Us together
Rachel and Peter met online in 2021 when there was something of a global pandemic occurring. Whether their love was sparked by the threat of imminent apocalypse or a shared enjoyment of hiking will never be clear, but after enough dates and even more lateral flow tests they had a snog and that was that.
Several years later, on an extremely miserable night on Brighton Beach by the old fishing boat in which they had their first date, Rachel asked Pete if he would like to be civil partners. He said yes! Then he asked her later, too (as it wasn’t fair only she got to do it) after walking the South Downs Way as part of their journey west.
Luckily, Rachel also agreed, which was good as by then they’d told their families.