Hannah Boozer and Matthew Wear met during their first year at the University of Sunderland, when they both lived in student flats at The Forge in Pallion. Advertisement Advertisement Sign up to our daily newsletter Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Sunderland Echo, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. But it wasn’t until an exchange on twitter during their final year in 2017 that love finally blossomed.
Hannah, who studied Fashion Journalism and now leads a team of copywriters , said: “We’ve known each other since first year, we both lived in the Forge, we both lived in the same block of flats. “But we didn’t really get talking until I’d been tweeting about some essay, and he tweeted me asking how’s it going. Then it blossomed.
Advertisement Advertisement “We actually went and picked up our dissertations together. It might have been, if you could potentially call it, our third date.” The pair both graduated, enjoying happy years together, and in 2022, Matthew, who now works as a freelance sports journalist covering the NFL, popped the question during a holiday in Rome.
“I had to be very sneaky with the ring and I knew where I was going to do it – this place that was not too busy. It was this massive park that overlooked the skyline,” he said. Advertisement Advertisement “On the day, I was like ‘we need to go’ - being really suspici.
