Woman Shares How Fiancé Injured Himself While Preparing for Engagement: 'Thank You to the Paramedics Who Encouraged Him to Still Propose' (Exclusive)

On TikTok, Angel Gayle detailed exactly what went down on the day of her proposal — which didn't exactly go as planned

When Angel Gayle got a call from her boyfriend that he'd hurt his finger she went over to meet him in the back of an ambulance. But when she got there to comfort him, she was surprised with something else in addition to his injury — a marriage proposal.

A TikTok video, which now has over 2.2 million views, captured the moment Gayle walked into the EMT vehicle at Highland Park in Dallas County, Texas, to see her boyfriend, Alec Wright, with a bandaged-up finger and holding a bouquet of flowers.

"Is your finger OK?" Gayle, 23, asked him. "Yeah, it's OK," Wright, 22, responded.

"But I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you," he continued as he pulled out a box with an engagement ring in it. After a visibly stunned Gayle said "yes," he slid the ring on her ringer and the two started laughing.

"I got a call that my boyfriend broke his finger and this happened," she captioned the video.

In a second TikTok, Gayle detailed exactly what went down on the day of the proposal, which she explained didn't exactly go to plan after the trunk of Wright's car slammed shut on his pinkie finger. "He had a tendon hanging out and he lost a lot of blood," she said of her fiancé's injury.

When this happened, Gayle tells PEOPLE she was about 10 minutes away, having a girls' day with her friends. But once she learned that Wright needed eight stitches, she sprinted over to the ambulance. "I hauled up there as fast as I could," she says now.

Upon her arrival, she noticed a lot of cars around and that her fiancé's mom was also there. "I then heard his mom talking and was wondering how she got there so fast," Gayle recalls, adding that Wright's mother told her to wait a second before going to see him. "I thought, 'OK, maybe there's something I shouldn't see, like blood, or maybe there were stitching him up.' "

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However, that wasn't the case. "As I turn the corner, I think, 'Oh good, he's sitting up,' " Gayle says, before noticing the bouquet in his other hand. That's when she asked herself, "Why does he have flowers?"

"He asked me to come up and I'm still worried about his finger. But then he started saying the sweetest things and when he opened the box, I saw the ring," she continues, noting that she was also distracted by "all the blood on his hands and pants and shoes."

But once she snapped back into the moment, she realized, "Oh my goodness, this is happening." Gayle says that she then responded by saying, "Of course!"

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As it turns out, Wright wanted to postpone the engagement. But it was the EMT responders who convinced him otherwise. "Thank you to the paramedics who encouraged him to still propose," Gayle says.

Wright's initial idea was to get down on one knee in a gazebo adorned with a floral archway, 100 candles and a light-up sign reading, "Will you marry me?" Gayles says the he even had a photographer and videographer on site to capture every moment.

Once Wright proposed, he was taken to a nearby the ER of a nearby hospital, where he received eight stitches. "He is doing much better," Gayle shares, adding that they "are expecting it to fully heal in the next two weeks."

"Even through all the pain he endured, he is so excited," Gayle says of Wright, noting to PEOPLE that they will start wedding planning this week. "We are hoping for May of 2025 to make it official!"

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