Shaun White proposes to Nina Dobrev after planning a romantically elaborate ruse

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Olympic snowboard champion Shaun White already has an impressive medal count, but his surprise proposal to Nina Dobrev is gold medal-worthy.

On Wednesday, the couple announced on their Instagram pages that they are engaged. Dobrev posted photos of the couple embracing under an arch of white roses and showing off her five-carat Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring.

“RIP friend, hello fiancé,” Dobrev wrote in the caption.

But the photos only tell half the story about how White used an elaborate trick to surprise Dobrev with his proposal.

According to an interview with Vogue published Wednesday, White said he recruited a team of people from the couple's inner circle as well as employees of the publication to help him deceive Dobrev into believing she was dating intimate dinner party with Anna Wintour invited by Vogue.

White said he had his publicist send Dobrev a fake invitation to the event, which was to be held at the Golden Swan in New York City.

Dobrev accepted the invitation and joked that White “made it look so legit.”

He even hired Dobrev's stylist to dress her in Chanel for the event.

Dobrev said she realized what was really happening when she entered the venue and saw White standing under the floral arch.

“I was shocked,” Dobrev said, later adding that White “said all the right things” before she said yes.

According to the publication, after White proposed, the couple celebrated with close friends and family until the early hours of the morning.

“The best night of my life,” White wrote on his Instagram Story on Wednesday.

The couple first became romantically linked in 2020 and have since publicly documented their relationship, worldly travels and White's Olympic farewell on their social media pages.