Gracie Cashman and Brian Stute. Zaid Esaak
Gracie Cashman, daughter of New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman, was shocked by a wedding proposal that really knocked it out of the park.
Gracie, 26, mentioned “sure” when boyfriend Brian Stute popped the query on the center of a stage in Chicago on Sunday, November 17, with the couple’s respective households hiding within the theater’s opera containers.
Now, in an unique interview with Us Weekly, Gracie is explaining how her newly-minted fiancé pulled off the massive ruse.
“I knew his household was on the town for his little sister’s birthday,” she mentioned. “He informed me we had been going to do brunch after which dinner. I assumed we had this weekend along with his household, so I didn’t have any plans. He mentioned we needed to cease at a bakery to select up a birthday cake earlier than brunch. On the best way there, we didn’t go to a bakery, we went to this theater that I had by no means been to.”
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Gracie continued, “Once we walked in, it was utterly empty. The stage and the whole lot. He took me on the stage, received on one knee and requested me to marry him.”
The proposal’s location was chosen by Stute for a really particular motive, harkening again to their days collectively at St. Luke’s Faculty in New Canaan, Connecticut.
“We met in highschool doing Legally Blonde: The Musical, which is why he proposed on a stage,” Gracie defined. “I used to be taking part in Elle and he was taking part in Warner. We began courting my junior yr of highschool, his senior yr. We did break up in direction of the tip of school after which we received again collectively once we each moved to Chicago.”
She added, “We weren’t superb at being damaged up anyway. We had been fairly persistently speaking.”
After the proposal, each households — together with Gracie’s mother and father, who’re divorced, and brother, Teddy — emerged and took footage with the newly-engaged couple earlier than the entire crew loaded right into a trolley — “a really Chicago factor to do,” Gracie joked — that was loaded with Fireball shooters.
“We had been laughing,” Gracie remembered, “as a result of all of us on the trolley had been like, ‘Oh my god, it’s 11 a.m., however ought to we do the Fireball pictures? Undoubtedly.’”
Stute proposed with the ring of Gracie’s grandmother, the late mom of Gracie’s mother, Mary.
“She died once I was 2,” Gracie mentioned. “My mother had her engagement ring and he or she let my boyfriend use it.”
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In fact, now the marriage planning begins. However Gracie — who hosts The Story of My Quantity, obtainable on The Gotham Sports activities App — urged her family and friends to train some persistence whereas she plots out the massive day.
“I believe we’re going to have to select a date fairly far sooner or later,” Gracie defined. “I believe we’ll decide a date within the winter. I’ve all the time wished a winter wedding ceremony. I believe two years from now within the winter can be sufficient time for folks to determine it out.”
As for a location, Gracie hinted she’s “all the time wished to get married overseas” and has her sights set on one nation particularly.
“I’ve all the time wished to do Eire,” she mentioned. “I haven’t been to Eire in years, however my Dad is 100% Irish. My mother is over 50% Irish. So, I’m over 75% Irish. We’re a fairly conventional Irish Catholic household in a whole lot of methods. I want to do it there, however clearly we’ll see.”