REVEALED BLACK CAP STAR’S CRAZY PROPOSAL
Black Cap Tim Seifert has battled quarantines and a bout of Covid but will make it down the aisle to marry his fiancee in three weeks.
The 26-year-old, who also plays for Northern Districts, proposed to Morgan Croasdale last November in a 24-hour window between two Twenty20 matches.
The bride-to-be runs Married by Morgan and is a celebrant and event co-ordinator.
In January the pair had their engagement party at the Hamilton Golf Club at St Andrews, and golfloving Seifert was grinning from ear to ear.
On her business Instagram page, Croasdale wrote: “This celebrant loves a reason to throw a party. Due to my partner’s work commitments, we’ve had to move our wedding date forward — so I’ll be calling this man my husband in six months time and I’m so excited, I can’t wait to be on the other side of it.”
Croasdale’s page is full of dream weddings and locations she has arranged for others. Spy is picking a picturesque winter setting in the Waikato, where the couple are based.
In a podcast show this week, Seifert talked about being the last Kiwi left in India after he tested positive for Covid-19 just hours before he was due to leave the virus-ravaged country.
The batsman, who represented the Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL, failed both his predeparture PCR tests and was taken into quarantine.
‘I’ll be calling this man my husband in six months time and I’m so excited.’
“I was very lucky that everyone gets sick differently. For me it was just like a cold, cough, runny nose,” Seifert said. He lost his sense of smell and taste and his asthma has been worse since his illness.
He also talked how he proposed to Croasdale in a 24-hour stint between cricket trips. He was just finishing MIQ after competing in the Caribbean Premier League for the Trinbago Knight Riders, when KKR coach Brendon McCullum gave him a call to see if he was interested in playing in India — and he was on the next flight out.
Seifert and Croasdale had already bought a ring together but he hadn’t formally proposed or asked her father for her hand in marriage.
But after a dash to Croasdale’s parents’ farm, he got permission, then proposed to Croasdale before boarding.