megyn: nothing like a good marriage proposal story. for one man in massachusetts his creative beach proposal went from romantic to titanic in a matter of seconds. here we explain. here is my empty finger. reporter: some what call it a rough start to a marriage, that is not the way this couple is looking at it. no, yeah, no we ve definitely come to our senses. we can laugh about it now. yeah. reporter: but nobody was laughing at bass river beach yesterday when matt planned to propose to his girlfriend stacy by tying a $9,000 ring to sandbar dollar and placing it on this jetty. i was like, oh, stacey look at that sand dollar.