It was a long time coming when HGTV star Jonathan Scott and The New Girl’s Zooey Deschanel got engaged in August 2023, four years after their adorable courtship started when they met on an episode of James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke. Fans have loved to follow the couple’s relationship, seeing Scott be the Prince Charming in Deschanel’s fairytale, and the story just keeps getting better. The Property Brother opened up about the details of his “Harvest Moon”-themed proposal during a family vacation to Scotland.
People were so excited when they learned that Jonathan Scott had finally put a ring on it during a getaway to the country where his father grew up. Now we know just what went into the Property Brothers proposal, as Scott revealed all the butterfly-inducing details of that special day. He told Page Six:
We were in Glasgow, Scotland. We were on a family trip with the kids, and, I had planned it all in advance for doing the tour and everything. And then at the end, we cleared the castle. We were in Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, and we were the last people on the property and I had it set up so they said, ‘Oh, there’s a pipe band playing. You want to go listen?’ Yeah, great.
It’s so special that Jonathan Scott chose to ask Zooey Deschanel to marry him in Scotland, with the country meaning so much to his family. It speaks volumes about their relationship, especially knowing that not all parts of his Scottish heritage were celebrated in his first marriage. Scott was also sure to include 8-year-old Elsie and 6-year-old Charlie — Deschanel’s children with ex-husband Jacob Pechenik — in the proposal. The home renovation star continued:
We went up to this beautiful bluff overlooking the city, and this pipe band is playing. And then all of a sudden a guitar steps forward and started playing Neil Young, our song, ‘Harvest Moon,’ and she’s like, ‘Wait, what?’ And then the kids pulled up a banner that said, ‘Will you marry me?'
I can only imagine what was going through the Elf star’s mind when the guitarist started to play “Harvest Moon.” She had to know at that point that it was no coincidence, and then to have her children be the ones to actually pop the question is the sweetest! It was apparently just as emotional as it sounds, and Jonathan Scott said:
She cried and she said yes. And I’m a blubbering mess. Like the wedding is going to be a disaster because I will not be able to get through.
If the wedding is a “disaster” because Jonathan Scott can’t stop crying through his happy tears, that will only make us love them more. The Celebrity IOU star has said he felt “pressure” from his fans to marry Zooey Deschanel, and it was probably really important that he make the proposal as special as possible. In my opinion he did a great job, and the icing on the cake was a post-engagement trip to Paris to celebrate.
Knowing what Jonathan Scott pulled off for the engagement, now I can’t wait to see what a Property Brothers wedding looks like.