It’s a love story and child, she mentioned “yes!”
A Nova Scotia couple fulfilled their wildest desires Thursday evening once they bought engaged at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Toronto.
Taylor Evans – sure, his title is Taylor – bought down on his knee and popped the massive query to girlfriend Nicole McPhee through the famous person’s romantic ballad “Lover.”
“That’s our song since we started dating,” defined McPhee throughout an interview from their lodge room in Toronto on Friday.
The superfans from Sydney, N.S., began relationship in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. With many conventional relationship spots closed, they spent lots of their first dates driving round listening to their favorite singer.
“Nicole didn’t believe me that I actually like Taylor Swift until she started putting songs on and I knew every lyric,” mentioned Evans. “We’re both Swifties.”
“He might be a bigger fan than I am!” joked McPhee.
When Swift introduced she can be taking her worldwide Eras Tour to Canada, they knew they needed to try to get tickets.
Evans additionally knew all too nicely that will be the right time to suggest — and McPhee was prepared for it.
“It’s kind of just like the perfect circle,” he mentioned. “We started dating listening to Taylor Swift, we always kind of joked around if we’d see Taylor Swift it would kind of be the perfect time to propose, so everything just kinda … lined up, so to speak.”
“I had like a little bit of a feeling it might be coming,” admitted McPhee. “We’d talked about it, we’d gone ring shopping long ago, so I was kind of thinking maybe. But I was very surprised when he did it at ‘Lover’ and not ‘Love Story’ because that’s the one that everybody else does. So, there was still that nice big surprise.”
McPhee says the gang of Swifties round them went wild once they realized what was taking place.
“There was lots of screams, there was lots of tears, everybody started giving us bracelets,” she mentioned.
Whereas the live performance proposal was the icing on the cake, the couple has been having fun with the Swift-themed occasions since they arrived in Toronto on Tuesday. They are saying all of it seems like “one big party.”
“Our hotel lobby has been playing Taylor Swift music non-stop the entire time, so everyone’s down in the lobby dancing, having a great time, trading friendship bracelets,” mentioned Evans, who will even be celebrating his thirty second birthday earlier than they go away on Sunday.
As for the live performance itself, they are saying they’ve by no means skilled something prefer it.
“Amazing. I can’t even describe the energy that was in there,” mentioned McPhee.
“You could feel the stadium move under you feet,” mentioned Evans of the Rogers Centre, which hosted virtually 50,000 followers for the primary Toronto present Thursday evening. “It was crazy.”
The couple, who welcomed a child woman in March, doesn’t have any concrete wedding ceremony plans but. However Evans does know what tune they are going to be dancing to at their reception.
“Lover’s going to be our first dance song, absolutely.”
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