Aw, so cute! My husband did something similar. We actually designed a ring together, so that was no shock, but he wanted the official proposal to be a surprise. What we did was I picked out the setting and he picked the diamond and made all the arrangements. He kept telling me there were crazy delays - the jeweller went on vacation, then they had to keep the ring till they could get it appraised for insurance, and the appraiser was out of town, etc etc. We had a cruise planned, and I had assumed the proposal would happen then. Hubby bent over backwards to convince me that that WAS his original plan, but because of the delays it wasn't gonna happen. In retrospect, I should have suspected something since it wasn't like I was nagging him about it.

He really played it up too, pretending to be super mad at the jeweller and everything. First night on the cruise we splurged on a fancy dinner, I figured this HAD to be the night! But alas, he got all sad and kept apologizing. I was totally convinced.

The next day he and the cruise director conspired to fake a raffle at the evening show, to get me on stage. When I got up there, hubby followed me and the cruise director handed over the mic. TOTAL surprise!

Turns out he had to go to all kinds of crazy lengths to hide the ring from me up to that point. It was in a giant ornate metal box, which had to go through customs and security twice. Luckily both times we'd gotten separated in line and he was able to discreetly tell the agent to open it in a back room so I wouldn't see it. Both times the agents laughed and said it was fine. He then had to hide the ring in the room's safe without me knowing, so he propped up an ipad and a bunch of other stuff in front of it.