Good luck topping this couple’s proposal story.
When two people decide to spend the rest of their lives with each other, that’s undoubtedly a big deal. When two people are within a couple hundred yards of a tornado, that’s also a big deal… just in a different way. One storm chasing couple managed to kill two birds with one stone and found themselves checking off both of those in a single, incredibly memorable proposal.
Paige Berdomas and Bryce Shelton take pride in storm chasing, and the couple was recently tracking down a powerful twister in the state of South Dakota when their lives changed forever. Typically being close to a violent storm would be the thing that produces the life changing moment, but this time it was something else that stole the show as a tornado ripped through South Dakota.
Love.
Berdomas and Shelton were out chasing storms on behalf of a YouTube meteorologist named Max Velocity (he’s a great follow and a wonderful source for storm tracking, if you’ve never heard of him). The YouTuber had even switched over to the camera view of the twister provided by “Tornado Paigey,” and funny enough, captured the exciting, surprise proposal live on the stream.
Check it out:
Who knew tornadoes could be so romantic?
Now I know that’s not the best angle of the Bryce Shelton getting down on one knee and asking Paige Berdomas to marry him (she said yes, by the way). Fortunately, there were plenty of other pictures and points of view that captured the legendary tornado proposal.
Paige herself – who goes by “Tornado Paigey” online if that wasn’t clear earlier – shared this posted below confirming that her and her storm chasing partner will soon enough be a storm chasing husband and wife:
“How on earth could this day ever be topped? Experienced this in South Dakota with the love of my life and now FIANCE as he proposed in the most epic way imaginable. Cannot wait to spend the rest of my life with you.”
Love is in the air tornado.
Unfortunately, some online gave Paige crap for what she was wearing during their engagement, as if she should have known to be dressed for both storm chasing and potential proposal photos. She shot down the haters real quick with this response:
“From the comments that I’m seeing regarding our engagement, apparently I’m supposed to be fully dressed in fancy clothes with my nails done and my hair done while I’m chasing every single day in hopes that my significant other will propose to me. Give me a break, you weirdo girls can do that, I’ll keep doing me.”
She apparently got a lot of hate for her sparkly Crocs. Newsflash social media world… Crocs are all the way back. You can’t shame someone for wearing them anymore. That’s especially true if their engagement photo looks like THIS:
One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
A tornado engagement is definitely unique, and I feel comfortable also adding that it would not be recommended for non-storm-chasing couples. These are professionals deciding to spend the rest of their lives together next to a tornado. Leave proposals like this to the pros.
And if this whole time you’ve been thinking, ‘That’s a really cool looking twister,’ I thought the same thing. Here’s a video of the tornado in action:
Oh, and congrats to Paige Berdomas and Bryce Shelton! Hope your engagement and marriage are a whirlwind of fun.
