Speaker 1: Hey guys, So I am officially Missus Staples. I am
Speaker 1: married and we are currently on our way back to Australia.
Speaker 1: So before you get the wedding full recap of the
Speaker 1: welcome dinner, the wedding, the recovery and the honeymoon, I
Speaker 1: thought we could take it back to our very special
Speaker 1: engagement episode. Where's Your Head Out is a podcast that
Speaker 1: talks all things relationships, breakups, reality TV, trending shows, and
Speaker 1: everything in between.
Speaker 2: This is your new go to destination for laughs, gossip,
Speaker 2: intimate details, advice and much more. Congratulations Anna again, I'm
Speaker 2: so happy for.
Speaker 3: You, guys.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, can you believe I'm e gays?
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 2: Like when we started this podcast, like we were just
Speaker 2: too single.
Speaker 5: Out on the town, single, ready to mingle.
Speaker 2: Now you have a ring on your finger, weighing that
Speaker 2: hand down, don't it's blinding me?
Speaker 3: The light shine of it in the light is blinding me. Wow, Like,
Speaker 3: can you believe it?
Speaker 5: I actually can't.
Speaker 4: Like I was actually genuinely shocked, and I didn't think
Speaker 4: that I would be able to be shocked.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought I would always know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you didn't have any inkling nothing.
Speaker 1: I think in the final hour just before the proposal.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot that happened, which I'm going
Speaker 1: to go into all of the details for everyone, but yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a few things that happened where I was like, hmm, maybe,
Speaker 1: and then I was like, no way, Like Michael's not
Speaker 1: going to fly to Bali. That's way over the top,
Speaker 1: Like it's a bit far fetched. Calm down, Anna.
Speaker 3: I think it was a.
Speaker 2: Bit of a bit of an alarm bells when he'd
Speaker 2: gone excommunicator what is it? Ex communicado for nine hours
Speaker 2: he couldn't get a hold of him. Did you think
Speaker 2: that was a little bit suspicious?
Speaker 5: He was, He was Mia.
Speaker 4: Here and there, but he had at which was semi believable.
Speaker 2: I'll be the charge of that. We'll wait to hear.
Speaker 2: But let's set the scene. So you're in Bali with
Speaker 2: your girls.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, as I mentioned on earlier podcasts, I was having
Speaker 1: a girl's trip. All of my friends this year turned thirty,
Speaker 1: so we were like fuck it, we're going away, and
Speaker 1: it was really hard to get everyone together. So we
Speaker 1: were kind of like, this is probably going to be
Speaker 1: like maybe our final girls trip, like maybe the next
Speaker 1: one we'll have our boyfriends or fiance's there whatever. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we were like really making the most of it. We
Speaker 1: were super excited. We even on the day that I
Speaker 1: actually got proposed to, which was the day before we
Speaker 1: were due to leave, we actually had a big event
Speaker 1: that day, so we all decided to get tattoos.
Speaker 3: Yes, so what tattoos did you get?
Speaker 2: So initially speaking about this though for a while or so,
Speaker 2: how did you come to the conclusion though?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was really hard for us to pick
Speaker 1: a tattoo that we all wanted, but we ended up
Speaker 1: going with her. So we've been friends for like since
Speaker 1: school so forever. It's been a really tight knit friendship
Speaker 1: group with such like a hype group, like we hype
Speaker 1: each other up.
Speaker 5: We love each other.
Speaker 1: We've been friends for so long, and we were like,
Speaker 1: fuck it, we want to get a tattoo to commemorate
Speaker 1: like not only our friendship, but this trip where it
Speaker 1: was the first trip we're thirty now where we've been
Speaker 1: able to make it happen altogether.
Speaker 5: So we decided to get.
Speaker 1: Her h e R just as like a you know,
Speaker 1: girls empowerment. We kind of got it for her kind
Speaker 1: of vibe, strong women like we just you know, it's
Speaker 1: there's lots of different meetings behind it, but we were
Speaker 1: like we all agreed on that one. That was one
Speaker 1: of the only ones we agreed on, so we were like,
Speaker 1: fuck it, let's just do it. So we locked it
Speaker 1: in and it was funny because we obviously knew from
Speaker 1: day one of the.
Speaker 5: Trip that we were going to all get tattoos.
Speaker 1: And on day one I was like, I kind of
Speaker 1: want to get an m from Michael on that day,
Speaker 1: and they were like, yeah, fuck it, just do it.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, throughout the week because I'd
Speaker 1: had too long to think about it, I was like,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll get a heart for him, like.
Speaker 5: It, you just have to do it.
Speaker 4: I was like, I was kind of like thinking about it,
Speaker 4: and then I had too long to think about it,
Speaker 4: and then I was like, oh, it's a bit needy
Speaker 4: of me to just get a tattoo, like I.
Speaker 5: Want him to get a tattoo of me too.
Speaker 1: And then on that day, which is the day that
Speaker 1: Michael actually proposed, after I'd got my hurt tattoo on
Speaker 1: my ribs, I was like, fuck it, Like I love Michael,
Speaker 1: like I feel like.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say him forever with him.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get a little heart on my wrist so
Speaker 4: wildly on the day that Michael proposed, I got a
Speaker 4: heart tattoo for him that same day.
Speaker 3: Trip do you reckon that was fatal or that.
Speaker 1: Was just that's just like the universe like colliding together
Speaker 1: to be like this is the correct like thing, this
Speaker 1: is a right moment, Like I don't know, that's crazy
Speaker 1: to me to.
Speaker 2: Think about it. His commitment was pretty big as well
Speaker 2: to you on that day. It was even bigger than
Speaker 2: a chatter who a you reckon?
Speaker 3: Was more I mean they're both very up there.
Speaker 5: So yeah, so like that was my day.
Speaker 1: And Michael, so his story or his alleged story, was
Speaker 1: basically that he was doing this charity walk from Men's
Speaker 1: Mental Health and he was turning his phone off and
Speaker 1: he was going up to the Dandenong Rangers, which is
Speaker 1: about an hour and a half outside of Melbourne I think,
Speaker 1: and he was going.
Speaker 5: To walk from there to.
Speaker 1: The city, which I was like, that's a bit of
Speaker 1: a random story.
Speaker 5: But I was also like, you know what, so I've.
Speaker 3: Got the plot holes here. Why would you turn your
Speaker 3: photo off?
Speaker 1: Because it's about well, this is what he said, because
Speaker 1: it's about men's mental health, so they all want to
Speaker 1: talk about their feelings.
Speaker 5: That's what I said. And then he came back with.
Speaker 2: That, and I was like, okay, okay, he's covered. Check
Speaker 2: he's walking to the city house. He getting back to
Speaker 2: his car.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: I didn't even be so many flat holes in this.
Speaker 5: That's so smart.
Speaker 4: I didn't even think about that. Ask I didn't think
Speaker 4: about it too much. I could have really quizzed him
Speaker 4: about that.
Speaker 3: I had. His face is covered. He sounds like he
Speaker 3: did okay.
Speaker 4: But funny thing was, so he's doing this walk and
Speaker 4: meanwhile I'm getting tattoos with the girl.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, massive life event for me. He's flying
Speaker 1: to Bali to propose to be massive life event for him.
Speaker 1: So after I showed him her tattoo, I messaged him
Speaker 1: and I was like, babe, I just got a tattoo
Speaker 1: for you, and he did a reply and I was like,
Speaker 1: the audacity this guy.
Speaker 3: He was on the flight, so he wouldn't have seen it.
Speaker 1: He was on the flight, but then he obviously landed
Speaker 1: in Bali. He had a really early morning flight. But
Speaker 1: he kept just saying, oh, I just got to like
Speaker 1: a toilet. I just quickly turned my phone onto message you,
Speaker 1: but then it's it said that it had delivered the
Speaker 1: message of like, babe, I just.
Speaker 4: Got a tattoo for you. No response. I was like,
Speaker 4: was this a really bad idea?
Speaker 5: Like fuck?
Speaker 1: And he didn't respond to it the whole day, to
Speaker 1: the point where I was getting like a mile annoyed.
Speaker 1: I was like, was this a mistake?
Speaker 2: So did you like have when that was having did
Speaker 2: you have any inkling, like any suspicion that he would
Speaker 2: have been there coming.
Speaker 5: Like obviously I'm the FBI.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the answer is no, I didn't have any inkling,
Speaker 1: but me being the FBI, I was kind of like,
Speaker 1: could he be? And then I was like, two, it's
Speaker 1: a stretch, like no way, And I was like plus
Speaker 1: ione a girl's trip, Like I doubt he's gonna come over.
Speaker 1: But it ended up being the best surprise proposal ever.
Speaker 1: Like I was shocked. I was blown away. It was incredible.
