Memphis couple surprise each other with a double proposal

For their first date, Jessa Gillaspie and Becky McCabe went to the Memphis Zoo, and when Gillaspie decided to propose, she thought it would be the perfect place to pop the question.

She did not know that McCabe had the same idea, and last week, after she got down on one knee, Gillaspie was shocked when McCabe started to laugh and pulled out a ring box from her backpack. "I had no idea she planned to propose, and she had no idea I planned to propose to her," Gillaspie wrote on Facebook. "We were both so surprised!"

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.