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American pops question at Eiffel Tower ice-rink

US couple Jon McAchran, centre right, places an engagement ring on his girlfriend Ashley Marie Kimberl, on the ice rink set 57 meters (188 feet) above the ground on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Tuesday Dec. 16, 2014. Real estate agent McAchran, 32, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, provoked instant applause when he got down on one frosty knee (and ice-skate) to pop the question on the ice to his girlfriend Kimberl, 30, presenting her with a sparkling diamond engagement ring. Kimberl confirmed her answer to the AP: “We’re getting married!” (AP Photo/Francois Mori )
US couple Jon McAchran, centre right, places an engagement ring on his girlfriend Ashley Marie Kimberl, on the ice rink set 57 meters (188 feet) above the ground on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Tuesday Dec. 16, 2014. Real estate agent McAchran, 32, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, provoked instant applause when he got down on one frosty knee (and ice-skate) to pop the question on the ice to his girlfriend Kimberl, 30, presenting her with a sparkling diamond engagement ring. Kimberl confirmed her answer to the AP: “We’re getting married!” (AP Photo/Francois Mori ) US couple Jon McAchran, centre right, places an engagement ring on his girlfriend Ashley Marie Kimberl, on the ice rink set 57 meters (188 feet) above the ground on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Tuesday Dec. 16, 2014. Real estate agent McAchran, 32, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, provoked instant applause when he got down on one frosty knee (and ice-skate) to pop the question on the ice to his girlfriend Kimberl, 30, presenting her with a sparkling diamond engagement ring. Kimberl confirmed her answer to the AP: “We’re getting married!” (AP Photo/Francois Mori )

By Associated Press 1 min read

PARIS (AP) – It could have been a scene from fairytale movie “Frozen.”

And an AP photographer snapping tourists at the Eiffel Tower’s Christmas ice-rink Tuesday happened upon the fairytale moment.

Real estate agent Jon McAchran, 32, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, provoked instant applause when he got down on one frosty knee (and ice-skate) to pop the question on the ice to his girlfriend Ashley Marie Kimberl, 30, presenting her with a sparkling diamond engagement ring.

Kimberl confirmed her answer to the AP: “We’re getting married!”

She gushed that “it was a surprise, as our first date was on an ice-rink in Virginia.”

This was not the first time that the question has been popped at the Eiffel Tower – Tom Cruise famously asked Katie Holmes to marry him there in 2005.