Sarah and Andrew - Our Engagement Story

Hello and welcome to my new adventure!

My name is Sarah and I have started this blog to take you all on my wedding journey. From getting engaged, the waiting, the planning, the big day and all the bits in between. 

I have already been on a journey through my Instagram account which is fully dedicated to our wedding journey. If you're interested in checking out more frequent wedding ideas, tips and budget finds, please follow the link through to my Insta. 

Now, you're here to find out how exactly Andrew and I got engaged. Let me take you way, way back to February 2012 and I'll set the scene. 
Aged 19, I was in my second year of my degree and Andrew was working full time as a labourer and he had not long turned 21. Life was very busy and we were both working really hard to create a life together. At this point I should mention we were not living together but we had been in a relationship for just over three years. 

Andrew and I in January 2012.

It was coming up to Valentines Day, which happened to be my Mum and Dad's 25th wedding anniversary. They decided they were going to go away for a few days and so I decided to cook for myself and Andrew. I had met up with him on the 13th and he'd given me a very sweet bunch of flowers to celebrate Valentines Day with a single red rose. 

Valentines Day arrives and I am busy cooking us a not-very-swanky dinner (I was 19 and couldn't cook anything!) and Andrew arrives with some gifts. He immediately wants to just exchange gifts so I thought nothing of it and gave him his presents. He gifts me a gorgeous Me to You bear and then come the words..."I don't know how to give you your next present." Now, me being me, I immediately thought 'Oh my goodness, no we can't do THAT here, my dad will go nuts!'. Before the words get out of my mouth he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a jewellery box. Perplexed, I asked him what it was. That was when he opened the box and I was just stunned. Absolutely floored. Safe to say I was definitely surprised by the gesture. He mutters the words "so will you then?" as I hadn't spoken or made any noise in quite a bit of time. (Yes he never 'officially' asked but he has since!) Of course I told him YES and from that moment on, we were ENGAGED!!

Here is a picture of my ring, this was taken after it was resized. Unfortunately, the ring initially was too small - as you can see I have rather chubby fingers. 

Excitedly, I told my parents when they arrived home and of course they were very happy for us and so were the rest of our family and friends once the news was broken. 

We have now been engaged for 6 years and we are now well on our way to becoming Mr and Mrs in November 2019!!

Thank you for reading...keep an eye out for my next post!