{"id":678,"date":"2009-06-26T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/blog\/?p=678"},"modified":"2009-06-26T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T09:00:30","slug":"real-life-proposal-story-he-popped-the-question-on-the-doorstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/real-life-proposal-story-he-popped-the-question-on-the-doorstep\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Life Proposal Story: He popped the question on the doorstep!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Couples Names: <\/strong> Liam Quinn &amp; Dorothy Barrett<br \/>\n<strong>Proposal Date:<\/strong> January 1984 with official Engagement on Valentine&#8217;s Day<br \/>\n<strong>Wedding Date: <\/strong>6th July 1985<br \/>\n<strong>Wedding Location: <\/strong>Cathedral, Ballina, Co. Mayo with reception in Bartra House Hotel<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/06\/goodnight_kiss.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-690\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/06\/goodnight_kiss.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a cold night at the end of January, Liam ever the gentleman; walked me home from the dance we had been to and right there on the doorstep of my mothers house, he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him!\u00a0 Back then people often went away to get engaged, so a few weeks later we went to Dublin to buy the ring and make it official.<\/p>\n<p>It was Valentines Day and we went to a jewellers on Henry Street where we picked out the ring.\u00a0 We then walked to Stephens Green and sitting down on a bench he put the ring on my finger and we were engaged!<\/p>\n<p>We had about a year and a half engagement and then the wedding was in July the following year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Couples Names: Liam Quinn &amp; Dorothy Barrett Proposal Date: January 1984 with official Engagement on Valentine&#8217;s Day Wedding Date: 6th July 1985 Wedding Location: Cathedral, Ballina, Co. Mayo with reception in Bartra House Hotel On a cold night at the end of January, Liam ever the gentleman; walked me home from the dance we had been to and right there on the doorstep of my mothers house, he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him!\u00a0 Back [&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-678","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\/678","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=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}