Angelo Piccini recreated the infamous boat scene from The Notebook to pop the question to girlfriend Chiara Grimaldi.
The magical occasion was put together with the help from Tiffany Wright, a Proposal planner for my company The One Romance, who helped Angelo rent a private lake in North London’s Alexandra Palace.
Real-life Ryan Gosling, aka Angelo, filled the lake with 1,000 origami swans, as opposed to the real ones in the film, and took Chiara on a boat ride.
He surprised his now fiancée first with flowers, followed by a woman playing her favourite songs on guitar, a couple of Cosmopolitans with the final revelation of the paper swans.
Chiara was to be further surprised when her family members sprung out of the bushes carrying signs, which read: “Chiara, will you marry me! You are the one.”
As Chiara started to cry, Angelo said: “I guess you’ve realised while we’ve stopped.”
A shocked Chiara responded with: “What have you done?!” “I’ve tried to recreate a dream for you,” Angelo continued.
“When we are together, everything is possible. Together everything is doable.”
After telling Chiara she is the one, he opened up a small box to reveal a ring as Chiara said yes to the romantic proposal without hesitation.
The proposal was part of a series of proposals from The One Proposal.