An unusual wedding proposal captured the attention of people passing by a Waterloo construction site Friday morning – and, more importantly, resulted in a ‘yes’.
A ‘Lynn Marry Me!’ sign was unveiled over two floors of a high-rise under construction on Park Street.
‘Lynn’ was Lynn Eggert, and she’d just arrived at the site to drop off the wallet Kevin Nequist, her boyfriend, ‘forgot’ to take out of his car.
“I told her I left my wallet in my car, which I did on purpose, and told her the Ministry of Labour was here and needed to see my identification,” Nequist tells CTV.
Eggert, who had already had a busy morning, was a little miffed – something that wasn’t helped by her having to get out of her car in the rain and walk past a conspicuous crowd of construction workers to hand over the wallet.
“I didn’t understand what was going on,” she says.
“He said he wanted to show me something and said to turn around and look at the building. Suddenly the crane starts to move with this panel on it, and as the panel turned around it finally dawned on me.”
Eggert says she was so wrapped up in the moment that she didn’t notice ‘Chapel of Love’ playing from an overhead speaker.
But the answer to Nequist’s question was never in doubt for either of them.
“My friends from the job site were a little more nervous than I was,” he says.
“Of course I said yes,” adds Eggert.
“I waited a long time for my knight in shining armour and he was well worth the wait.”
Nequist, who has been working on the construction site for the past year as the plumbing foreman, says he’d always had the idea of proposing with a big banner in the back of his mind, but the full plan only came together in the past couple weeks.
