Marriage Proposal High on a Michigan Bridge Goes Awry
What was meant to be a picture-perfect proposal briefly turned into a nightmare for a Michigan man.
Trevor Van Camp was proposing to his longtime girlfriend, Danielle Jenkins, on the glowing SkyBridge at Boyne Mountain—a 118-foot-high pedestrian suspension bridge in northern Michigan—when his nerves got the best of him. After asking the big question, Van Camp opened the ring box to place the ring on Jenkins’ finger, but it slipped from his grasp and fell through the metal grating of the bridge, disappearing into the snowy ground below.
Van Camp had set up his phone to record the proposal, and the video instead captured his stunned reaction. “I’m shaken up. I look down—definitely not a good idea—and yeah, I dropped the ring,” he told Fox News.
With permission from the resort, the couple made their way down the mountain to search for the ring. They were joined by Boyne Mountain’s night snowmaking supervisor, Pat Harper, and used metal detectors to comb the snow. After about two and a half hours of searching, just as they were preparing to give up, Harper’s detector signaled.
After brushing away snow and dirt, Harper spotted the edge of the ring. “I kind of sat there for a minute and thought, ‘There’s no way you just found that,’” he told ABC News.
Despite the scare, Jenkins said the mishap only made the moment more memorable. “A lot of people have asked me if dropping the ring ruined the proposal, and it didn’t,” she said. “It made the proposal.”
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