Singaporean actress Tay Ying and celebrity chef Wu Sihan will soon tie the knot.

The couple announced their engagement on Instagram on March 20, with pictures of last year’s proposal. Tay, 28, said in the post: “One year ago today.”

In a phone interview with The Straits Times, the actress and Wu, 33, said they have actually been engaged on the down-low for exactly a year, as the proposal happened on March 20 in 2024. They will wed in June.

Wu, who staged a surprise proposal for Tay, lured her to a photo studio under the pretence of a solo photo shoot for her conducted by a mutual photographer friend. Midway, a projector began playing a video montage of the couple’s time together, before Wu walked in with a bouquet of flowers and asked her to marry him.

“Tay Ying’s very sharp, so it’s actually very hard for me to plan surprises because she can read me so well. I needed professional help – our photographer friend and an event planner friend, who is now planning the wedding for us,” said Wu.

Tay’s family and friends, including her actor-dad Zheng Geping and brother Calvert Tay, a singer-actor, watched the proposal play out from a mezzanine floor above the studio. Mum, actress Hong Huifang, dialled in to the scene via video call from Taiwan, where she was working.

Tay recalled: “I was definitely surprised. It was a morning photo shoot, not usually the time you would think a proposal happens. So when I saw the video montage, I was like, ‘Is this really happening now?’”