A Texas man spent months teaching his soon-to-be fiancee how to ice skate — just so he could pop the question at the iconic Rockefeller Center rink.
After nearly three years together, Houston native Barrington Dave was ready to give his girlfriend, Kennedy Kinnard, an engagement ring — and he came up with the perfect plan.
“I was like Kennedy loves Christmas and he loves New York — and what’s more Christmassy than the tree in Rockefeller Center?” Dave, 29, told The Post this week.
Before leaving for a five-night trip to the Big Apple and preventing his proposal plan from becoming a real failure, Dave took Kinnard, a 25-year-old Dallas native, skating.
“After about an hour she was off the wall [and] she was skating around – I saw what I needed to see. I was like, ‘Oh, she’s not going to fall. . . it’s going to be okay,’” Dave recalls.
Rain threatened his big reveal in December. 16, but Rockefeller Center “thankfully” still allows people to enter the rink.
Around 3:30 p.m., a rink employee in the group with Dave politely asked everyone off the ice.
With just the two of them on the ice, the 74-foot tree as a majestic backdrop and their favorite song, Beyonce’s “Dangerously in Love,” blasting over the speakers, Dave got down on one knee.
Kinnard began to scream with delight and the adoring onlookers jumped and screamed.
“As soon as I realized what was happening, I said, ‘Wow,'” she recalls. “He put all this thought and effort into it. . . It was so, so touching.
“It was absolutely perfect,” gushed Kinnard.
“I had no idea it was happening that day. . . I had a pimple!” she laughed.
Amazingly, Dave described all of his planning leading up to the proposal, as well as the special moment itself, in a TikTok video that has been viewed 13.1 million times.
For the happy couple, who met at a mutual friend’s wedding, the Big Apple holds a very special place in their hearts – not least because it’s where their engagement began.
The city was the last place Dave’s mother took him before she died of breast cancer in 2006 at age 39, said Dave, who hasn’t been back since.
After Kinnard graduated from Washington University in St. Louis this spring, she will relocate to New York for a one-year position at a law firm, while Dave, an accountant, holds down the fort in Houston.
The couple have been long distance the entire time they’ve been together, so it won’t be a problem, they said.
“I know he’s going to be there for a lot of visits,” Kinnard said. “This city means a lot to us.”
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