin (and my chief bridesmaid) pick out her wedding dress!!! It was a perfect weekend topped off by a perfect shopping trip for the ring when we arrived back home at the end of the weekend....