Couple return to Moville marriage proposal spot

Posted Sunday, April 15, 2007

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Moville, Ireland Craic

I was sitting in The Waterfront restaurant at one of those nice spots at the big bay window with my parents, Gerry and Betty McLaughlin, admiring the view of Lough Foyle, and the people walking along Bath Green, when I found out something I didn't know.

Proposal Spot

My mother pointed to the shelter that we could see out of the window and said "That's the place where your father first proposed to me".

I was a bit taken aback.

How come I didn't know this before?

Photos Needed

But, I quickly recovered my composure and decided that a few photos needed to be taken.

It was a nice sunny day in March so when we had settled up at the end I took them down there and got the pictures for posterity.

Greenock, Scotland

It seems that those shelters used to have glass in them but the vandals had long since smashed them.

The proposal took place in 1950 and they got married and settled down in Greenock, Scotland in 1952 where they have lived ever since and where they raised and reared a family.

Proposal Answer

"So, what did you say when Dad proposed?", I said half-jokingly to my mother.

A little sheepishly she told me that she had said "I could think of nothing more sweet, than walking through life with you".

And walk through life and all its ups and downs she did walk with him.

There can't have been too many night that they spent apart from each other.

Where it Started

And 11 children, 24 grandchildren and quite a few great grandchildren later they were back at the spot where it all started.

Thank goodness she said "Yes".

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