Speaker 3: Did any of the other girls know?
Speaker 1: One other girl knew so, Amber, our producer of this podcast,
Speaker 1: actually knew so. Michael had messaged her and she's known
Speaker 1: for six weeks really, and I was.
Speaker 5: Like, as if I had like I she she is
Speaker 5: like she has a.
Speaker 1: Poker face, like how do you keep a secret? For
Speaker 1: she is very good at keeping a secret, which I'm
Speaker 1: mildly concerned, but like she was amazing, Like she gave
Speaker 1: no clues away.
Speaker 5: So her and Michael were in cohoots the whole time.
Speaker 3: Did you bring anything up with her then, like, hey,
Speaker 3: Michael was gone, m I.
Speaker 4: A yeah, and she was just kind of like blowing
Speaker 4: it off like it's all good, da da da whatever
Speaker 4: she is.
Speaker 2: That's like, I don't know if I could take keep
Speaker 2: a secret like he didn't tell me, I probably would
Speaker 2: have opened my mouth and said something.
Speaker 4: I'm sure he knew not to tell you at all.
Speaker 2: So did the timing of this obviously thirteen months into
Speaker 2: a relationship, do you reckon this was the perfect timing?
Speaker 2: What made it the perfect timing?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just feel like we're more in love than ever,
Speaker 1: and I do feel like it was the right time.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just feel like when you know, you know, and
Speaker 1: I feel like we both knew that we knew, if
Speaker 1: that makes sense. So it kind of just felt like,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, fuck it, Like let's like, what are
Speaker 1: we waiting for if we know, like, let's let's be engaged,
Speaker 1: let's get married.
Speaker 3: The ring is obviously amazing and beautiful.
Speaker 5: It is amazing.
Speaker 3: Weighing your hand down. Did he get the right one?
Speaker 3: Had he dropped any hints to him or like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how did he get the right one?
Speaker 1: I had actually sent him a classic photo that's extremely
Speaker 1: similar to this, so he and like this ring that
Speaker 1: I now have on my finger forever, which is wild
Speaker 1: in itself, is even better. Like he exceeded all of
Speaker 1: my expectations and some with the ring. It's absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 1: I feel so lucky that I get to wear it.
Speaker 1: It's so sparkly, like look at that, it just sparkles
Speaker 1: and glistens in the light. But honestly, when he proposed,
Speaker 1: like the ring was like the last thing I thought of,
Speaker 1: Like I thought, like in my head, I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: when he finally proposes to me, like it's like it's
Speaker 1: a strong yes from me, I already know it. I'm
Speaker 1: going to be focused on the ring. But in the moment,
Speaker 1: I was so overwhelmed.
Speaker 4: With like love and shock and just like some like
Speaker 4: a little bit of disbelief, being like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: this is the moment this is happening, Like I've waited
Speaker 4: so like if what feels like for so long for
Speaker 4: this moment.
Speaker 5: To happen in my life? Thirty youth and yeah.
Speaker 1: I just like I didn't really like look at the
Speaker 1: ring until like I don't know, I was hugging him
Speaker 1: and I kind of like looked over his shoulder just
Speaker 1: to double check, and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's massive.
Speaker 2: I just watched the video before you sat me down
Speaker 2: and you showed me the video of the engagement, and
Speaker 2: that was literally the one thing I said. I was like,
Speaker 2: you haven't even put the ring on for like your yeah,
Speaker 2: baking out and you didn't even bother with the ring.
Speaker 5: And I forgot to say, yes, did you really?
Speaker 1: I just like hugged him and just like we had
Speaker 1: a bit of like a makeout because I was just
Speaker 1: like so overwhelmed, but like I don't know, like I
Speaker 1: wasn't expecting to get proposed to, so it was just
Speaker 1: like the last thing that I thought of. I was
Speaker 1: just like, I just like I knew that he knew
Speaker 1: it was a yes, so just didn't even cross my mind.
Speaker 1: And then halfway through He's like, so was that a yes,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, did you did.
Speaker 2: You have hot mats sex to consummate the relationship after this?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: How many times?
Speaker 5: And then we went and met like the girls out after.
Speaker 3: I can see Michael over there nodding and smiling at me, me.
Speaker 2: The thumbs up. So how did you tell your parents then?
Speaker 2: Obviously this massive news? Did you tell them straight away?
Speaker 2: Who'd you tell first?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So basically Michael proposed and then we called my parents
Speaker 1: his parents.
Speaker 2: Did he ask your dad for permission? I'm going to
Speaker 2: ask him when he comes on?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so cute, Okay, cool.
Speaker 3: We'll get him to explain that. So they already knew
Speaker 3: it was going to happen.
Speaker 1: They knew. Yeah, Like I think it was like the
Speaker 1: day before our live show, Michael called my dad and
Speaker 1: was like, Hey, I'm looking at getting a ring, but
Speaker 1: I'll let him explain that when he comes on.
Speaker 3: I thought he was going to do it at the
Speaker 3: live show. Did you feeling that? I thought? For some reason?
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, what made you think that?
Speaker 2: I don't know, just something made me think that just
Speaker 2: a big grand gesture. Well he just he outdid that,
Speaker 2: But yeah, I thought for some reason he'd do it there.
Speaker 3: I had my suspicions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it really was like my dream proposal.
Speaker 4: Like everything was just like a number one.
Speaker 1: I was surprised, which is just like wild that I
Speaker 1: was even surprised.
Speaker 5: It was just amazing.
Speaker 1: The fact that like after like we had a moment
Speaker 1: that my friends were like there and I was to
Speaker 1: like share the moment with us was so like precious
Speaker 1: and beautiful to me. It was also like cool because
Speaker 1: like we'd all just got her tattoo. I got a
Speaker 1: tattoo from Michael, and then it kind of like all
Speaker 1: came together.
Speaker 5: It was just beautiful.
Speaker 2: The timing was fucking perfect, and like I said, it
Speaker 2: got you surprised. I was literally fucking gobsmacked. I had
Speaker 2: no idea when I'll set the scene. So if anyone
Speaker 2: doesn't realize, behind the scenes of this podcast, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of admin that goes in and at times Adda
Speaker 2: and myself very what's the word bickering with each Yeah,
Speaker 2: heated with each other.
Speaker 5: So don't like each other.
Speaker 3: I don't like each other. So we were on a
Speaker 3: non chatting terms for little we.
Speaker 1: Go through these we go through like I reckon, like
Speaker 1: every six months.
Speaker 5: We don't talk for about a week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so not everything was lined up before Anna went
Speaker 2: to Balley, so there was a bit of words exchanged.
Speaker 2: So I hadn't spoken to it for a bit, just
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit of business chat.
Speaker 5: I hadn't spoken to you for a bit. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of massages of me trying to
Speaker 2: try and get the thing, the business going. So then
Speaker 2: we dropped the episode that morning. So we dropped last
Speaker 2: week's episode. It was my job to go over it.
Speaker 2: We all know that I'm not the most fine tooth
Speaker 2: combit going over it. So I listened to it. I
Speaker 2: was cooking dinner, I was doing what I was doing
Speaker 2: while it was on the shower while it was playing.
Speaker 2: I approved it. I said drop it. But then I
Speaker 2: got a message from Anna saying I'm facetiming you in
Speaker 2: five minutes. Be ready exclamation mark exclamation mark. And I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, fuck me, what did I leave in
Speaker 2: that episode?
Speaker 3: I was like, this is not good.
Speaker 2: So I was in the car driving and I was like,
Speaker 2: I went past the Macas and I was like, you
Speaker 2: know what, I'm going to go through the I'm going
Speaker 2: to go through the Macas drive through.
Speaker 3: So I have a buffer. So if this goes to.
Speaker 5: Like sneaking fus, so this goes to like.
Speaker 3: You know, like heated, I've got a buffer.
Speaker 2: So I'm driving in and she and I starts facetiming me,
Speaker 2: and I answer it and like, yeah, well we had the.
Speaker 1: Ring held up and your face was the most shocks face.
Speaker 1: We're going to put it on our Facebook page for everyone,
Speaker 1: so make sure you follow and join that. Matt's reaction
Speaker 1: was just like fuck off.
Speaker 2: And I was like, I'm getting out the drive through
Speaker 2: literally slapped it in reverse reversed.
Speaker 3: And I was, yeah, I was. I was actually speechless.
Speaker 2: I didn't even I didn't even think I digested what
Speaker 2: had happened in that face time. Like I remember, I
Speaker 2: was driving a little bit later and I messaged you
Speaker 2: and I actually was like wow, like it actually sunk
Speaker 2: him when it happened. Yeah, I thought it was just like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's one of those things where you don't
Speaker 2: really believe it, do Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's just like disbelief. I think I'm still in disbelief.
