West Coast Eagles star Oscar Allen wasn’t sure if his girlfriend Lorna McNabb said “yes” when he proposed after the couple broke down in tears during the happy engagement.

The 25-year-old star forward got down on one knee earlier in August to ask the love of his life for her hand in marriage.

On Friday, Allen revealed details on how the engagement played out, saying that he was a “little bit nervous” and would have been “surprised” if McNabb said “no”.

He told HIT WA’s Allan and Carly that he planned to take McNabb out for lunch to celebrate but was a bit slow to committing to the actual moment.

“I’d planned it out and all of her and my family knew that we were going out for lunch to celebrate, but I hadn’t actually done it yet,” he said.

“So I’ve woken up on the morning (of) and we played on the Friday night and it was Saturday morning. I was like, ‘Right, I’ve got to get this done now!’

“And then I was getting questions like, ‘Why are you getting up and putting jeans and a shirt on? Like It’s 8 o’clock and it’s a day after a game and it’s a weekend, you would normally just stay in bed all day’.

“So I think she had some sneaky suspicions that something was going on.

“I did it at home. It was very nice, just like a normal day.”

Allen said he was confident with the outcome of the engagement but was nervous.

“I was confident judging by the amount of conversation that came from her around it, so it would have been surprising if Lorna had said no but I think you’re always a little bit nervous,” he said.

“You always think, ‘I’ll say this, I’ll say this’ and then Lorna started crying … I started crying. I didn’t really say much — I don’t even know if she said yes, to be honest thinking about it, she was just walking around! It was a great day.”

Allen said his fiancee was keen to take charge of the wedding planning but they would consider getting married in the Great Southern.

“This is the conversation now. A lot of my family live in Denmark, so I’m thinking, ‘Let’s go to Denmark’. Lorna is saying, ‘I don’t want to go that far’,” he said.

“My brother’s actually getting married this March down south in Denmark, so there’s a lot of considerations. No final calls have been made yet.

“We’re just doing a bit of research at the moment, we’ll wait and see where we do it. I’m not too sure yet. Lorna’s pretty keen to do a lot of the back end info and research. I’m more than happy to go with the flow.”

On August 4, the Eagle forward posted a photo to Instagram showing the couple smiling and McNabb wearing a dazzling diamond ring.

Allen and McNabb have been dating since mid-2019, when the latter was still at the University of WA studying pharmacology.