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Operation Purple dinosaur

is go go go

Permission granted for operation, it is now D-Day -1

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  • honeypop
    honeypop Posts: 1,502 Forumite
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    OMG what happened??!?

    I remember your other thread, but lost track...

    EDIT: It's ok, tracked down another thread where you share the good news...phew!!

    Did you manage to get away without her getting suspicious that you were going to do the deed?
  • It went great... I managed optimum surprise.. I programmed the sat nav in the morning and set it to cambridge, without telling her. I said i was taking her away overnight but wouldn't tell her where, just told her to follow Mr Tomtom.

    I'm pretty sure from our arrival in Cambridge onwards she was suspicious. I was nervous all day and she can read me like a book. Apparently she was going to tell me at one point "I'll marry you! relax!" but thought that would be mean. She still cried for 1/2 an hour after I eventually asked her :)

    I only asked her dad the night before - she really wanted to make sure the rest of her friends and family would be surprised and I certainly achieved that.

    We're now happy to be engaged but a bit upset that our nice relaxed lives have been turned into a wedding planning hell!
  • Fishcake_Random
    Fishcake_Random Posts: 1,159 Forumite
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    Congratulations
    Happily married mama of 5
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