Cecily Strong Is Engaged—And Her Proposal Story Is Worthy of a Saturday Night Live Sketch

Live! From New York, Cecily Strong has a heartwarming announcement. 

The Saturday Night Live alum shared she's engaged to her longtime partner—a man she's previously referred to as Jack and maintains a low profile—after three years of dating. 

"I got engaged," she told Seth Meyers on the March 27 episode of Late Night, before joking: "You always said, ‘No one will ever love you, and you will never get married,' you were wrong!"

And while the 40-year-old's fiancé officially popped the question in December, Cecily definitely saw it coming. 

"It was not a surprise, but I am kind of a detective," she added. "We talked about getting married and then one day he was like, ‘I'm so inundated with emails and texts, look at this,' and he showed me his phone, and the first text was from a friend that said ‘How did it go ring emoji.'"

Cecily continued, "And then I was like, ‘Oh no, should I?' and he went, ‘Did you see that?' and I was like, ‘I could try very hard to lie' But—so then I knew."

And since the Schmigadoon! star found out that her partner was planning to propose, she thought she'd let him pick when he would officially ask her. 

"I was like, ‘Whenever you want to do it, that'll be the surprise,'" she explained. "And then I had kind of a rough night in December, and I was like, ‘Can I just wear the damn ring now?' So that's how we got engaged."

In addition to the surprise being ruined, Cecily and her partner faced another mishap amid their engagement. 

"I don't know my ring size, I wear like every size ring," she divulged. "So he took one of those, and it was five sizes too big–I was wearing it on my index finger for a long time, not as a statement, it just would've fallen off."

Despite the hiccups the couple faced for their proposal, and Jack's private identity, Cecily has been open about their love story in the past. In fact, she previously posited that her fiancé was a gift from her late cousin Owen Strong, who died in 2020 from brain cancer. 

"At first I thought it was so difficult to meet someone right as I was losing someone I loved so much," Cecily wrote for Vulture in 2020. "I knew he'd have to be patient with me. He'd have to let me grieve. I say, ‘I think you were a gift to me from Owen.' And I like thinking of it that way."

Keep reading for all of the celebrity engagements of 2023. 

Cecily Strong shared on a March 2024 episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers that her boyfriend of three years—a man she's formerly referred to as Jack—popped the question in December 2023. 

Jamie Foxx's daughter announced her engagement to her partner on Instagram on Dec. 17.

The musician proposed to the "Skyscraper" singer in Los Angeles with a pear-shaped diamond ring.

"That's Mrs Logie to you," the ceramics artist wrote on Instagram Nov. 21 alongside a photo of her diamond ring from the Percy Jackson star.

News of the Magic Mike actor and the Big Little Lies actress' engagement broke in October, and it looks like he has her dad Lenny Kravitz's stamp of approval.

"I love him. He's a great guy," the Grammy winner told E! News in December. "He's a great guy. We're very close, and we have a great line of communication."

The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum proposed to the Dancing With the Stars pro on his 50th birthday in July, though the couple didn't announce their engagement until two months later.

"Sharna threw me this surprise party," Brian recalled on the Sept. 22 episode of their Oldish podcast, "and I was like, 'That's a perfect place to do it. She'd never see it coming.'"

The Below Deck Mediterranean star announced her engagement to the esthetician on Sept. 18, telling E! News of the proposal, "I have been thinking about marrying Leah for years. I knew from the minute I met her, but the timing had to be right. I wanted to make sure we could truly do life together first."

The Challenge stars announced that they're engaged on Sept. 17, sharing a video of Nany getting down on one knee in Thailand's Phi Phi Islands. 

"I flew to New York to ask my best friend to marry me, and she said yes," the singer on Instagram Sept. 7, referencing his song lyrics. "I am the happiest, best version of myself and it is all because of you Brookie. I love you endlessly forever and ever and ever."

The Pretty Little Liars alum got engaged on Sept. 1, when the director popped the question during a walk in the woods.

"Earlier this month at 5 pm on a weekday while walking the back trails at the farm, still in my PJs and goat boots, he got down on one knee, in what I hoped wasn't poison ivy, and asked for forever," she wrote Instagram Sept. 25. "My answer was obvious."

It's a yes! The former Bachelorette star got engaged after her man proposed at Bolt Farm Treehouse in Whitwell, Tenn., on Aug. 24.

"Forever starts now!!!" the New Girl alum and the HGTV star wrote on Instagram Aug. 14 while announcing their engagement.

The Originals stars announced their engagement in August by sharing a series of photos together and the actress writing, "You and me."

The Love Actually alum and the Westworld actress, who is the ex-wife of Elon Musk, announced their engagement on July 27.

"Very happy to share that after two years of dating, Thomas Brodie Sangster and I are engaged!" she wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that her ex-husband purchased in 2022.

The Love Island U.K. couple got engaged on July 23, exactly six months after welcoming their daughter Bambi. 

The wrestling legend proposed to girlfriend of more than a year in July during a date night in Florida.

The YouTuber proved that he's ready to subscribe to the married life when he got engaged to his girlfriend of three years in July.

The Real Housewives of Orange County alum announced on Instagram July 15 that she had proposed to her partner on their one-year dating anniversary at the spot where they first met—14th Street Park in New York City.

Noah Cyrus shared the happy news that she and boyfriend Pinkus quietly got engaged in May 2023. Noah celebrated the news with a series of photos of the cute couple alongside a heartfelt caption.

"The greatest moment of my entire life was saying 'yes' to spending the rest of ours together," she captioned the June 26 post. "This past month of being your fiancé and being in our own little world of just us two has been so perfect and I wish I could never leave this time." 

The Hannah Montana alum announced her engagement to her love on June 25.

"This magical, beautiful, kaleidoscope of a person asked me to marry him this weekend," she wrote on Instagram. "I did not know life could be this sweet or I could ever be this deliriously happy. I am so proud of the life we have built together and the people we have become over the last few years. This love is so big and so uniquely ours and I know it can do anything. I am so honored to stand next to you every day. I love you, Jack."

The Hills alum proposed to the pro surfer at the couple's baby shower in June—announcing the big news on Instagram and writing, "Can't wait to love you forever."

The country music star got engaged to the Scottish soccer coach after six-and-a-half months of dating. "It was a really beautiful night...we were all sitting on the porch of the steps and looking out at the view, it's stunning," she recalled of the proposal during a May 25 episode of her Whine Down podcast. "And he said, 'You're the love of my life and will you marry me?'"

Eminem's daughter updated her relationship status with her longtime love in February. 

The High School Musical alum confirmed her engagement to the baseball player in February by showing off her gorgeous ring.

The Mad Men alum announced her engagement to the camera operator on March 10. "We proposed to each other and we said yes!!!" she wrote on Instagram. "I will love and care for him forever."

The Selling Tampa star and the former NFL player announced their engagement in early January.

The Boy Meets World alum got engaged to his leading lady on a lake in Indiana. He captioned the January announcement, "The best is yet to come."

After two and a half years of dating, the Bachelor Nation star proposed to his girlfriend, saying in his announcement, "For the rest of my life, it's you."

The Bachelor alum got engaged to the NFL player during a romantic trip to Mexico in January. 

The Pitch Perfect star updated her relationship status during a trip to Disneyland. As she wrote in her announcement post, "We said YES!"