**Spoilers for The Gilded Age Season 3 Episode 5 “A Different World,” now streaming on HBO MAX**

The Gilded Age went full fairy tale romance this week with a “magical” engagement scene that linked up two of the HBO show’s most beloved characters. Larry Russell (Harry Richardson) finally proposed to Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson) and it was even more spectacularly beautiful that we could have ever imagined. Larry took Marian for a walk in Central Park that crescendoed with him taking her under the canopy of a willow in bloom. There, the two sealed their love with a kiss that seemed to make the whole world spin.

If you were swooning on your couch, just know that it was even more “dreamy” in real life. At least, that’s according Gilded Age star Harry Richardson.

“I think it was just as, if not more, magical,” Richardson told DECIDER last month.

“What I love about this show is the detail off screen is so sumptuous and so incredible. Like there were, in my memory, like a whole park full of extras who had penny farthings and picnics and reading books under trees and laughing and romancing,” he said. “Like, when we were shooting that walk up towards the tree, it was… just a dream and feeling like I was in a painting.”

Richardson went on to gush even more about the scene’s romantic setting. “And then we shot under this gorgeous tree, which was just a really special place to be as it was.”

“You like being under trees?” co-star Taissa Farmiga asked, in the way a sister would tease her brother.

“I love being under trees,” Richardson replied, unfazed.

Richardson also revealed that there’s a technical reason why Larry and Marian’s big moment feels even more special. That “dreamy” spinning sensation that Gilded Age director Deborah Kampmeier achieves was done with a little help of a turntable stage.

“We built a stage, as well, that revolved around to spin like this, to create this dreamy state,” Richardson said. “So Louisa and I were just like getting dizzy from that as well as from the magic in the air.”

So after three seasons, Larry and Marian are finally engaged! Does this mean they’ll get to live happily ever after? Or does The Gilded Age have yet more drama to hurl at the young lovers?