Dan had been planning to propose all of the Fourth of July weekend in 2011, but Jill would never leave the room in their tiny studio apartment long enough for him to set things up. Finally, on the fourth Jill left to get ready for the barbeque at her parents house, so Dan took the short window of opportunity to hide an engagement ring inside the front of the 75 gallon aquarium filled with their rather spoiled, fat goldfish.

As Jill can tend to be oblivious about these things, she walked right past the very obvious ring, and it wasn’t until Dan asked her to check what that shiny thing in the tank was did she finally reach in to pull it out (but barely before the fattest of all the goldfish tried to eat the ring).

Since Jill has literally never worn a piece of jewelry in her life, Dan had no indication of what she would like so he proposed with a stand-in ring, and they went to pick out a ring together the next weekend.