HowHeAsked

"I am a massive book nerd. I’m talking one-book-per-week and I also work at our local library kind of book nerd. So when we booked our trip to Portugal, I was most excited to visit one of the world’s most beautiful book stores, Livraria Lello in Porto. When we got there, I was enamored and was being a huge weirdo – jaw wide open, touching the book shelves, opening all the books, and just relishing in the glorious paper-filled place. Andy was trying hard to rush me upstairs and I was actually getting little annoyed (whoops). He finally got me upstairs and not long after, he said "hey, look at this one". At first, I didn't pay him any attention and kept looking around, then when I finally looked over, I saw he was holding the cutest little book with two illustrated versions of us on the cover with the title, “Reasons Why I Love You”. Andy always does cute little romantic things like this, so I thought he was just doing something sweet since I was so excited to be at the store. I read through the book and it was filled with all of my favourite memories and inside jokes we’ve had together. Everything that we’ve done in the past six years was inside 35 perfectly illustrated pages (done by my best friend who is an amazingly talented illustrator). Finally, I got to the end of the book, and surprisingly it said “Will You Marry Me?” I looked up, in complete shock, and there was Andy, on one knee, waiting for my answer...." photo by @luisefigenio