To infinity Gary and Jack’s RuPaul’s Drag Race-themed day was full of fun and colour Images courtesy of David Ferguson AND BEYOND Gary and Jack met online and soon became best friends. “We realised we lived two roads apart, so we spent many nights dancing around each other’s flats, just the two of us,” says Gary. “I wasn’t ready to commit for a long time though, so we didn’t become official boyfriends for two years. Jack waited that whole time,” he adds. They became official on holiday in Greece a couple of years later. “We were in a bar, and I went into the bathroom at midnight on 01.08.17 and added him as my boyfriend on Facebook. I came out and showed him and told him I’d waited for this date so our anniversary could be 01.08, because 8 is the infinity symbol and I wanted this to be forever,” Gary recalls. The duo visited Jack’s family in Devon over Christmas 2020, when Gary asked Jack’s stepdad and mum for permission to propose. “We then went to stay with my family in Barnsley and on Christmas Eve I gave him a card that said Fiance on the front,” says Gary. “I made him read the inside verse out loud and the last line said Will you marry me? As he said that, I was down on one knee giving him the engagement ring and I said yes! So, I always tell everyone Jack officially proposed to me!” he says. “We always loved each other from the beginning and the relationship grew from a friendship which was the perfect foundation for us to get married seven years later.” Here, Gary tells us more about their day… 31 REAL WEDDINGS
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