Nina Dobrev and Shaun White are engaged!

Wedding bells are ringing for Nina Dobrev and Shaun White!

The 34-year-old actress and the 36-year-old Olympic snowboarder got engaged in late October in New York City, according to Vogue.

White popped the question with a 5-carat diamond ring beneath an arch of white roses at the Golden Swan restaurant.

“I was shocked,” Dobrev said when the surprise proposal was announced. “I just froze and stared at him.” Later that evening, friends joined the couple to celebrate with caviar and champagne before ordering Shake Shack and dumplings at the restaurant.

White devised an elaborate proposal plan to ensure he caught Dobrev completely off guard. According to Vogue, he had his publicist send Dobrev a fake invitation to an intimate CFDA.fashion Dinner with Anna Wintour. “He made the invitation look so legitimate,” Nina said.

When she arrived, only White and the photographer were present. “He said all the right things,” Dobrev recalled to Vogue.

White shared the happy news on Instagram with a series of photos and the caption: “She said YES.”

Dobrev captioned the same photos on Instagram, “Rest in peace friend, hello fiancé.”

Dobrev and White began dating in 2019 and moved in together at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. They made their relationship Instagram official in May 2020 with a series of snaps showing Dobrev giving White a quarantine haircut.

In April, White teased a possible engagement to Dobrev while chatting with PEOPLE at the Oasis Celsius Vibe House.

“We’re just enjoying our time together right now. No pressure,” he said. “But I told her, ‘Look, after the Olympics I finally have the freedom to do anything. And let's just have fun, be together and support each other.'”

“But you never know. We’ll see what happens,” added White, who retired from competition after the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

The couple first met during a brief encounter at an awards show in 2012, but were not officially introduced until 2019, when both gave presentations at an event in Florida organized by motivational speaker Tony Robbins.

Recalling their first dinner together after the event, the three-time Olympic gold medalist told PEOPLE in January 2022, “I actually didn't know anything about her being able to get a table.” ”

White said he then smiled knowingly when the restaurant's landlady began to blush as Dobrev spoke to her, and remembers thinking to himself that she probably told her, “There's an old gold medalist over there who would like to have a table.”

The Vampire diaries The alum and the host were soon joined by several other staff members, but when White walked up to the group, he didn't get the reaction he expected.

“Can we take a picture…with her?” White remembers a waiter asking him. “And I thought, ‘What’s going on? What's up?' It was really very funny.

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White continued to praise Dobrev, telling PEOPLE, “Nina was just so supportive and so great throughout the whole process. She has been a lifesaver during the pandemic – she has truly made this time in my life special.”

In addition to moving in together, the couple also completed a DIY home renovation project together during the pandemic, painting the entire exterior of Dobrev's West Hollywood home.

“We went to the hardware store and bought a bunch of paint and brushes and definitely over-exploited, but it was really fun,” White told PEOPLE.