Pooch proposes

Diane Fabiano, program assistant in alumni relations at Coastal Carolina University, recently had a unique proposal from her boyfriend of seven years, Aarron Sanders, with a little help from their four-legged friend.

“I came home and was greeted by my little Ellie as usual,” Fabiano says about her four-year-old boxer meeting her at the door. But on Jan. 26, there was something different about her pooch. “She wore a sign around her neck that said, ‘Will you marry my dad?’”

From there, Sanders got down on one knee and continued the proposal,and Fabriano said, “Yes, of course.” He told Fabiano that he spent two days rehearsing with Ellie but Ellie was “not fond” of wearing the sign at first.

Sanders is from Conway, but they’re planning to have the wedding in Fabiano’s home state of New Jersey in 2014.