Updated: February 12, 2015 11:28 AM [ET] | Originally published: February 11, 2015 4:24 PM EST ;
The bride-to-be says her fateful night began at the zoo.
The Lincoln Park Zoo lights festival in Chicago, to be exact, which is where, on a very cold night, her boyfriend said he wanted to give her an early Christmas present.
“Seriously, right now? Are you crazy?” she recounts on HowHeAsked.com .
But he was serious, and he wasn’t crazy, and so he handed his future fiancee this flip-book made by The Flippist .
“Of course, I started bawling,” she writes of the surprise ending. “I almost got frostbite afterwards because I refused to put my gloves back on!”
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