megan_kumorek@hotmail.com Or message Luke and I via Facebok and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Tel: +44 015 258 6704 / +44 015 258 60000 Mob: +44 0779 506 1574 Hospitality@english-heritage.org.uk You can also contact Wrest Park from Monday - Friday (10am-6pm) at +44 0370 333 1181

Last September (2017) I went to Liverpool to do a masters degree in Sports Business. I would never have imagined that the day I collected my degree would be the same day I got engaged! The year we spent living together was the happiest I’ve ever been and I look forward to our future together. Megan, you are my soulmate, and you have made me the luckiest and happiest guy on the planet.

We decided to take graduation photos at my favourite church in Liverpool, UK - it is a church that had been bombed in WWII and the ruins now sit a walking distance away from where Luke and I first met (Vine Court at the University of Liverpool). My mother and sister were with us, Luke's mom and dad were there, and we kidnapped two of our close friends Josefin and Ryan (who apparently found out the night before of Luke's sneaky plan to propose haha). We arrived at the church and walk the front steps to take photos. We were taking nice photos and goofy photos and then we decide to switch sides and do other poses. My mom at this point convinced my sister to take photos because why not and my sister reluctantly took out her phone (mind you they have no idea what is about to happen). So we switched sides and he placed me in front of him. As I started to pose he began to fiddle with his coat jacket. I asked him what he was doing and he told me he was fixing his tie. "Ok, makes sense" I thought as I went back to doing random dances and poses while waiting for him. But again he continued to mess with something behind me. I went to turn to say, "what are you doing you silly goober" but as I turned I saw him get down on one knee and I immediately stopped halfway through my sentence and gasp, "what are you doing!?" That made Luke laugh and me smile and then, as you'd expect, he proposed, I cried, and I said, "yes of course." Luke, I met you over a year ago and immediately fell in love. We worked hard together, we graduated with our masters together, and now we get to spend the rest of our lives together. Every day spent with you is an adventure and no matter what life throws at us, I will always be yours.

The present house was built in 1834–39 by its owner Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey (1781–1859), an amateur architect and the first president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. During World War I, Nan Ino Cooper ran Wrest Park as a military hospital until a fire broke out in September 1916 halting this usage of the house. Following the death of her brother Auberon Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas, she inherited his title and the house and thus sold it after the War to Mr JG Murray, who was associated with cricket in Bedfordshire. Murray sold Wrest Park to Sun Alliance Insurance in 1939 where, after the Second World War, it became a centre for modern agricultural engineering research. English Heritage took over the house and gardens in 2006 and began a 20-year restoration project to return the gardens to their pre-1917 state which you will get to enjoy upon your visit to this luxurious estate.