CP - How did you guys meet?
C&T - We worked in Auckland for the same company and met on Chanelle’s first day as she was getting shown around the office. A very professional hand shake to kick things off, then because we worked in different teams, we didn’t see each other for a few months but Friday night drinks gave us an opportunity to get to know each other a little better.
CP - Was it love at first sight?
C&T - Yes and no, for me (Tim) it was, but like we said, we completely forgot about each other for a few months. Until I went in on Chanelle at drinks for preferring salt and vinegar over chicken chips.
CP - Can you share a quirky habit of each other that you find cute or endearing?
C: whenever we sit on the sofa, Tim takes his socks off halfway with his feet to let them acclimatise, before taking his socks off fully.
T: Chanelle has a bowl addiction. Every single place we have visited, the first thing she buys? A bowl. We have no room in our bags? Two bowls should fit. An upside of this is we have a bowl for every need a bowl could ever fill.
CP - What's something surprising you've learned about each other since being together?
T: Chanelle knows the entire lyrics to Usher’s Confessions and Eminem’s Encore. You’re really in the inner circle if you get a chance to see this in action.
C: Despite absolutely hating spiders, if I ask Tim not to kill one that’s intruding, he won’t.
CP - If you could describe your relationship using only 3 words, what would they be?
C&T - Pizza, nachos, wine OR fun, adventure, home.
CP - What's the most spontaneous thing you've done together?
C&T - A few months after we started seeing other we quit our jobs and backpacked across the world with just carry on bags. Most of the time we were booking accommodation on the day, fleeing that same accommodation because of bed bugs or worse, and just generally having zero plan. It’s a time we look back on with a lot of nostalgia and we plan to outdo ourselves soon.
CP - And lastly, where did you get engaged?
C&T - We were on a dinghy with a little motor (which disconcertingly kept cutting out) on the east coast of Sardinia. Fittingly, water was a crazy sapphire blue/green. Kneeling on a dingy isn’t straightforward, but we wouldn’t change a thing.
