New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

High-flying proposal! KAITLIN CAUGHT OUT

By her own admission, nothing usually gets past Kaitlin Ruddock. With her ability to sniff out a scam, the new Fair Go reporter has always been very hard to surprise.

But after level 4 lockdown, on what was supposed to be a ‘meet the family’ weekend for her and boyfriend Joshua Aldridge, the 26-year-old never suspected the epic marriage proposal that lay ahead or that both sets of parents were in on it.

“Yes, they all got me!” smiles Kaitlin. “I really had no expectations. All I had hoped for in a proposal was something a little bit out of the ordinary, but this surpassed it.”

Based in Nelson at the time, the couple’s plan was to

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