- [Hannah] Secret Beach, what secrets
do you keep secret beach?
What better place to have an incredibly
intimate conversation than our own bed.
- Hannah, serious question, how much did Ellen DeGeneres
pay you to propose to me while
you were promoting an engagement show?
- Yeah let's talk big - Let's talk big money.
- [Women] Big money, big money, big money.
- What's crazy is that now that I've decided
to just use our relationship for views, it's not working.
- Who would've thought?
- I just thought people wanted to see girls kissing.
Speaking of our fake engagement,
can I tell you guys a story of how I proposed?
- Yeah.
- Yeah I wanna tell everybody how I proposed.
I would like to say that it took us a week to make
this video because we have been telling this story
to our friends and families since we got back from Hawaii,
so last two and a half weeks I guess.
I said to Ella today when she was coming off work,
I was like, 'Hey babe can we please film the engagement
story tonight' and she was like 'I've heard it
so many times'.
So we are gonna give you guys the damn near
closest thing to full energy that we have.
Do you wanna like
ask me questions - Yeah.
- and then I'll tell it that way.
Maybe we can mix it up - Yeah.
- so it's different for us. - Yeah.
- Okay, I'm into that, see communication,
partnership, problem solving.
- Cool, cool. - Cool, cool.
- We planned a big trip to Japan.
Before we left for our trip you said
you are not going to propose on this trip.
And that really made me think,
'Okay this isn't gonna happen'.
Did you have any sense in the back of your mind
that maybe you might propose?
- So here's the thing, insider info, bam.
Ella and I like to fake propose to each other all the time.
In the beginning of this year we decided
we wanna get engaged this year at some point in 2018
and I had told Ella for the love of God
please don't propose to me, I really wanna propose to you.
She said I love you first, she kissed me first,
she wanted to be exclusive first,
she wanted to move in together first.
I mean, now that I know that you're the person
I wanna spend my life with I mean please
let me be the first one to ask.
Are you still gonna propose to me?
- What?
- Yeah, actually, oh my God, yes please.
(crickets chirping)
- We'll see.
- To answer your question about whether or not
I thought it was gonna happen in Japan.
Since I knew I wanted to propose in 2018
I did not wanna propose in Japan.
I was trying to organize our vacation to be half and half.
I knew I wanted to propose in Hawaii
because we shared one of the most important moments
of our relationship in Hawaii.
- It was beautiful.
- Yeah, it was the first time I said I love you back
and it was this time where we were on the beach,
full disclosure, drinking vodka and smoking a cigar,
listening to Rihanna and talking about whether
- It was an empty beach.
- Empty beach, night sky. - Middle of the night.
- No one else was around we were sitting there
just asking each other questions like,
'Do you believe in ghosts', like 'Would you rather this'.
So we were just getting to know each other
and that's when I first excepted that I loved this person.
There were two things I knew.
One, I wanted to be in Hawaii.
Two, I didn't want Ella to see it coming.
Ella loves surprises as you guys might remember
from my amazing Valentine's video.
- Scared.
- [Hannah] Why are you scared? I told you it's a surprise.
- I love surprises.
- [Hannah] I know you do.
I was trying to organize a vacation
so we'd be half in Japan half in Hawaii.
Then, it felt like it started to get too suspicious
'cause Ella was like, 'If we're gonna be in Japan,
why wouldn't we just stay in Japan?'
and I was like, 'Yeah, good point'.
So then, I said to Ella 'I am not proposing on this trip'
and I left the ring at home.
- So you had the ring?
- I had the ring, I picked the ring out in December
and then I bought the ring in March
and the ring was nothing like what Ella described.
Ella, how would you describe the ring
that you said you wanted?
- I wanted that bling bling on my fing fing.
(laughing)
I sent Hannah some options that were like pink
and giant, studded, and I don't even...
- Morganite baskets with diamond encrusted edges.
- Yeah, like that was my vibe.
- It was a ring, it looked like this.
So I found it really surprising
that she had described this ring that she said she wanted
when it was nothing reminiscent of a ring
that she would actually ever wear or want.
- I think it's really cool that you'd picked out the ring
because that shows that you have a sense of style and taste
and I do trust your style and taste.
Also you know me better than I sometimes know me.
- Long story short, I didn't take it with us on vacation,
which proved to actually be a really smart move
because we went to Japan and then
everything got turned around.
- Japan was abnormally hot and typhoon season
ended up coming early, there were mudslides,
so we had to figure something else out.
- Ella then suggested that we you know what
in fact do go to Hawaii.
So now here I am in Japan and I'm like,
'Okay we're gonna go to Hawaii, well if we go to Hawaii now,
we're not gonna go back in a couple weeks'.
- I would be suspicious.
- So basically I had no choice.
I was like, 'I have to ship the ring'.
- But that makes it so funny because I had no idea.
