Your Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Wedding- Page number 25 - October/November 2021 (Issue 29)

A lun and Ben met online. “We started chatting on a Saturday afternoon and decided to meet for a drink the day after. We wondered why there were so many couples out, both forgetting that it was Valentine’s Day!” they tell us. “The first thing that attracted me to Ben was that on our first date, I paid him a compliment and he accepted it,” Alun says. “I enjoyed how talkative and confident Alun was, he made the conversation seem effortless,” adds Ben. The couple became engaged during a weekend away in the Lake District. “I knew that I was going to propose somewhere in the area,” Alun tells us. “Early on the Saturday morning, I suggested that we go for a walk near one of the lakes hoping that I would find the right spot to get down on one knee. I found the perfect place overlooking the lake and popped the question. Ben seemed a bit shocked and responded by reaching into his jacket and revealing a ring box because he had also planned to propose on the same weekend! I beat him to it by about 20 minutes because he was going to ask me to marry him on the old REAL WEDDINGS 25