LONG ISLAND, NY — The new coronavirus may have stopped a lot of things recently, but it couldn’t prevent one Long Island couple from getting engaged despite being stuck at home. Greg Teatom had several plans to propose to his girlfriend of nearly three years, Jillian Barnett, all of which were canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

He originally planned to head upstate to Reinbeck to propose at a park overlooking the Hudson, but the hotel canceled because of the pandemic. Then he decided to go east, to the bluffs overlooking the ocean at Montauk, but the morning they had planned to go Barnett wasn’t feeling well enough to make the long drive from Huntington. So he tried to take her on a walk at a nearby beach, but she wasn’t up for that, either.

Finally, Teatom moved on to what he called “Plan D.”

“I had the ring for a week, so I thought, ‘I gotta find a way to do this, I gotta figure out a way to do this proposal,'” he told Patch.

Barnett, a Northport native, works as a physician assistant at St. Francis Hospital but happened to have the week off just as the pandemic was hitting. Teatom, who is originally from Massapequa, manages a retail store that temporarily closed down because of the coronavirus, so both were home for the time being.

After spending the full week at home with nothing to do, the couple had naturally done what most likely everyone was doing — watching Netflix. They were watching the hit reality show “Love Is Blind” — in which participants date while separated and isolated in “pods” — when inspiration struck.

“I couldn’t get her to go out anywhere, so I said, ‘You know what? We’re going to pretend we’re on “Love is Blind.” Get dressed.’ And I got dressed as if it was our first date and kind of went off a whim and did it that way.”

The sweet moment, which occurred Friday, was captured on video. It shows Teatom proposing while she was on the other side of the door, just like on the TV show. For Barnett, it was the last thing she expected.

“I had absolutely no inkling he was proposing,” she told Patch. “I thought maybe this summer it could happen.”

Barnett was so thrown off, in fact, she thought Teatom was joking at first.

“I thought it was a skit he was doing,” she said. “I was completely, completely shocked. I couldn’t have dreamed of anything better. It was very sweet.”

Through it all, Teatom kept his composure.

“I was very impressed at how calm, cool and collected he was,” Barnett said. “I really thought I would have some sort of feeling that something was happening.”

With several upcoming weddings being pushed back due to the coronavirus outbreak, the two started wedding planning to be ahead of the curve.

“Now all the summer weddings are going to be pushed back next summer, and everything is going to be more delayed,” Barnett said. “I started looking a little bit but obviously probably not for another year, year and a half, because we don’t know how long [the pandemic] is going to go on.”

Watch the full video of the proposal below:

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