Candace & Adam
“We first met at a Brisbane nightclub – I walked up the stairs and there
he was. It was the strangest feeling. We exchanged glances all evening
and eventually he signalled me over to him. I scoffed, trying to be all
Miss Independent, and signalled him over to me instead. Next thing as I
twirled around, I turned right into his chest. “Hi, I’m Adam” he said.
We began speaking every day, but both had some issues from previous
relationships to deal with and thought it best to stop. I deleted his
number and continued with life. Four months later I received a message
from someone asking if I was at a music festival. I asked who it was –
“It’s Adam.” I told him at our first meeting that I was attending and
although I couldn’t make it due to work, we started speaking again.
As fate would have it, I moved into a place around the corner from his
best friend, and the next week he asked me out for ice cream. My mother
actually said when I told her, “Well, that must be it then.” My love for ice
cream is well known in my family and coincidentally so is Adam’s.
We made our relationship official the day before my 21st birthday.
Six years later, we were at home one evening and I was making
béarnaise sauce for a steak dinner. Whisking furiously at the stove top,
Adam and I were talking about plans for the year ahead. He made the
comment, “I’m going to do it, this is the year for doing things”, to which
I responded, “Yeah right, like what, marry me?”
The next thing our daughter Farrah said to me, “Mummy, what’s Daddy
doing? Look at Daddy!” I turned around and there was Adam on one
knee. He said to me the most beautiful words and of course I accepted.
Now, it may not be the most romantic proposal, but Adam is simple and
sincere. In his words he felt that there was no better place to do it in
than in the home we had created, with our daughter present. Family and
friends actually found the proposal amusing as Adam is a cabinet maker
by trade, so it was funny that ‘kitchen boy’ proposed in the kitchen. It
was such a special moment for us.”