There are many milestones we pass on our journey through life. Birth, first steps, first day at school, first job, first car, engagement, marriage, children, retirement et al. Some are fixed whilst some come sooner for some than others and some do not come at all. I've recently hit one of the big milestones in life perhaps a tad later than most of my peers and I'd like to share it with you all. The milestone I recently reached and celebrated was becoming engaged to my lovely then boyfriend now finance M/ I am an old fashioned romantic at heart and certainly believe in marriage especially since my parents have been married 40 years this year. I must admit I have ...  Read the complete review

I am currently fascinated with everyone's obsession with getting engaged and thought I would share some of my stories with you. Names have been changed to preserve the identities of the innocent... As my 20's have now passed me by, I have settled down with a lovely guy and I must admit we are living in sin (oops). Anyway, having been engaged before with it all going horribly wrong, I am probably more hesitant than I was before to jump in...oh who am I kidding, I would love to get engaged to my current partner. But it's not something I obsess about and I have found that all of a sudden, all my girlfriends around me are now engaged, following a lengthy period of ...  Read the complete review

Just found this category through someone elses review and couldn't resist telling my happy story :) Bit of background....... I met my fiance when I was 16 and he was 27, everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) said I was far too young, such an age gap would never work etc etc...but we knew from day one it was something special, yes I was young but I was not naive or stupid! We booked our first holiday together within 2 months of getting together (Feb 2003) and the holiday was for Lanzarote, somewhere neither of us had been before for 2 weeks in July. Sadly 3 weeks before we were due to jet off my beloved uncle lost his long fight with cancer, ...  Read the complete review

My husband proposed to me on my 21st birthday. We had been together for 3 years and knew we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together. We were renting a little 2 bed flat and the proposal took place there. When I left to go to work on the morning of my birthday there was a present in the car, when I opened the boot of my car to get my jacket out there was another present and this went on the whole day. When I got home there was dinner made (which hardly ever happened) and more presents. I was 21 that day and had had 20 little but meaningful presents by that point. We then sat down to watch Coronation Street as I used to be hooked on it. After it finished I ...  Read the complete review

I have been engaged since August of this year. It was an odd sort of a proposal, inkeeping with the general tone of our relationship I suppose. It was a couple of days before my birthday and Boyfriend (I'd rather stick with descriptions rather than names in my reviews) and I were in our living room watching the X Factor as was usual for a Saturday night. In the ad break he said he wanted to show me a magic trick he had been practising - he hs been doing magic for years and is really rather good at it so this was quite a normal thing for him to do - and got out three metal cups and three small balls (standard kit for a cups and balls trick). He then did the usual ...  Read the complete review