Bobby Flay To The Proposal Rescue

Having trouble figuring out how to propose?

Bobby Flay is set to come to your rescue.

On The Early Show Thursday, he said he'd come to meet viewers in need, to put together the perfect proposal scenario.

It will all play out in Flay's new series, "Early S.O.S: Bobby Flay, Help Me Propose."

But you have to send him a video explaining your predicament! To do that, click here.

Flay told co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez his view of the numero uno aspect of proposing: "First of all, we hope you say 'Yes.' That's number one! I mean, obviously, when you think about proposing to somebody, the most important thing is that there's a positive result!"

What can go wrong in the planning?

"I think," Flay explained, "some guys don't think about it at all. And some guys over-think it. And I think it's really important to really find the things that are important to the person you're proposing to; you know -- finding the key element."

He even drew on personal experience, telling Rodriguez, "When I was thinking about proposing to my wife, Stephanie, I realized that water was a really important thing to her. Whenever we traveled, she would always go and touch this sort of body of water, whether it was a lake or ocean or something along those lines. She was always into water. However, I was going to propose in December in New York. So there wasn't a lot of water around. And the only water I could find was the frozen ice at Rockefeller Center. So That's where we got engaged. ... I think you do have to pay attention. And actually, I had the ring for eight months. I kept going back and forth as to when was the right time to do it. I didn't want to be the cliche guy. And I think that that's, you know, taking all those things into consideration is really important."

Flay doesn't like "the cliche" proposal.

He said, "I think it is stressful. I actually have helped lots of guys get engaged in my career because, you know, as a chef, lots of people get engaged in my restaurants. And a lot of times they'll come in and they'll give me the ring to put in food, you know. So when the food is presented. But that's cliche, like giving it up to somebody else to do.

"I think it's a much better deal if the person actually, you know, does it themselves, as opposed to bringing someone else into it."

He says he also doesn't like "people getting engaged at baseball games and somebody else puts it up on the Jumbotron. That's giving somebody else the job, and I think it's much more important to do it yourself."

Flay explained that, for the Early Show series, "We want somebody who really has an issue as far as, like, how they're going to get engaged. We don't just want the person who, you know, just wants to get engaged. Obviously you're already at that point. We're going to come up with a way that -- I want to fly to that person's city and meet them, get to know them a little bit, and then sort of help them devise something that's important to them. ... This could be one of the most important moments of their life!"