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Stu Bilodeau was about to walk away from his carefully thought-out proposal.

His girlfriend was lost, the quiet mountain location near Banff he had scoped out earlier was swarming with people, and it was freezing cold.

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And, as if he wasn’t already nervous enough, there was a wedding party watching his every move.

“About two minutes before she showed up, I was ready to call it all off,” Bilodeau said.

“I thought, I guess I have to go to Plan B now, which I don’t even know what that is.”

But Bilodeau stayed put at a picturesque location near two red chairs on Mount Norquay Road, and boy is he ever glad he did.

He girlfriend, Karla Bliss, eventually found his location using co-ordinates he’d sent her. The people he kept pushing away dispersed and, unbeknownst to him, two photographers snapped a stunning photo as he got down on one knee at the picturesque Norquay Green Spot Viewpoint.

Nearly three weeks after the successful snowy proposal on Dec. 30, Bilodeau woke up to quite the surprise Monday morning.