A groom-to-be turned a very unfortunate situation into a positive when he proposed to his girlfriend on the same night their dream home burned down.
On the evening of Sept. 4, Sean Matthews got down on one knee and asked Kellie Stanley to marry him. The proposal happened right outside their home in Fuquay-Varina, N.C.
Friends and family had gathered in the couple’s driveway that night to show their support, and Matthews felt moved to propose.
"I knew we wouldn't be back at the house again for months and months, if not a year," Matthews told Fox News in a phone interview.
He went on, "Having her family there and some friends and neighbors, I knew it would be the last time that we would all be able to be at our home for a long time. I felt strongly that I wanted to leave with her as my fiancée."
Stanley said she hadn’t expected a marriage proposal considering the circumstance they were in. It had been five or six hours after the blaze took hold of their home and fire marshals had cleared the scene at the end of the night.
"Sean just gathered us all in the driveway at the end of the night to give a speech and thank everyone for being there for us. As he's giving the speech, in my head I'm trying to think of what I'm going to say," Stanley recalled. "But, then the entire conversation shifted, and he just started talking about how we started and how we built this house last year."
She went on, "We moved in and his whole goal – which I hadn’t known at the time – but his whole...
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