- Last year, a guy set a, I mean a real new bar
for wedding proposals when he popped the question
to his girlfriend, who's a cardiologist.
So if you haven't seen the video, you're in for a treat.
Her favorite movie is the classic film "Sleeping Beauty",
so he animated himself into it.
Check out this fairytale proposal, here roll the tape.
(magical fairytale music)
(cheering and clapping)
- It's not every day you get to propose
to your high school sweetheart.
- Oh my God, these poor people.
(laughter) - They're all in on it.
- Oh my God.
- I love you with my whole heart,
including all of its ventricles, atriums, valves.
She's a cardiologist.
Will you live happily ever after with me?
- Yes. (cheering and clapping)
- I'm like, what?
The proposal was shared around the world
and seen tens of millions of times,
what do you guys think, that's pretty amazing.
(cheering)
Here for their first sit down interview since the proposal,
please welcome Lee and his fiancé Sthuthi.
So you genuinely look,
like some females know, some people know
that they're about to be proposed to.
You genuinely looked confused
and worried for people around you.
- Yeah, so I was watching this movie,
and I genuinely thought
someone had messed up "Sleeping Beauty"
I was getting mad at this film place.
And then I see, like, this, goes into Lee,
and then a ring pops,
I'm like, "Oh my gosh, someone's getting proposed
to right now, mm-hmm."
and then all of a sudden I'm like, "Wait a minute."
(laughter) I think
I'm getting proposed to. - That's amazing.
So wait, let's go back.
So you are really high school sweethearts, right?
- Yeah, so we actually met,
kind of starting knowing each other freshman year
of high school.
- [Lee] Yeah, we're both. (audience coos)
- Oh my gosh, you're adorable then, you're adorable now.
- We both grew up in Boston,
well we met in Boston Brookline High School.
We went to, and we had classes together freshman year,
and I was always kind of the quiet kid in class,
making videos with his buddies,
and Sthuthi was the pretty, straight A student
who everyone would always try to copy off her homework.
- It didn't start there, though, right?
'Cause y'all separated, and you went away
for a minute, and then you came back together, right?
- Yeah, so we went to separate colleges,
you know, in high school, you kind of do your own thing,
and then three years ago,
we had randomly met up with each other,
and it was kind of funny.
We were at a bar talking, and I was like,
"Oh, so how's your girlfriend doing?"
and he was like, "Oh, we broke up two years ago."
I was like, "Really, that's so sad."
(laughter) - That's so unfortunate,
I'm so sorry for her.
Do you need a shoulder to cry on?
- Right here?
- So why "Sleeping Beauty"?
- So "Sleeping Beauty" has been my favorite movie
since I was, like, four years old.
Basically my parents would put it on
to kind of keep me entertained
while they had to do what they had to do.
So I've watched it. - I don't know any parents
that do that. (laughter)
- That's like a weird thing,
right? - Not one.
- So I've probably watched it a hundred times,
but Lee actually.
- I'd never seen it.
- Had you never seen it til you did this?
- Wow, oh my God, big step.
You inserted your own twist on it,
that's amazing. - Needless to say,
it was very difficult to focus
on the movie, seeing it in that context for the first time,
with knowing what was about to happen.
So I might need to watch it again.
- So it's a great movie.
But let's talk about the planning
'cause I hear it took six months to do this.
That's half a year, I do math as well as sing.
(laughter) So that's crazy amount of time
to build up for proposal,
and I'm really happy she said yes.
- Yeah, no, the idea kind of started
in a much smaller form,
which was knowing it's her favorite movie,
and knowing that I work in production,
it seemed like it was rich soil to do something.
And so I had the idea, like,
is there anyway I can find a way
to animate us into it.
And you know, just through looking on Instagram,
finding illustrators who had that sort of style,
wound up finding someone in Australia.
Super talented illustrator there,
and she was able to draw us
in all those different frames as characters
in that style, and then we had a finished film.
And then it became a matter of how to get her there
and get a screening room. - Because I hear
you said she's super smart, and so she'd figure it out,
so you had to really navigate this carefully.
- Yeah, and I knew I wanted her,
I know how much her friends and family mean to her,
so I wanted them to be part of this moment,
and then it became this matter
of how do you get them in some sort
of venue where they can watch it,
and we decided this,
I decided this local - We (laughs)
- this independent movie theater,
she didn't know much about it that point.
This independent movie theater
in our hometown would be the perfect venue.
We could get all our friends a family in one place.
- It's so cool, what do y'all think of this story?
- No one's ever done anything so nice to me.
(laughter) - I saw the clip,
but completely out of context, on Instagram or something,
I was like, "Oh my God,
those people look so much like the people
in the movie." (laughter)
I didn't understand it at all.
- Exactly.
- I will say, though, you've kind of ruined it
for everyone else who has to propose for anything.
- That is like incredible.
So, Lee, why was it so important for you
to go all out?
