A couple who bonded over their love for Sam Fender on their first date have spoken about the “perfect” moment when they got engaged at one of his gigs.
Dan Hughes, 32, got down on one knee to propose to 24-year-old Sophie de Grey as Fender played Hypersonic Missiles, the final song of his concert in Manchester’s Wythenshawe Park on Saturday.
Sophie said the proposal, which she excitedly accepted, felt “like a blur”.
“Dan turns me around and I remember thinking ‘I do actually want to listen to this [song]’, but then I realised he was down on one knee,” she told the BBC. “Fireworks went off so it was literally just perfect timing.”