Later, he planned to propose to the 35-year-old during a trip to Cape Town, but then felt it was too predictable—as he added to the fashion outlet Nina and her friends were expecting it to happen during that trip.
Instead, Shaun opted for an otherwise typical week in October—one that initially had Nina craving a string of nights in. To thwart those plans, Shaun went so far as to create a fake invitation to an intimate dinner with Anna Wintour at the restaurant he planned to hold the proposal.
As Nina put it to Vogue, “He made the invite look so legitimate.”
But all of Shaun’s hard work to surprise Nina paid off. “I went into shock,” she explained. “I just froze and stared at him, ‘No, no, no!’”
Keep reading for a look back at the couple’s relationship leading up to their recent milestone.
