An Essex Wedding - May/June 2024 (Issue 116)

Laura and met when we were just two years old at playschool. The friends then went on to infant, junior and senior school together. Back in the days that after school you logged into MSN Messenger, the two pals would sit and type to each other. Laura tells us more, “We’d chat for hours on end until one evening, 18th December 2008, Elliott built up the courage to ask me out one final time and to his surprise I said yes - (well, I typed yes!). He considers himself a hero for doing the impossible and making it out of the friendzone! From that day on we’ve been the best of friends, soul mates and each other’s biggest supporters.” On 18th December 2021 (their 13-year anniversary), Elliott proposed. Laura remembers, “It was a surprise in the sense that I had no idea how he’d propose to me but after 13 years, I can’t deny that I was really hoping this would finally be the day! The ring was so perfect and had 13 diamonds in it for the 13 years we’d been together.” 36

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