Ruan&Lize-Mari

It started, as the best things do, without any plan at all — a long table, mutual friends, and a conversation that ran far past the last cup of coffee.

Years of slow Sunday mornings, dust-road detours and a shared weakness for Highveld thunderstorms later, Ruan asked a question on a sandstone koppie above the farm — the Malutis going gold behind them — and Lize-Mari said yes before he could finish it.

Now we'd like the people we love most gathered under a wide Free State sky, with good wine and worse dancing, to make it official.

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott