Earlier this month, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom took a more permanent step in their on-again, off-again relationship when they announced their engagement. But, gorgeous ring aside, we didn’t know many of the details…until now.
During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Perry revealed the extravagant way Bloom popped the question. And, as Kimmel correctly observed, there were definitely undertones of a date on an episode of The Bachelor or The Bachelorette. Here’s what happened: After a Valentine’s Day dinner, she was under the impression they were going to go see some art. Instead, the couple pulled up to a helicopter. “It was really sweet,” she says. “He asked me to marry him in a helicopter.”
However, all did not go exactly as planned inside said chopper. “We had champagne in the helicopter, and the box [with the ring] was in his pocket. He had written down everything he wanted to say in a note, you know, to divert, right? He was going to pull it out while I’m reading it,” Perry explains. “So I’m reading it, but I’m hearing that the champagne is, like, broken. The bottle’s everywhere, and I’m still looking at the note because he’s pulling out this box that’s too big for his coat pocket. And it rips his coat pocket and his elbow goes into the champagne. And I’m like, ‘No, I’m just reading the note. I know you’re not doing anything.'”
Needless to say, it all worked out when Perry said yes. But Bloom wasn’t finished with the surprises. After what Perry described as a James Bond-style landing on top of a building in downtown Los Angeles, she was greeted by her family and friends, who were waiting to celebrate with the couple. “He did so well,” she said. “It was really sweet.”
Watch her tell the full story, below:
Katy Perry also recounted how the two met—over a stolen In-N-Out burger at a Golden Globes party, as one does. “He stole one [burger] off of my table. I was sitting with Denzel Washington, and he took it. I was like, ‘Wait, who…oh, you’re so hot. Fine, take it.’ Then I saw him later at a party and was like, ‘How are those onions resting on your molars?’ He was like, ‘I like you.'”
From hamburgers to helicopters—it’s basically a modern fairy tale.
