for valentines day this year i thought i would steer away from your typical gift guide or date ideas post and share with you my engagement/proposal story!

for those of you who don't know, my now fiance proposed to me just before we embarked on our holiday around New Zealand and a day before our 3 year anniversary.

Where: Sydney, Australia
When: 31st of October 2018

so firstly, i will give you a quick idea of how it all panned out. we were going on a cruise to New Zealand departing from Sydney (see previous blog posts) and had planned two days in Sydney beforehand to celebrate baes birthday and our anniversary. i had pretty much organised the entire holiday and had every detail sorted, until bae asked what we were doing on our first night in Sydney (the 31st). He said he wanted to plan dinner so we could celebrate our anniversary separate from his bday.
basically from here i was like well... that's a little strange considering he hasn't organised anything else so far. i kinda had an idea he would do it on this holiday. so once he said about dinner, i 90% thought that is when he was going to propose.

we flew in Sydney early in the morning on the 31st, checked in our bags at the hotel and then spent the remainder of the day shopping. bae disclosed no details of dinner and just told me i needed to be ready for 7pm and to wear something nice for a fancy restaurant.
as the day progressed, he seemed pretty relaxed and calm so i started to doubt whether he was actually going to do it or if i had made up this magical idea in my mind (haha).

the time came to get ready and everything was still normal (i was internally freaking out whilst trying to get ready but). bae was literally just watching Netflix on his phone so i was like ?? surely not.
anyway, as it got closer to 7pm he said "okay im going to order an uber and head downstairs, i will call you when to come down". so here i am like why can't i know where we are going?

i got down to the uber after his call and he was sitting in the front seat holding his suit jacket - which i automatically knew wasn't normal because he hates sitting in the front of ubers. we drove for 10 minutes and it was dead silent so im trying to make conversation about Sydney as we drive past to distract myself from what might happen.

we pulled up to this park at the bottom of this street overlooking the Sydney Harbour Bridge. at this point i am thinking okay so maybe the uber dropped us off in the wrong place and we have to now walk across this park to some restaurant that has amazing views of the harbour?

as we started to walk across the park which felt like a 5km walk (it was really not even 500m but i had heels on and was freaking the eff out), we saw a lady holding her phone taking a picture of the view. this is when he asks me to put a blindfold on and hold his hand. BASICALLY i lost it from here, i was internally a mess but trying to keep it together on the outside.
(just quickly, i am probably the worst person to be blindfolded ever because 1. i am the most uncoordinated person ever and 2. i like to know everything at all times).


so we get to these stairs and bae is trying to guide me down them whilst wearing heels and a blindfold which was never going to happen! so he had to carry me (which would have looked hilarious), he puts me down and we continue to walk for a bit.

i am told to take one step forward and stand still...
he then asked me to take my blindfold off..
and that is where i saw the love of my life on his knee with my dream ring (in the biggest ring box ever might i add).
it was PERFECT.





he organised the whole proposal through a lady who owns a company called buythecow. i was lucky enough to have a professional photographer capture the moment and take photos for us afterwards that we will literally cherish forever.
after we took a few moments to take it all in and enjoy the setting, we headed to dinner at a family owned Italian restaurant with a view of the Harbour.

basically the whole night was perfect and it still feels like a literal dream. i don't think it really sunk in until we returned home 2 weeks later. i am SO excited to be marrying this man and to start planning out wedding together.

xxx