Jesse, his father, Douglas, and their 95-year-old neighbor Jim Squire rolled 640 pumpkins into place to spell out “JUSTINE WILL YOU MARRY ME?”
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Gobind “allowed us to use the middle section of all the pumpkins to create the lettering,” Douglas told the Times Colonist Sunday. “We reassembled it like an Etch A Sketch.”
With the pumpkin proposal in place, Jesse needed to find a way to get Justine into the sky.
He told Justine that he won a flight in a contest at work.
Before Saturday’s proposal, Jesse picked Justine up from work in a Rolls Royce. The couple drove to the Victoria Flying Club for the flight.
“It was all quite a lovely conspiracy,” Douglas told the Times Colonist.
Once the pair were skyward, their pilot showed them a few sights before slowing down over the message.
“She was admiring the pumpkin fields and suddenly it hit her,” Douglas said.
That’s when Justin took out the engagement ring and a bottle of champagne that he stowed away in the airplane.
She said yes, by the way.
The pair met at a Halloween party, so proposing with pumpkins seemed fitting.
Douglas is thrilled to have Justine join the family officially.
“We really, really want Justine as a daughter-in-law,” he told the Sooke News Mirror Sunday. “She is gold and a gift to our family.”
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