"I think I knew for years": Andy Lee spills on proposal
In their first photoshoot and interview as an engaged couple, Andy Lee and Rebecca Harding have revealed how the sweet proposal unfolded.
The couple are the cover stars on this week's Stellar magazine and featured as guests on the Something To Talk About podcast.
In the interview, Andy explained that he'd known "for a long time" that he wanted to marry his girlfriend of 10 years.
“I think six, maybe to eight months [beforehand] was when I really started thinking about it. I think I knew for years. Then getting the ring, and hoping Bec liked it – that would have been the most nerve-racking part. And getting her there on time to the actual proposal,” he said.
Andy popped the question in May, and proposed at the couple's home in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn.
He recalled how Rebecca was running late on the day and kept him anxiously waiting for more than an hour before she showed up.
“It doesn’t matter. The important thing is, we went home together,” she told the publication.
While their proposal was nothing glamorous, it had sentimental value, as he handed her a napkin asking for her hand in marriage, a callback to their first meeting when she was working as a waitress at a Melbourne cafe and he wrote his number on a napkin for her.
“It was just happiness,” Rebecca said of the proposal.
“It’s such a nice feeling to know someone has gone and put all of this effort into something, to ask you to spend the rest of your life with them. I mean, we’d been dating for 10 years, so I kind of was like, maybe getting married is not for us. There was enough in our life that I knew he was serious about me.”
She also shared the external pressure she felt over the years for the couple to get engaged, and explained why it took them so long.
“Andy doesn’t like being told what to do. So in my mind, I was like, can everyone please stop pressuring him to propose? Because he’s not going to do it,” she said.
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