BERGEN COUNTY — One day, Andrew Rackoff's kids will roll their eyes as he tells the story — again! — about the time he got the Internet to help him propose to their mom.

We met on JDate, he'll tell them, the online community for Jewish singles, and since I had so much luck with love on the Web I figured it was worth a shot. So I went on reddit.

'What's a reddit, dad?' they'll ask him.

It was one of the ways we shared things online before the Internet became sentient, he'll say. And then he'll tell them what he told a reporter from NJ.com back in 2012.

The plan

"I had been thinking about it around three or four months ago, when I was getting a ring and coming up with a plan," said Rackoff, an IT project manager who lives in Hackensack. He and his girlfriend, Allison Marchfeld, a schoolteacher in Paterson, were going on four years together. So for Allison, at least, the wedding bells weren't too far off in the distance.

"I was waiting all summer for him to ask me," she said.

Andrew is active on the social news website reddit.com, particularly the New Jersey subreddit, a place where nerds from New Jersey swap stories and advice relative to the Garden State.

He had a plan: He was going to take Allison to the Grounds for Sculpture, a scenic sculpture garden in Hamilton Township that hosts plenty of marital functions. He let the folks at Grounds for Sculpture know about his intentions, and they were happy to let him bring in a musician to perform the couple's song, "Come On, Get Higher" by Matt Nathanson, as he popped the question.

All he needed was somebody to play the song.

"Any Guitarist / musicians here from South Jersey who would like to help a fellow redditor propose to his GF?" read the post Andrew put up on reddit a little over two weeks ago. He got a few responses. Among them was Jeff, a fellow New Jersey redditor who asked to be identified by his first name.

Jeff told Andrew that his girlfriend, Lindsey Morgan, was a musician who performed under the name "eLLe Morgan." Andrew could hire Lindsey and a guitarist to perform at the sculpture garden, and Jeff volunteered to take pictures.

The proposal

A week or so later, Andrew asked Allison if she'd come with him to the Grounds for Sculpture to watch one of his reddit friends' girlfriend perform.

"I make fun of Andrew that he's on reddit so much," Allison said, so it sounded pretty plausible. But when they showed up for Lindsey's show, "Andrew and I were the only ones there listening."

There was also that guy with the camera, skulking around taking pictures of everything.

"Then she started playing the song ('Come On, Get Higher'), and he gets down on one knee."

"I started hysterically crying," Allison said. "It was incredible, the whole plan. And the ring is stunning." The wedding is planned for sometime in the fall of 2014, and Allison has a little more patience for the amount of time Andrew spends on the Internet.

"Now I have to be a believer that it works," she said.

"On that subreddit, there are some really good people," Andrew said. "Just because the Internet can be a scary place, that doesn't mean there aren't some great people out there."