Our Love Story

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Like all good love stories, this all began on a dance floor. And not just any dance floor. It was the fine Geelong establishment 'Home House' where Billy and Kelly shared a kiss. It was September in 2012, a warm spring night in Geelong, Kelly hastily wiped her red lipstick off her lips to prevent the ensuing pash rash and their lips sealed the deal.

You see, according to Kelly, she had just come to the realisation that her friends younger brother Billy was easy on the eye. Months before the kiss at Home House, Kelly had headed over to her friend's house and parked her car just as Billy pulled up in the driveway. Now, Kelly is the first to admit that she has always been attractive to 'a hot tradie', and when one decidedly hot tradie jumped out of the car from a hard day's work, emptying his car when he asked 'Hey Kell, could you give me a hand?' and asked her to help him out by carrying his eski inside the house, she turned to jelly. The power of Billy Clarke in those dirty tradie short shorts' he was none the wiser that Kelly was a hot mess.

Red faced and ruffled; Kelly then stumbled into the kitchen. her friend peering at her, 'What's wrong with you?' - Kelly confessed on the spot: "I'm flustered, your brother is a bit hot!"

Not many couples can say their story began with an eski.

Following 'love at tradie sight' their life as an engaged couple began with the proposal at Sailor's Falls in Daylesford in October three years ago. It was the most picturesque day according to Billy, who had duped Kelly into thinking they were scouting photography spots for his sister's upcoming wedding. Billy will tell also you that there was dappled mid-morning sunlight spilling across the path down to the falls, birdsong overhead and a gentle breeze. Perfectly romantic conditions. Kelly will remind you that she was wearing a rigid denim skirt as she uncomfortably clomped up and down the steps on the 1.5 kilometre walking track. She scrutinised the pockets of his shorts as she walked behind him - no ring box.

But Billy did have a ring, the very one she loved and had tagged him in on social media, shifting around in his pocket as he walked along, scouting in reality for the perfect proposal spot. He ignored a clearing, with the perfect light falling across the most breathtaking carpet of forget-me-knot flowers, instead trudging on to an area with a giant rock. 'I've f*@ked up here!' thought Billy as he looked around at this less-than-ideal setting of boring rocks, with an Indian family of tourists taking photos nearby, but figured it was now or never. Kneeling on broken glass, Billy proposed to Kelly, and she immediately began to ugly cry, mascara streaming down her face... The Indian family breaking into an applause for the newly engaged couple.