It started with a proposal...

In September 2007 my Gambian boyfriend took me to The Spice Corner in Leeds Millennium Square for a buffet lunch. I personally love great food and enjoyed every second in that lovely Indian restaurant! We ate fruit dipped in the chocolate fountain for dessert which inevitably left a puddle of chocolate mess on our plates. My husband began using a cocktail stick to create swirls and shapes in the liquid chocolate. It took me a while to realise he wasn’t just making random shapes but he was actually writing in the chocolate, and from where I was sat, it said BUM!

A little confused I looked on trying to figure out what he was doing, when eventually he turned his plate around to face me. It read:

B will
U
Marry ‘me’
(indicated by an arrow)

The biggest smile spread across my face and I simply took a cocktail stick and wrote:

I wud love 2!

My gorgeous guy then bent on 1 knee beside the table, produced a little box from his pocket and asked me to be his wife. My thoughts and feelings were all over the place – giddy excitement, over-the-moon-ness, total embarrassment that we had an audience… I said “Of course I’d love to – now sit back in your seat quick!”.

That was it – ring on finger and destined to marry my dream man!

As we are both religious – he being Muslim and me being Mormon – marriage was very important to us and we saw no reason to have a long engagement. We began our plans immediately!