With her baseball boyfriend, St.Louis Cardinals pitcher Brad Penny, is engaged the dancing star Karina Smirnoff. According to Parade, Penny proposed last month, but the couple chose to keep their engagement quite for a while. It is because actually both of them want that their family could join together in this ceremony as Smirnoff said, "We kept it quiet because my family is in New York and Brad's family is in Oklahoma...We kind of wanted them to come out and celebrate and be a family first before we let the cat out of the bag."
When planning to propose to Karina, Penny enlisted the help of Smirnoff's manager. Smirnoff said, "We went to this restaurant and (my manager) got on her phone and said 'this guy is killing me,' and got up and walked away, then Brad walked in and it still didn't register...He got down on one knee and he opened the box and I said, 'Thank you'. I honestly didn't expect it."
However, this couple started dating in October of 2009 when Smirnoff ended her engagement with fellow Dancing With the Stars dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Best of luck for both of this couple!