Speaker 1: Look at my hands and I'm like, holy shit.
Speaker 3: What is that you just have you taken it off yet? No? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I didn't even't think so.
Speaker 5: Well, the girls tried it on. But other than that,
Speaker 5: I mean, you capsulate your friends.
Speaker 3: Try sleeping in it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not going to take it off never, never, never, ever,
Speaker 4: never ever ever.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: Well, should we get Michael on to ask him his
Speaker 2: version of the story and see what he says, because
Speaker 2: I want to grill him about this sixty kilometer walk
Speaker 2: how he managed.
Speaker 3: To pull that off.
Speaker 5: I'd love that. Let's do it. Hello, Fium say welcome.
Speaker 2: It still sounds a bit weird, Matt, Welcome back to
Speaker 2: our podcast.
Speaker 3: Third time, third time on the podcast.
Speaker 5: You know you've been on our podcast more than anyone.
Speaker 2: Well, let's start from the start. So when did you
Speaker 2: want to propose? Anna, Like, when did you make that decision?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: So I think there's like stages of wanting to propose.
Speaker 6: I think there's like a moment in time when you
Speaker 6: start like fantasizing about like what.
Speaker 3: A propose would be, Like was at the moment you
Speaker 3: laid eyes on it?
Speaker 6: And that's a beautiful cliche and I like that, and
Speaker 6: we'll go with that. But I think I think there
Speaker 6: was a pinnacle moment I can think of when I
Speaker 6: was like, Wow, this would be like the perfect moment
Speaker 6: to propose, and it was we've just done two weeks
Speaker 6: of quarantine when Anna got COVID in Thailand, the COVID
Speaker 6: Holiday from Hell. So we've done two weeks in quarantine
Speaker 6: and it was the first night of freedom, and we'll
Speaker 6: stay at this beautiful hotel that had a beautiful private
Speaker 6: beach and we're walking on the beach to dinner as
Speaker 6: the sun was setting and she was like listening and
Speaker 6: she looked like she looked back at me, and in
Speaker 6: that moment, I was like, I would love to fucking
Speaker 6: propose to this girl right now. So that was like
Speaker 6: the beginning. That was the beginnings of the journey. But then,
Speaker 6: of course, like then the actual like planning and putting things.
Speaker 3: Into process hadn't started at that point.
Speaker 2: Did you think about doing it in Greece because obviously
Speaker 2: Anna was a bit frustrating, a bit annoyed that you
Speaker 2: didn't do it.
Speaker 3: I'm going to call myself out.
Speaker 6: I think when I've had when I've had a couple
Speaker 6: of drinks and I'm feeling a bit loved up and
Speaker 6: like we're having a bit of a moment, I've definitely
Speaker 6: said things. I've definitely said things I haven't said, Like,
Speaker 6: you know, I've probably at times said all the things
Speaker 6: that would make a girl think that a proposal could become.
Speaker 5: Maybe like I want to marry you.
Speaker 3: I'm going to propose, you know. I'm like, I'm there.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm like loved up, toxic. That's a thing.
Speaker 6: I'm like. I'm I'm like a fuck boy in a
Speaker 6: loving relationship where I've like had I'll come home from
Speaker 6: like drinks.
Speaker 3: With the boys, and I love you.
Speaker 6: I want to spend the rest of my life with
Speaker 6: you. You're amazing.
Speaker 3: I want to call you wifey, all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I definitely gave Anna ask that it was
Speaker 2: coming sooner than she had.
Speaker 6: Every reason I believe that I was going to propose
Speaker 6: in Greece because I thought I was going to propose
Speaker 6: in Greece.
Speaker 1: So see what I mean, I'm like, I'm very good
Speaker 1: at picking up signals.
Speaker 5: I was like, must be so off right now.
Speaker 3: Ring.
Speaker 6: That was the thing that I didn't have to propose
Speaker 6: in Greece. If I had a ring, I would have
Speaker 6: proposed in Greece. So I kind of started thinking about
Speaker 6: three months before.
Speaker 3: The Greece trip.
Speaker 6: We were on a Ballei trip about three months before,
Speaker 6: and I was thinking at that point, I'm like, when
Speaker 6: we get home, i'm gonna stuck get I'm going to
Speaker 6: get a ring, I'm going to propose in Greece. We're
Speaker 6: gonna have this amazing wedding in Greece. And then near
Speaker 6: the end of the trip, I'm going to propose. But
Speaker 6: then I got back the idea of like getting the
Speaker 6: ring and planning things was all a bit overwhelming, and
Speaker 6: we were super busy with a whole bunch of things
Speaker 6: and it just never quite happened. And then it got
Speaker 6: too close.
Speaker 2: To the to the day and it just didn't happen.
Speaker 2: So then when you got back from Greece, is that
Speaker 2: when you started planning. As soon as I got back
Speaker 2: from Greece, I was like, okay, okay, I fucked up
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 4: The podcast episode came out, I thought I was getting proposed.
Speaker 6: Sitting there like outside of that obviously a story that
Speaker 6: goes when she thought I was I was never going
Speaker 6: to propose in Santorini though, like just because I thought
Speaker 6: it was too obvious. So that wasn't like what she
Speaker 6: had in her head wasn't going to be it. But
Speaker 6: it was probably gonna be after. It wasn't more the
Speaker 6: fact that she was the story that we've heard, but
Speaker 6: it was for me. I was like, I was so
Speaker 6: ready and I wish I could have in Greece and
Speaker 6: I'm like, I don't want to be ready again. I'm like,
Speaker 6: I'm ready for this to happen. I'm going to start
Speaker 6: putting the wheels in motion.
Speaker 2: So you obviously wanted it to be somewhere overseas, not
Speaker 2: just somewhere in my head.
Speaker 3: It was like it was somewhere like on a holiday,
Speaker 3: somewhere special. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, having that moment. Yeah, So how much planning
Speaker 2: goes into a ring like that? Like, I mean, I
Speaker 2: haven't even thought about it.
Speaker 5: It's like asking for a friend.
Speaker 3: I'm never even like. I was pretty lucky. I was
Speaker 3: pretty lucky because literally, like.
Speaker 6: Almost the start of our relationship was like by the
Speaker 6: way my ring says, is.
Speaker 1: K because I tried on my friend Serrah's and she
Speaker 1: was like she's a case.
Speaker 5: I was like, oh cool, at least I know I'm okay.
Speaker 1: And then I was like I can remember, you know,
Speaker 1: because this is how I remembered kay. Because I was like,
Speaker 1: if someone proposes to me, I'll be like, okay, like okay,
Speaker 1: so that's how I remember it.
Speaker 5: Okay, get it.
Speaker 3: You see why I write it in your notes.
Speaker 2: So since the moment you guys have been together, she'd
Speaker 2: just been sending your rings.
Speaker 3: No, not not all the time.
Speaker 6: I think there was a few moments she like sent
Speaker 6: me a ring or like she'd have it like a
Speaker 6: Pinterest board, and like her Pinterest was just like rings
Speaker 6: and wedding dresses.
Speaker 3: I saw it.
Speaker 1: There's more this tattoos, there's nails, and I was okay, cool,
Speaker 1: I get an idea.
Speaker 2: I saw Gen's Explore the other day and it was
Speaker 2: just rings and wedding dresses, and I was.
Speaker 6: Like, it's like jeez.
Speaker 2: But then Jens also, did she ever do this gender
Speaker 2: this to me? Where they go? Here's four options? Which
Speaker 2: one would I want?
Speaker 5: I love that? I love doing that? What is it?
Speaker 3: The ring quiz? Qu I got it right? Actually funny.
Speaker 3: I was pretty good at the ring.
Speaker 5: Quiz as well, but I forgot the ring quiz. I'd
Speaker 5: be like, Okay, out of these six, which how would
Speaker 5: you pick? Can you always picked them?
Speaker 4: One?
Speaker 3: Close? Friday night? What should we do tonight?
Speaker 6: I'm just going to settle in and like watch this
Speaker 6: game of basketball and then all of a sudden, quiz
Speaker 6: the ring quiz.
Speaker 3: I reckon a lot of having one of those. Yeah,
Speaker 3: a lot of better going through the ring quiz. Okay,
Speaker 3: so the rings planned, Like how'd you go through that? Obviously?
Speaker 3: How did you get to that ring?
Speaker 6: Well, the shortened version of the story was I had
Speaker 6: a general inspo pick. I went in with the inspo
Speaker 6: pick and then kind of built it out from there,
Speaker 6: got a bit of help from.
Speaker 3: The who I went to the ring for any friends?
Speaker 3: And then that is when.
