EDMONTON – Greg Pugh got down on one knee in the middle of the cow barns at Farmfair and asked Lyndsay Jackson to marry him.
When she said yes, he slipped on the diamond ring that he won in the cattle show that morning.
“I thought we could pawn the ring and buy a heifer with it. That didn’t go over very well,” said Pugh, who won the ring in a Hereford heifer show at Farmfair.
Hereford show organizers bought the ring for the Diamond solitaire classic show. With too few entries for that show to proceed, the names of the winners of each heifer class went into a hat, and Pugh’s name was drawn.
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When he got permission from Jackson’s parents to marry their daughter, he knelt down among the show cattle and proposed.
“It was fate. I gave her the ring and it fit perfectly,” said Pugh, of Edgerton, Alta.
Jackson didn’t expect the proposal when Pugh asked her to help blow the wood shavings off the cattle.
“The next thing I knew, he was on his knee. I didn’t cry. I was flabbergasted,” said Jackson, of Andrew, Alta.
The couple will wait until Jackson finishes her nursing course before they get married.
“I think Farmfair will probably mean a lot from here on in,” said Pugh.
