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This is a proposal that took some serious planning — though not quite as much as it first seems.

Troy Reddington proposed to his girlfriend using a time capsule buried five years ago. When it was initially buried on an island in Eagle Lake (about an hour south of North Bay), it had various personal items in it. But before they dug it back up, Reddington snuck out to the lake to swap it with a marriage proposal.

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“I had the idea to replace it ahead of time with a message and suggested opening the old one last week only to surprise her,” he said in a note posted to Facebook earlier this summer. Reddington told CTV he came up with the idea about two years ago.

The couple filmed the whole trip, though only one of them knew what was actually inside the capsule. The key moment comes about 8 minutes in.