Tip: Do not put your engagement ring in a balloon filled with helium
Sad story on Yahoo! News:
Honey, will you marry… Oh. Never mind…
“It is the one moment every man wants to get right — and which London floor-fitter Lefkos Hajji could hardly have got more wrong.
The luckless 28 year-old’s dreams of giving his sweetheart, Leanne, 26, the ultimate proposal have literally vanished into thin air.
Hajji, of Hackney, east London, had concealed a $12,000 engagement ring inside a helium balloon. The idea was that she would pop the balloon as he popped the question.
But as he left the shop, a gust of wind pulled the balloon from his hand and he watched the ring — and quite possibly the affections of his girlfriend — sailing away over the rooftops.
“I couldn’t believe it,” he told The Sun newspaper.
“I just watched as it went further and further into the air.
“I felt like such a plonker. It cost a fortune and I knew my girlfriend would kill me.”
Hajji spent two hours in his car trying to chase and find the balloon, without success.
“I thought I would give Leanne a pin so I could literally pop the question,” he said.
“But I had to tell her the story — she went absolutely mad. Now she is refusing to speak to me until I get her a new ring.”
He is hoping the ring will still turn up.
“It would be amazing if someone found it,” he added.
(Reporting by Peter Apps. Editing by Steve Addison)”
Take home message? While it’s romantic to put an engagement ring in a unique place as a surprise for your girl, it won’t be romantic if the ring gets lost. Nothing wrong with using a CZ in a setting as a temporary ring, even if you have to attach a sticker saying this ring is redeemable with a real diamond upon saying yes. Use your imagination, but be smart 
that was so sad., it nice to surprise your love one but that thing was so sad
Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 4:25 amThat is so funny and awful at the same time, I wish you’d gotten it back so you could laugh about it. I bet you still get embarrassed when you talk about it…
Posted on May 9th, 2008 at 5:55 pmIt seems like a joke. So important the engagement ring, must be put in a right and safe place or a steady circumstances. All must be under control. No any mistake to spoil everything. It’s really.
Posted on May 25th, 2008 at 11:40 amWow that’s a scary scenario. I have been thinking about a way to propose after buying my ring at Major Jewelers and think that had she popped the balloon it would have been one of the most original and successful proposals I have heard about. To be safe, I had the guys at Major hold onto my ring in their vault for me until I can figure out when and how to propose.
They have been very good and even offered a couple proposal suggestions. They can be found at http://www.majorvault.com
Posted on September 9th, 2008 at 11:26 amWell, it’s been several months since this unfortunate incident. Has anyone heard if he got another ring and went on with the wedding, or if by some miracle the flying ring showed up somewhere?
James Greene
Posted on December 5th, 2008 at 3:07 pmI would lose that girl if she decides not to talk to you over a ring.
Youre in for a divorce.
Posted on December 22nd, 2008 at 12:59 pm