How To Surprise Your Girlfriend: A Roller Coaster Wedding Proposal

“If life is a highway, then getting married is a… roller coaster?”

That strained metaphor probably wasn’t what Austin Crecelius was thinking when he proposed to his girlfriend, Allison Boyle. In fact, we know it’s not because, in the video above, he says LIFE is the roller coaster. But Tom Cochrane can’t be too mad, because it’s an adorable moment, captured while the couple was riding the Voyage at Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana. Crecelius perfectly timed it so that she’d be in tears the second the coaster dropped, for max-ugly crying. Should’ve held out for the Bicycle of Death.

“I waited in line for 15 excruciating minutes nervously waiting to pop the question,” Crecelius said. “There was even one point in time where she asked me if I felt really hot because my face was red and I was sweating… When we finally got off the exit ramp, I told her that life is full of surprises, too, and the ring she was wearing was just a fake. So I took the fake ring off of her finger, got on my knees, and proposed to her with the real ring I had got for her.” (Via NBC New York)

They even took the requisite post-roller coaster shot:

You can tell it’s meant to be, because no one’s flashing the camera.

(Via NBC New York)

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