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Olympic snowboarding champion Shaun White already has an impressive medal count, but his surprise proposal to Nina Dobrev is worth a gold medal.

On Wednesday, the couple announced they were engaged on their Instagram pages, with Dobrev posting photos of the couple embracing under an arch of white roses and showing off her five-carat Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring.

“RIP boyfriend, hello fiance,” Dobrev wrote in the caption.

But the photos only tell half the story of how White pulled off an elaborate ruse to surprise Dobrev with his proposal.

According to an interview with Vogue published Wednesday, White said he enlisted a team of people from the couple’s inner circle, as well as staffers from the publication, to help him fool Dobrev into thinking she had been invited to a intimate dinner with Vogue’s Anna Wintour. .

White said he had his publicist send Dobrev a fake invitation to the event, which was to take place at the Golden Swan in New York City.

Dobrev accepted the invitation and joked that White “made it look so legit.”

He even enlisted Dobrev’s stylist to dress her in Chanel for the event.

Dobrev said she realized what was really happening when she walked into the room and saw White standing under the floral arch.

“I went into shock,” Dobrev said, later adding that White “said all the right things” before saying yes.

According to the publication, after White proposed, the couple celebrated until the wee hours of the morning with a close circle of friends and family.

“Best night of my life,” White wrote on his Instagram story on Wednesday.

The couple first became romantically involved in 2020 and have since publicly documented their relationship, worldly travels and White’s Olympic retirement on their social media pages.