Wedding gifts are often expensive, but the one Hope Carew gave her brother on their wedding day is priceless: a reading of her long-held childhood fantasy about an extravagant proposal.

Hope’s gift was nearly a decade in the making and was finally revealed to her older brother, Griffin Carew, 32, on October 11 following his wedding to Alyssa Carew, 31, at Arrowhead Park in Monroe, New York. . In front of wedding guests and her brother’s new wife, Hope Carew read aloud a global engagement plan (replete with private jets, yachts and a $130 million diamond ring) that the groom wrote when he was nine. years.

“I found my brother’s proposal plan when I was 9 years old,” Hope Carew wrote in a tiktok video of her reading it at the reception. As if the wedding guests weren’t already a large enough audience, the post went viral, racking up 8.8 million views within five days of being shared.

The video shows Hope Carew standing at the microphone during her brother’s wedding reception, smiling as she says, “Don’t kill me,” before reading the piece of paper she wrote as a child.

“We are 25 years old and I am a multimillionaire,” she reads her brother’s first sentence, causing laughter in the room.

Laughter fills the room as Hope Carew shares her brother’s vision of himself as the ultimate operator: “sneaking” his future fiancée onto a private jet at midnight, giving her a kiss, and then whispering, “It’s all fixed.” ”. His plan continues with dreams of butlers, trips to Cabo San Lucas, French Polynesia and Paris.

“We drink a few glasses and then we start kissing, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot,” Hope Carew reads.

“I had more ability to plan dates at age 9 than most men do now at age 30,” one TikToker commented on the post.

“Your brother wanted to grow up and become a textbook boyfriend,” another responded.

Speaking to TODAY.com, Hope Carew says she suspects her brother’s big plan might have been inspired by one of her favorite childhood movies, “Blank Check.” The 1994 family comedy follows a boy who embarks on an ungodly spending spree after filling a criminal’s blank check for one million dollars.

Years later, Hope Carew’s discovery of her brother’s proposal scheme was just as funny. He remembers fighting back laughter when he found the paper hidden in his 2002 yearbook while he was in college.

“I think I found it in 2014,” explains Hope Carew, recalling how she found it in a box of old items her father had given her.

“I was going through (my brother’s) yearbook… flipping through it, and some kind of folded piece of paper fell out, and I read it and I was dying of laughter.”

That’s when he decided to save it for the perfect moment.

“I’m going to save this and read it at your wedding,” she remembers saying to herself at the time.

Cut to the present, where her brother’s reaction was everything Hope Carew expected.

“He immediately turned beet red,” he recalls. “He, like, put his head on the table at one point.”

Still, Hope Carew wasn’t too worried about upsetting him. I knew he would take it easy.

“He’s not the kind of person who gets embarrassed. In my family we all have big personalities, so we’re not really the shy type.”

Although Griffin Carew did not hesitate to try to save face at first.

“He told me: ‘I didn’t write that.’ And then he looked at the handwriting and said, ‘It’s undeniably my handwriting,’” Hope Carew recalls.

On social media, users couldn’t get enough of the family’s humor and close bond.

“I’ve had the best comments section on TikTok and Instagram,” he says. “You can’t find any bad comments, which is crazy because I expected there to be some hate, and so far, it’s been nothing but love and support.”

Reflecting on her brother’s real-life marriage proposal, Hope Carew says that while it lacked the extravagant price tag of her childhood vision, it was unforgettable and romantic all the same.

Especially for Griffin Carew, who fulfilled his dream of proposing abroad, by kneeling on a cliff with a picturesque view.

“They went to Portugal,” explains Hope Carew. “They both really like to travel, so they’re a good fit for that.”

And for the question we are all dying to have an answer to? “He’s not a billionaire,” says Hope Carew. “He doesn’t have a yacht, a jet, or a butler.”

Still, as Hope Carew points out, her brother ultimately got what he wanted most from his plan: the woman of his dreams.

“She’s really amazing,” Hope Carew adds, noting that the couple decided to skip a big honeymoon so the bride could run in the New York City Marathon to support the Navy SEAL Foundation.

This article was originally published in TODAY.com