Derek Hough Wanted His Proposal to Fiance Hayley Erbert to be ‘Intimate’: ‘Home Is The Most Special Place’ for Us
usmagazine.comA true romantic. Derek Hough wanted to make his proposal to fiancée Hayley Erbert as special as possible — so he recreated their home to make the perfect intimate setting.“Transformed and candles.
Those were his two words with everything,” event planner Troy Williams, who helped the Dancing With the Stars judge, 37, plan the proposal, exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, June 2. “They’ve swam with whales, they’ve jumped off boats — that’s their life.
And as we kept talking about it, he realized, you know, ‘Our home is the most special place for us.’”Williams, who runs Simply Troy Lifestyle + Events, told Us that the “most important thing for [Hough] was that it be a special moment” for Erbert, 27, and that they create the most romantic situation possible.“That’s all he wanted,” the lifestyle guru explained on Wednesday. “He wanted it to be transformed in the intimacy of their home so they can start the next biggest adventure of their lives.”Secretly pulling off such an intimate proposal for such an “adventurous couple” proved to be no easy feat.
However, when the Kansas native wanted to take a trip to Yosemite to celebrate Hough’s recent birthday, an opportunity arose for Williams to turn their living room into the perfect space, with over “250 candles and 1,600 roses.”“They’ve been together so long and to pull off a surprise like this in someone’s home is a very hard undertaking,” Williams revealed. “But, with one of their best friends and myself, we just kept disabling cameras at the time.
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