Our story
For those who don’t know, or those who just like to be reminded.
Mark and Sandra met in 2013. Online that is. Not through a dating site or anything like that but through a game they both liked to play. At first it was friendship. Later, in 2015 Sandra first came to visit Mark in The Netherlands, within two weeks the friendship became a relationship.
Both knew that this relationship was not gonna be easy. Living 2400km away from each other is a tough thing to deal with. In 2016 Mark also went to Sweden to meet Sandra’s family and see her country. Only a few months later Mark managed to find an apartment and on August 16th 2016 Sandra made the big move to The Netherlands to live together.
As time moved on Sandra learned the language quickly and even managed to find a good job. Mark also got himself a new job and everything started to come together.
Christmas 2019
In 2019 Sandra and Mark decided to celebrate Christmas in Sweden again. But this time with a little surprise. Literally! On dec 24th at the dinner table in the presence of close family they announced they were pregnant by presenting two small pairs of shoes to both grandmothers.
After this pleasant surprise Sandra was really tired and went to bed quite early. Little did she know Mark had a even bigger surprise for her. That night Mark asked Staffan and Pia for permission to marry their beautiful daughter and luckily they approved.
The next day, Dec 25th Mark lured Sandra to the frozen lake under the pretense he just wanted to go for a walk. Shortly after being on the ice Mark went on his knees to pop the big question. Sandra still did not realize what was going on. Only after Mark asked if she wanted to marry him did she realize what was going on.
“But i thought you never wanted to marry” Sandra asked while she started to cry with joy.
“I guess it took the right girl for me to want it” Mark replied.
Luckily she said YES! and here we are today.
Unfortunately we had to cancel our wedding plans in 2021 but now we can finally marry.
We hope to see you all on July 2nd 2022!!!