A NI couple who captured their engagement on TikTok have received over 17.8m views.
Warrenpoint man Ruairi McGivern (26) and Armagh woman Annalivia Hynds (24), who have been together for six years, were able to capture the special moment on video.
The pair were on a family holiday in Salou along with their two daughters, Robyn, 2, and 7-month-old Rhea. Ruairi surprised Annalivia by popping the question while she was making a TikTok on July 13.
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The viral video has now been liked 2.8m times and is captioned: "Asked me to make a TikTok with him and this happens, my reaction says it all. Forever with you."
TikToker Annalivia told Belfast Live : "Me and Ruairi met in 2014, eight years ago and have been going out for six years.
"When we first met, Warrenpoint and Armagh was quite a distance, we were quite young and didn't drive or anything so we just went on a few dates.
"I went to uni and moved down to Belfast and he was already there so we ended up living right beside each other and that's when we started taking it a bit more serious."
Annalivia also explained how shocked she was when Ruairi proposed.
"It wasn't expected on that holiday. I kind of expected it at some stage because obviously we have two children, have been together years and bought a house, that was probably what was next to come.
"The reason why I didn't think there would be a ring is because I literally packed his suitcase, hand luggage, everything.
"We were in like a campsite resort so when we got there, I unpacked everything... but his family actually came with us on holiday so one of them took the ring for him. So he got away easy."
Annalivia added: "One of the days his mum and dad took the girls so we could go and do something, so we went into a wee place called Cambrils, and he was going to do it there. He said he was trying all day and just couldn't get [the ring] out of the house in a backpack or bum bag without me being like, 'why've you got a bag?', because he never has one.
"I would have known."
The Armagh woman then explained how the proposal happened.
She said: "I was obviously making TikToks as I do, outside the apartment, and then he came out and said, 'Can I get in a TikTok?' and I said, 'Yeah sure, if you want'.
"Next thing he did it and I was like, 'Oh my god, are you serious?' I thought he was taking the p*** because he's the type. That would be something he'd probably joke about."
Annalivia added: "I always said to him that engagements out in public are lovely and all but I think I'd get embarrassed...
"It's a video you can look at forever and that I'll always have.
"I love my ring. I had always looked at rings and I'm obsessed with rings but it wasn't actually the one I'd picked, and I'm so glad because now I don't even like the one I picked."
Annalivia started making 'silly TikToks' years ago, but when she had her second baby, she started documenting her post-partum work-outs and life as a young mum with two children.
"I hit 10,000 in May, then hit 20,000 two weeks after that and before I went on holiday I hit about 26,000. Then while on holiday I got about 20,000 more after that video. At the minute I'm up to about 65,000," she said.
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