Photos from Every Burning Question About 12 Dates of Christmas Answered

In a word: no. While Chad had expressed his strong feelings for Katie to Dean and her team "a lot" prior to getting down on one knee to offer up a vintage-style Ritani engagement ring, they "didn't know until the very last minute if he was going to do it. We knew there was a possibility."

While shows like Love Is Blind and Married at First Sight, both of which Dean has worked on, are completely centered around getting married, that wasn't the ultimate goal for 12 Dates.

"They knew ultimately the object was that they would choose one person to take home for the holidays and then to see if they thought there was a future together beyond Christmas," Dean explained of what the leads knew of the show's premise. 

Still, who can resist the magic of a proposal at Christmastime? "We were standing up screaming in the control room," Dean admitted.