So last week, I asked my girlfriend of three years to marry me. Quite a big deal, I had spent ages agonising about how to do it. In the end, I just decided to ask her in the space we had lived together as a couple for the very first time.
It turns out, this was controversial to most people who ask me.
Lots of people were a tad underwhelmed with how i did it; "Where was the huge romantic gesture?" "Where was the champagne?" "WHERE ON EARTH WAS THE RING?!"
Truth is, I thought it was romantic, and actually,big grand romantic gestures just doesn't suit me. It's not my style. Romance isn't about giving flowers once a month. I think it's more about making sure when she comes home, i have a cup of coffee ready for her with a little packet of haribo being presented by her favourite teddy bear. Not massive, but a little gesture. That happens all the time.
Which means, my proposal was also that, quite understated but romantic in our own way.
Oh, and we did get a ring. The weekend afterwards....