Harmony and Travis at the Moonee Valley Racecourse ready for a day at the races.The happy couple after they announced their engagement.By Sarah Schwager
IT WAS love at first newspaper sighting for Travis Fossey on Saturday.
His girlfriend, Kooweerup resident Harmony Logan, took the unusual method of proposing in the Gazette with a small photo and accompanying text, ‘Travis will you marry me?’, printed in last week’s edition.
Harmony said her heart was nearly beating out of her chest when she got down on her knees on a Yarra River cruise with the paper in one hand and a ring in the other.
“He looked at it and was shocked,” she said.
“But he said yes.”
The couple had organised the weekend away which included a day at the Moonee Valley races, the river cruise, and a night at Langham Hotel (formerly Sheridan Towers) for Travis’s 36th birthday.
“I was very nervous because there were 60 people on the boat. And we nearly missed the boat because of the taxi,” she said.
Harmony said she had had to collaborate with both the DJ and one of the waiters to find out when the upper deck would be clear and to set the mood with Lone Star’s song ‘Amazed’.
“I was so nervous. My heart really was about to beat out of my chest when I went up to the DJ.”
She said she knew it was unusual for the woman to propose but she didn’t mind.
“A lot of people said I had a lot of guts.”
Travis and Harmony, 25, have been together for the past three years.
They are both single parents. Harmony has a sevenyearold son, Ethan, and Travis’s son Dylan is nine.
“They are great together,” Harmony said.
“Ethan loves having an older brother.”
Harmony’s father, Frank, who knew about the proposal, looked after the boys for the weekend.
“They were really excited when they found out,” Harmony said.
She said it had been a nice weekend, the best she had had in a long time.
The couple have not set the date for the wedding yet but said it will probably be some time in January or perhaps on Valentine’s Day.
Travis is currently living on Phillip Island and they will start looking to buy a house after Dylan finishes school for the year.
Part of the wedding will already be catered for. Coincidentally, Travis sets up marquees for weddings and exhibitions for a living.
But Harmony says they are thinking about going back to the Langham Hotel for the wedding.
“They had a pool and a spa that held more than 25 people and a really nice view,” she said.
“They were so helpful. I didn’t have time to get a cake so they made up a plate of little desserts and wrote ‘Happy Birthday’ on them.
“They were really great.”
