The question
Brad was deeply in love with Jackie and wanted to marry her. He felt like the time was right, they were still young, just starting out in their careers and everything was going up from there. Why not just ask her to marry him and get it over with? They already lived together.
So that was just what he did. Brad asked Jackie to marry him at a special dinner that he set up for her. She was surprised at first, she really had no idea that he was going to pop the question, but he did. She accepted and they embraced each other as the entire restaurant applauded.