Forget the dress, the venue and the vows, these days the pressure to have the BEST. WEDDING. EVER. begins with the proposal.
We’re all suckers for a heart-warming story where the groom-to-be gets down on bended knee and one company The Proposers is offering guys who are lacking the inspiration or confidence to do it themselves a helping hand.
The company run by two Londoners Daisy Amodio and Tiffany Wright, launched last May and has seen its customer base surge since it opened and they’re even in talks with a TV company for their own show!
So what can these two romantics in the know offer hopeless young men? Past proposals include setting the scene in an English castle with the groom-to-be as a knight in shining armour and arranging a luxury picnic on a secluded Swiss mountainside for a ski-loving couple.
But the firm’s most extravagant proposal to date involved hiring an art gallery for a man who wanted to fill it with personalised canvasses of photos and drawings that meant something to his artist girlfriend, with a final piece of artwork asking, “Will you marry me?”
The site also caters for same sex couples
Proposal planning websites are big business in the US but the pair came up with the idea to launch a UK version after witnessing a man in Hyde Park in London trying to spell out “Make me the happiest man alive and marry me” in candles on the grass. They noticed he had spelt “happiest” wrong and offered to hide behind a tree and take photos of the moment his girlfriend arrived.
So would you like your other half to employ two women to help him devise one of the most memorable occasions of your life? Surprisingly, Daisy and Tiffany reveal that brides-to-be who discover their involvement in the proposal are usually grateful for their help and generally don’t mind that several people have been involved in such a personal and intimate moment.
But the site doesn’t just cater for grooms-to-be. They also cater for same sex couples, women who want to propose and even have a ‘Hint, Hint’ section where you can instruct the website to send your unsuspecting other half pointers and inspiring proposals to get them in the mood to go down on bended knee.
Call us cynical but it all sounds a bit cheesy to us. We’ll take a simple picnic or walk on the beach any day. Not that we’re hinting or anything…
