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achel carvalho and clifton murray—a member of the multiplatinum, juno award-winning musical group, the tenors—first
met at a wedding in the ballroom of the vancouver club in the
summer of 2008. This was before Clifton had joined The Tenors and Rachel
was still a student in university. Little did they know that they would host their
wedding in this exact same room seven years later!

In the fall of 2013, Clifton surprised Rachel with an elaborate mountaintop
proposal. “From the moment we met, I knew that there had to be something
extraordinary about my proposal to her,” explains Clifton, whose family owns
the luxurious nimmo bay wilderness resort in BC’s Great Bear Rainforest.
“I told Rachel that a guest at Nimmo Bay had to cancel his heli-fishing trip and,
since the helicopter he booked was paid for anyway, he gave it to us for the day
to tour around Vancouver’s coast mountain.” Rachel didn’t find anything suspicious with the outing, as Clifton had invited a few friends to join them on the
adventure (including photographer Tom Belding who captured the proposal).
The group took flight and travelled to a snow-covered mountaintop where
Clifton got down on bended knee and proposed. “We walked toward the edge
of the mountain and I dropped to one knee and extracted the glittering ring
from my pocket,” recalls Clifton. Rachel, of course, accepted and a Rolls-Royce
was waiting on the tarmac to carry the newly engaged pair to a celebratory
dinner at hawksworth restaurant with family and friends. “It was a day
that dreams and fairytales are made of,” share the couple. Their engagement
celebration continued the next day, as the jet-setting twosome flew to New
York where they stayed at the new york lotte palace hotel, courtesy of
Jeffrey Latimer of jl entertainment. While there, Glen Sather, President
of the New York Rangers had arranged a special weekend for the pair, complete
with tickets to a Rangers hockey game, courtside seats at a Knicks game, ringside seats for a heavyweight fight, and a magical horse-drawn carriage ride
through Central Park!

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