If Hannah had said to me she's not proposing
during this trip then I fully,
I had no reason to suspect otherwise.
- So I had to ship the ring to Hawaii
all the while not letting Ella know
that anything was happening and the fastest,
soonest I could get the ring to Hawaii, fingers crossed,
was going to be Thursday night
and we were going to leave Friday morning.
- And what'd you do?
- Two day FedEx I sent them a shipping form and I said
I need you to send this at the latest Monday night.
- That's risky.
- It was risky but it felt right.
In my mind it was like, 'I don't have another way
to propose to you authentically, organically that's us'.
- It really worked out.
- Well there was one really funny moment of the trip though
because I was rerouting our flights and rebooking our hotels
and calling the hotels and canceling this and doing that
while also secretly mailing myself the ring.
And Ella goes, just like brushing teeth, walking around
in Toyko, is like, 'Are we sure we wanna go to Hawaii'
and I was like, 'What?', she was like 'Whoa, okay'
and I was like, 'No, I'm just saying,
I'm on step like 18 of Hawaii'.
- I like to triple check things.
- You're triple check is my like quintuple check.
The third thing I knew about our proposal
aside from one, I wanted to be in Hawaii,
two, I did not want Ella to propose to me,
was three, I knew she wanted to have her nails done.
- Mmm, yes.
- Ella literally said to me, 'When you propose to me
make sure my nails are done'.
So on Wednesday, remember, ring's arriving Thursday night.
So on Wednesday I say to Ella,
'Okay hey babe, we've got this coupon for the spa,
why don't you go use it and get yourself a manicure
so that when we get back to town you'll be
refreshed and rejuvenated and ready for the week'.
5 p.m. rolls around, she goes to get a manicure
and I'm like, 'Bye have fun'
(swish noise)
and I scurry off to meet with the hotel coordinators
who I had already been speaking to.
So they offered me a private dinner
and then I said no thank you because it felt like
'Oh I don't wanna just sign up for something
that you guys already do'.
I didn't want it to be cookie cutter
and I also thought it was overpriced.
But, I did want to make sure that we were able to watch
the sunset and in my mind's eye be on the sand.
To which they said that while it's not on the property
they did have access to a cove that was small
and not many people knew about
and I said, 'That sounds perfect'.
I wanted to do it double whammy surprise so I then asked,
'Can we make a smaller, privateish dinner after the proposal
so that as we're walking back to the room,
hungry, ready to get dinner, it's not just,
'Oh let's go get dinner at the diner down the street',
I can be like, 'And here's our meal',
we can stumble upon it.
I really wanted the element of stumbling upon something.
So booked that for 7:30, cut to Thursday.
So here I am being like 'Tick tock, tick tock'
where's the (censor beep) ring?
And then I get a call from the hotel
and I'm like, 'Hello?' and here I am so worried
I'm like 'Oh my God I'm gonna have to explain to Ella
what this call is about' cause we decided
to spend the day at the beach.
Get off the phone, Ella's like 'What was that all about?'
I was like 'Oh I have some documents coming today
that I need to sign and send back'.
- I was like, 'Alright'.
- Long story short, ring gets there, safe and sound,
arrived A-OK, my love affair with FedEx continues.
Next hurdle, I now had to figure out a way to get
Ella and the ring to the beach.
How am I gonna get them there?
We've been on vacation, we're basically just like
all over each other, she's all over my luggage,
she's all over my backpack, we just have co-mingled
everything because we've been traveling for 14 days.
So then I say 'You know what this has been such an amazing
vacation, I think we should do a special sunset tonight.
So like maybe I'll go buy champagne, the little ones
and then we can cheers to an amazing vacation'
and Ella reacted like...
- I was like yeah, that sounds great.
- Your exact words were, 'You love running errands,
just go do whatever it is you wanna do honey'.
I actually have a video of me walking to the grocery store
to go buy the tiny champagnes, check this out.
Walking to the corner store and I'm gonna
get little mini bottles of champ.
The ring is here with me and right now the plan
is to go to the little secret beach
at sunset and pop the question.
I'm at the store now trying to think
of ways to make this extra cute.
Okay, I got my little bucket, got my little
bottles of champ in there.
We're gonna see how this thing goes.
Okay so now now it's t-minus two hours 'til sunset.
I wanted to make sure we looked kind
of nice and cute for our photos.
I was like 'You know, I haven't gotten a chance
to wear my favorite shirt yet this trip'.
Ella was like 'Well if you're gonna wear a cute outfit,
I wanna wear a cute outfit'.
- Yeah so I see her putting on like mascara and stuff
and now I have to wear mascara.
- And at the end of getting my
arrangement together I had my special bucket.
So then we're gonna go walk down to the beach,
Ella goes for the bucket and I'm like
'No, I'm gonna carry it'
because I hid the ring at the bottom.
