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March 12, 2025 13 mins

She was 17, on holiday with her family… and had no idea she was about to be proposed to.


Fi shares the unbelievable story of how her boyfriend of two years dropped to one knee in front of her entire family on Christmas morning—without asking her mum first. The proposal, the shock, and the fallout make this one unforgettable holiday memory.


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(01:25):
Craziest thing that's happened to you on holidays?
There's a question I've been asking people there.
God, I've got some Ripper stories.
I saw some if you had to. Give yours a headline, what
would it be? Teenager proposed to on family
holiday. Yeah.
What happened? I had been with my then
boyfriend for three years. We decided to go on a family

(01:45):
holiday and my mum said yeah, hecan come, he can come along, no
dramas going. Along with the family.
Actually already living in our house.
Yeah, Mum had allowed that to happen.
My dad had passed away three years before he actually knew my
dad as well, which is a even funny intertwined linking thing.
We went to Scotland to see my dad's family, who all live in
Scotland and my mum's family live in England.

(02:07):
So we did a big six week trip over to the UK, Yeah.
And on Christmas Day in 2003, yeah, he decided that was the
day he was going to propose. He didn't.
Ask my mom. Hang on.
Wait, how old were you? I was 1717.
I was 17. Did you say he didn't ask your
mom? He did not ask my mom for.
Permission. He didn't do it in front of

(02:28):
everybody. He.
Did in front of everyone which looking just gets crazier.
And crazier. So how did this?
Happen, I know, I think. He was he, 17.
This is where he's five years older than me.
OK, he. Was 22 it.
Takes a minute. Wait, so this 22 year old with

(02:48):
her 17 year old daughter? Yeah, on Christmas Day.
Yep, in front of. Everyone in Scotland.
Yep, proposes to you Yep, without having asked permission.
Correct. Or even run.
It by her. Or anything.
No notice, no nothing. Oh, no, yeah.
Yeah, crazy. All right.
So it's a pretty crazy thing to have happen anywhere but the
fact we were on the other side of the world.

(03:09):
Put all those things together and there's no way the two of
you are staying together. And that's what everyone.
Said We're even surviving the day.
That's when Christmas even to survive the holiday because my
mum's gonna kill him there's. Gonna work.
She's gonna have to bury a body in Scotland, and I don't know
how well you know the land. Yeah.
How are you gonna get rid of him?
These are the things going through her mind.
Yes. What?
OK. What happened?
Can I can you paint a picture ofwhere?

(03:30):
So. Christmas morning.
Morning presents time. Christmas morning presents time.
My aunty's house in Fife In Leven in Fife.
Beautiful little town in Scotland.
On the eggnog. You know, nothing.
He'd done it. He'd the family.
It's a Scottish tradition to do a Quay, which is like a little
dish where they put whiskey intoit.
And it's. Yeah.
It had a bit of that directly. So I think he needed that bit of

(03:51):
liquid courage to get him going.So that was quite funny.
But yeah, no, he wasn't drinkinglike he wasn't hard on the other
presents. No, we hadn't done, no, we
hadn't done the presents yet. We'd literally come downstairs,
done the Quay thing. Yeah.
Wait, so you have a breakfast that has this whiskey in it?
Yeah, it was. I didn't even know that we'd had
breakfast. It was just like a this is what
we do to welcome you with the family.

(04:12):
Yeah. It's like a little silver dish.
It's two got a double ended handle.
Yeah. And you hold one side and they
hold the other and they do a ceremony in Gaelic and they put
that in there. They drink from it.
So it was my uncle that did it. He drunk from it and then he
passed it to Craig and then he had the drunk from it.
Yeah. So it was like you're now
welcomed into the family and he.Didn't know what was.

(04:33):
Hold my beer. Welcome into the family, am I?
Exactly. I suspect now that perhaps he
knew because Craig had gone ringshopping with one of my cousins.
It's like who else in the familyknew it was so I?
Suspect that maybe a couple of them did know but did not know,
do you? Reckon he didn't talk to mum
about it because she would have said no.
No, I don't think she would havesaid no.
I think she would have said maybe not yet.

(04:55):
Yeah, it's not what he wants to hear.
And having a Christmas Day in Scotland.
Stay in front of your family because I don't have any family
in Australia. It's just me and my mum and my
sister and that's it, just the three of us.
So his angle was it would be around your family instead of
being at all his family here on the coast.
Wait, doing some sums? Yeah, you were 14.
Well, I was 14 when we got together, when you got together,

(05:15):
when we got. Together 15 and he was 19/20/20.
Yeah, wow, that's a lot. Yes.
That's the kind of thing where when you see that you go, the
words, that's a problem. Yeah, coming to my head.
Yeah. What does a 20 year old want
with a 15 year old? That's what you got a lot.
What does a 20 year old want to do with a 15 year old you've
been? Together how many years now
we've. Been together since 2002 and

(05:37):
it's 2024. It is.
A kind of lesson for those who would look at something like
that and go, I mean, necessarily20 and 15.
Yeah, that's right. Yes.
How old are you? You're 15 in May.
She's 15 in May. So she's 14 right now.
Your daughter. Is about to turn 15.
Dude, I was engaged two years after her.
Like man, I was engaged at 19. See you.

