What a whirlwind romance.
The couple got engaged this week during a tornado cleanup in Powdery, Texas, after finding an engagement ring they thought was lost forever.
Dakota Hudson and Lauren Patterson were devastated by a violent storm, losing almost all their belongings when a tornado hit their home.
Hudson told KXII, “I told her, ‘I lost your engagement ring and your wedding ring,’ and she said okay. ‘All she needed was me.’ did.”
But the softball team came to the rescue.
A softball team at a junior college in Paris scoured the rubble for sparkling diamonds, searching for lost rings.
Miraculously, one of my teammates pulled the ring out of the rubble and unearthed the sparking gem 7 yards from its original hiding place and 2 inches underground.
Team member Kate Rainey told KXII: “I don’t know why — I felt prompted to dig right there, and I found a small piece of a metal circle, but it wasn’t metal. It was gold. I I didn’t believe it.
As soon as the diamond was discovered, Hudson got down on one knee and proposed to Patterson.
“There were no better suggestions,” Patterson told KXII, calling the moment “very surreal.”
Softball player Melaina Lopez captured footage of the shocking moment.
“This is truly one of the most remarkable events we have witnessed. Congratulations to the newly engaged couple,” Lopez told Storyful.
