Brooklyn Bridge Proposal Goes Well...Except For Ring

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At least she said yes! Trey Turner thought he was going to be extremely romantic by proposing to his girlfriend, Kelsey Kramer, on the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday night. But as he dropped to one knee to propose, the ring slipped out of his hands and fell between the slats! Kramer told CBS 2, "I heard something and I heard a clink, turned around and he was white as snow and in shock and I hadn’t even gotten to see it yet." This sounds familiar.

The ring wound up perched on some construction equipment below, but though the DOT pledged to find it, the couple got each others initials tattooed on their ring fingers, expecting to never see it again. But as Turner left to tour with his band, The Icarus Account, Kramer got a call saying bridge worker Doug Reese had actually found the ring. Turner said, “Now that it is a happy ending everyone has permission to make fun of me."

We're all for the romance of the Brooklyn Bridge, but if you're going to have shaky fingers you might want to reconsider the location. As Gothamist editor Jen Chung said, "As someone who was proposed to on the Brooklyn Bridge, I was paranoid enough to ask that my future husband not take the ring out of the box while on the bridge, because the gaps between the boards are really, really wide."

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By Jaya Saxena in News on September 25, 2010 1:20 PM

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csk

they didn't find the 4 carat ring that i dropped when i proposed to my fiance.

Tower18

This happens every year. I'm pretty sure they do it on purpose for the publicity.

Bruce

Good idea, RooseveltIsland360.

And I would suggest this: Prior to the big moment (before getting on the bridge) tie the other end of the string around a finger on your right hand, and palm the ring. If she (or he) asks about the string, just say you did it so as not forget something. Once it's on her finger, stroll along the bridge tied at the hands.

A good foretaste of marriage, actually.

chlyn

+1 Cute!

John L

I love happy endings!

:-)

John L

Oh and Doug Reese you deserve a medal.

Thank you for doing the honorable thing.

Doug Reese is our New Yorker of the Week!

nicemarmot

Didn't this happen before, a year or two ago?

RooseveltIsland360

For future planning: Anybody that is going to propose should at least tie the ring to a string attached to something that can't fit through the slats.

Spirit of 76

Or do it on the Manhattan Bridge, where the surface is solid concrete.

I don't get what's so romantic about the Brooklyn Bridge anyway. It's crammed full of tourists. There are plenty of better places in the city to propose. How about Belvedere Castle? The Cloisters. Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The Wonder Wheel. Governors Island. Even Top of the Rock would be better.