#WeddingWednesday Blog : The Leap Year Proposal

After reading our popular post "Will You Pop The Question This Leap Year", one of our readers got in touch to tell us that she'd done just that! Paula is going to share her wedding story with us in regular blog updates and here is the first instalment.

The Proposal

Leap day, because they had to make a special day every four years for those women who desperately pined for their man to get down on one knee.

Picture the scene: I'm sitting in my slippers as I'm off work for the day and I'm binge-watching House on Netflix with a cup of coffee in one hand and Facebook on my mobile phone in the other. A thought comes to me: wouldn't it be hilarious if I was to propose to my partner of twenty years on his public wall on Facebook? I mean, HILARIOUS! He was in work, so unlikely to see it until lunchtime. Meanwhile, all our mutual friends would be posed to comment, eagerly awaiting his reply.

I Googled the image that fits best - two wedding rings laid on a dictionary definition of marriage - and posted it to his timeline, along with a simple question

"Well? #leapday"

Facebook was all a-buzz... the likes clicked away and I waited for a reaction. No-one commented. No-one knew whether to take it seriously. It was a very tense hour-and-a-half later when I finally got my answer. HE SAID YES! Two minutes later a private message pings, "Are you serious???" It seems even HE didn't believe me. And all day the messages and comments continued in this vein. Congratulations tumbled in with the recurring joke being "shotgun wedding".

We have been engaged before, many years ago. In fact, I still have a ring knocking about somewhere; a ring that I'm sure has been thrown back in someone's face for one reason or another. But weddings are never a priority when you have children, a mortgage and so many more tangible things of the two of you together. Now with the lads living away at Uni and both of us working, it's the right time.