Speaker 6: Amber came into the process as well. So I asked
Speaker 6: Amber about like, here's the design that I've got at.
Speaker 5: The moment, Producer Amber.
Speaker 6: This is producer Amber. Here's the design that I've got
Speaker 6: at the moment.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 6: And I was like this one or this one. And
Speaker 6: it was mainly around the thickness of the band. So
Speaker 6: I was trying to get an idea of the thickness
Speaker 6: of the band and what looked better that sort of stuff,
Speaker 6: just the final details.
Speaker 2: Okay, So then when did you decide BALI, I'm crashing
Speaker 2: and as Girl's trip, I'm taking the Girl's Trip and
Speaker 2: I'm hijacking in it, and it's engaged.
Speaker 6: So at this point, I'm like, Okay, I had a
Speaker 6: rough idea of when I was going to have the ring,
Speaker 6: and I was like, Okay, now, how.
Speaker 3: Am I going to do this?
Speaker 6: Because in my head, I'm like I want it to
Speaker 6: be a surprise. And I knew that, Like if I
Speaker 6: was just like, oh, honey, like I've planned like a holiday,
Speaker 6: we're going to here for the weekends, or we're going
Speaker 6: back to Thailand for four days, I would be that's
Speaker 6: that exact same hotel. Like we had that beautiful moment,
Speaker 6: like she was going to be suspicious, and I was like,
Speaker 6: I want this to be a surprise. So as soon
Speaker 6: as they she said I'm doing a girl's trip and
Speaker 6: I was.
Speaker 5: Like all right, He's like, I'm fucking coming.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna I'm gonna fly to Bali. This is going
Speaker 6: to be the ultimate surprise. It's going to be the
Speaker 6: last day of the girl's trip and I'm going to
Speaker 6: swoop in undetected and surprise.
Speaker 2: Where do you start? Yeah, that's I can't wrap my
Speaker 2: head around, like where do you start? Like how do
Speaker 2: you get this going?
Speaker 6: So then what it came down to, while I was like, Okay, religious,
Speaker 6: I don't know if I'm going to have the ring
Speaker 6: in time.
Speaker 3: So I was like, I'm not.
Speaker 6: Going to plan this amazing proposal and then potentially not
Speaker 6: have the ring to fly over there with.
Speaker 3: So I had the.
Speaker 6: Idea in my head that I'm like, I think I'm
Speaker 6: going to do this, But then, like just like I did,
Speaker 6: like with every single assignment I ever had at school,
Speaker 6: I procrastinated.
Speaker 3: It's a bitter end.
Speaker 6: And my excuse for the procrastination was I don't know
Speaker 6: if I'm gonna have the ring yet. And I didn't
Speaker 6: know that I was going to have the ring until
Speaker 6: literally six days before the year.
Speaker 3: I say, they didn't give you any sort of timeline.
Speaker 6: No, they said, we're pretty sure you'll have it. You're
Speaker 6: going to have it. I think you'll have it, Like
Speaker 6: they were pretty confident, but I was like, I want
Speaker 6: to know. I want to know the day I'm going
Speaker 6: to have it. And then on the Wednesday before the proposal,
Speaker 6: so six days before, they were like, you'll have the
Speaker 6: ring on Friday. So then at that point that's when
Speaker 6: I started planning it.
Speaker 2: Okay, so is this the perfect time to get Amber
Speaker 2: our producer involved let's bring it.
Speaker 5: She's in the room, Let's bring it.
Speaker 2: Orchestrated this with you, Let's do it.
Speaker 5: Hello Amber, Hello, Hello, Welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 3: Amber from out of the Shadows. You come to the stream.
Speaker 2: She is, So you played a valuable instrumental part to
Speaker 2: this plan. Do you want to share us to us
Speaker 2: how you went?
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 4: So Michael reached out to me to show me pictures
Speaker 4: of this ring, and from there I was like, it's
Speaker 4: an absolute yes for me. We talked clarity, we talked cut,
Speaker 4: We discussed at lengths of like what looked like.
Speaker 5: If you're looking for a ring, go to air.
Speaker 4: She's done well, Michael. Michael and I toyed with the
Speaker 4: idea of Bali, but it didn't really come to truition
Speaker 4: because we just didn't have, as Michael said, an end
Speaker 4: date of when that ring.
Speaker 5: Would be ready.
Speaker 4: However, I was always knowing that was going to happen.
Speaker 4: I had this good feeling it was going to come
Speaker 4: point and I had to go into Balley, had to
Speaker 4: turn my notifications off my phone. You didn't notice that,
Speaker 4: but I had not notifications the whole trip because I
Speaker 4: was scared that his name was going to pop up
Speaker 4: and you thought we were having an affair.
Speaker 6: So I would just I would just send the wave
Speaker 6: emoji and then that would be like cue for like
Speaker 6: when Amber saw that, I'm ready to chat, let's talk
Speaker 6: about what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: I just have something back in the room. I need
Speaker 4: to go get my son's screen.
Speaker 3: Fully had like a code.
Speaker 1: Emma had an inside man in my friendship group because
Speaker 1: obviously he needed to like collaborate.
Speaker 3: Someone in the crown.
Speaker 4: He needed someone as well that would probably not give
Speaker 4: up the secret, like I'm very good, didn ask anything,
Speaker 4: or every day something got brought up about Michael and
Speaker 4: proposals and rings very pushy.
Speaker 3: All right, so you've got the ring, It's Wednesday.
Speaker 2: What what happens here? You book your flight or do
Speaker 2: you book the villa? Do you organize the amazing petal display?
Speaker 3: The videographer? What happened?
Speaker 6: So the first thing I was like, I need to do.
Speaker 6: The first thing like I definitely need to do is
Speaker 6: get to Barli. So the first thing I did was
Speaker 6: book the fly. I was like, if I'm there, there'll
Speaker 6: be a proposal. I don't know how it's going to happen,
Speaker 6: but at least I'm there. So The first thing I
Speaker 6: did was book the flight for the last day of
Speaker 6: the girls strip. Yeah, so that was that was the Tuesday.
Speaker 6: Then from there I was like, I looked at it
Speaker 6: because I needed it to be close enough to where
Speaker 6: the girls were staying, because I was like, I don't
Speaker 6: know how we're going to get Anna to this villa,
Speaker 6: but it needs to at least be close at a minimum.
Speaker 6: So I looked at pretty much every single villa that
Speaker 6: was like within a kilometer radius of where they were staying.
Speaker 6: And then eventually I just made the decision and booked
Speaker 6: it and said, Okay, it's going.
Speaker 3: To happen here.
Speaker 2: And then what you call them and say hey can
Speaker 2: you put the.
Speaker 3: Then organize the flower.
Speaker 6: That was like probably a few days before I was
Speaker 6: like doing the fine tuning of things. Yeah.
Speaker 3: That was beautiful.
Speaker 1: That was a really nice It was so beautiful and
Speaker 1: like my favorite as well, and just like the big
Speaker 1: love heart in the middle.
Speaker 5: I had just got a love heart tattoo for Michael.
Speaker 5: It was just so cute.
Speaker 3: How did you know the favorite colors? Just knew and
Speaker 3: I think I just got lucky.
Speaker 6: I don't admit that I'm not going to sit here
Speaker 6: and as well, they were nice colors.
Speaker 2: They did well, they did okay, So how did you
Speaker 2: sucker Anna into going to that villa?
Speaker 3: How was that orchestrated? Yeah? So do you want to
Speaker 3: want to talk through the ultimate?
Speaker 4: Prior to leaving Melbourne, I had messaged our group chat saying, everyone,
Speaker 4: bring the most amazing dress you have, bring a pair
Speaker 4: of heels. We're going to dress up for the most
Speaker 4: Amazing girls dinner on the last night to celebrate thirty
Speaker 4: years and celebrate our friendship for over eighteen years. And
Speaker 4: I did that because I needed Anna to have an
Speaker 4: outfit for the proposal. It was I didn't really care
Speaker 4: about the dinner, to be honest, but I was like,
Speaker 4: I need this out to be immaculate. So I showed
Speaker 4: the girls what I was bringing. I was trying to
Speaker 4: encourage them or to bring heels, and they were all like,
Speaker 4: why would we bring heels to Bali? And I was like,
Speaker 4: bring heels? Why not have fun dress up? And so
Speaker 4: that was kind of how I had phrased the last night,
Speaker 4: so I knew I could get a dressed up and
Speaker 4: for everyone to save their best outfits. I even got
Speaker 4: them to try them on for me so I could
Speaker 4: kind of get everyone to look similar enough that Anna
Speaker 4: would get really dressed up. And then I was on
Speaker 4: the On the day before Michael arrived, I looked up
Speaker 4: his flight planned to see what time he would be
Speaker 4: landing in Bali, just so I could have a rough
Speaker 4: idea of when we would have communication again, because I
Speaker 4: was going to lose him as well to his elaborate
Speaker 4: sixty kilometer walk.
