The “Vampire Diaries” actress was getting ready for a private CFDA/Vogue dinner with Anna Wintour at the Golden Swan in New York City on a Friday night in late October. Unbeknownst to her, though, White had orchestrated the “fake” event as part of a larger scheme.
“[Shaun] made the invite look so legitimate,” Dobrev said to Vogue after getting the official invitation a few days earlier.
Dobrev, who was running late, claimed, “I was in a panic that Anna’s waiting for me,” prior to his arrival.
Dobrev claimed that as soon as she opened the event space’s main door, she “went into shock.” “I simply froze.”
Dobrev claimed that as soon as she opened the event space’s main door, she “went into shock.” Dobrev claimed, “I just froze and stared at him,” as she stood in front of her future husband and a photographer who had been hired to document the event.
White “said all the right things,” according to Dobrev, as he proposed to her beneath a white flower arch with a five-carat Lorraine Schwartz ring.
She makes jokes when she’s nervous, so I knew she was anxious,” White remarked. “So, hold on, Anna isn’t here?” she asks.
