January 2008 Luke and me took a nice sunny break in Tenerife, we needed to get away from the January blues and spend some quality time together. I was just about to start my job at Search Media and seemed the perfect time to go away. Luke’s sister Emma got us a good deal on the flights and we used my parents Timeshare.

The flight was in the mddle of the night and we set of from Chorlton to Manchester airport at stupid o clock. The flight was about 4 hours and we watched stardust which got us in the mood for a god holiday and feeling a little loved up.

We had a good week and we had been looking round jewelry stores to find a replacement ring for a ring one of my exes had given me years ago. We tried a lot of rings on and I fell in love with a diamond ring that was a bit out of our budget. It had 7 diamonds arranged with the biggest in the middle then moving down in size either side. 7 is a lucky number for us as our first date was on the 7th July 2007 (07/07/07) and Luke decided to buy the ring for me. During this time we had been texting our parents who were excited thinking it was an engagement ring.

After hearing the disapointment in our parents voices that we weren’t getting engaged I thought well why not? Both me and Luke had that level of comitment we did had a chat and decided to get engaged so the ring that was meant for my middle finger went on the engagement ring finger (and still needs re sized).

We joke that it wasn’t a very romantic engagement but really it was. We ordered a bottle of Champagne with the last of our euros as it was our last night and celebrated.

If you have any engagement stories you’d like to share and help blokes with how to ask that questions please get in touch.