A ROMANTIC proposal took place on Saturday, with friends helping Tom Hurrell pop the question to his girlfriend of four years Amy Charlesworth.

Tom, from Thurlestone, organised for his friends to be in small boats on the Salcombe estuary with signs which read ‘Amy Marry Me?’, and took her to Cliff House Gardens on Saturday, August 27, and got down on one knee as they motored past.

Amy, who is pregnant with the couple’s second child, was under the impression they were going for a boat trip when Tom took her down to the estuary.

Old romantic Tom said: ‘I chose Salcombe because its beautiful and the perfect spot to do it. I couldn’t just do it normally, I wanted to make her feel what I feel every day I wake up next to her.

‘I did want to get Amy to jump out of a plane and do it that way but I couldn’t wait until after the baby was born! She had no idea what was going on and said I should have told her we were going to lunch somewhere because she would have dressed up.’

A separate wedding was happening at Cliff House at the time, meaning there were people gathered on the balcony and when everyone spotted what was going on, a huge cheer went up as Amy said yes.

Helping Tom out holding the signs in the boats were Amy’s son Owen Marshall, Tom’s dad Simon Hurrell, and friends Jack Tooke, Fred Stallman, Tobias Whitely, Thomas Luscombe, Tom Savage, Calum Newton, Rachel Durbridge, Lydia Spink and Collette Maguire.

A video of the proposal can be viewed on our website: kingsbridge-today or find the link on our Facebook page @KBSalcGazette. Congratulations to the happy couple!