SAME SAME WEDDINGS MAGAZINE LAUNCH EDITION 2018

The second night I put on a wedding dress… was the night I proposed. We own a wedding and events business called ‘My Little Peony’ with a vintage caravan bar, so I thought what better way to show our suppor t for the LGBTQI+ community than to put a team together (#teampeony) and march in the Sydney Mardi Gras parade. It would be a great promotional oppor tunity for the business… and little did anyone else know… a great cover stor y for my planned proposal.

So after months of preparing and planning, the night of Mardi Gras 2016 finally came around. I myself had never marched in a parade (Robbie was an old hand at it) and we now had 40+ of our closest family and friends marching behind our rainbow-styled caravan bar to promote our ‘Cheers to Love’ float… and I had an engagement ring in my pocket!

I hadn’t told anyone I was planning to propose… although in my mind it had been present from the moment Robbie and I met - I knew I would ask eventually. I had hired Love Stories by Kate Photography to capture some shots of our team and the caravan bar on the night. When she arrived, I let her in on the proposal secret.

There was one other special friend who I told on the night, Robbie’s pseudo Mum, Jackie (Robbie’s mum has unfor tunately passed so wasn’t there with us). Jackie has been a great suppor t to Robbie over many years, someone she’s ver y close with and someone she calls her mum. So to me it seemed only fitting that she would hold the engagement ring until I was ready to ask the question.