And Ella was like 'Okay I get it, whatever,
that's Hannah's special bucket that Hannah touches only'.
I'm so surprised you didn't get
suspicious when I got the bucket.
- No, every day you have little quirks about you
that I have to learn so I was like
'Well if you wanna hold it, you can hold it'.
- I did wanna hold it.
So we start walking down to the little beach
and it's a sunset and I started to get nervous.
- Is that when it hit you, when you were walking down?
- Yeah, going down that little path,
that's when it really hit me.
So anyway, we go to the beach, it's beautiful, it's sunny,
it's great, Ella wants to take cute pictures.
I refused to put down the bucket.
We sit, we take our little champagne bottles out,
we cheers, and then Ella Mielniczenko starts busting out
this romantic (censor beep) and I was like 'What?'.
Ella says, 'Wow, this really reminds me
of the last time we were in Hawaii'.
- It was reminiscent of that though.
It felt exactly like that, you would put on Rihanna,
it was really beautiful and it was really romantic
and it really felt like a nice moment,
like one of many moments that we've had.
- Then Ella says, 'It reminds me of where we were then',
she's like 'I'm so proud of us in these two years,
of the people that we were that day and who we are today'.
- We've come a long way.
- Ya know and I'm like, 'Well there goes half my speech,
bro', what the (censor beep).
And so we're sitting there and the sun's setting
and I wanted to like break the tension just a little bit.
I say, 'Ya know Ella I've accomplished a lot of my goals
in this life' and I start listing...
- Like oh here we go.
(laughing)
- And then I say, 'But I only have
one goal left to accomplish, which is
to spend the rest of my life with you'.
- And then I cried and I said,
'That's the most romantic thing you've ever said to me'.
- And I said, 'Good, 'cause,' and I bust out the ring
from the bucket. - But I thought
you were pranking me at first.
- I wasn't, I said, 'This is the moment'.
- And then we were so overwhelmed
that you didn't even open the box for a bit after.
- You were just laughing.
- I was just so happy. - You were like, 'What?'
I said, 'Should I get on one knee?'
and then Ella was like, 'Yeah' and then she stood up.
I mean like one knee in front of you
while you were kneeling. - No, nah.
- So she stands up and I say, 'Will you marry me?' and
- I put out my hand.
- And she said...
- Yes.
- And I said (gasps)...
- And then I slipped my hand out again
and looked down (mumbles).
- I said, 'Yes, yay'.
- And then I looked down again and then I said,
'You were supposed to put it on me'.
- And I said, 'Oh okay, I'm sorry'.
I was raised as a girl and I never knew
that that was my job.
I just didn't think it through, I didn't think about it.
I was like ' Oh my God, ya', I was like
'Take the ring, Ella, put it on your hand'.
So I pull the ring out and I slide it
up her finger and it fit perfectly.
- It did and it's beautiful.
- I took a beauty shot of the ring,
take a look at that here, and I said that this ring
is for you because there's three stones on it.
One of them's me and one of them's you
and the middle one's the life that we build together.
It's yours, it's for you. - Yeah, yeah.
- Ella, how do you feel right now?
- I feel so happy, I'm just shocked,
I can't believe it, I love you so much.
- I love you.
Then we went to an amazing dinner
that Ella had no idea about, but you
were pretty much in shock.
- I was just..
- When we stumbled across the dinner,
I was like, 'And the meal starts now'.
- I was like I can't process any of this.
- Yeah, the rest is pretty much a blur after that.
- Yeah.
- [Hannah] Oh my God I love it.
- [Ella] It's so good.
It had all these little twinkly lights all around it.
There was like a bottle of champagne in an ice bucket.
It was like a little mix of of Italian and Japanese food,
which are two favorite types of food.
- It's pretty nuts. - It was pretty crazy.
Yeah and then we had a great great night.
- It's so surreal.
- Do you feel engaged now?
- I feel like now everybody knows.
- Yeah.
- I think that the hard thing is is that when
you're in a committed relationship and you've
planned on getting married and planned on getting engaged,
blah blah blah, everyone's always kind of waiting
for their friends to break up.
- Or get married.
I feel like this, I feel like, naw I mean it.
- Yeah.
- That's how I feel.
- I feel like that too.
We've put a lot into our relationship.
- Yeah.
- Relationships are work, but their worth it.
- Yeah, especially when you're (Ella talks quietly)
dating people that are pieces of work such as ourselves.
- True.
(laughter)
- So that is our engagement story, thank you for watching.
Cheers, mazel. - Cheers.
- I hope that, oh here we go.
Oh my goodness, good things are out there, love is real,
strive for happiness, don't settle for anything else.
Click like, subscribe, etc., but thank you
so much for watching and thank you so much for being here
on this journey and Ella thank you for being so great.
I love you.
- I love you.
- Okay, have a great day.