Speaker 3: Talk about that as well.
Speaker 4: Actually, why don't we skip to that now?
Speaker 6: Yeah, So, firstly, I did not say it was a
Speaker 6: walk from the Dandy Engs to the city.
Speaker 3: No, So I just said I just said it was.
Speaker 5: I'm sure you said that.
Speaker 3: I didn't say it was.
Speaker 6: I didn't say it was a walk from the Dannings
Speaker 6: the city because I was just it was just a
Speaker 6: walk in the Danning Ongus.
Speaker 3: So I don't know why walk First.
Speaker 6: And foremost, I do feel truly bad that I've lied
Speaker 6: about charity walk, and perhaps I'll try to organize the
Speaker 6: charity walk because I think.
Speaker 5: He's actually really sad about it.
Speaker 6: I generally feel bad about that. I'm like, it's a
Speaker 6: pretty it's a it's a brutal life. So I will
Speaker 6: do a charity walk, Okay, I will do a charity.
Speaker 3: Work at some point. I'll hold you to that.
Speaker 6: But I knew without it because I had to be offline.
Speaker 6: I wanted to be offline all day because I knew
Speaker 6: that after work should be wanting to facetimeing or call me,
Speaker 6: and I wasn't taking a call from like some random
Speaker 6: toilet at the airport or something, or like in the
Speaker 6: two hour taxi ra.
Speaker 3: Like traffic.
Speaker 6: So I'm like, I need to find a way to
Speaker 6: be offline all day. So for me, it was a
Speaker 6: sixty k walk.
Speaker 3: Did you turn your phone on off or on aeroplane
Speaker 3: mode while.
Speaker 6: You So the whole thing was that it was going
Speaker 6: to be was like it was switch off in nature
Speaker 6: and talk. So my phone was meant to be off
Speaker 6: the whole time. But then after the six hour flight,
Speaker 6: I'm like, what I'm going to do is I'm going
Speaker 6: to turn my phone back on.
Speaker 3: I'm going to say I'm breaking the rules.
Speaker 6: Here, but I'm sneaking a few text messages to Earth
Speaker 6: yeah day, but I'm not meant to be messaging. So
Speaker 6: my phone's like hidden or I'm doing it while I'm
Speaker 6: like in the toilet or hidden away from other people
Speaker 6: that are doing the walk okay, yeah, going to say,
Speaker 6: because what are you going to do when you're in Bali?
Speaker 3: You need to get hoop, isn't that?
Speaker 4: So then Michael lands in Bali, but he's running late,
Speaker 4: so that our schedules a little bit out of whack.
Speaker 5: I would say, you were.
Speaker 4: Stressed out, and so I started to panic.
Speaker 5: I hadn't slept the night before.
Speaker 1: I got up at three in the morning and I
Speaker 1: paced the entire villa thinking is this going to go
Speaker 1: to plan?
Speaker 4: Like have I forgotten anything? And then we went and
Speaker 4: got our tattoo. So it was a big distraction for
Speaker 4: the whole day. I said to the girls, I was
Speaker 4: anxious about the tattoo.
Speaker 6: I was.
Speaker 5: I was like, slap it on.
Speaker 4: I don't actually, I was actually freaking.
Speaker 1: Out the whole day. So everyone was like I'm so
Speaker 1: stressed out. I'm so stressed out. And then I was
Speaker 1: like about, what are you okay?
Speaker 5: She was like, it's just a tattoo. It's a tattoo.
Speaker 1: She was like totally fine about the tattoo, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I thought she was going to like
Speaker 1: take a bit more like convincing the nurse, which is cool.
Speaker 2: So many red flats straight over.
Speaker 4: And then so then when we finished our tattoos, like
Speaker 4: the universe was perfect, and I was like, I'm want
Speaker 4: to go get a massage with Laura and I was like,
Speaker 4: that's sounds amazing. And then the other two girls came
Speaker 4: with me back to the villa because we wanted some
Speaker 4: just like downtime after the tattoos. And at that point
Speaker 4: in the uber back, I messaged Michael and I was like,
Speaker 4: I need to tell them because I need I need
Speaker 4: actually help on the inside as well, because at this
Speaker 4: point it's getting late in the.
Speaker 5: Day, you're a bit stressed.
Speaker 4: You're telling me things I'm going to plan to grow,
Speaker 4: to grow the crew.
Speaker 6: At this point, I'm in the taxi from the airport,
Speaker 6: which took two hours because the traffic was that bad.
Speaker 5: When it normally takes like thirty to forty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thereabout I think, yeah, it took twice as long
Speaker 3: as it would have been sweating well, I wanted to
Speaker 3: get to the villa.
Speaker 6: I didn't even know what it was going to be
Speaker 6: like when I arrived, Like I needed to suss out
Speaker 6: like what it was, what it was going to be
Speaker 6: like when I got there, how far away.
Speaker 3: It was all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: So so then I got about two thirty and then
Speaker 4: michaels like, you have permission to tell the girls, but
Speaker 4: they have to remain calm. So then I summoned the
Speaker 4: two girls and like I was like, right, you two
Speaker 4: need to come into this villa right now. And then
Speaker 4: I shut the door and I sat them on the
Speaker 4: bed and I was like, Okay, just remain calm. I
Speaker 4: about to tell you it's very serious, but I just
Speaker 4: need you to remain calm.
Speaker 3: And I thought, she's so seth.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 4: They thought that I was dying the way I said.
Speaker 4: I was like, I've been anxious all day and it's
Speaker 4: not because of the tattoo, but it's because Michael is
Speaker 4: going to be arriving in Bali in twenty five minutes
Speaker 4: at a villa and he's going to propose to anatime.
Speaker 5: She said it like that. Like they just started screaming.
Speaker 4: And I was like this, that's not what I wanted
Speaker 4: to happen. Day after we all just cried and screamed
Speaker 4: for like five minutes. I was like, okay, so now
Speaker 4: need game plan. I was like, I need to go
Speaker 4: see this villa because I don't even know what I'm
Speaker 4: walking into, and I have responsibility to film some of
Speaker 4: this proposal, so I actually need to go and see it.
Speaker 4: And so I was like, I need when the girls
Speaker 4: get back from their massage that you get them ready
Speaker 4: straight away.
Speaker 5: And I had already.
Speaker 4: Preface the morning. I will start getting ready at three thirty.
Speaker 4: That gives them an hour and a half for plenty
Speaker 4: of time, you'd say some long night hold on this one.
Speaker 4: And so I was like, oh, we'll see it start
Speaker 4: getting ready at three thirty. I remember Anna scoffed at
Speaker 4: me in the morning and I was like, you're going
Speaker 4: to need it, hunt trust me.
Speaker 5: Like I was like, I was like, that's a bit
Speaker 5: far fetched.
Speaker 4: Thirty and then I said, I'm going to run to
Speaker 4: the villa now see Michael prep with him, and then
Speaker 4: I'm going to run back and then hopefully the girls
Speaker 4: of self started getting ready. So I quickly washed my
Speaker 4: hair and then I literally started walking out onto the
Speaker 4: street because I didn't want to get an uber or anything.
Speaker 4: I was like, I was just quickly walked there. Michael's like,
Speaker 4: it's only five hundred meters down the road, but it
Speaker 4: actually wasn't. It was a fifteen minute run. So I
Speaker 4: ran with my fresh tattoo, running in Bali heats find
Speaker 4: this villa, and then I finally found it. Michael was
Speaker 4: in the reception, and that was the problem was you
Speaker 4: told me there was a reception, which was both not
Speaker 4: in our vision, so.
Speaker 6: I didn't know there was going to be a reception.
Speaker 6: I thought it was. I could tell that it was
Speaker 6: like a group of villas, but I thought they were
Speaker 6: all going to be accessible from the street, not going
Speaker 6: through a reception.
Speaker 3: Which is which is a part of the issues.
Speaker 2: So you have to call an audible here and change
Speaker 2: the plan of how to get Anna into that villa because.
Speaker 5: A brainstorm on the spot.
Speaker 3: So how are you suckering Anna into this random and
Speaker 3: it just said she's going to push past reception with it.
Speaker 4: I said to the lady who's at reception. I was like,
Speaker 4: I'm going to be in a blue dress. This girl
Speaker 4: can be in a black dress. Just let us walk through,
Speaker 4: don't stop us, just let us go.
Speaker 3: And she was cool with that.
Speaker 4: Well, we had something completely different when we got there
Speaker 4: all the time, but I still played it.
Speaker 5: So I was like, I'm just going through.
