A Wisconsin couple’s engagement got off to a rocky start after the wife-to-be accidentally hit the throttle on her boat, causing it to crash and send her fiancé flying into the water as he proposed.
The man, Colton Brownlee,as part of his picturesque proposal, planned to pop the question to his girlfriend, Julie Palmer, as she docked her boat on Lake Como.
The stage was set and he had lined up a group of friends on the bank with t-shirts reading “Julie Will You Marry Me?”, which they were all set to reveal. But as Julie headed into the dock, Colton realized they had left another one of their boats on the pier, leading him to head out and step over the other boat to help bring Julie ashore and as he stood across the two boats, Colton, decided the time was right to ask the big question, thankfully, Julie said, “Yes”, but as Julie, leaned forward to kiss her new fiancé and accept the ring, she accidentally hit the boat’s throttle knocking Colton into the water and her boat shooting into the pier.
Fortunately for the couple, a soaked Colton managed to keep a hold on the ring box, before friends helped Julie push her boat back into the water.
A marriage proposal is a custom, commonly practiced in Western cultures, in which one member of a couple asks the other for their hand in marriage. This is traditionally made by a man to a woman.
