Dating apps can get a bad rap. But for the British-American fashion designer , the fact that he met his now-husband, Eitan Senerman, on Raya is a source of pride, not embarrassment. “I think a lot of people want to have this moment where you meet on a sleeper train, or an intimate restaurant by chance,” he shares.
“But I also think we’d probably have never spoken if we hadn’t met online; we’re very different people. We always joke that if we saw each other in a bar, we’d smile at each other and be so interested, but we had such different friend circles and we were in such different places in our lives.” Senerman proposed at The Newt in Somerset, where the couple had gone on one of their earliest and most memorable dates.
“I remember it was only our third date, but we’d ended up talking about life, kids, family, and all these huge things,” Reed shares. “It was really mind-blowing for me.” Despite finding themselves in the exact same spot in the hotel gardens, Harris didn’t twig that something was afoot.
“We went for a walk and there was a picnic basket, candles, Champagne, and I remember thinking, ‘Oh my goodness, someone’s having a date in our spot!’ And I was almost annoyed,” he jokes. “Then as we got closer I realized someone was getting engaged, but it didn’t click in my brain that it was us getting engaged. Being a queer individual, you never really feel you deserve love.
” Senerman had sourced the ring—a vintage 1920s toi et m.