My best friend's sister introduced us. I distinctly remember Niel being described to me as "a guy who loved football and woke up on weekends at the crack of dawn to root for a team that wore blue shirts". The moment I discovered he was a die hard Chelsea fan we became fast friends. Together we experienced Chelsea's most famous Champions League campaign to date and survived high highs and extremely low lows. But it was all worth it in the end because our club lifted the trophy on that fateful night in Munich. The very next day, he asked me out and the rest is history.

Niel planned the most memorable trip through England, Scotland and Ireland and on our last day in Dublin, he proposed to me (with my dream ring) off a cliff by Lough Tay.