Zoe Plastiras, who has been battling lymphoma for two years, learned she was officially cancer free in October.

A woman celebrated more than beating cancer at her remission party.

Another surprise awaited Zoe Plastiras – who was told she no longer had cancer last month, after struggling through two years of unsuccessful treatments – when her boyfriend of five years, Joe Bird, suddenly got down on one knee to propose to her in front of their 100 guests.

“My partner told me he had a surprise for me and that I needed to get dressed. I suspected a surprise remission party…but no suspicion of an engagement!” Plastiras tells PEOPLE exclusively. “Joe was giving a lovely speech to all our guests about my journey to remission, then he got down on one knee!”

The bride-to-be was diagnosed with primary mediastinal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma late in her pregnancy with her daughter, Ophélie, on December 23, 2022.

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“It was a cancer that had a 90% cure rate with first-line treatment, but unfortunately for me, I failed many treatments,” Plastiras says. “Finally, in October 2024, after receiving my life-saving Car T Cell Therapy treatment, I was declared in remission 90 days later on October 16. I will always be grateful to this treatment. It put me in remission and was very gentle on my body compared to my other treatments.”

A video posted on Plastiras TikTok page, filmed by This happy girlcapture moments of remission party at The bull hotel in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. The party included a DJ, singer MarieKateA backdrop piece that said “Celebrating Zoe F— Cancer” and a cake Since Painful but cooked with a “Zoe Beat Cancer!” sign.

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Plastiras’ sister even made a cute video of her cancer journey for everyone to watch.

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Only a few participants participated in the secret proposal.

“Some of my family and friends knew about it, but he shocked almost everyone, including me,” says Plastiras, who was asked to a radiant cut diamond ring. “Everyone was filming it and crying and clapping! I was in complete shock that he did it in front of everyone because that would be my last guess. But it was perfect and I’m over the moon.”

The couple met in 2019 at a friend’s birthday party. A week later, they started dating, and the rest is history.