Sent to me by a friend in the states. Sorry, I can't send you the video.



(April 2) - An elaborately planned marriage proposal almost became an engagement nightmare after the groom-to-be opened the ring box on the Brooklyn Bridge -- and the jewelry fell into traffic below.
Don Walling told NBC's 'Today' show that he and his girlfriend, Gina Pellicani, had gone to dinner with family to celebrate his 29th birthday. He suggested a stroll across the bridge's pedestrian walkway. With all of Manhattan before them -- and with a relative videotaping the event -- he took to one knee to ask her hand in marriage.

That's about the time he opened the box.

Determined to save her ring, he scaled the side of the bridge as motorists, thinking he was suicidal, begged him not to jump. A police suicide-prevention van pulled up.
"I just kept telling them, 'I need to get that ring. I have to get that ring,'" Walling told NBC.

The cops stopped traffic, and with help from the family yelling down the ring's location from their walkway perch, Walling reclaimed the prize.

The platinum band was damaged, but the stones were fine. And the story has a very happy ending. The couple, both public school teachers, are planning an April 24 wedding.

"He does crazy things all the time, but this is definitely the craziest thing he’s ever done," Pellicani told NBC.