Speaker 3: So how did you get Anna to come to that villa.
Speaker 4: So while I came down to see like how the
Speaker 4: villa was like separate from like the reception and how
Speaker 4: I'd have to go down there, Michael and me were like,
Speaker 4: we have to come up with an elaborate line now,
Speaker 4: like another lie on all the I has already told
Speaker 4: this whole trip. So I was like, and then as
Speaker 4: I'm running back in this heat for another fifteen minutes,
Speaker 4: I'm texting Anna and the group saying, oh my god,
Speaker 4: A lady just messaged me on Facebook saying that I
Speaker 4: left my ID at the barb we were at last night.
Speaker 4: I'm the counter and she just is down the villa
Speaker 4: down the street, so we'll pick it up on the
Speaker 4: way to dinner at five o'clock. And I was like,
Speaker 4: I can't believe this. I never lose anything, which is true,
Speaker 4: Which is true. I was like, I don't lose stuff.
Speaker 4: And then phone was on, like I remember my phone.
Speaker 4: This is what was stressing me out. I had to
Speaker 4: film the proposal and my phone is currently on two
Speaker 4: percent because I've been on it the whole day stressing.
Speaker 4: And when I got back to the villa, I plugged
Speaker 4: it straight in and I was hoping that Anna was
Speaker 4: going to ask to see this messae because it didn't exist.
Speaker 4: I hadn't even got to that far head to fabricate
Speaker 4: or get one of my work friends to send me
Speaker 4: message or anything.
Speaker 5: I just left her.
Speaker 4: I was like, hopefully she wasn't asked to see the phone.
Speaker 4: And as I got back into the villa, I see
Speaker 4: Anna sitting on the bed, absolutely not ready at all.
Speaker 4: Her hair was wet, she had no makeup on.
Speaker 5: She's still gorgeous.
Speaker 4: But I was like, this is not the proposal.
Speaker 5: Anna, I was our vision.
Speaker 1: I was yeah, I was literally I was literally lying
Speaker 1: on the bed nay here, with wet hairs. I'd just
Speaker 1: like gotten out of the shower and I was like
Speaker 1: making a reel for all of us getting a tattooed.
Speaker 5: I was like, it's so cute.
Speaker 4: Look it our real because I come in sweating with
Speaker 4: wet hair, sweating, and I'm like, this is not She's like.
Speaker 5: What are you doing? Get ready?
Speaker 4: And I was like, oh, oh, yeah, we get we're
Speaker 4: getting ready for three thirty.
Speaker 3: What time is this now?
Speaker 5: It's for twenty Yeah, of.
Speaker 4: Course, so I've got forty minutes and I'm like, so
Speaker 4: I then go straight to the bathroom. I am is
Speaker 4: sucketting myself ready as well, because I'm like a sweaty mess.
Speaker 4: And as I pull out my my blow wave brush
Speaker 4: and it starts blow waving hair brush, I'm like, oh, perfect,
Speaker 4: we can both blow wave our hairs at the same time,
Speaker 4: and like I'll help he get ready, and then all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, everything goes out, is completely out.
Speaker 6: So so at this point, I'm like in the villa,
Speaker 6: it's set up like we've only probably got about like
Speaker 6: half an hour of daylight left. I'm in the backyard
Speaker 6: in position.
Speaker 3: Inner shirt. It's like thirty degrees.
Speaker 6: I'm like driven with sweat and I keep like taking
Speaker 6: my shirt off to like air myself out. I'm like,
Speaker 6: I'm on standby, I'm waiting, okay, And then I get
Speaker 6: videographer standing there.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: He's like he's like sweating, like like so he was
Speaker 6: on the other side of this rice field like at
Speaker 6: a gym. At this point, he's got a collection of
Speaker 6: people with him and they're all standing there on stand
Speaker 6: by like is this going to happen? But they're about
Speaker 6: one hundred meters away, and then you get stood up.
Speaker 6: So he goes he messages me and goes Michael like like,
Speaker 6: I can't stay on standby because I'm running out of film.
Speaker 6: Like he's like, I've only got so much film. I'm
Speaker 6: running out of film. And he goes and we're running
Speaker 6: out of light. And then I get a message from
Speaker 6: Ambert powers out, the powers out at the villa, and
Speaker 6: Anna's not ready, and I'm like, all right, we're gonna
Speaker 6: have to consider a plan bet here at this point, Okay,
Speaker 6: so how you helen?
Speaker 4: So then, because this is why I was glad that
Speaker 4: I told two other girls, because at this point I
Speaker 4: just stood frozen.
Speaker 5: I was like, fuck, what do I do? Like I
Speaker 5: don't know what to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I could hear the girls outside because we were all
Speaker 4: in different villas. A mean Anna shared a little room
Speaker 4: and then our friends Maddie was by herself, and then
Speaker 4: I had Sarah and Laura in the other room, and
Speaker 4: I could hear out outside all this commotion because everyone's
Speaker 4: power had gone out, so everyone's hair straighteners and air
Speaker 4: conditions had gone out.
Speaker 5: All sweating now, and.
Speaker 4: I could hear Maydie be like, let me call my boyfriend.
Speaker 4: He's an electrician, and I was like, amazing.
Speaker 3: So what is she gonna? What she's gonna start hard
Speaker 3: wiring because.
Speaker 1: Obviously there's a power box and we have no idea
Speaker 1: what to do with it. So we thought that we
Speaker 1: could flick the switch and reboot the power.
Speaker 6: That shocking matter like connecting with a great deal of
Speaker 6: confidence that we both know how to get the power back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you do that safety switch. So it was just
Speaker 3: a safety switch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I had no idea where it was what
Speaker 4: to do. I was like, had one hundred and one things
Speaker 4: going through my mind. So the fact that the girls
Speaker 4: could take care of that. All of a sudden, the
Speaker 4: power came back on. The air cognitioners came back on.
Speaker 4: I was like, we're going to still be late, but
Speaker 4: we're coming. So then I remember we all kind of
Speaker 4: were ready, and Anna was the last one to be ready.
Speaker 4: And at this point, I know I'm losing daylight as
Speaker 4: well as the same as Michael. I was sweating because
Speaker 4: I was outside at the perfect time of when we
Speaker 4: were supposed to be there and the lighting was amazing,
Speaker 4: and I was like, anymore longer we leave it, the
Speaker 4: less I'm going to have time to film and all
Speaker 4: that contently wanted to get. So one of the girls
Speaker 4: was like tanning Anna's back. I was bringing her dress
Speaker 4: from my villa up to the cooler villa.
Speaker 3: Was everyone getting Anna ready before himself?
Speaker 5: No, we're already read.
Speaker 3: Everyone was fully ready except for Anna.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Everyone was in coool glad. Everyone was in full glad.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, everyone was full glad.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I mean when the power went out.
Speaker 1: From my perspective, I was kind of like, do we
Speaker 1: even want to go out? Like we've been out every night,
Speaker 1: like I could have a night in. Laura, who didn't know,
Speaker 1: she was like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's have a night in. I was like, do
Speaker 5: you guys just want to go out?
Speaker 1: And I was like, no, it's our last night we
Speaker 1: are going out. And I was like, oh my god, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: let me get ready.
Speaker 5: But yeah.
Speaker 4: So then at this point I knew because I had
Speaker 4: to separate the groups, so I had to go with Anna.
Speaker 4: That was the whole point was that Michael didn't want
Speaker 4: everyone to be there right at the start because we
Speaker 4: wanted to get the footage with the intimate reaction, and
Speaker 4: I wanted the girls to either come later we'd meet
Speaker 4: them at the restaurant. So then our friends Maddie, Sarah,
Speaker 4: and Laura all got a taxi to the restaurant first,
Speaker 4: and I said, if you could just quickly grab the
Speaker 4: booking because we don't want to lose our booking at
Speaker 4: this restaurant. So they went under that pretense they were
Speaker 4: going for that, and I said to Anna, we need
Speaker 4: to pick up my ID because the lady's left it
Speaker 4: outside the villain. I want to get it before we
Speaker 4: go to the restaurant because it was our last night
Speaker 4: in Bali as well. So that's how we separated the groups.
Speaker 4: But what was actually happening was that the three girls
Speaker 4: went and just did a walk down some shady like
Speaker 4: street in Bali so they could tell Laura what was
Speaker 4: actually happening. And I was trying to organize a cab
Speaker 4: for me and Anna to get like literally down the
Speaker 4: road to see Michael. But the problem was, all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, couldn't get an uber a cab. No one
Speaker 4: was on the street, and I'm sweating on this street.
