SunTrust Park has its first proposal just days ahead of first Braves game

ATLANTA — It wasn’t a typical Tuesday for one local couple – and it’s all thanks to SunTrust Park.

The stadium played a huge, and we mean huge, part in Nikki Hobus and Jeff Donahoo’s engagement.

The newly built Jumbotron projected the message, “Nikki… will you marry me?”

The “BravesVision” video board is 121 feet wide and 64 feet tall.

She, of course, said yes.

The couple flew over the stadium around 8 p.m., while the Braves were out of town, in a Cessna plane (Donahoo works for an aviation company at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport), according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Donahoo received permission from nearby Dobbins Air Reserve Base to fly over the stadium.

Donahoo told the AJC it was a friend who worked for the Braves who helped make it all possible.

The couple met two years ago at a tailgate at Turner Field, so Donahoo figured he had to do something to make the new stadium special to them, too, according to the AJC.

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It was the first official engagement at the new home of the Braves, just days before their game against the San Diego Padres.

Nikki thanked friends and family who reached out to send their congratulations.

The original tweet got dozens of retweets and hundreds of “likes.”

The Braves even tweeted about the proposal.

One Twitter user, who claims to hold the title of the last engagement at Turner Field, wished the couple congrats.

Information from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution was used in this report.

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