What's unique about the couple's love story is the ring Unger proposed to Leifkes with. Instead of a diamond, one of Unger's wisdom teeth sat clasped in the ring band.

"When we'd spoken about it, I'd said that diamonds are so overrated," Leifkes told BuzzFeed News. "My birthstone is a diamond. I don't need one to prove how much someone loves me. He'd already moved all the way from Canada to do that!"

The couple, who met at a music festival in Unger’s native Canada earlier this year, pride themselves on being nontraditional.

The two plan to get married in Las Vegas later this month.

“I’m going to have a cast, a wisdom tooth ring, a pink dress and Elvis is going to marry us,” said the bride-to-be, who recently broke her leg.

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