Speaker 1: And was sweating, and I'm like, you know what, this
Speaker 1: isn't a big deal. So I went into the circle
Speaker 1: K and I was like, it's just like a seven eleven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I just went into like the local convenience store
Speaker 1: and I was like, let's get like a couple of
Speaker 1: like what are they Liken off Ice smirn off ices?
Speaker 1: So I'm like, we're boiling Hugh's smirnoff ice and was.
Speaker 4: Like, I'll need that drunk it really quick. I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: she's really stressed out, okay, And then I was able
Speaker 4: to hail down a cab and I was like amazing.
Speaker 4: So we got in. It was literally like a two
Speaker 4: second like ride there. But as we're getting there, like
Speaker 4: we're just both trying to scale our drinks and I
Speaker 4: was like, oh, we'll get out together. Can you come
Speaker 4: in with me? And I was like I'll just say
Speaker 4: in the cab and hold it while you go in.
Speaker 4: And I was like, now can you please come with me?
Speaker 1: Like I thought she was scared or something, so I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, okay, I'll come with you.
Speaker 4: So then we got out and instead of keeping the cab,
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh can we keep the cab
Speaker 4: and told them to wait. She got out first and
Speaker 4: I literally threw the guy money and I was like
Speaker 4: leave the roots have ever been that?
Speaker 5: I was like go.
Speaker 4: Then we walk into the reception and because it wasn't
Speaker 4: the same lady i'd seen before. I just got both
Speaker 4: of our I took the cruisers off or whatever they were,
Speaker 4: and I just put them on the reception.
Speaker 5: I was like, let's go.
Speaker 4: So we just walked straight through and then all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, Anna stops and she's like, should we have
Speaker 4: some mints?
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, I just like we just
Speaker 1: we just like had this drink. I had this like
Speaker 1: tangy taste in my mouth.
Speaker 5: I was like, hey, you're a mint, and like am
Speaker 5: I was like no, And I was like, oh.
Speaker 3: You're getting suspicious at this point.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know, Like I don't know what was
Speaker 1: going through my head. I think there was definitely points
Speaker 1: throughout the day where I was like that's a bit odd, Like,
Speaker 1: for instance, when I got a tattoo for you and
Speaker 1: you had there was no response to it.
Speaker 3: I was like that straight I was tired. I was
Speaker 3: want to walk. He was walking.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that wasn't flying.
Speaker 4: But yeah, there was definitely like moments like I wasn't
Speaker 4: having a mink because I thought I was about to
Speaker 4: get a proposal, Like that's probably the laugh thing on
Speaker 4: your mind.
Speaker 1: Like I genuinely just had like a bad taste in
Speaker 1: my mouth. I was like, do you want a mint?
Speaker 1: We get up to the door. I'm going to take
Speaker 1: away from here.
Speaker 3: I just quickly Michael, what have you been doing in
Speaker 3: all this time? Like?
Speaker 2: Yeah, just I could imagine you slicking your hair back
Speaker 2: from your hands for your yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Like I was in full stress and I was going
Speaker 6: through like periods of pacing back and forth, then realizing
Speaker 6: the pacing was making me sweat, and then I'd stop
Speaker 6: pacing and I'd sort of stand like that and then
Speaker 6: I take my shirt off air out put my shit
Speaker 6: back on pace.
Speaker 3: Does the videographer have footage of this? Because that would
Speaker 3: be very fun.
Speaker 6: I reckon the free footage because I was in that
Speaker 6: position for about, yeah, for over an hour, and.
Speaker 3: Then I was like messaging.
Speaker 6: I was mentioning the videographer as well, like we're on
Speaker 6: stand by, we're on stand by, and then like ten
Speaker 6: minutes later, like we're not on sand and then we're
Speaker 6: on standby.
Speaker 3: We're not in standby anyway.
Speaker 1: Okay, So from my perspective, I'm going to take over
Speaker 1: from here. So we rock up at this villa and
Speaker 1: was like I need to get my ID. I'm like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: we'll go get your idea. I thought she was a
Speaker 1: bit scared to go by herself, like she wants, you know,
Speaker 1: like confidence and numbers type of things.
Speaker 5: So we went down there.
Speaker 4: I was like, do you want to mean like, I've
Speaker 4: got a bad tasteo mouth after that drink.
Speaker 5: She's like no. I was like, oh okay.
Speaker 1: So then we like walk down to this villa. It's
Speaker 1: like this like sandy pathway with like beautiful greenery kind
Speaker 1: of like both colliding at the top, so it was
Speaker 1: kind of like this archway.
Speaker 5: It was beautiful. I was like, oh, these people are
Speaker 5: saying it, I'm pretty nice.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we get to the very end and then the
Speaker 1: door is actually a little bit open with this stone
Speaker 1: opening the doorway, and then there's ambers id right on
Speaker 1: top of it.
Speaker 5: So I was like, saw it and I was like,
Speaker 5: pick it up here. It is like they've left it
Speaker 5: out for us.
Speaker 1: And she was like then in that moment, she like
Speaker 1: ripped my bag off my shoulder. I was like ow,
Speaker 1: and she just like put she kind of like I
Speaker 1: don't know how she did.
Speaker 5: It was very swift.
Speaker 1: She like in that moment, she just like opened the
Speaker 1: door and kind of pushed me in. I saw the
Speaker 1: rose pedals, and I was like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: was right, it's happening. Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And then I saw Michael standing in the villa. There
Speaker 1: was like rose pedals kind of like leading the way
Speaker 1: to him, and then I looked at him and his
Speaker 1: eyes were like welling up, like he was like so emotional.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, I am about to
Speaker 1: get engaged, Like is this really ha opening? I can't
Speaker 1: believe it. I didn't even like look back at Amber.
Speaker 1: I just like was I was just like so focused
Speaker 1: and present in the moment. And then as I walked
Speaker 1: up to him, I hugged him and I saw them
Speaker 1: marry me, honey, and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: like this is crazy. Like Number one couldn't even believe
Speaker 1: that Michael was in BALI like, you know, I'm on
Speaker 1: a girl troop. I haven't seen him in a week,
Speaker 1: Like I really missed him. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he's here. Yeah, And then like there was just so
Speaker 1: many emotions going through my head and my heart and everything,
Speaker 1: and I was just like so overwhelmed.
Speaker 5: And then Michael started like talking and.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, I can't even remember what he said
Speaker 1: in the moment because it was just so like overwhelming.
Speaker 1: It's like everything stood still and it was just like
Speaker 1: me and Michael in that moment.
Speaker 3: So I've watched the video. Yeah, what songs emotional now?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so firstly I got an emotional I feel like
Speaker 6: the lead up to the story so far it has
Speaker 6: been quite like pragmatic. Now like this moment, like looking
Speaker 6: back on the moment, it was, it was crazy the
Speaker 6: song was. I feel like there's like those like there's
Speaker 6: so many like beautiful like love songs, but for us,
Speaker 6: it's probably a song that a lot of people might
Speaker 6: not know. And I just remember like when we first
Speaker 6: like heard that song together, I can't like we just
Speaker 6: both were like I love this song, and it was
Speaker 6: just a song that from that point whenever whenever I'd
Speaker 6: hear it, I'd play it in the car like I'd
Speaker 6: be I'd be thinking about her.
Speaker 2: Just don't want to cute Maron, How did you get
Speaker 2: that song to play exactly?
Speaker 3: Or was it on repeat? Yeah?
Speaker 6: So it was. I put it on repeat for like
Speaker 6: an hour and a half. So I'm not sure if
Speaker 6: I still like that literally, like because it's like probably
Speaker 6: the most anxious I felt in my life. It's just
Speaker 6: that song on repeats, like now I wake up in
Speaker 6: the middle of the night.
Speaker 2: And just like from a man to another man, how
Speaker 2: nervous are you in that moment? Because I could imagine
Speaker 2: that would really be this is the most fucking daunting moments,
Speaker 2: nerve racking.
Speaker 3: At the same time, I'm like exciting before.
Speaker 6: I say this, I'm going to like preface it as
Speaker 6: like I know how cliche this sounds, so I'm aware
Speaker 6: of how cliche.
Speaker 3: This is going to come out.
Speaker 6: But the whole day I was just that nervous and
Speaker 6: anxious about wanting things to go to plan. But then
Speaker 6: as soon as Anna walked through that door, despite feeling
Speaker 6: like I was having like an out of body experience
Speaker 6: and I was like visibly shaking, It's like I suddenly
Speaker 6: was just I felt calm, like it just felt it
Speaker 6: just felt right, It felt right, and it felt perfect,
Speaker 6: and I felt calm and all that worry washed away
Speaker 6: and I was just like, this is amazing. And when
Speaker 6: she was like walking closer to me, I was just
Speaker 6: like the happiest man in the world.
Speaker 2: On the video I watched before of it happening, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure everyone else will be able to see that
Speaker 2: video on your socials.
