Will you marry — oops! There goes $9,000 ring

[mike r]

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38656028/ns/today-today_weddings/

Will you marry — oops! There goes $9,000 ring
When he popped the question, she dropped diamond heirloom into oblivion
By Michael Inbar

A romantic engagement surprise turned into a moment of horror for a prospective Massachusetts bride Monday when, in her excitement, she fumbled a $9,000 diamond engagement ring — and watched it disappear down a rocky jetty below her.

Matt Cawley, a 31-year-old restaurateur from Deadham, Mass., was trying to make his proposal to 30-year-old schoolteacher Stacey Scanlon a memorable one. So he tied the family heirloom to an oversize sand dollar and placed it on the jetty at Bass River Beach in Yarmouth.

Cawley then took Scanlon for a stroll along the jetty, where he directed her attention to the sand dollar. “I had no idea whatsoever; we were just going on a morning walk,” Scanlon told TODAYshow.com.

When she saw the sand dollar, Scanlon said, “I went to pick it up and I heard something fall; I thought it was a rock. It was a rock! Just not exactly the rock I was expecting.”

Detached from the sand dollar, the ring tumbled down through the rocks...

[Gormy Cuss]

1. Attn msnbc: that's Dedham, not Deadham.

But one does pronounce it "deadham."
:rofl:

[mnhtnbb]

2. Oy! Hope it was insured.