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A man was about to take the enormous step of asking his girlfriend to marry him—but wanted to get the green light from someone very important first.
Lindsay, who posts to TikTok under the username @lindsaynicole4_, lives in Florida and is newly engaged to her long-term boyfriend after a romantic proposal by the water.
And after he popped the question, he showed her that she wasn't the first one to see the ring—as he had shown their adored pet dog, Beau, and asked what he thought.
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In a video to her TikTok account on August 27, viewed more than 12.3 million times, she wrote: "The first yes came from him."
In the clip, her now-fiance gets Beau to sit, and then takes out a jewelry box from his pocket, revealing a sparkling engagement ring.
He gently moves to show it to Beau, and tells him, "this is for mama; she's gonna be your mama forever."
Beau sniffs the box curiously, and when the man asks if he likes it, Beau has an instant reaction, looking right at the camera and smiling.
"I'll forever melt watching this video," Lindsay wrote in the caption alongside crying-face emoji.
TikTok users' hearts melted, too, awarding the video more than 3.4 million likes. One commenter said: "You can't convince me that dogs don't know what we're saying and they don't have feelings because this shows that they do."
"Jokes on you I was already planning on crying at 10:18 am about a stranger showing an engagement ring to his dog and his dog absolutely being a cutie," another posted, as a third wrote in all-caps: "SHE'LL BE HIS MAMA FOREVER."
Others compared their own canines to Beau, with one admitting, "my dog would bark and then eat the ring," and another adding: "My dog would just eat the ring."
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In an update video, Lindsay shared photos from her engagement, with her fiance getting down on one knee by the water—and from their engagement party, where Beau was, naturally, a guest of honor.
Many couples choose to make their dogs part of their wedding day, from decorations that look like them to making them part of the wedding party.
In a 2024 survey of 2,000 dog owners by OnePoll on behalf of Amazon Handmade, 66 percent of respondents said they would involve their pup in their wedding, and, of those, 50 percent said their pet could be a ring bearer, while 9 percent were happy to have their canine act as best man.
Newsweek has contacted @linfsaynicole4_ via TikTok for comment on this story.
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