H.E.B Marriage Proposal Story: Dami Olowoyo & Ayo Romiluyi

Dami Olowoyo and Ayo Romiluyi  – the doctor bride and petroleum engineer groom met when the bride was in medical school. Although Ayo immediately caught Dami’s eye, it took him years to capture her heart.

Dami was all about her books, even when he wanted to go all out with grand gestures, she was satisfied with just friendship.

Persistence eventually paid when she was in her final semester at med school, so she took a chance and went with him on a date. Ayo’s charm and humor completely won Dami over, and she then realized the amazing man and love she had been missing out on.

The Proposal
December 2013 we decided to take a trip to Puerto rico to celebrate my birthday. I didn’t suspect a thing since I pretty much planned the trip. So my birthday rolls around, that morning Ayo gave me a gift before we left the hotel to do the usual touristy stuff. The funny thing was a good friend of mine called for the usual birthday greeting and jokingly she mentioned, “ah Dami I can see you coming back with a ring oh.” I just laughed and didn’t think much of it. I actually jokingly mentioned it to Ayo and we both laughed and moved on. I usually am able to guess if Ayo is hiding something from me but I didn’t get any vibe of that sort at all!

So evening comes around and Ayo said he wanted to take me for dinner. I was like – okay, nice way to round up the evening. Birthday dinner here I come ! I started getting ready. I put on this sexy black dress. I told my darling oga to help me zip up. Next thing I knew Ayo broke my zip ! Arghhhhh ! I was pissed off ! The dress I had been dreaming of rocking since. SMH. Anyhow I was like okay fine its still my birthday I got over it quickly. But I had to settle to wear some random dress. So we went off to the restaurant, when we arrived I was very impressed.

The location was beautiful – on the beach, it was like we had our own little island to ourselves. Throughout our meal Ayo kept talking about how we met and our journey throughout the years. Honestly I wasn’t really listening. I was soooo interested in the food. Kai that food was to die for ! I even requested to meet the chef. (I know am a grub) The staff was so attentive, the chef even came out to say hi to me. So time for desert, next thing I knew I heard a Naija song playing in the restaurant – “I love you” by Praiz (it’s the first song on our website I was like what in the world is going on here – a Nigerian song in PR ??

Next thing Mr Ayo was kneeling in front of me with a ring. I almost passed out. I couldn’t even hear what he was saying. I burst into tears ! He put the ring on and the whole restaurant burst into applause…