“I wouldn’t say I did it in the traditional way, no,” McIlroy said. “We had planned to go to Paris since May; we were always going to go. Then what happened a few weeks before made us unsure. But when we got there it felt great. People were just getting on with things and I thought [the proposal] might make the trip even better. So we went out for dinner and that was that. It was a special way to end the year.”