Majorcan wedding on cards for landlord at Padiham's Flying Dutchman pub after beachside proposal
A pub landlord’s plans for a romantic proposal to his girlfriend almost sank without trace!
Anthony Woan came up with the idea to pop the question to his girlfriend of three years, Kim Clayton, in their favourite holiday spot, Majorca.
Imaginative Anthony, who is landlord at The Flying Dutchman in Padiham, wanted to hire a pedalo and pop the question with a ‘fake’ ring that he would ‘accidentally’ drop overboard. And while Kim looked for it he planned to get down on one knee and propose with the real McCoy, a solitaire diamond ring.
He said: “I was looking for a cheap ring to act as the decoy but couldn’t find one anywhere, and when we got to the beach there were no pedaloes.”
Dad of three Anthony was undeterred, so he came up with another, rather cheeky idea, by attaching the engagement ring to the tie string on the waistband of his shorts. He added: “I asked Kim to put some sunscreen on me and while she was doing that I asked her to pull the string from inside my shorts as my hands were covered in sand.
“Her face was a picture when she saw the ring, she just started smiling, and I got down on one knee and asked her if she would do me the honour of becoming my wife.”
Kim, who is 41 and has one daughter Amy (19) accepted and the couple, who met when Kim went into the pub with a mutual friend, are hosting an engagement party at the Dutchman in October with a Majorcan wedding on the cards for 2028.
Anthony said: “We’ve already started saving up, we wouldn’t want to get married anywhere else. We go to Majorca every year, it’s our special place.”