Scott Worgan just had to set the bar pretty high for all the other fellows out there when he proposed to his partner Caitlin Miller on March 20. He did it by creating a You Tube video that has gone viral with over 270,000 hits so far.
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The video is a silent movie with Inverell-born Scott and the couple’s young daughters Scarlett and Sienna stringing out the proposal with a series of handwritten messages on cards that might cause a rigid heart to melt.
As the cards unfold, and the notes reveal the proposal, all set to one of Caitlin’s favourite songs, John Legend’s All of Me.
Scott said behind the scenes, it was lucky it all went to plan. Caitlin was away for the morning, and he got all the supplies and began writing out his messages. Then the extras weren’t co-operating. Sienna was sleepy and wanted a nap.
“She slept longer than what she normally does and I literally had half an hour before Caitlin was due home to get them ready, but she took forever to come around and wake up,” Scott said. He geed up the girls by running around the house and playing with them until they were both grinning and excited.
“It was one take. I literally sat my iPhone on a chair, and said “Right-e-o girls, we’re going to do a video and they just happened to not walk away on me,” he laughed.
The couple live in Terrigal, and Scott had the video reveal planned. He had been in Melbourne for work, and suggested Caitlin to pick him up from the airport for a picnic with the girls near the Opera House.
He knew she had weathered a tough week at work and Scarlett had been sick but she thought they could go ahead.
Then it all started to go wrong.
“There was a concert on down there, there were tourists everywhere, couldn’t get a park, couldn’t find anywhere to get food, we laid the picnic rug down, Scarlett was really sick,” Scott said.
“And I’m sitting there, all nervous with the ring in my pocket.”
Once home, they sorted out the girls, and Scott sat her down on the couch and said he had something to show her that would make her smile.
“I said close your eyes, and I put on the video. And then we both got really emotional.”
Caitlin recalled the week being exhausting, her sick daughter and the relief of just getting home.
“It was just a bit of a mess at the park. And yeah, he turned this video on, and I literally had no idea, and as soon as it came on I started shaking and crying,” she said.
“It was actually perfect. I wouldn’t have had it any other way.”
And for the record, she said yes.
The couple have no immediate plans for the wedding, but thought 2016 might be the right time.