Google ‘bridesmaid proposal’ and you are bombarded with cringe-worthy poems, hand made hankies and trashy trinkets that will get binned faster than pharlap.

Lady Grey roses with gold sprayed stems tied with lashings of ribbon and accompanied by a gold foiled on cotton paper with a natural deckle edge with black linen envelopes. I practically wrote essays to each of them and got tears, squeals of joy and heaps of insta-re-posting and praise