The best way Jason Ritter proposed to Melanie Lynskey was so low-key that she didn’t even know he was proposing.
Whereas showing on The Tonight Present on Monday, Lynskey shared with host Jimmy Fallon that Ritter needed to re-do their engagement as a result of his first one was “so complicated.”
“The day earlier than, I had been rings, and I attempted one on,” she recalled. “I used to be like, ‘Oh, it type of seems like an engagement ring, virtually. I don’t suppose I’m going to get it.’”
Ritter then acquired her the ring and when he gave it to her, Lynskey thanked him for it, pondering it was only a thoughtful present. “It didn’t form of cross my thoughts [that it was a proposal],” she advised Fallon.
“After which there was this unusual speech,” Lynskey continued. “We had been simply form of sitting there. He had paused no matter [was on TV], The Bachelor. And I used to be simply form of like, ‘Oh, OK.’”
She then defined that the proposal was so complicated she really requested Ritter in the event that they had been breaking apart. “He was like, ‘No, no, no.’ So I stated ‘OK,’ after which I used to be like, ‘Properly, thanks. Pretty. Good chat?’”
Whereas Lynskey didn’t know what was occurring, Ritter was sure she had accepted his proposal. “Then, three days later, we went to fulfill his household for Christmas, and he stated, ‘We’re engaged.’”
For the reason that engagement mishap, Lynskey stated Ritter has been making up for it by proposing “again and again.” A current re-proposal was on her birthday in Slovakia—with a brand new ring, as effectively. Their baby even acquired to be a part of it. “He was going to take me out for dinner and do it at dinner, however our daughter was like, ‘Give her the ring, Dad!,’” stated the actress.
Ritter and Lynskey met whereas filming The Huge Ask in 2013 and began courting that yr. The pair introduced their engagement in 2017, and the couple married in 2020, almost two years after the delivery of their daughter.