A girl, a ring, a Land Rover and a karri forest

[elshano]

Hi guys, thought I would share my weekend with you.

Took the girl south to Margaret River for the weekend.
Went for a drive towards Hamelin Bay through the Boronup Forest and found a nice track through the middle towards the coast.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/04/31.jpg (http://s42.photobucket.com/user/fc3shane/media/IMG_2359.jpg.html)

It was pretty cosy and the Disco will need a good buff shortly..

A bit later on I stopped in a clearing with the afternoon light filtering through the trees.
SWMBO was perched on the bull bar admiring the forest so I snuck around the back of the car, then got down on one knee:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/04/32.jpg (http://s42.photobucket.com/user/fc3shane/media/IMG_2361.jpg.html)

She is filthy with me for using that pic, I don't have any good ones because she was crying so much!

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/04/33.jpg (http://s42.photobucket.com/user/fc3shane/media/IMG_1526.jpg.html)

We then drove out to Cape Freycinet via some more fire trails..

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/04/34.jpg (http://s42.photobucket.com/user/fc3shane/media/LRrocks.jpg.html)

..where I pulled a tray of oysters and a bottle of bubbly out of the Waeco and we watched the sunset over the Indian Ocean

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/04/35.jpg (http://s42.photobucket.com/user/fc3shane/media/capefreycinet.jpg.html)

I don't know if anyone has been proposed to ON a land rover before but that was my weekend!

A couple more from the weekend
On the Hemsley track to Sugarloaf Rock

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/04/36.jpg (http://s42.photobucket.com/user/fc3shane/media/eaglebayhill.jpg.html)

Smiths Beach, Yallingup

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/04/37.jpg (http://s42.photobucket.com/user/fc3shane/media/smiths.jpg.html)

Canal Rocks (SWMBO far right)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/04/38.jpg (http://s42.photobucket.com/user/fc3shane/media/canalrocks.jpg.html)

[justinc]

Well done mate!:D

Congrats!

JC

[Sitec]

Fantastic work!! 3 in one.... Good looking truck, great looking chick and a yes!! what more could a man want! All the best from the Barossa! :)

[weeds]

Awesome......congrats

[Hall]

So we can gather it was a yes from the boss. So now you will have to organise some bridle land rovers. Can just see the bride in a nice series1 out the front of the church or climbing down from a forward control.
Cheers Hall

[Chops]

Congrats dude,, well done.

[Judo]

Awesome work. :) Congrats!

[Racing Sardine]

Congratulations , what great way to pop the question.

[austastar]

Hi,
You're a smooth operator.

Well done, you've set the bar high.

Much more class than a mate of mine, waiting in line for the Bruny Is ferry. "Hey Darls, there's something in the glove box for ya!

cheers

[d2dave]

Congratulations.:clap2::twobeers: Now get all those bits you want for the Landy before the big day.

You know what another name for SWMBO. The Handbrake:wasntme:

[dswatts]

Nice work, I like your style:)

[Don 130]

Congrats and good luck
Don.

[austravel]

Congratulations! ! What a terrific way to propose. And good job hiding all the gear and surprising her. "What's that darl?", "oh just some recovery gear" haha

Bit more romantic than my step brother. When driving to christmas lunch last year in the ute, he handed her the box and said "here you better have this" lol

[robbotd5]

Well done mate and thanks for sharing a great life changing moment with us!!!. I dragged an engagement ring all the way to Thailand and proposed to my future minister for war and finance on a beach at sunset. 14 years and two kids later would not change a thing. Best wishes to you and your fiancé!!.
Regards
Robbo

[Cobber]

Well done, and congratulations to the both of you :)
It looks like it would have been an awesome weekend even without the proposal! :D

[Disco Muppet]

I like it!
Congratulations to you and your missus, may you have many happy years together :)

[slug_burner]

And they say romance is dead!

Congratulations to both of you and all the best.

[LoveB]

congrats buddy

[BMKal]

Congrats to the both of you mate. What a way to do the deed !!!!!!!!!!!

[JayBoRover]

Big congratulations and very best wishes for the future.:)

[elshano]

Aw jeez thanks very much guys.
Yeah it was a great weekend, some surprisingly good 4WDing. And I got engaged haha!

She's not sold on the idea of a fleet of white Rangies doing wedding day duties, I'd love to try and convince her to rock up in a Forward Control!!

[Disco Muppet]

I'd love to try and convince her to rock up in a Forward Control!!

If you can't, maybe she'll settle for the band being on the tray :D

[lebanon]

Congratulation to both of you :clap2:and long life to this union :clap2:.

That's putting the Land Rover to good use

[Grumbles]

The world can't get any better for you - or her. May you both live long and happy. Congratulations. :cool::cool::cool::D.

[Plane Fixer]

Congratulations:) You got yourself a keeper there IMHO!

[beefy]

well done mate

[wrinklearthur]

Congratulations ! you have set a memory on a path to eternity.
.

[mick88]

Congratulations.


Cheers, Mick.

[juddo]

Congratulations.

Awesome work!

[kenleyfred]

Congratulations

I admire your style
Good on you

Kenley

[BST4X4XFA]

You've got a lovely car...

You had a lovely day our 4wding .....

And now you have a lovely fiancé .....

A great big congratulation from all the landy lovers at TeamW4.

[Grimace]

Smooth Operator! I'd proposed to her too, she is HAWT!!! Your pretty sexy yourself :wheelchair:


But seriously congrats, and nice imagery to go with your story!

