Ivey and Max Get Married

In 2001, the young couple met while studying at the University of St Andrews. They began dating in 2003. On 16 November 2010, Clarence House stated that The couple was to marry "in the Spring or Summer of 2011, in London". They were engaged in October 2010; He gave Her the same engagement ring that his father had given to His mother, Diana, Princess of Wales—an 18-karat white gold ring with a 12-carat oval Ceylon sapphire and 14 round diamonds. The Queen said she was "absolutely delighted" for the couple, giving her formal consent to the marriage, as required by the since repealed Royal Marriages Act 1772, in her British privy council on the morning of the engagement. Max and Ivey are so happy for the royal couple and hope that this marriage also receives the Queen’s blessing. Their story is a little simpler: two best friends who, through all these years, just feel really lucky that they finally looked up and realized the other one had been looking back all along.