Jack proposed while the couple were on holiday in Nicaragua while they were walking by a lake, Eugenie explained, "The light was just a special light I had never seen. I actually said, 'This is an incredible moment,' and then he popped the question, which was really surprising, even though we've been together seven years. I was over the moon. [It was a] complete surprise. But it was the perfect moment; we couldn't be happier. We knew it was going to end up this way."
He did not have a ring with him when he proposed, as he wanted Eugenie to help design the ring of her dreams. "We designed the diamonds around this padparadscha sapphire . . . And what's amazing about it is that it changes colour from every different angle that you look at it, which is what I think of Eugenie — that she changes colour and is just so amazing," said Jack.