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The perfect Pinterest wedding: Hopeless romantic plans girlfriend's dream wedding in secret using her pins for inspiration

Ryan Leak planned Amanda Roman's dream proposal and wedding in secret using her Pinterest page for guidance

Some brides-to-be find it a struggle to get their fiancés interested in the finer details of their wedding day.

But one hopeless romantic has gone the extra mile, planning his girlfriend's dream wedding right down to the last detail - using her Pinterest page as inspiration.

Ryan Leak, 27, committed a year to planning 25-year-old girlfriend Amanda Roman's big day in secret, using her pins as guidance to ensuring it was picture-perfect.

After overhearing Amanda tell a girlfriend that it was her dream to get engaged and married at once, he began the epic planning mission of a lifetime.

And thanks to the folder entitled 'My dream wedding' she'd created on Pinterest, Ryan had over 220 wedding images to help him choose every angle of her dream wedding - from the flowers, to the table decorations and right down to the dress.

Ryan planned the day and then flew friends and family to the mysterious wedding destination where he had whisked Amanda on holiday.

To her complete surprise he proposed and the couple, from Dallas, America, then married just hours later.

Speaking about his romantic proposal, Ryan said: "Amanda basically planned her dream wedding without even knowing it.

"Planning a whole wedding is unbelievably daunting so Pinterest was amazing as it enabled me to pick exactly what Amanda would have liked.

"I always knew I wanted an extravagant wedding, but I never anticipated doing anything as drastic as this."

He explained: "For over a year I had to arrange to take calls in private and was forced to put locks on my phone just in case she saw anything.

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"We had around 100 guests and apparently over 1000 people knew what I was planning so it's pretty amazing she didn't find out!"

The pair wed on June 7 this year - five years to the day after they first met.

Ryan chose Miami, Florida as the destination for their wedding and flew Amanda out the day before, under the pretence the couple were helping their friends move cities.

On the morning of the wedding he then collected her from the hotel and drove her to the wedding venue where he dropped to one knee and proposed.

And after she accepted the proposal, Ryan took her to a lounge in the hotel where friends and family held up a banner saying 'Today?' unveiling the romantic surprise.

Recalling her reaction, Amanda said: "When I opened the door and I saw everyone that I loved standing there it was so overwhelming, I felt so overwhelmed with love."

The couple then went to a registry office to legally tie the knot before separating to prepare for the service and reception.

Amanda's favourite make-up artist and hair stylist was flown in to Miami to ensure her wedding look was exactly how she dreamed it would be.

Ryan said: "The day went pretty perfectly. As soon as she said yes I knew nothing would matter and we would have the best day no matter what.

Amanda, who had no idea Ryan had been planning the big day, said: "One day my friend and I were talking about wedding planning and I thought about how cool it would be to get married and engaged on the same day.

"I didn't think through all of the details of how that would work, so I completely bypassed the fact that the groom would have to plan the entire wedding, I just pictured the day and thought how much fun it would be.

"I remember ending that conversation with my friend saying 'I don't think that would ever happen, but it would be really cool'.

"The day was even better than how I would have planned it. Realistically I never thought that I would be able to pull off some of the things I saw on Pinterest, but Ryan is a risk taker and he didn't settle for my watered down version of my 'dream wedding' - he went for the gusto."

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