Groom Goes Viral After His Sister Reads Hysterical Proposal Plans He Wrote at Age 9 During Wedding Speech (Exclusive)
"People were falling out of their chairs dying laughing and one person peed themselves a little," Hope Carew tells PEOPLE
When one woman found her brother's proposal plans that he wrote when he was 9 years old, she knew she had to save them to read aloud on his future wedding day.
Hope Carew, 30, did just that — she shared a detailed proposal itinerary her brother, Griffin Carew, 32, wrote more than 20 years ago in front of him, his bride, Alyssa Kantor Carew, 31, and their 150 guests at their Oct. 11 wedding in Monroe, New York.
"In 2014, I was going through a box of childhood things that my dad had kept for me at his house and inside, I found my brother's yearbook from 2002-2003," Hope explains to PEOPLE. "My mom's house had actually burnt down about two years prior and we had lost a lot of stuff from my childhood, so I was thrilled that my dad still had my brother's copy of the yearbook."
"So, as I was flipping through the yearbook," she continued, "this random piece of folded loose-leaf paper fell out and I couldn't believe what I had found! My brother's a lefty, so his handwriting is very distinct and I recognized it immediately as something he had written."
She continues, "It was so funny I knew I had to hold onto it to read at his wedding someday. So, I brought it back with me to college and held onto it ever since in preparation. After he got engaged, I looked for the letter where I had stashed it and it had disappeared (my mom had just moved and I had hidden it at her house)."
"My mom and I then spent the next eight months going through every piece of paperwork we could find and then right after I had given up on ever finding it again, I checked the yearbook one more time and there it was," she added.
At the wedding, Hope said, "Don't kill me," into the microphone before reading the scribbled, lengthy plans — a video of which has received more than 8.7 views and 1.6 million likes on TikTok.
"We are 25, and I am a multi-billionaire who is madly in love with you. Number one: Cincinnati to Cabo San Lucas," Hope began with her brother's three-part plan. "It is midnight and I sneak you onto our private jet. You wake up while we are in the air and I don't tell you where we are, but I kiss you and tell you I have everything taken care of."
"We get there and then I give you my credit card and tell you to do whatever you want but to be sure to be back at our hotel at 1 o'clock," Hope read on. "When you get back, I'm not there. But the butlers escort you down to the beach where I am waiting with a romantic blanket set up and wine. We drink a few glasses; then we begin to make out… The next day, we leave for another location on my yacht."
Although Hope was only a third of the way in, the wedding guests were already going wild and couldn't help but laugh at the hilariously detailed proposal plans.
"Lots of laughing, cheering and clapping," Hope recalls to PEOPLE. "People were falling out of their chairs dying laughing and one person peed themselves a little. My brother pretended to run away at one point and that egged the crowd on even more."
She continued to the crowd, "Number two: Cabo San Lucas to French Polynesia. On the yacht, we have a very romantic time. Then, when we get there, I buy you a ton of pearls. Then I buy you whatever you want and I obey your every command."
At this point, the groom couldn't hide his embarrassment.
"My brother was cracking up at the whole thing and hugged me afterward, which was a slight relief because obviously what I read was super embarrassing," Hope says. "If he didn't have such a good sense of humor, I never would have done it, but he's a Leo and can take the heat."
"I'm a standup comedian and my family is really supportive of that," she added, "so they're used to me embarrassing them on stage. Honestly, my brother was probably just relieved I wasn't telling more recent embarrassing stories about him."
She adds, "My sister-in-law was also in stitches. I had asked her permission to give a 'secret' speech at the wedding but wouldn't give her any details about what it was, so she was mostly just shocked that I had managed to keep a secret this good for so long."
Hope then read the final part of the plans: "Number three: French Polynesia to Paris. Today, we leave on the yacht and we do romantic stuff. Then we land in Paris. Then I take you all around Paris in a Rolls-Royce. I buy you everything. Then I take you to the top of the Eiffel Tower and ask, 'Will you marry me?' with a $130 million ring. You say 'yes' and then we go back to our hotel and have lots of romance."
Commenters on TikTok adored how much of a romantic Griffin was at such a young age.
"This is actually very sweet, normalize boys being in love with love," the top comment with nearly 220,000 likes reads. Meanwhile, the second most-liked comment reads, "My boy was a Wattpad LEGEND."
Other commenters echoed the sweet sentiments.
"But the fact that at 9 he wanted to be able to give his future wife the world is everything," one user wrote, with another person adding, "I love that he wanted to be rich so he could spoil his future wife and give her everything she could ever want/need."
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In actuality, Griffin's proposal to Alyssa wasn't that far off from the one he planned when he was 9 years old. Maintaining his love for travel, Griffin planned a vacation to Portugal and proposed on a beautiful trail overlooking the ocean in Colares.
"She was completely surprised and said 'yes' right away," Hope says of Alyssa's reaction. "A funny thing is that they are both lefties, so they put the ring on the wrong hand where it stayed for a whole day. It wasn't at the top of the Eiffel Tower with a $130 million diamond ring, but hey, not too shabby if you ask me."
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