passion 4 marriage

An Ontario man took a big risk when he popped the question to his longtime girlfriend.

Not only did he have the ring on hand, but he also had the whole wedding - complete with dress and guests - all ready to go at a moment's notice.

And the bride-to-be said "yes" and "I do" in the same day.

Thirty-seven-year-old Shawn Lippert proposed to his wife-to-be Colleen only a few minutes before the two would stand at the altar on the Beach Bar and Grill in Lakeshore Saturday.

"I'm like, 'I don't have a dress. I don't have this'... It was all here. He set it all up in one of the back rooms... like my entire bedroom set was back there," said Colleen.

"Yeah. My buddies were joking, 'Oh, she's going to get up and she's going to have diarrhea and like everything's going to go wrong.' And I was like, 'Guys, stop.' They were just being my boys," said Shawn.

Shawn and Colleen have been living together for seven years. He's a university volleyball coach, and she owns two beauty spas. Colleen thought they had planned to elope to Las Vegas next month, so she had already picked out a dress. But Shawn had been planning this day for a year and had asked her questions about what she wanted on her wedding day.

"I asked her, you know, what kind of cake would you like at your wedding? She said, 'I want a cherry chip cake.' Centerpieces? 'I want this,'" said Shawn.

He managed to get everything in place in secret, even the 207 guests. He called it "Operation White Cake."

"On my phone I texted all the guys at the party, 'Operation White Cake's' a go. I repeat.' And they all replied, 'Roger, copy.' And it was like we were 12 years old again playing cops and robbers on our bikes. It was so much fun," said Shawn.

Everything went off without a hitch.