90 Day Fiancé star Ed “Big Ed” Brown is telling the story of how he proposed to fiancée Porscha Raemond within 24 hours of meeting each other. Big Ed, 59, “felt the sparks” with Raemond, 29, his “dream girl,” when he first met her at Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop in Plantation, Florida, during a fan meet-and-greet, he told Page Six in an interview published on Thursday, September 19. “So I’m there carrying out these big sandwiches with sparklers.
It’s crazy. And in walks this beautiful Italian dish. Her name is Porscha,” he recalled.
“She comes up, gives me the warmest hug. ..
. She gives me a big kiss on the cheek.” Charmed, Big Ed invited Raemond to dinner the next day at YOLO restaurant in Fort Lauderdale.
He decided that she was marriage material, and with a friend’s support, popped the question — fashioning an engagement ring out of a paperclip . “I get down on one knee and everyone goes crazy. The restaurant was freaking out,” he told Page Six , adding, “I said, ‘Look I never want to let you go.
I think I met The One. I want to marry you.’ And she said, ‘Yes,’ and we hugged and we kissed.
” He continued, “[We were] kissing and smooching the whole night. I’m in love.” He revealed to the outlet that he and his future wife had not yet consummated their romance, and aim to take things “slow.
” While his daughter Tiffany and other family members are “freaking out” about his spontaneous decision, Big Ed said that “in .