THE romantic at heart are being told to pay attention to Okehampton's British Heart Foundation shop window this Valentine's day — as the store's 2013 Valentine love heart scheme has led to a wedding.

Last year, the town's store put love heart messages in the window for Valentine's Day, so lovers could express their feelings for one another in exchange for a donation to the charity.

One of those who decided to take part was Kathy Arabian.

Swept up in the romance of Valentine's Day, she decided to use a heart message to ask her boyfriend Max Shaw a very important question.

She said: 'On Valentine's Day, I bought the large paper heart and asked my boyfriend Max to marry me, and they put it in the window.

'I told him to look at the window late that night when he was doing the last doggy walk, and he came home and said I do!

'Thank you to British Heart Foundation. Without the paper hearts I wouldn't have proposed to him then.

'I tried proposing all of 2012 but my plans failed. When I saw the paper hearts being advertised it made it very easy and relaxed for me to propose and I did it spur of the moment.

'Without the genius idea of paper hearts we would probably still not be married!'

The couple got hitched at Lewtrenchard Manor last September.

Store manageress Lisa Hills said that she thought this was the first time the shop had been quite so instrumental in affairs of the heart.

She said: 'How lovely to know that we have helped the course of true love to run smoothly.'

The big day is tomorrow, but the store is still happy to put new Valentine's messages in the window.

Pop into the store on Fore Street or call 01837 658792.