When The Big Question Takes On A Life of Its Own:OTT Marriage Proposals

When more is a whole lot less romantic..... the Kimye proposal
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Proposals have taken on a life of their own. In the last few years, with the explosion of Instagram - and well, pretty much all the other social media platforms - there's an almost feverish need to go big or go home when putting together a proposal.  (Side note: Promposals are another example of life events on steroids!). The new philosophical debate seems to be, 'If (insert life event) didn't make it on to (insert Twitter/Snapchat/Instagram), did it really happen?'  And as a result, there's a sweetness, intimacy or inate romanticism and hopefulness that gets lost when production value and scale take centre stage!

This past weekend, the need for a public proposal spectacle took an incredibly awkward turn at Boston's Fenway Park during a Red Sox-Orioles game as an unidentified man was shut down by his girlfriend. The crowd, clearly DROWNING in the milk of human kindness, began a chant of, "She said no! She said no!" which was the coup de grace on a very intense moment.

A time-out call? After the failed proposal, the couple fight it out, while the cameraman looks away as love lies bleeding!
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*~One, Two, Three Strikes You're Out At The Ol' Ball Game~*

I don't want to sound like a buzzkill if having a grandiose gesture is your thing! But here's the rub: you gotta know yourself, your partner AND your relationship really well to execute the perfect proposal. Youve GOT to have a good read on your entire situation.  Becuse one person's 'perfect' is another person's nightmare! Additionally, is it just me or do these new over-the-top proposals feel a little bragadocious and all about the groom-to-be?  They always read like a case of 'Look at how creative/romantic/amazing I am! Look at all the hard work I did! Look at me, me, me!'  And the bigger the audience, the more the fawning over the awesomeness of the proposal!

As a palette cleanse from the Great Fenway Rejection of 2017,  Entertainment Weekly published a list of some of their favourite on-screen proposals last year and they'll never get old to me. Consider these the substance over style approach that as a low-tech person, I can totally get behind!

*~Just us two, me and you - proposals that give you all the feels!~*

These babies were great examples of small-scale/large-impact, perfectly sweet and awesome and the exact opposite of what went down at Fenway. You're welcome!

Wishing you a day as limitless as you are~
Lisa and April

#Flashback Friday - 'Love Actually' Edition

The strangest Plus One at a wedding?
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Long before a zombie apocalypse would have him running around the woods in the United States trying to stay alive to fight another day -

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....Andrew Lincoln was across the pond, planning a wedding day surprise for the lovely and angelic Keira Knightly on the big day.....

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.....One problem: his best friend was the groom who would ultimately kiss the bride and carry her over the proverbial threshhold, not Mark (Lincoln)  himself!

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Ahhhh, forbidden love! He does find a way (half-adorably, half-creepily) to let his feelings be known and after his romantic/restraining-order-worthy grand gesture, the part of me that wasn't slightly uncomfortably wondered just what would've happened if HE was the one to put the ring on her finger instead of his best friend Peter (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor)

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'Love Actually' was released during prime holiday season in November 2003 and it would end up becoming one of those movies you can watch all 365 days a year.   It's a collection of love stories featuring a series of couples that are exhilarating, heartbreaking, maddening, cliche, intoxicating and all-too-familiar to the broken hearted, and the Juliet (Knightley) and Mark (Lincoln) chapter was a master class in unrequited love.  Peter asks his best friend and best man Mark to videotape his wedding and not only does he record the wedding, but he arranges a swoon-y and charming rendition of  the Beatles' classic, 'All You Need Is Love" that unfolds in the church in the loveliest way for the newly minted bride and groom.

Love, love, love..Its easy (to smile when you watch this!)

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Limited interactions lead us to believe that Mark doesn't like Juliet but as the story progresses, Juliet approaches Mark to get a copy of the video he shot of the wedding because the photographers messed their pictures up. He tries to lie to her and act as though he doesn't know where the video is, but she finds the video in kind of plain view in his apartment. and as she watches it, she slowly discovers that not only does Mark NOT dislike her, he does in fact like her.  A LOT.  The video gives away, with every shot of her, his surprisingly strong feelings towards her.

Subtitled but the message is clear: He's smitten with you, Juliet!

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Awkwardness ensues and he takes off, literally leaving her alone in his apartment to absorb his video love letter to her...... Until he pops up on Christmas Eve with a silent message for her.....

 

Sweet and slightly sinister, or is it just me?!

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As he walks away saying, "Enough.  Enough now." we know that their first kiss will be their last kiss.  But in the silence after the kiss before she goes back to her house, that's when the mind starts to wander and ponder the 'what ifs' ands maybe that's what makes it so perfect. One gesture, one kiss, one moment that really and truly has no hope or agenda, a moment that just .... is. In a blink, a beginning and an end. I can live with that. *sigh*

Yep. This is good with. One... and done!
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So, our #Flashback Friday is all about a boy... declaring his love to a girl.... while her husband watches the telly nearby.  Ain't love grand?!?

Wishing you a day as limitless as you are~
Lisa and April