Now-viral social media users Trevor Van Camp and Danielle Jenkins had an engagement to remember.
The proposal plans kicked off with the pair traveling to Boyne Mountain Resort in Boyne Falls, Michigan after Jenkins saw a video of SkyBridge Michigan — a suspension bridge located in the resort.
“It was something that she really wanted to do, so I kind of just made it a surprise,” Van Camp said in the Instagram video shared on Monday, January 5, by the Boyne Mountain Resort, while Jenkins added, “It was a weekend away for just the two of us.”
While at the resort, Van Camp and Jenkins took a chairlift to the top of the mountain and went for a walk across the bridge. As the pair stopped to take a picture, Van Camp got down on one knee and popped the question to Jenkins.
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“She said yes,” Van Camp recalled in the clip, which has since amassed more than 46,000 views on Instagram.
However, things took a turn. When Van Camp retrieved the engagement ring from the box, the jewelry slipped through the bridge’s metal grating and fell 118 feet into the snow underneath them.
In a video shared by the resort’s Instagram, Van Camp’s jaw dropped. “We panicked for a minute, and then we looked at each other and said, ‘We need to find it,’” Van Camp said.
The resort staff allegedly gave the pair “clearing” to begin the search for the ring, looking in the snow for more than two hours. The couple also used a metal detector given to them by Pat Harper, the resort’s night shift snowmaking supervisor.
While Jenkins explained that she and Van Camp “had no luck,” Harper and two of his coworkers continued on the search.
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“Pat had promised us, with the two other gentlemen that were with him, that they were going to find my ring,” Jenkins said. “There were no ifs, ands or buts about that.”
In the video shared via Instagram, Harper shared that the group searched in the show for “probably 20 to 30 minutes.” When he scanned one area with a metal detector, the device beeper — so he dug into the snow, finding dirt. However, he brushed the dirt away and located the edge of the ring.
“I kinda sat there for a minute and thought, ‘There’s no way you just found that,’” Harper recalled.
At this point, Van Camp and Jenkins were packing up and leaving the resort while also planning to “head to Kay Jewelers to get a new ring.” The pair were then told that Harper found the jewelry.
“We showed back up at the resort, and Trevor finally got to put the ring on my hand,” Jenkins said. “I give big props and kudos to Pat for doing that for us because he saved the day. He really did! It was an experience that we now have a story to tell of our engagement and it’s our story to share.”
Jenkins noted that she and Van Camp have plans to return to the resort in the winter time to “enjoy the full experience that [they] cut short to find [her] ring.”