[Dougal]

Well done. I'm guessing driving that far away from home you didn't have an "exit strategy"?:D

My BIL proposed on a trip to Fiji. He got the right answer, but was eyeing up the next flight home just in case.:angel:

[elshano]

Well, it was in the middle of the forest. My exit strategy involved 4 wheels.

Hers involved 2 feet :D :D

[schuy1]

Congratulations :) May your future together be long and happy, filled with the sound of small feet and the rattle of a Landrover! :D

Cheers Scott

[sheerluck]

Congratulations! And clearly you're a guy who likes to put some effort in. (A tip from an old married man.......keep it going that way!)

[Sandgroper]

Fantastic work mate, congratulations and very well done to work a landie into it all! All future wedding anniversaries will mean you can get something for the landie due to sentimental reasons! There's no way she can argue against that! In all seriousness, congratulations mate, what a terrific way to propose, well done!

[samuelclarke]

Congrats mate! My other half and I got married 8 months ago and our Defender was part of the wedding on the beach at Double Island Point.

[elshano]

Thought I would update this thread, we got married on Feb 1st.
Sadly no Landies involved in the wedding, the wedding car however was a 1931 Ford Model A. I feel this retains me at least some credibility.. (Seriously, I worked on her for a solid couple of months for a couple of white Deefers but she wouldn't have a bar of it)

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Thanks again for all the best wishes in this thread, what a great community this is to be a part of.
Cheers
Shane

[jc109]

Congratulations elshano! Beautiful photos.

You've just given me cause to look at some old photos and do some reminiscing (and smiling). We used exactly the same car in May last year when we got married. He does a good job. My now wife had no problem with using Landies (and in fact was pushing for it at one point), but we decided on this limo so that the wedding party could all get on the gas in one vehicle and so that our guests could all play bowls and drink away rather than drive us around while we had photos done. As much as we would have liked to use Landies this, for us, was a wise move in the end. Well done.

I wish you all the best for a happy life together.

[BMKal]

Congratulations to you both.

Now that I've looked back over this post again - reckon I've seen your Disco round the place once or twice too. :D

[Davo]

Congratulations!

Should I build an 8-door Defender when I move down there? :D

[BMKal]

Congratulations!

Should I build an 8-door Defender when I move down there? :D

There used to be plenty of stretched Hummers getting around in Perth - haven't seen as many lately.

Perhaps you could buy one of them and bolt a Defender front end onto it. :p

Might be hard to come by one though - I heard a rumour that the extended Hummers were snapping in half. :o

[elshano]

Congratulations elshano! Beautiful photos.

You've just given me cause to look at some old photos and do some reminiscing (and smiling). We used exactly the same car in May last year when we got married. He does a good job. My now wife had no problem with using Landies (and in fact was pushing for it at one point), but we decided on this limo so that the wedding party could all get on the gas in one vehicle and so that our guests could all play bowls and drink away rather than drive us around while we had photos done. As much as we would have liked to use Landies this, for us, was a wise move in the end. Well done.

I wish you all the best for a happy life together.

Cheers mate, yeah we were really happy with the car and driver. There's actually not a huge amount of choice if you don't want a stretch 300C or a hummer (ugh), and we needed the 11 seater.
Your misses is definitely a keeper if she was on board with the landy wedding cars!

BM - what are you driving, I shall keep an eye out! Although if you drive what I think you drive, waving is a business fraught with many, many strange looks from soccer mums :p

[BMKal]

BM - what are you driving, I shall keep an eye out! Although if you drive what I think you drive, waving is a business fraught with many, many strange looks from soccer mums :p

Yep - I'm driving what you think I'm driving. And I know where you're coming from. The only time I ever get a wave from the same model is when I come across one that's similarly set up for touring, and on the highway well away from the cities. ;)

There's a few D4's up in Kalgoorlie these days, and you sometimes get a wave from some of these. One in particular - belongs to the owners of a local sheep station, and it's obviously used as a station work vehicle - often seen pulling a large trailer and nearly always covered in mud.

Hell - there's even another one the same model and colour, but with blacked out panel on the bonnet, roofrack and MAX Tracks permanently bolted on top (probably there for looks) that I see regularly around the Vic Park / South Perth area - driver just looks straight through you.

I do get a few waves from D2's around town - possibly because they recognize mine from on here (the number plates are a bit of a give-away) as is the tyre cover on the back - and I'll soon have an AULRO tyre cover on it that will make it even more ovbious.

I got more waves when I was driving my D2 down here though - but that spends most of its life up in Kalgoorlie these days.

The front bar on yours is the tell-tale for me. Yours is the only D2 that I've seen with that style of bar. :D

[elshano]

In that case mate I will keep a very sharp eye out! I'm sure I have seen yours around the place come to think of it. My plates are pretty good too but only a landy nut would understand I think!

[gavinwibrow]

The front bar on yours is the tell-tale for me. Yours is the only D2 that I've seen with that style of bar. :D

And the numberplate - he has to get under the car to engage CDL

[BMKal]

And the numberplate - he has to get under the car to engage CDL

I'd noticed the first part of the number plate. :D

If my D2 was registered at around the same time, I guess the rego number on that would have been "0CDL.xxx" :(

[elshano]

And the numberplate - he has to get under the car to engage CDL

:lol2: that's how a real man does it!! None of this fancy lever business!

[Epic_Dragon]

congrats :D and waht a way to do it!