Shaky Beau Drops Ring off Brooklyn Bridge During Fumbled Proposal

We usually use this column to highlight the antics of brides around the country who become national news, but the honor for biggest slip-up this week goes to a groom-to-be. New Yorker, Don Walling, put in a valiant effort to set up a sweet proposal for his girlfriend Gina Pellicani on the pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge today, but things so did not go as planned.

With his family members eagerly watching and his sister-in-law taping the whole thing (lucky for us!) Walling got down on one knee to propose to his lady love, then accidentally dropped the bling through the boards of the walkway down into the traffic below.

I laughed out loud when I watched this video of the incident. It might be awful of me but please take a peek at his utterly dumbfounded face when he realizes what he's done, and then you try not to laugh! Anyway, don't fret, all ended well. Walling jumped down to the lanes below and, with a little help from his family up above, was able to retrieve the ring.

NBC New York reports that Walling's friends have been calling ever since the story broke, telling Pellicani to be sure he doesn't hold their first child, “just in case”. (Guilty chuckles -- hey they said it, not me!) Walling plans to re-propose after the ring is repaired. Hopefully he chooses somewhere indoors with a carpeted floor next time. One thing is certain, he and his girlfriend will remember this day forever.