Little did she know that it was a carefully-crafted plan by her
boyfriend to entice her to a romantic location without her
suspecting so that he could propose — or that their engagement
would become a YouTube hit.
Garth Chamberlain, a former Wasps rugby player, went
to extraordinary lengths planning his proposal to the Swedish-born
model, 30, to ensure that she would not have a clue.
Starting in March, he worked with her agency to “book†her onto
a fake job for a start-up Italian hat company for a shoot in
Favigana, near Sicily, on the same weekend as they were supposed to
be moving home and secretly flew to Sweden to ask her father’s
permission.
When she arrived at the hotel where she thought she
was meeting the crew for the shoot, she was instead handed an iPad
playing a video that Mr Chamberlain, 28, had made for her.
Starting with the words “Hi beautiful†the video shows him
tracing where they met in Wandsworth and pictures from their time
together so far before going on to track his movements since March
with his visit to Sweden, secret planning and travelling to Italy
before emerging from behind a wall.
Afterwards — Miss Montgomery said “yes†— they made
an edited version of the video entitled What Really Happened In
Italy, which tells the story of their engagement and her surprised
and tearful reaction, to show their friends and family which she
posted on her blog.
In only two days it had been watched by more than 13,000 people
and they received congratulations from around the world. The
couple, who have been together for three years and live in Clapham
North, plan to get married on New Year’s Eve 2014 in Zimbabwe,
where Mr Chamberlain is from. He works as a project manager for a
construction company and said he had wanted to make a gesture that
would “last forever for both of usâ€.
Miss Montgomery said: “It was quite a shock. I wasn’t expecting
it for one second. When I saw the video I didn’t realise it was a
proposal until he went to see my dad but I didn’t think in my
wildest dreams he was there. It’s so romantic.â€
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