A romantic underwater proposal went tragically wrong this week, when a US man died after popping the question, before his girlfriend had the chance to respond.
Per reports in the New York Post, Steven Weber Jr and Kenesha Antoine were on holiday in Tanzania, staying in a bungalow with a bedroom submerged in the sea.
Antoine shared a video of the proposal to Facebook, which shows Weber swimming up to the bedroom window in diving gear, with a plastic-wrapped note and a box containing a ring.
The note reads:
“I can’t hold my breath long enough to tell you everything I love about you. BUT . . . everything I love about you I love more EVERY DAY! Will you please be my WIFE? Marry me??”
She can be heard laughing in the background of the underwater proposal video, however, shortly after she filmed it, disaster struck.
It is unclear how or why Weber died, but Antoine shared a heart-wrenching tribute to him, writing:
“You never emerged from those depths, so you never got to hear my answer, ‘Yes! Yes! A million times, yes, I will marry you!!’ We never got to embrace and celebrate the beginning of the rest of our lives together, as the best day of our lives turned into the worst, in the cruelest twist of fate imaginable.”
She continued:
“Please pray for all the family and friends that loved him so much. Please love each other while you can, as hard as you can. I know that wherever in the universe Steven’s spirit now resides, that is exactly what he’s doing: giving love and spreading joy and laughter. And knowing him, always quick with an off-color joke, he’s probably entertaining someone with a story about how he royally screwed up that proposal and died while being extra.”
