Nina Dobrev and Shaun White announce engagement after an intimate New York proposal

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Nina Dobrev and Shaun White have announced their engagement after an intimate proposal in New York City.

The couple, who have been together since 2019, shared the big news during an interview with Voguereleased on October 30. Speaking to the publication, White explained how he wanted to surprise the actor when he popped the question, so he decided to do it during a typically normal week in October.

He described the weeks he put into the planning, which involved setting up white roses, candles and a photographer in a private room at The Golden Swan restaurant in New York City. He also kept the five carat Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring hidden in various places in his home where Dobrev couldn’t find it.

White then sent Dobrev a fake invitation from the CFDA/Vogue, who asked her to have dinner with the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour.

“He made the invitation look so legit,” Dobrev said.

But when she opened the door to the restaurant, she discovered that there was only a photographer and the former snowboarder. “I was in shock. I just froze and stared at him,” Dobrev said. Then she said, “no, no, no!” in gleeful disbelief.

Nina Dobrev and Shaun White are engaged

Nina Dobrev and Shaun White are engaged (Getty Images for LVMH x Vogue x)

“I knew she was nervous because when she’s nervous, she makes jokes. She’s like, ‘So wait, Anna’s not here?'” White added.

According to Love hard star, she doesn’t remember how the courtship went. However, she could remember that when it happened, White “said all the right things.” When she said yes, the couple were joined by the rest of their friends and family and they all had champagne to celebrate.

“Eventually we realized – apart from the caviar – we hadn’t eaten anything. So we ordered Shake Shack and dumplings for the Golden Swan,” Dobrev said.

Shaun White and Nina Dobrev attend the red carpet ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony

Shaun White and Nina Dobrev attend the red carpet ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony (Getty Images)

White and Dobrev began dating in 2019 after meeting at an event in Florida. “I actually didn’t know anything about her,” White said People in 2022. But then he realized she was a celebrity when they had dinner together on another occasion.

“Can we get a photo… with her?” he remembered one of the waiters at the restaurant asking. “And I was like, ‘What’s going on? What’s going on?’ It was actually really fun.”

However, the couple chose to keep their relationship out of the limelight for some time, finally sparking relationship rumors in February 2020 when they shared separate Instagram posts from what appeared to be the same location. Two months later, White shared his first ever post then girlfriend on Instagram.

speaks to VogueWhite admitted that he originally wanted to propose to Dobrev during their planned vacation last summer, but the trip was canceled when she was involved in a cycling accident. In May, Dobrev first took to Instagram to reveal that she was hospitalized after the accident.

At the time, she shared two photos of herself, one showing her sitting on an electric bike, while the other showed her sitting in a hospital bed in a neck brace with another brace on her knee.

“How it started versus how it goes,” she captioned the post.

In June, Dobrev gave an update on her recovery, sharing photos from the hospital to reveal that she had undergone successful surgery following the accident.

“Thank you to everyone who has sent kind messages, thoughts, prayers and good vibes. I have felt the support and positive energy. It means more than you will ever know,” she wrote in the caption.