We’re sorry to burst your bubble, but our story is a really short one - and her name is "Toniloba Opasanya" - Friend to Folabi and Family Friend to Gboremi.
She thought we’d make a good match, so she reached out to each of us to ask if we’d be willing to give it a shot and well... here we are!
It was the most beautiful private proposal ever! I suspected (but wasn’t sure) that he would at dinner - which is where we were headed. But he wanted to "quickly" drop off a gift for Pastor Folusho’s mum.
I was waiting in the car for him to drop the gift off, so we could continue heading to dinner. Then he calls and says “Oh. Pastor Folusho is in and wants to meet you. Just turn off the engine and come upstairs. Someone is coming to get you.” I replied telling him that he shouldn’t have mentioned that I was in the car if he really wanted to be “quick” or he should have just let me go up with him in the first place (as I had suggested).
I turned off the car and in a few minutes someone met with me and ushered me into the flat... and that’s how I walked into my proposal. It was really beautiful and I honestly couldn’t see anyone else at that moment in time. I didn’t even realize it was his friend (Samuel) taking the pictures until he mentioned it in his lovely speech.
To be honest, I don’t remember a lot of what he said - mostly because he kept making jokes in between. The one thing I remember him saying though was that if I would have him, he’d do his absolute best to make me the happiest woman (for the next “50 plus” years). And after just a little bit of shakara (and taking in every bit of his bending the knee lol), I said a very happy yes!