{"id":166056,"date":"2025-05-03T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/crystal-hefners-tricky-proposal\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T15:01:00","slug":"crystal-hefners-tricky-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/crystal-hefners-tricky-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Hefner&apos;s tricky proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-05-03\" datetime=\"1746284460\" pubdate=\"\">3 May 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Crystal Hefner\u2019s new fiance admitted keeping his proposal planning a secret was difficult.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Crystal Hefner<\/p>\n<p>James Ward, 41 \u2013 who started dating Crystal, 39, last year after meeting through mutual friends \u2013 admitted the pair never keep secrets from each other so working on a surprise proposal was tough.<\/p>\n<p>He told PEOPLE: \u201cIt runs so contrary to our connection to keep anything from her [but] there was just that small buoying force of knowing how happy the surprise would make her that made it so worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you know Crystal, you know she doesn\u2019t miss a thing. She\u2019s that wonderful combination of smart and attentive, so I really had to step up my game to avoid an overshare. I also had a LOT of help from a whole host of people that did so much of the work. I definitely have them to thank for the best parts of the surprise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Crystal \u2013 who was previously married to Playboy founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/hugh-hefner\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,hugh-hefner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hugh Hefner<\/a> \u2013 revealed the pair would love to tie the knot in the Cook Islands, where they have enjoyed some wonderful getaways together.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cWe love somewhere warm and familiar to us, Hawaii and the Cook Islands would be perfect options. We\u2019ve had the best time in the past in the Cook Islands, so that\u2019s at the top of our list.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to be close to nature, close to the ocean, and just have things be simple and beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Us Weekly previously reported that Ward popped the question at Crystal\u2019s Hawaii home with a &#8220;six-carat, vintage mine-cut diamond set on a whisper-thin band\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/crystal-hefners-tricky-proposal-1417815.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 May 2025 Crystal Hefner\u2019s new fiance admitted keeping his proposal planning a secret was difficult. Crystal Hefner James Ward, 41 \u2013 who started dating Crystal, 39, last year after meeting through mutual friends \u2013 admitted the pair never keep secrets from each other so working on a surprise proposal was tough. He told PEOPLE: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11374,6027,11375,4623,9617],"class_list":{"0":"post-166056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-admitted","9":"tag-crystal-hefner","10":"tag-hard-keep-his-proposal-a-secret","11":"tag-hugh-hefner","12":"tag-james-ward"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}