It’s not unusual for Ryan Richards to whisk his girlfriend, Alissa, away on a whim.
But when he turned into Go Sky Dive Boston Monday afternoon, it was a surprise that topped all others for Alissa Litchfield.
“He’s always like, ‘get in the car, we are going somewhere.’ And he doesn’t tell me,” Alissa explained. “I was having a heart attack, I couldn’t even fathom words, I was thinking of every excuse not to go [skydiving].”
But Ryan was determined to get her up in the sky, because of what was waiting below.
“I really was like cool as a cucumber, I mean I was waiting for this day a long time coming, so it was kind of like the calm before the storm,” he told Boston 25 News.
After four years together and a daughter named Mila, Ryan was ready to propose. And this was the best way he knew how, to honor their friend Tim Engle, an Army paratrooper who had recently passed away.
“It was nice kind of going up in the plane, and feeling him, and being able to be a part of that,” Ryan said.
He landed first, with a huge sign on the ground. And was on bended knee by the time Alissa touched down.
“I was just ugly crying, sobbing, so happy,” she told Boston 25 News.
It was the perfect proposal for two self-admitted adrenaline junkies.
“The foundation of our relationship, we’ve just been crazy about each other and we try to find ways to express our feelings by doing certain things together like that,” Ryan said.
And although they’re back safely on the ground, the love birds’ heads are still in the clouds.
“I just couldn’t even believe it, I feel like I still can’t believe it, it was my wildest dream come true,” Alissa said.
The couple is planning to get married sometime next summer though the wedding will take place on solid ground.
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