Kayla Harrity wrote on her Facebook page that her boyfriend Matthew Picca decided to propose at their "favorite place," a restaurant in Southport, North Carolina.

He got down on one knee, and then disaster struck.

"Just as he opened the ring box, the ring fell out of the box and through the crack on the deck," she wrote.

Picca told The State Port Pilot that the moment was absolutely devastating.

"It wasn't insured yet—I had just gotten it this week. I was freaking out, but I didn't want to show her that I was freaking out," he said.