A funny video from the US of a man failing to propose to his girlfriend after unintentionally dropping the ring down a waterfall.
The footage, captured at Havasupai Falls in the Grand Canyon, shows the man kneeling down to propose to his girlfriend when suddenly the ring falls into the water.
He can't find the ring but fortunately she says yes.
I ruined the one moment that every couple should remember for the rest of their lives⎯ the proposal. I dropped the ring. Down a waterfall! Literally while on my knee proposing! And it’s on video!
In our six years together, Kammie and I have taken every opportunity we can to play in the outdoors, so I decided to propose on one of these adventures, a backpacking trip into Havasupai Falls in the Grand Canyon. A friend was with us (the same friend who referred me to this opportunity) and filmed the sorry episode! Caught up with the beauty of the area, I hastily created the whole plan, getting greedy and wanting a waterfall in the shot. I would tell her that I wanted a picture of us jumping off the smaller falls, he would take the picture/video. I would keep the ring on my pinky finger, my hand in a fist the whole time to ensure it would not slip off, and to keep it hidden. But instead of jumping, I would go down on my knee and propose, and after she said yes, we would take the plunge together! I practiced it dozens of times. What could go wrong?
So we waded out and prepared to jump, but when the moment came, I guess I got nervous, and as I dropped to my knee and brought up my hand with the ring to ask the question, the ring was gone! In my panic, I told her “I just dropped the ring!” Not knowing what else to do, I asked in a rushed, desperate manner, “Uh, will you marry me?” Thankfully, she said “Yes.” After a quick kiss, I yelped, “Now help me find the ring!” and jumped into the water to dive for it. She too had to dive for her own engagement ring! But it was impossible. I dove for three hours until the point of exhaustion, to no avail.
What should have been the most memorable moments of our new life became one of the most devastating moments of my mine. How could I have been so stupid; why would she marry someone so stupid? And then worse, the inevitable second guessing… is this a sign? Are we not meant to be? She asked if I believed that. I assured her that I did not⎯that I loved her⎯that I was just an idiot who made a stupid mistake! We actually had to decide whether we were actually engaged or not, whether we wanted to tell anyone, whether to make that miserable one count or to forget about it and try again at some other point. What a massive failure! I tore myself up over it; I had to leave after getting out of the water to go cry behind a rock.
We took turns consoling each other in the days after, and decided to tell our parents and friends, which made it real. (Unbelievably our first opportunity to call came on April 1st, and many didn’t believe us and forced us to call them back on April 2nd, to avoid being the “April fool!” True story…)
We’ve been happily married now for four years, and we can laugh about it now, (we even showed the video at our wedding reception!) but it still is one of those lost and terribly embarrassing moments. But it is a great story…
-Andrew and Kammie Schuhmann