{"id":622,"date":"2009-06-05T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/blog\/?p=622"},"modified":"2009-06-05T08:00:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T07:00:59","slug":"real-life-proposal-story-its-gonna-be-a-killer-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/real-life-proposal-story-its-gonna-be-a-killer-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Life Proposal Story: It&#8217;s gonna be a Killer Wedding!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/05\/killer_whale.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-630\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/05\/killer_whale.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Couples Names: <\/strong>Marie &amp; Greg<br \/>\n<strong>Proposal Date:<\/strong> November 2008<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My story is a little embarrassing and will probably make me look completely stupid but here\u2019s how my fianc\u00e9e Greg proposed to me&#8230;.<br \/>\nWe were calling to my parents\u2019 house for dinner one night in November, and it was a miserable night, wind blowing a gale and rain pouring from the heavens.\u00a0 On the way down I was complaining about Greg\u2019s driving, as per usual (I\u2019m a terrible passenger, God love him), and whinging about being tired from work, hungry etc. and just generally being a bit of a pain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Greg told me that he had heard on the radio that day that there were killer whales seen in Cobh and they were hanging about by a beach near my house (as they do!).\u00a0 He said he wanted to stop to see if we could catch a glimpse of them.\u00a0 Bear in mind it was pitch black, in the middle of winter, with torrential rain so you couldn\u2019t even see two feet in front of you, but I am so stupid I actually believed it, and said \u201c Yeah sure, why not\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>When we arrived, we could hardly see the windscreen in the dark, let alone the killer whales halfway out to sea.\u00a0 I was really in nagging mode then and was in mid moan, \u201cIt\u2019s pitch black, how are we supposed to see them from here\u201d, when he took out a ring box and asked me to marry him.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t believe it.\u00a0 I was so embarrassed, I was so busy complaining the whole way down in the car that I hadn\u2019t even realised what he had been planning.\u00a0 I was delighted, couldn\u2019t believe he had kept that from me for so long!\u00a0 Brilliant surprise!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Couples Names: Marie &amp; Greg Proposal Date: November 2008 My story is a little embarrassing and will probably make me look completely stupid but here\u2019s how my fianc\u00e9e Greg proposed to me&#8230;. We were calling to my parents\u2019 house for dinner one night in November, and it was a miserable night, wind blowing a gale and rain pouring from the heavens.\u00a0 On the way down I was complaining about Greg\u2019s driving, as per usual (I\u2019m a terrible passenger, God love [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[440,601],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brides","tag-just-for-fun","tag-real-life-proposals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}