Monday, 03 May 2010
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4 Most Extreme Marriage Proposals
The lights are dim, the string quintet is playing "The Four Seasons," the filet mignon you just had was absolute perfection and your girlfriend looks gorgeous. You've decided tonight is the night to pop the question. Just before you do, the quintet rips off their clothes to reveal that they are N-Sync and you start doing backflips to "This I Promise you." After you leap through a fiery hoolahoop, you present the ring?
I don't know about you, but I'd be satisfied with a man just getting down on one knee and proposing. But heck, so many people do the craziest things for love these days. Here are some of the most extreme (possibly most romantic?!) marriage proposals:
1. Love Unbound by Gravity
A man took his now fiancee on the Boeing 727 aircraft (specially designed to create the experience of microgravity) for her birthday and proposed to her ten thousands of feet above ground. The man feared that the ring might float away but everything worked out.
2. A Gamer's ProposalA guy under the username of Moviesign created a Forge map in Halo 3 and set up a two-on-two match with his girlfriend, Penguin, and two friends. Once the game started, Moviesign took Penguin to a certain spot in the game where he had claimed to have left an energy sword. Instead of the sword, there were many weapons spelling out "Marry Me?" at the location.
3. Ukrainian Shakespeare In Love
Gennady Zaleskiy hired an entire theatre company to stage the play The Romantics with him as the leading man in Ukraine. He then bought tickets for his theatre-loving girlfriend, Victoria, and her friends. At the point he was supposed to declare his love for the leading lady in a mask, he turned to the audience and said, "No, the woman I love is Victoria and she is in the sixth row. Victoria, will you marry me?" She said yes.
4. Proposing in Art Form
A man named George told his girlfriend Sarah that there was a gallery exhibiting "My Early Muir Owl," by artist Serge Gandaora in town. In truth, George had constructed a marriage proposal and art piece within a four-day period and hired an actor to be Serge Gandaora (anagram of George and Sarah while "My Early Muir Owl" is an anagram for "Will you marry me"). The art piece entailed different pieces of foam which would form the phrase "will you marry me" when viewed in the right angle. When George and Sarah went to the so-called exhibit and the words began to take shape, George got down on one knee and proposed. They walked away happily engaged.
What are some other extreme proposals have you heard about? Have you ever given or received one? Would you want to be proposed to in public?
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Comments (38)
Aw, all of those are so cute! I especially love the Shakespeare one.
hahaha these are all so over the top! i just really don't want to be proposed to in a public place
that last one is pretty fucking adorable. that seems a bit lavish for my tastes, but serious props to that guy.
The gamer one is kinda cool. Not that I'm a gamer..but if I were, I think I'd have liked that.
awwww
a typical extreme proposal is the Plane with a huge banner, or blimp, and there's also the Sports Game announcement. I believe I've read about Bungee jumping proposals.
Ohh, the gamer proposal is so romantic and adorable. I hope that when I get engaged it's something as fun as that.
I don't really want to get proposed to in public. I told my boyfriend if he proposed in public (like via the jumbotron at a sports game) I would say no :P
I just want it to be simple... him get down on one knee, tell me he loves me, give me the spiel about why he wants to marry me, and offer me a ring.
i think the last one is extremely cute. :]
If it were in public, it would depend on how it was done. I would like the theatre thing, because I act and it would be very funny. But my boyfriend hates being in front of people so no way would that ever happen. I would be soooo suspicious if he were up there. More like, if I were in a play, he'd have the guy I was matched with onstage say something like, "but no! You love another! We cannot be together!" and while I'm spazzing out trying to improv. he'd get onstage. Haha.
Those are all cute though. :) My boyfriend loves video games so out of those, that one would be the most likely. ^^
That's adorable! Not sure yet how I'd like to be proposed to (though that's definitely a while off so I don't need to worry about it haha) :)
I wouldn't have been a huge fan of the gamer one, but that's just b/c I'd rather it be in person. Those are so extravagant and adorable (esp shakespeare since I am a big fan of the bard), but i'd be perfectly happy with something simple. If someone just made me some waffles for breakfast and proposed over the orange juice, that'd be awesome, too.
