{"id":162527,"date":"2026-04-10T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162527\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:07:08","slug":"buc-ees-grand-opening-in-ohio-sets-stage-for-surprise-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162527\/","title":{"rendered":"Buc-ee\u2019s grand opening in Ohio sets stage for surprise proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Pittsburgh couple\u2019s visit to Ohio\u2019s first Buc-ee\u2019s turned into an unforgettable moment when a surprise proposal took place during the store\u2019s grand opening.Jason Schmit and Cherlyn Beatty drove nearly four hours from Pittsburgh to attend the grand opening of Ohio\u2019s first Buc-ee\u2019s near Dayton on Monday, where Schmit surprised Beatty with a proposal.\u201cHe was like, \u2018Will you?\u2019 And then I screamed. And then he put the ring on my finger, and we hugged,\u201d Beatty said.Schmit admitted he was nervous about the moment.  \u201cI was pretty sure she was going to say yes, but there was always a little bit of doubt, you know?\u201d Schmit said. The pair wanted to make it clear that the proposal was not for promotion.&#8221;Everybody thinks that we&#8217;re influencers and we did this for something free. We got nothing, nor do we want anything,&#8221; Beatty said. The two met while working at a haunted house. After a post-shift hangout at Sheetz, they realized they liked each other. Now, Buc-ee\u2019s holds a special place in their story.   \u201cWe think we\u2019re going to give out Beaver Nuggets as favors and the little pockets. Yeah. And the little mini 5-gallon bucket,\u201d they said.  The couple hopes to get married next September at the Renaissance Fair in Ohio, which is just an hour away from the Buc-ee\u2019s location.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tMUNHALL, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A Pittsburgh couple\u2019s visit to Ohio\u2019s first Buc-ee\u2019s turned into an unforgettable moment when a surprise proposal took place during the store\u2019s grand opening.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Schmit and Cherlyn Beatty drove nearly four hours from Pittsburgh to attend the grand opening of Ohio\u2019s first Buc-ee\u2019s near Dayton on Monday, where Schmit surprised Beatty with a proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was like, \u2018Will you?\u2019 And then I screamed. And then he put the ring on my finger, and we hugged,\u201d Beatty said.<\/p>\n<p>Schmit admitted he was nervous about the moment.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was pretty sure she was going to say yes, but there was always a little bit of doubt, you know?\u201d Schmit said. <\/p>\n<p>The pair wanted to make it clear that the proposal was not for promotion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody thinks that we&#8217;re influencers and we did this for something free. We got nothing, nor do we want anything,&#8221; Beatty said. <\/p>\n<p>The two met while working at a haunted house. After a post-shift hangout at Sheetz, they realized they liked each other. Now, Buc-ee\u2019s holds a special place in their story.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think we\u2019re going to give out Beaver Nuggets as favors and the little pockets. Yeah. And the little mini 5-gallon bucket,\u201d they said.  <\/p>\n<p>The couple hopes to get married next September at the Renaissance Fair in Ohio, which is just an hour away from the Buc-ee\u2019s location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pittsburgh couple\u2019s visit to Ohio\u2019s first Buc-ee\u2019s turned into an unforgettable moment when a surprise proposal took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73343,73337,73338,73339,7576,6760,73340,7133,293,73341,73,73342,75,74,5608,42321,73345,7033,16890,73344,40267,24233],"class_list":{"0":"post-162527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-buc-ee","9":"tag-buc-ees","10":"tag-cherlyn-beatty","11":"tag-dayton","12":"tag-grand-opening","13":"tag-hour","14":"tag-jason-schmit","15":"tag-monday","16":"tag-ohio","17":"tag-ohio-buc-ees","18":"tag-pittsburgh","19":"tag-pittsburgh-couple","20":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","21":"tag-pittsburgh-news","22":"tag-place","23":"tag-proposal","24":"tag-renaissance-fair","25":"tag-stage","26":"tag-store","27":"tag-surprise-proposal","28":"tag-unforgettable-moment","29":"tag-visit"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}