Josi­ah Hinds went all out when he pro­posed to his girl­friend Isha Khan yes­ter­day, as he en­list­ed the as­sis­tance of two po­lice of­fi­cers, pho­tog­ra­phers and even a CD ven­dor, as he got down on one knee in the mid­dle of the street in one of the busiest parts of Port-of-Spain to pop the ques­tion.

The dra­mat­ic pro­pos­al took place at 5.22 pm out­side the In­de­pen­dence Square branch of KFC.

The sit­u­a­tion all be­gan when Hinds and Khan were dri­ving along In­de­pen­dence Square be­fore they made a turn in a souther­ly di­rec­tion along Broad­way.

As Hinds made the bend he was stopped by a marked po­lice ve­hi­cle. The of­fi­cers ques­tioned him and asked him to pro­duce his li­cence and in­sur­ance. They even­tu­al­ly asked him to ex­it the ve­hi­cle.

“I want­ed to know what he did be­cause I know that is not an il­le­gal dri­ve,” Khan told the T&T Guardian af­ter­wards.

With Hinds look­ing as though he would be tak­en in­to cus­tody, the of­fi­cers then ap­proached the car and asked Khan to al­so ex­it the ve­hi­cle.

“I did not know what was go­ing on,” she said.

When Khan ex­it­ed the ve­hi­cle and was on the way to the po­lice ve­hi­cle walk­ing to­ward Hinds, he got down on one knee.

Khan was in shock.

She be­gan to cry.

Hinds had planned every­thing.

The two po­lice of­fi­cers, PCs Lewis and Serville, were in on the plan.

Shawn St Louis, a near­by CD ven­dor who looked to be just part of the reg­u­lar Fri­day evening crowd in the city, was al­so in on the act. He be­gan to play Sara Bareilles’ song I Choose You when Hinds got down on his knee.

“This is the song he asked me to play,” St Louis said.

Hid­den be­hind a street­light by the near­by taxi­s­tand were a pho­tog­ra­ph­er and video­g­ra­ph­er Hinds had hired to cap­ture the mo­ment.

Mem­bers of both their fam­i­lies were al­so min­gling among the reg­u­lar Port-of-Spain crowd.

Every­one cheered as Khan said yes.

“He re­al­ly came good, I had no idea,” Khan said.

Hinds said the rea­son he chose this method of pro­pos­al was be­cause he want­ed to show the world his love for Khan.

“I’ve been through a lot in life and I found the one that I re­al­ly, tru­ly love and so it doesn’t make any sense hid­ing it. Best you do it open­ly,” Hinds said.

Hinds said he had been plan­ning the pro­pos­al since the cou­ple met four years ago.

“You have any broth­ers?” a ran­dom woman im­pressed by the pro­pos­al asked Hinds af­ter Khan had said yes.