Man Dropped Engagement Ring From Hot Air Balloon
James Ng wanted to surprise his girlfriend by proposing on a hot-air balloon ride when he got a surprise of his own: he dropped the ring 500 feet into the woods!
James Ng was set to propose to his fiancée on a hot-air balloon ride when the symbol of their love fell 500 feet into the woods.
Ng, 26, pastor of New Mercies Community Church, had hidden the 1-carat diamond ring in a box in his camera case. As they floated along on Oct. 29, the case slipped from his hands.
"I just watched it tumble, and it hit a tree and spun around, and the stuff fluttered out of it," Ng recalls. "And I just put my head down on the side of the balloon, and I was just — I just couldn’t believe I’d just done that.
"My first thought was don’t tell her … and buy another ring — which it took me forever to afford the one I had," Ng says. But Sonya Bostic, 27, caught on. "When he reacted the way he did, that’s when I knew," she says. "Wait a second! My ring’s in there!"
But the story has a happy ending. Dick Russ and Rob Jennings of USA Today have the story: Link
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Twitter Treasure Hunt
Anthony Gardiner of Wellington, New Zealand bought an engagement ring for his girlfriend, but she turned him down. He can’t return the ring and doesn’t want to keep it as he considers it bad luck, so he’s staging a treasure hunt!
Anyone keen to pick up the ring, valued at NZ$5,000 ($3,268), will need to be in New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, on Saturday to join the hunt, the Dominion Post newspaper reported.
Clues to the ring’s whereabouts will start being posted on social networking site Twitter (http:/twitter.com/donoogle_com) at 8 a.m. local time on Saturday (2000 GMT on Friday).
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Fiancé Drops Engagement Ring Off Brooklyn Bridge
In another example of a marriage proposal not going according to plan, comes this story from New York.
Don Walling decided to propose to his girlfriend, Gina Pellicani, on the Brooklyn Bridge while his family watched and videotaped.
But at the moment of truth – with ring in hand – disaster struck, and it wasn’t because Gina refused to say, “I do.” Walling dropped the ring through a crack in the pedestrian bridge and into traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge roadway below.
“I got on one knee, proposed and it just flew out,” Walling said. “I watched it fall through the crack on the bridge, right between the wood planks.”
But he didn’t let his shock sway him for long. Walling swung into action.
“I kissed her, said I was sorry and told her I am going to get that ring back,” Walling said.
The groom-to-be jumped onto the bridge’s roadway and began looking for the ring. Miraculously, he found it, with the help of his family and fiancée looking on from above.
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Woman Accidentally Swallows Engagement Ring
Like many guys, Reed Harris of Farmington, New Mexico, wanted to give his girlfriend a very memorable marriage proposal. Harris’ plan was to place the engagement ring in girlfriend Kaitlin Whipple’s Frosty dessert and have her ‘discover’ it as she was being filmed. Instead of discovering the ring, she swallowed it!
“I felt nothing at all,” she told Lauer. “I was racing my friends, so there was no way I was going to lose that competition.”
All was not lost though, a disbelieving Whipple was taken to a hospital where her x-rays showed the missing engagement ring! It was then and there Harris finally proposed, and a day later the ring was safely recovered.
Link | The story in Kaitlin’s own words in her blog Krazy Kaitlin
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