- Sthuthi's my high school sweetheart,
and she's someone who's meant so much to me
over the years, and just being able
to watch her career and watch her grow as person.
And you know, she comes from a long line
of strong women physicians,
her mom was a doctor, and her grandmother.
- Was also a doctor
so joined the family business. - Third generation.
(applause)
So Lee, through all of this,
you say the MVP of this proposal was actually someone else.
- Yeah, a woman named Kayla Coombs
who's an Australian illustrator
who did all the illustrations
of the two of us as characters in that style,
and had it not been for her and her astronomical talents,
none of this would have been possible.
- Wow, that's so cool.
And someone across the world, that's the coolest part.
Someone across the world did this whole cool thing.
That's what I think was so cool.
- It's incredible, you can do something like this,
and it can sort of reverberate beyond borders
with some one that is literally
on the other side of the planet.
We've never even met Kayla.
- So you know, Kayla
Wedding invite. - She'd better be invited
to that wedding, I was like,
"That girl deserves an invitation."
- At the VIP table. - Yes absolutely.
- All right, well, Lee's not the only one
who can pull off a surprise.
He doesn't know this, but Kayla the illustrator is here,
come on out. (applause and jazzy music)
It's so good to meet you.
Oh my God, you're so talented.
(music drowns out the happy chatter)
- Nice to meet you.
- Have a seat, Kayla, you want
to sit down over by me.
- Yeah, over here.
- All right sit down, with your little sweater tucked in,
you're cute, I love it.
You are so talented, and you don't normally do this, right?
You're normally a children's book illustrator, right?
- [Kayla] Yeah. - So what drew you
to this project, why did you say yes to this one?
- I mean, look at them, they're just so cute.
- They are adorable, but you're clear
across the planet, and you were like, "I guess."
That's a time consuming thing.
- It was, that was the main thing
when Lee told me about this idea,
I was like, "Oh, this is ambitious."
Replicating the style of such a loved movie
from so long ago using modern techniques,
and it's a big project, I'm just one girl
with a pencil, I don't have a team,
I just draw in my bedroom.
So I said, "If you can be flexible on timeline,
I will work on it at night and on the weekends,
and we'll get there." - That's so kind,
you didn't even know him, that's so kind.
- Yeah, but when we first spoke on Skype,
and Lee was telling me about how you guys met
in high school, and his face just lit up
when he spoke about her, and I'll never forget.
You just had the biggest smile I'd ever seen.
- Okay, men make me cry when they cry, you stop it.
- He has allergies.
- You're crying too,
you two are killing me. - You guys, backstage,
with the (mumbles)
- It's just so beautiful, and I also,
I mean I know that I asked actually
for examples of your other artwork, too,
and the reason why I wanted to as well is
because you've been getting a lot of offers,
people want you to do it for their proposals, right?
- Oh yeah, so many people are like,
can you do the same thing for me?
- So this is your stuff though, right?
- [Kayla] Oh yes. - Yes, I wanted
to show some of the stuff that you do as well.
(applause) I love it,
it's very inclusive, and I hear you agreed
to do one more proposal though, right?
- Yes, this will be the last one.
- 'Cause people keep asking.
- Yes, I've had a lot of request,
but this one is very special.
There's a couple, that have been,
they've been dating for two years,
they saw the proposal video that I made
for Lee and Sthuthi and loved it.
And I believe that they might be around
in the audience. - They're around here.
Well let's see that picture. - I did a picture for them.
- Lets see it.
Does anyone recognize themselves
in this picture.
I'm not sure, we could keep looking around.
Do anyone recognize?
(confetti cannon) (cheering)
(gentle romantic music)
This is a Love Bomb, it's a Love Bomb, people.
Andy is here with his girlfriend Morgan
and has something he wants to say.
Andy, go ahead. - Hey guys.
So Morgan (laughs) a couple weeks ago,
you showed me their picture of their proposal,
and you're like, "This is awesome,
there's no way we could pull this off."
Well, we're here. (audience laughs)
I love everything about you,
the way you sing way too loud in my car
even though I hate it, I actually love it.
The way that you make me express myself,
I'm super internal, and you bring that out of me.
I mean, I'm doing this on national TV, I think.
I'm still not sure if this is real or not,
so hey Kelly. - Hey!
- The last couple years has been awesome,
but I know they've been really hard
with the passing of your dad.
And you loved animation with him,
so with that being said, will you marry me?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(audience screams)
Yes, yes. (audience screams louder)
- All right, well congratulations,
congratulations guys.
Okay I'm collecting myself, everything's fine.
Sorry Gloria, makeup artist.
To celebrate this big news,
we're sending Andy and Morgan
to Iberostar Grand Paraíso All-Butler Suite Resort
which offers unparalleled all-inclusive benefits
and the highest levels of fine-dining,
it's nestled in an incomparable beach and club
in Riviera Maya, Mexico.
I hope y'all have the best time ever,
you seem adorable, two years, you know by now, trust.