Bublé proposed to his wife in Spanish

When the pair first met, neither spoke a word of each other’s language. As he shared with Cosmopolitan, by November 2009, Bublé knew enough Spanish to ask his girlfriend’s father for his blessing to propose. “I was so nervous before I asked my wife to marry me. It was the scariest decision of my life,” he told the magazine. “I did it in front of her family, who are Argentinian, and I’d learnt Spanish specially. That was the scariest part — being in front of them and asking her father’s permission beforehand.”

Lopilato recalled in a 2012 interview with The Mail on Sunday that she was surprised when Bublé popped the question, in Spanish, at dinner with her whole family. “We thought he was joking and he said, still in Spanish, ‘No, really. I really want to marry you,’ and then he took out the ring and gave it to me,” she said. “I still thought he was joking. Then I noticed that my mother was crying, my sister was crying, even my father was crying, and I thought, ‘This is real because my father never cries.’ So I started to cry too.”