Speaker 3: You spoke for a lot. What were you saying? Do
Speaker 3: you want to share any of it?
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I'm fully aware that like when I get
Speaker 6: into speech mode that like it might get like a
Speaker 6: little bit over the top. So I decided that I
Speaker 6: wasn't going to prepare anything. Like I was just like,
Speaker 6: I'm not going to think about what I'm going to say.
Speaker 6: I had a final line that I wanted to say,
Speaker 6: like before I got down on one knee, but I'm like,
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna have a chat. I'm just going to
Speaker 6: tell her how I'm feeling, like in that moment. So
Speaker 6: what exactly I think, I'll keep that to myself. Exactly
Speaker 6: what I said, I spoke to some key points, and
Speaker 6: I think the main part of what I said was
Speaker 6: the fact that I think the reason that I feel
Speaker 6: so lucky to be with Anna is that despite all
Speaker 6: the love and the romance and the passion that we have,
Speaker 6: like underneath all that, we just have the most incredible friendship.
Speaker 6: And like I just from literally and I reflected on
Speaker 6: this last night with her. I said, after our first day,
Speaker 6: I was just like wow, like I've just never had
Speaker 6: that much fun with the person, and that's despite the
Speaker 6: fact that I also think she's like exceptionally hot and
Speaker 6: there's all that passion and romance there. I was just like,
Speaker 6: I've just never had that much fun, So I think
Speaker 6: it was around I'm just like fun and friendship and
Speaker 6: then just the love that we shared as well, that's really.
Speaker 3: It's really touching.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like it was actually like the it's
Speaker 4: crazy because like obviously, like as I don't know, I
Speaker 4: personally have always like dreamed of the moment that I would.
Speaker 5: Get proposed to, but it really was like the best.
Speaker 1: Moment of my life, like being in that moment and
Speaker 1: just like it's just such an overwhelming feeling of just
Speaker 1: like love and happiness. And when Michael dropped to me
Speaker 1: and I, yeah, I have always thought this, like I
Speaker 1: wonder if they'll be like a part of me that's
Speaker 1: like is this the right decision? But when Michael dropped
Speaker 1: to me, I was like, I am one thousand, million,
Speaker 1: trillion percent on board with this, Like there wasn't one
Speaker 1: percent of me that was like is this Yeah, there
Speaker 1: was no doubts, Like it was a strong one hundred
Speaker 1: percent all the way. Yes, like one hundred percent and
Speaker 1: like that just felt so good to feel that, because
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know like how other people feel
Speaker 1: when they get engaged, but yeah, that was always a
Speaker 1: concern of mine, like am I going to feel one
Speaker 1: hundred percent?
Speaker 5: I guess like yeah, So after you propose.
Speaker 1: Then we kind of like the girls ended up joining us,
Speaker 1: and then they were all super excited, which was really cool,
Speaker 1: like we're so glad that happened.
Speaker 3: A couple of minutes here, we just need to get
Speaker 3: it done. We got we got to.
Speaker 4: Have minutes like yeah, and then they were like, okay,
Speaker 4: we're going to give you like an hour, like if
Speaker 4: you want to join us after at the restaurant, you're
Speaker 4: welcome to If not, all good, So they kind of
Speaker 4: went and then we called our parents and then we
Speaker 4: had a bit of alone time you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: you're sex.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So after that, the girls were at this like beautiful
Speaker 1: rooftop restaurant in Changu, and we were like should we
Speaker 1: go meet them there?
Speaker 5: And then Michael was like, yeah, let's do it. It'll
Speaker 5: be really fun.
Speaker 1: So we like walked into the restaurant and the whole
Speaker 1: restaurant started like clapping for us, and all of my
Speaker 1: like friends were like they just got engaged.
Speaker 5: And everyone was like cheering.
Speaker 1: It was like, actually, such an overwhelming moment, wasn't it.
Speaker 6: I was already like I think I was so overwhelmed
Speaker 6: as it was. I was like I almost got a
Speaker 6: bit blank with emotion, but like, yeah, it was overwhelmingly amazing.
Speaker 3: It was such a such an.
Speaker 1: Exciting moment for they had this like leaf and it
Speaker 1: was like mister and Missus Staples and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Like I think that was the first
Speaker 1: time where I was like ship, like we're actually going
Speaker 1: to get married and.
Speaker 5: I'm going to be Missus Staples like that.
Speaker 6: I could be Mickey mckavoy, like that's gotta it's got
Speaker 6: to run into it.
Speaker 3: Name, It's got it? Who taking? I think? I think
Speaker 3: Anna Staple sounds lovely.
Speaker 5: I think Anna sae all.
Speaker 2: Right, So I want to touch on we didn't touch
Speaker 2: on it before. We're going to circle right back to
Speaker 2: the beginning. How did you ask Anna's did you ask
Speaker 2: both her parents or just so old man?
Speaker 3: How'd you go about it? Yeah, So it was all
Speaker 3: of a sudden happening really fast.
Speaker 6: And as we've sort of touched on and have you've
Speaker 6: touched on another episode like nothing gets past Anna so Fi.
Speaker 7: I was trusted, you can't. I can't get stuff past
Speaker 7: fucking staunch me. I was, I do you need to
Speaker 7: tell you? This is genuine the FBI, nothing gets past it.
Speaker 7: And what I was worrying about was I was like, Okay,
Speaker 7: I want to catch up. I want to do this
Speaker 7: sit down thing with it ad. But we had so
Speaker 7: many busy weekends, there was so much going on. I'm like,
Speaker 7: I'm getting worried now that I'm going to be telling
Speaker 7: him too late.
Speaker 3: And I didn't want it to be like a.
Speaker 6: Few days before, because you're not really asking for a
Speaker 6: blessing and then like, well it's in two days. So
Speaker 6: I called him up and I said. We had a
Speaker 6: bit of a chat and he could tell something was
Speaker 6: up by the way I was speaking, and yeah, I said,
Speaker 6: I'm in the process of getting a ring. How do
Speaker 6: you feel about that, to which he said, that's amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 6: he said that that was amazing. This is so exciting,
Speaker 6: like he was genuinely like really over the moon. And
Speaker 6: then I said, I'm so, I'm so glad that you're
Speaker 6: happy about this, and then he made it jack and said,
Speaker 6: I said you could get a ring. I didn't say
Speaker 6: if you proposed, And then I said, sorry, Brian, would
Speaker 6: it be okay if I proposed to the old order?
Speaker 6: And then he said the same things. He said, this
Speaker 6: is amazing, and yeah he was. He was really excited.
Speaker 6: And I said, but look, I want to do the
Speaker 6: official sit down and have a drink together. So that's
Speaker 6: going to happen before we propose. I'll make sure that
Speaker 6: we sit down together, face to face and do this
Speaker 6: conversation again. So then the weekend before I flew over,
Speaker 6: we caught up and we sat down. Yeah, we sat
Speaker 6: down and just pretty much spoke about how amazing it
Speaker 6: was for about three hours over a couple of beers,
Speaker 6: and I mean, it was nice, and then we like
Speaker 6: sort of we sort of hugged it out at the
Speaker 6: end and he sent me on my way and he
Speaker 6: said good luck, and it was really it was a
Speaker 6: really nice moment.
Speaker 5: That's so cute.
Speaker 3: That's really cute.
Speaker 5: And he both emotional.
Speaker 6: We did get a bit emotional. You know, we've got
Speaker 6: a bit emotional hearing like dad stuff. Yeah, we both
Speaker 6: cried into a pint of beer.
Speaker 3: And al right, guys, one last time, congratulation. Thank you.
Speaker 3: This podcast is always adapting you now we have to adapt.
Speaker 5: Just hold on engage.
Speaker 3: You guys actually thought you were.
Speaker 6: Starting like a dating podcast about being single, and here
Speaker 6: we are.
Speaker 3: I'm so fucking sorry.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is why you should take Anna's advice on
Speaker 2: this podcast.
Speaker 3: Look at the results. You might be having your hand
Speaker 3: wake down, not wake down, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Look, thank you so much for listening to our proposal. Sorry,
Speaker 1: it's been really fun sharing it and kind of like
Speaker 1: recapping everything. Make sure that you guys stay all over
Speaker 1: our Facebook page, are going to be posted content in there.
Speaker 5: Make sure you.
Speaker 1: Follow the Where's your Head app pod, Instagram, Matt and
Speaker 1: I on socials.
Speaker 2: We would also like to thank Michael for coming in
Speaker 2: and our producer and Buff were telling their side of
Speaker 2: the story.
Speaker 3: Thanks guys, Thanks Matt, Thanks fiance due next time. Shoo
Speaker 3: bye