Linkedin Share
Uplifting

WATCH: Paradise Tragedy Turns Into Surprise Proposal From Once-Perpetual Bachelor

Linkedin Share

When Lukas Schnoor, 27, and Cassie Oxley, 24, first began dating eight months ago, Schnoor made his ideas for their future pretty bluntly known. No ring, no kids.

“When we first got together he said, ‘I never want to get married, I don’t want to have kids,’” Cassie shared with KATU2. “He was a super bachelor.”

Schnoor lived in a simple 1,000 square foot “bachelor pad” in Paradise, California, but something unique and wonderful about Oxley must have prompted him to invite her to move in just a few months ago.

Plenty of events have unfolded since then, however, including the violent Camp Fire that ravaged over 150,000 acres and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes, including Schnoor and Oxley’s.

Trending:
Massive Migrant Caravan Marches Toward US with LGBT Flags Flying as Mexican President Snubs Biden at Summit

But, when the deadly wildfire took their home, it drew this sweet couple even closer together.

“This fire in the last 30 days [has created] more growth between us with the stress and tension,” Lukas said to KATU. “We’ve had each other to fall back on.”

So, at the site of their home, on the steps Schnoor says he eagerly waited to climb to see her each day, he said goodbye to his bachelor life and hello to his future wife.

“On that ominous day of November 8 I reached and prayed to god for the first time in a long long time,” Lukas said of the terrifying wildfire in a Facebook post.

“I told him I had no place to ask for favors but that I knew Cassie’s [sic] love and faith in him, I asked him [for her] to find the strength to make it back to me,” he continued. “I promised him if she made it back in my arms that his job is complete and I will take care of her for the rest of my life.

“[The proposal] meant more because of what we’d just gone through,” Cassie tearfully recalled to KATU. “I couldn’t imagine a day without him anymore.”

Submit a Correction →



Tags:
, , , , , ,
Linkedin Share
About the Author:

Conversation