I proposed to my girlfriend on the dock – then things went horribly wrong

He wanted a yes, but there was a mess

Waterside “will you marry me” moments are great in theory. But when the ring hits the water, then you know what hits the fan.

“Oh st,” sighed the bride after accidentally knocking her engagement ring still in the box off her fiance’s hand and into a shallow lake.

Footage of the boy’s proposal, made viral by NYC model and sister-in-law-to-be McKenna Hiller, shows his face falling as the rock rolled off the dock and into the wet stuff. .a

“That was typical of us,” the groom-to-be said with a laugh shortly after a beer bottle was also knocked over to the dock.

The shocking snap scored a staggering 647,000 views on Instagram, prompting cheers of congratulations from fans and side-eyes from skeptics – many who believe the bride-to-be’s diamond was no fluke.

“She didn’t want to marry him and tried to laugh it off [it]feeling awkward and not wanting to say ‘No’ on camera,” one cynic argued in the comments.

“How sad”, writes another. “Dude doesn’t even realize he’s been in the friend zone the whole time.”

Trolls also chided the man for setting himself up for a splashing disaster.Â

“Can we stop proposing on bodies of water,” said one critic.

“Why do people still propose on the piers? [and] doke, asked an equally desperate viewer. “We have all seen this happen.â€

And they may be right.

Katie Nicholson, 24, found herself on an “emotional roller coaster” after briefly losing her square-cut jewel in the ocean following fiance Steve’s big request in July.

Thanks to a kind passerby, the precious stone was quickly found

Zay, an Australian groom-to-be, staged an elaborate engagement scene for fiancee Sai on Sydney’s Coogee Beach ahead of Valentine’s Day 2023 – only to lose the sound in the sand. Online viewers deemed the proposal on the beach “a nightmare”.

And Ross Bamber, 26, from the UK, said he was left heartbroken after hearing the $1,200 ring he had just given his then-girlfriend Geri Ashforth, 23, submerged in a lake before falling into a the knee

“I took the ring out of my pocket and as I opened the box, the ring fell out,” he recalled in 2022. “It bounced around a few times and then fell between the gaps in the trim.”

Ashford later took to social media, announcing that despite her and Bamber’s best efforts, “our ring has been lost in the lake forever.”

However, Hiller, who captured the latest mishap on video, was unwilling to let her older sister and brother-in-law meet a similar fate.

Seconds after the pair’s token of love made headlines, the Big Apple beauty jumped into the water and saved her from drowning.

“It doesn’t swim PERFECT,” Hiller blurted out from the living jewel. “And not my little sister instinct to jump right in.”