When Bublé proposed to Lopilato in November 2009, a lot of thought and preparation went into how he’d pop the question.

First, as he shared with Cosmopolitan in 2014, he had learned Spanish to better communicate with her and also asked her father for his blessing. And when he was ready to ask her to marry him, he did so in front of her family in Argentina.

“I was so nervous before I asked my wife to marry me. It was the scariest decision of my life,” he told the magazine. “I did it in front of her family, who are Argentinian, and I’d learnt Spanish specially. That was the scariest part — being in front of them and asking her father’s permission beforehand.”

Lopilato recalled in a 2012 interview with The Mail on Sunday that she was caught off guard when Bublé asked her, in Spanish, to marry him as they were having dinner with her whole family.

“We thought he was joking and he said, still in Spanish, ‘No, really. I really want to marry you,’ and then he took out the ring and gave it to me,” she said. “I still thought he was joking. Then I noticed that my mother was crying, my sister was crying, even my father was crying, and I thought, ‘This is real because my father never cries.’ So I started to cry too. I loved that he proposed that way — I am a family girl and it was perfect that he said it in front of them.”

The lovebirds had kept their engagement a secret for two months before Bublé’s rep confirmed the news to the media, who said in a statement at the time, “They’re ecstatic. They’re adorable, in love and laugh all day long.”