BMWK: Tell me about the proposal. How did you come up with the idea and location? What was the inspiration?
Junior: She’s always on YouTube watching the flash mobs. I remember her being online one time and showing me some [of the proposal videos], and I thought they were really nice. It took me about six months to figure out a location and a day, and I had a lot of people to help me plan it. I initially wanted to do it at the mall we have here and have people dancing. But something came up and it was going to take too long. So I decided I was just going to do something different.
One day we went to our favorite place to eat and I thought it was perfect because they had three big screen TVs outside there. So I had to track down the Events Manager to figure out how to plan the proposal there. Once everything was finalized, I had my brother and her mom go to help me pick out the ring which is what you saw in the clip.
BMWK: I loved how Junior had the words in the video as if he were going to ask you to marry you, and then he put “Wait, I’m coming”.
Claudine: Everyone freaked out at that point. All of our family was there and I almost didn’t go out because I was feeling sick that day. But my mom made me feel bad saying his family really wanted to hang out with me. So it’s so funny what ended up happening and I’m so thankful that I went! He did really good because most people can’t keep a secret from me, I find out everything [laughs]. I was most surprised about my mother who can never keep a secret [laughs]! It was just the best surprise ever.
BMWK: At what point did it click that this was really happening?
Claudine: When the screen came on, I started turning around and all the TVs were playing with him talking. I couldn’t really see much because I had taken my glasses off, but that’s when I asked myself, ‘Oh my gosh, is he really doing it?’ Once the clip started playing, I almost fell out. I just started shaking and ended up having to sit down. When I heard him say, ‘I’m just going to let the video show you’, I knew right then and there it was really happening.
Leave a Reply