Former MAFS star Sean Hollands tells all about how he popped the question and how Roslyn is his perfect match.
Cowboy Sean Hollands may not have got his happily ever after with Married at First Sight bride Susan Rawlings, but he has found with girlfriend Roslyn Buerckner whom he proposed to at this year’s Melbourne Cup on Nov. 6.
Chatting exclusively to WHO, Hollands reveals the day he popped the question had special significance for the couple, who celebrated their first anniversary in August.
“There are lots of things [that are meaningful] for us with the Melbourne Cup,” says Hollands, 37. “Obviously, we are both horsey people, but Roslyn’s Pop, George, owns a thoroughbred stud – he’s very well-known in the racing industry – but
he passed away a few months ago.”
It had always been George’s dream to run a horse in the Cup and to attend the big race, but he died before fulfilling it.
Describing Buerckner’s grandfather as her “best friend,” Hollands says he knows how much George meant to his now fiancée and was there through George’s fierce battle with cancer.
Hollands had been planning to propose to his girlfriend for some time – meeting a jeweller in July to begin planning the ring – but knew that for him to get down on bended knee at the Cup would mean so much to bride-to-be.
“It’s the first time I had been to the Melbourne Cup,” he adds. “It was the first time Roslyn had ever been, too.
“And not only that, but the actual Melbourne Cup this year was made from the gold from the mine site that
I work at,” says Hollands, who works at Queensland’s Evolution Mining.
“So this was about so much more than just ‘proposing’– I knew I would never get an opportunity like this ever again.”
For their full interview – be sure to pick up the latest copy of WHO!
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