This is lovely.
Many lads are a bag of nerves before they propose, leading them to seem a little out of sorts.
But spare a thought for Australian man Terry Dougherty, who had to keep a straight face for over a year before he got down on one knee.
He gave his partner Anna a handmade necklace crafted from Huon pine, a wood native to Tasmania, Australia, for the couple’s one year anniversary in 2015.
“She absolutely loved it” he told Good Housekeeping UK. “She wore it every day and everywhere we went, and pretty much never took it off.”
Little did Anna know that the necklace contained an engagement ring – Terry had sealed it inside when he made it.
She wore the necklace for a year and a half, completely unaware of what she was really wearing.
Terry finally popped the question while the pair were on holidays in Smoo Cave in Scotland in November 2016.
“I picked Smoo Cave because it was a place we had talked about visiting since we first met, and ‘smoo’ comes from an old Norse word for ‘hiding place,’ so I think I get extra points for that one,” he said.
Thankfully, Anna said yes and Terry captured the whole thing on camera for us to enjoy.
