It was like a scene straight out of a romantic movie.
Vancouver鈥檚 Scotty Minch stood on the Lions Gate Bridge in the rain Thursday afternoon holding up a giant sign asking his girlfriend Bunny Blackler, who works monitoring traffic on the bridge, to marry him.
鈥淚鈥檝e always been a really big fan of romantic movies and I wanted to do something that you could never do in real life, that you see in movies all the time,鈥� the 40-year-old told the Courier Friday.
鈥淚 wanted to wait for a perfect day for it, but I thought it would be more romantic to be in the pouring rain in Vancouver.鈥�
The proposal took two months of planning, and the help of friends and one of Blackler鈥檚 co-workers, to pull off.
Blackler, 30, said she had just started her shift at Miller Capilano Highway Services, where she does traffic control and monitoring for Highway 1 between Horseshoe Bay and First Avenue from the Ministry of Transportation building in Coquitlam, when her co-worker mentioned that there was someone on the bridge.
She said her first reaction was that the police would deal with the situation, but her co-worker told her to get up and look at the monitor.
鈥淎nd I see someone holding a big sign and I was like, 鈥榃hat is that?鈥� So I run over to her computer and I realize it鈥檚 Scotty holding a sign that says 鈥楤unny, will you marry me?鈥� and I just freaked out.鈥�
After talking on the phone, Minch, who is a mental health worker in the Downtown Eastside, drove from the bridge to Blackler鈥檚 office.
鈥淚 went up to her office and got on one knee in front of all her [co-workers] and put that ring on her finger,鈥� he said.
As for the impending wedding, the couple already had a three-day trip to Las Vegas in the works before Minch proposed.
鈥淲e鈥檙e kind of thinking about doing a little two-in-one wedding and honeymoon for three days and then maybe someday save for a bigger trip if we can,鈥� Minch said.
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