(05:58):
That's very young. We broke up, but.
Very young. Very young.
Wow. Yep.
Christmas Day, Scott. Again.
So then, so he's proposed. I'm sitting on the couch, feet
knelt down in front of me, presented me with this ring and
said I want to spend the rest ofmy life with you.
Will you marry me? And you're like, no, I've got
HSC to finish. I do have HSC like I'm in year
two. I've just completed term one of
year 12:00. I've got 3 terms I've just got.

(06:19):
This new babysitting gig. No, I think at the time I was
working at Suzanne and took the time.
This is great. Yeah, I was working at Suzanne
casually, you know, on the weekends.
Thursday night, you. Have a sweat over this whole
situation, kind of. Giving me some serious
flashbacks. Too.
No, seriously. The biggest clincher sort of

(06:39):
solidify why my mum was OK with this was because he was a friend
of the family well. He worked with your dad.
Well, he didn't work with him. He played soccer and he played
cricket with my dad And my dad, years before he passed away, he
used to say Craig was the son I never had and made that very
vocal. Yeah, that Craig was the son I
never had. He was very close to my dad and

(07:00):
my dad was close to him. And then when my dad passed in
2001, really heavily affected Craig.
And he was one, obviously us too, which he literally was
alive one day, dead the next. Like it was very sudden.
He wasn't ill. He had a heart attack and died.
Yeah, it was very sudden. He was fifty.
Yeah, 50. So yeah, young.
I'm approaching 40. I'm almost 38.

(07:22):
So yeah, it's wow, 12 years time.
I'm at that age. That was how long you have,
because you can think right now that you're about halfway
through your life, correct? And you got so much ahead of.
You time, Yeah. Time to travel, time to meet
grandkids, time to have weddingsand watch them.
Graduate School and all that. My dad missed all that.
And you can't take any of this. Granted, no, that's right.

(07:42):
So I was 14 when he died, the 21st of June 2001, and my
birthday is the 27th of June andmy sister's birthday is the 26th
of June, so five days before herbirthday, 6 days before mine.
So it was then a rush to try andget funerals sorted and all that
sort of stuff just before our birthdays.
So our birthdays weren't affected.

(08:03):
Even all these years on, it still effects you.
You go through this terrible dayand this terrible time.
You remember what happened, and then you're supposed to
celebrate that. It's my birthday, my sister's
birthday, and she's three years younger than me.
She was 11 when he died. So it was a big, it was a big
monumental shift in our world. And I felt connected to to him

(08:25):
when I used to go down and watchthe men.
Yeah. Play.
He played in an all age team in Sydney, Paul Greenwich.
And I was connected to him when I used to go and watch the boys
play. That's how I felt like I could
stay connected to him. Yeah.
And Craig didn't drive at the time.
He used to get a lift to the football games.
Sorry. I call it football.
I know everyone in Australia calls it soccer.

(08:46):
I'm, I come from a Scottish father and an English mother and
I very much call it football in my world.
Thank you. Go back to their house and call
it. Soccer.
If I go back and call it soccer comes like football, I'm like,
yes, football. So yeah, I used to go with Craig
in the car with whoever was picking him up, would pick me up
and we'd go to the game. So we were spending a lot of
time together on the weekends and then.

(09:08):
Wait, so at this age, this was this is before you got together?
Yeah, this is So this is you're like 13 he.
Was Dad had passed so I was 14. I just turned 14 just after Dad.
So Dad died the 21st of June. On the 27th I turned 14.
What? Was that birthday like?
I honestly can't. Non existent.
I cannot remember it. You're just in a state of this
complete disbelief. Like I'm completely out of the

(09:29):
blue. Yeah, yeah.
Yep. You have no idea how I'm just
coming in goose goosebumps because I turned 50 at the end
of this year. Yep, my daughter's 13.
She's about turned. 14 and I take her to dance.
Yep, every Tuesday and Thursday.Totally relate here.
You can totally relate you want.To hit me with a bit of life's
too short, here's. Here's a lesson on life's too
short. Yeah, life can change on a dime.

(09:51):
Your daughter's sitting here listening to all of this.
Has she heard all of this? Yeah.
Knows all this? Yeah.
She's heard this story. Yeah.
Yeah, we're pretty open about it.
I think that we try and we even friends and family now talk
about him like he's still like he's still here.
Craig and I, Dad and I don't. We talk about him like he's
still here. It's.
The age of it is what gets me, yeah.
Yeah. And again, Craig's older than

(10:13):
me. He's just about to turn 43.
Yeah, again, that age is creeping up, too, and that's in
the back of his head. It's in the back of mine.
Yeah. It's always there.
Yeah. But so if there's ever, and I'm
always wanted to try and look for positives out of everything
and something that did come out of that for you, yes.
As a person, I think it's probably shaped you as a person.
Definitely the energy that you give off someone who lives life

(10:36):
for a try, yeah. Certainly trying to live in the
now and I think the other good thing that came out of it was me
and Craig. We came out of that true out of
the darkness and the sadness andthe shock.
He was the constant. He came.
Around No, no, God no, that would never have happened Yeah,
never. He would never have your.
Dad would have allowed it, him knowing, knowing him, but the

(11:00):
age gap and that's my daughter. Maybe not at that age.
Yeah, exactly. Maybe not at that age.
Oh. Man, what a.
Story. I don't know.
I don't know. He was, my dad was pretty cool,
like. Yeah.
I. Don't know too much for sharing
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