Woman Disguises Herself As A Bush To Capture Perfect Shot Of Her Sister's Engagement

A woman desperate to capture her sister's proposal on camera decided she needed to blend in with the surrounding foliage - by dressing up as a bush.

Therese Merkel, from Wisconsin, managed to be present for her sister's big moment by dressing as the shrubbery and hiding herself nearby.

The 23-year-old spent a month prior working on the details of the plan with sister Rachel's now fiancé Andrew Philibeck, who was in on the whole thing - and TBH she's our new hero.

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"Andrew and I started devising about a month prior," she explained.

"We had an hour-long phone call where he, one; asked for my approval to be wed as me and my sister are incredibly close, so I'm like the second string of parents he has to go through. And then two; come up with something great for this huge moment."

The pair decided Therese had to be on location for the moment, and tape the entire thing.

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"We tossed some ideas back and forth and had the basics down like location and that I had to somehow be there videotaping it," she recalled.

"I used to have a knack for videos and vlogging back in my prime."

A week before the proposal, Andrew and Therese met up to trace the walk and bat around ideas for how her sister could be involved.

"Myself and Andrew got together a week prior to walk the trail and actually come up with the plan," she said.

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"We tossed some ridiculous ideas around - maybe we should pretend I'm injured and have to call the ambulance and then Andrew would turn around instead of the medic and propose but we thought that was too aggressive.

"But then I was like 'what if I was a bush?' We geeked and Andrew is the one who really ran with it... then it got real."

On September 21st, Andrew took Rachel to Picnic Point in Madison, where he'd called to get special permission to deck it out with lanterns and Rachel's favourite flowers, sunflowers.

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Wearing the outfit she had purchased the night before, Therese hid quietly on the nature trail.

She said: "I had the perfect view of the whole thing. He wrote her a loving poem, and then got down on one knee..."

Luckily, her sister managed to capture the entire proposal on camera.

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Therese, we applaud your commitment.

Topics: engagement

Ciara Sheppard

Ciara is a freelance journalist working for Tyla. After graduating from the University of Sussex, Ciara worked as a writer at GLAMOUR Magazine and later as the Assistant Editor of Yahoo Style UK.

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