Aww! I don't want my boyfriend to propose in public. In a public place would be fine, as long as we were alone and had some privacy such as a part of a beach or park. I don't really want there to be an audience watching and awaiting my reaction and answer, but as long as the location is romantic and sets the mood, then I'm happy. Any added creativity is bonus and would be loved, but isn't necessary. I'll say yes to him when he proposes either way, I see it coming.
I'd want to be proposed to at the restaurant of our first date. I think those public proposals is too much pressure and you feel almost obligated to say yes because if you say no, then all those people will feel bad for the guy who spent all that effort to arrange the proposal and they look at you like you are ungrateful and evil because you just stomped on his heart in public, so the both of you are now humiliated.
i hope my husband proposes in a creative way.... then again, just as long as he proposes AT ALL, ill take it in any form it comes
i like the last 3. they're creative.
#3 is awesome.
I wouldn't want to be proposed to in public, though. It's really something that should be done in private. I mean, it's a pretty big moment/decision. This isn't asking someone to prom. It's marriage. I guess everyone thinks of it differently, but I'd definitely want it done where it's just the two of us and he gives the cute little speech and everything.
I got proposed to in my gazebo more than a year ago. I didn't see it coming either. He told me everything he loved about me, and then he just suddenly got down on one knee and my heart stopped.
Things didn't work out, but it's nice to look back on something like that. it wasn't over the top. It was simple. But it was still beautiful.
My fiance had quite the proposal set up. Everyday for the eleven days leading up to our first year anniversary I received a letter in some unexpected way with a single red rose. Then on our anniversary....the ring wasn't finished being sized. So yeah, that fell through. I was disappointed because obviously I knew what was coming, but we had a fun date night and I set up for a month of waiting (the ring was being sized three hours away and he wouldn't be back there for awhile) so the next night (I looked horrible) we were laying on the roof of his car in the middle of nowhere looking at the stars when he started telling me he loved me. I smile said I loved him too, but then he kept going and going. To the awkward point I wanted him to stop because it was so much flattery. Telling me why he loved me, and how he couldn't wait to start our lives together, blah-blah-blah. I loved it but I was starting to get weirded out because he just KEPT going. Then suddenly he said, "And that's why I can't wait" and he slipped down to the hood of his car onto his knee and asked me to be his wife holding out a box with a gorgeous diamond ring. I grabbed the ring squealing, shoved it on my finger, and then remembered to scream "Of course! I love you sooo much!" Then after a few moments of exhilirated bliss we yanked out our cell phones and called everyone who deserved to know first.
Honestly, the point is, sometimes I wish that his plans had gone right and he could have recreated our first date, gave me the final rose with the ring inside and I could have a great story that impressed all my friends. But on the other hand, I think knowing it was coming like that would have made it so pregnant with expectation I would have been more awkward than excited. So not knowing he had the ring overnighted to him and that it was in his pocket that whole night and then having it presented to me in such a spontaneous way during such a personal, special, and intimate moment really made it the perfect proposal for me filled with such authentic emotions.
So basically, you will love whatever proposal you get as long as it is the right guy who you are thrilled to spend the rest of your life with. You just won't be able to help it. It is going to be the best day of your life.
@Brittany - already calling him your husband eh?
the last one was really cute. i'd dig that
Yeah, thats great and all --- but I'd be happy with ANY proposal.
these are all so cute! :D
I'd rather have him propose in private because it's more special. I'm not a fan of being in the center of attention so, a public proposal would slightly pressure me to say yes when I may not be 100% sure.
My high school biology teacher is quite the lover of nature, so to propose to his now wife of many years, he took her up north to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for a snowmobiling trip. He then feigned an injury that had to get the both of them air lifted out of there, but prior to, had carved out the words "Marry Me" in a lake that was frozen over, and filled it with wood shavings. As they were up in the air, he arranged for a buddy to light his message on fire, so it was quite literally burning in the snow.
Pretty fancy, eh?
i love the last one :)