Our story began for me in mid 2007, I had met this beautiful young girl a couple of times but never really got to know her.

Then came my opportunity, it was July Holiday athletics training, both of us being keen athletes (by both of us I mean Danielle) we obviously attended and on one of the first days I plucked the courage up to start speaking to Danielle. A month of break time lunches and mxit/Facebook conversations followed and finally I managed to ask Danielle out on a date and on this day I asked Danielle to be my girlfriend(for the first time).

Little did I know that over the next 10 years there would be a break up, a backslide, about 2000 hours of late night phone calls, an 18th in Stellies, an international phone call, 6 months of silence on a couple of occasions, two 21sts parties, a couple stern but honest conversations, a relocation and some hockey and in the end far to much chemistry to keep us apart. All of this led to me being on one knee at sunset in Cape Town asking my best friend if she would like to spend the rest of her life with me.

And if you still haven’t figured it out yet, she said YESSSSSS……

Barry's side of the story