Sports reporter Ross Karl knew he had to be sneaky if he wanted to keep his proposal plans a surprise from his partner, fellow journalist Janika ter Ellen.
"Janika's very good at being a journalist," Karl said in this week's edition of New Idea.
"If I put a tiny idea out there she wants to know everything about it."
Ter Ellen, who presents Prime News and used to be Paul Henry's sidekick on The Paul Henry Show, had mentioned her love of bushwalking near her grandmother's Kawerau home, so Karl bided his time for more than a year, waiting for the pair to make their way out there, naturally.
Karl and ter Ellen set out on an evening bushwalk to a spot overlooking a waterfall, and as she started to tell him about the history of the place, he got down on one knee.
