It was a proposal match for the Gilded Age!
Laurie Cumbo, commissioner of New York Metropolis’s Division of Cultural Affairs, bought proposed to by her companion — former NY State Meeting candidate Bobby Digi Olisa — at some of the modern occasions of the yr.
The pair gave Kim Kardashian’s skin-tight Marilyn Monroe robe a run for its scene-stealing money as they made their approach down the notorious Metropolitan Museum of Artwork steps at Monday night’s 2022 Met Gala.
Cumbo and Olisa, each 47, have been on the bash when the latter bought down on one knee and offered his love with an unmistakable robin’s egg-colored Tiffany’s ring field.
Cumbo and Olisa — govt director and founding father of Staten Island’s the Canvas institute — share a 5-year-old son and have been collectively for nearly eight years.
“I assume my fiancé simply requested me to marry him and that is superb, surprising, great. That is the perfect day ever!” Cumbo gushed to NBC after the shock, which even hit the pages of fashion bible Vogue.
She additionally advised the outlet that she was beforehand an intern for Met Gala many years earlier than — when she was 15 years outdated. “Now I’m coming again because the Commissioner of the New York Metropolis Division of Cultural Affairs and it’s an honor to be right here tonight,” she added.

Cumbo was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams in March 2022. Adams, 61, additionally attended the star-studded Gilded Age-themed social gathering, rocking a custom-made go well with that pleaded “Finish Gun Violence.”
She additionally stopped by to speak to Entertainment Tonight about the proposal on the museum and famous she wasn’t anticipating it.
“I didn’t understand it was going to occur tonight. We’ve been speaking about it,” she stated, additionally stating that she and her man have been by a number of hurdles as a pair so “that is such an honor and that is such a blessing.”

Olisa later divulged to the Associated Press that he had been eager to pop the query for fairly a while.
“You understand, it’s at all times like making an attempt to attend for the fitting time,” he stated. “So when is the fitting time contemplating all the things that’s occurring worldwide? So I used to be similar to, ‘At present we’re going to make it occur.’ “
Cumbo was undoubtedly impressed by Olisa’s grand romantic gesture: “You watch for this second your complete life nearly and for it to be proper right here, it was all the things that I assumed it will be,” she stated.
Different A-listers have used the celebrated Met Gala to make a romantic transfer embrace former President Donald Trump and FLOTUS Melania, who debuted a “big diamond” ring there in 2004. In the meantime, rapper 2Chainz went all the way in 2018: The Def Jam recording artist, 44, proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Kesha Ward, on the time.