This couple got engaged at the Met Gala: ‘This is the best day ever!’

It was a proposal match for the Gilded Age!

Laurie Cumbo, commissioner of New York Metropolis’s Division of Cultural Affairs, obtained proposed to by her accomplice — former NY State Meeting candidate Bobby Digi Olisa — at probably the most trendy occasions of the 12 months.

The pair gave Kim Kardashian’s skin-tight Marilyn Monroe robe a run for its scene-stealing cash as they made their approach down the notorious Metropolitan Museum of Artwork steps at Monday night’s 2022 Met Gala.

Cumbo and Olisa, each 47, have been on the bash when the latter obtained down on one knee and offered his love with an unmistakable robin’s egg-colored Tiffany’s ring field.

Cumbo and Olisa — govt director and founding father of Staten Island’s the Canvas institute — share a 5-year-old son and have been collectively for nearly eight years.

“I suppose my fiancé simply requested me to marry him and that is wonderful, sudden, great. That is the perfect day ever!” Cumbo gushed to NBC after the shock, which even hit the pages of trend bible Vogue.

She additionally advised the outlet that she was beforehand an intern for Met Gala a long time earlier than — when she was 15 years previous. “Now I’m coming again because the Commissioner of the New York Metropolis Division of Cultural Affairs and it’s an honor to be right here tonight,” she added.

Cumbo was in for a big surprise when her partner of eight years proposed to her on Monday evening.
Cumbo was in for a giant shock when her accomplice of eight years proposed to her on Monday night.
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Cumbo was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams in March 2022. Adams, 61, additionally attended the star-studded Gilded Age-themed celebration, rocking a custom-made swimsuit that pleaded “Finish Gun Violence.”

She additionally stopped by to speak to Leisure Tonight concerning the proposal on the museum and famous she wasn’t anticipating it.

“I didn’t understand it was going to occur tonight. We’ve been speaking about it,” she stated, additionally stating that she and her man have been via a number of hurdles as a pair so “that is such an honor and that is such a blessing.”  

Commissioner of New York City Cultural Affairs Laurie Cumbo gets proposed to by her now fiance Bobby Digi Olisa, as they arrive for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022, in New York. - The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. The Gala's 2022 theme is "In America: An Anthology of Fashion". (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
“I didn’t understand it was going to occur tonight. We’ve been speaking about it,” she stated.
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Olisa later divulged to the Related Press that he had been desirous to pop the query for fairly a while.

“You already know, it’s at all times like attempting to attend for the precise time,” he stated. “So when is the precise time contemplating all the things that’s occurring worldwide? So I used to be identical to, ‘In the present day we’re going to make it occur.’ “

Cumbo was undoubtedly impressed by Olisa’s grand romantic gesture: “You anticipate this second your entire life nearly and for it to be proper right here, it was all the things that I assumed it could be,” she stated.

Different A-listers have used the celebrated Met Gala to make a romantic transfer embody former President Donald Trump and FLOTUS Melania, who debuted a “large diamond” ring there in 2004. In the meantime, rapper 2Chainz went all the best way in 2018: The Def Jam recording artist, 44, proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Kesha Ward, on the time.

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