Fourteen years,
two bedsheets.
We met at a toga party, wearing essentially bedsheets with ambitions. Not long after, aged seventeen & eighteen, we went for our wonderfully awkward first date over a cola at the Pavilion in Trinity. We were broke, recovering from Freshers Week, and somehow still managed to convince each other to stick around.
We became best friends almost immediately, moved in together a short 6-ish years
later, somehow becoming proper adults along the way.
Then, after a very sensible thirteen year trial period, Simon dropped the question
at Adare Manor — sealed with a Haribo ring as an IOU. The Haribo lasted 20 minutes,
the engagement has held up much better.
14 years later, we're still taking our time and it's worked out pretty well so far! :)