The sweetest thing I've seen all week

[andrewducker]

Man proposes to girlfriend through the medium of Muppets.

Which he made into a trailer, and got shown before a movie at his local cinema.

"Big Hero 6 UK trailer -- OFFICIAL Disney | HD" (Watch on YouTube)

She said yes.

Full story here.

Comments

[likeneontubing.livejournal.com]

I just cried a little bit! OMG!

[andrewducker]

I did too. That kind of thing always gets me.

(Also, The Lion King. Stupid Disney movies.)

[makyo.livejournal.com]

That's lovely - thanks for posting it.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Feminism has ruined me forever. In his account of their relationship he played the piano and took photographs and she... ran about giggling?

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I spotted that. Too many of the RomCom cliches.

I mean, his strongest memories are probably of certain events, but he could have made a bit of an effort to include events where she was active rather than passive.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I kept waiting to see her hobbies. She didn't even knit.

Also, it fails the Bechdel test*.

*Okay, now I am kidding.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

In fairness I guess she is reading a book at the start.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

You know, before she met him and had nothing to do other than run around giggling with him.

[andrewducker]

Well, it's a heterosexual couple. And thus automatically patriarchal and made of evil.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Forget heterosexual - non-lesbian.

[andrewducker]

True dat. Gay male relationships are the worse kind of oppressive patriarchy.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

These kind of dramatic proposals always make me a bit uncomfortable. She said yes... well, obviously she did. He just put her on the spot in front of an audience all waiting for her to say just that. He went out of his way to emotionally blackmail her into saying yes by putting all that effort in. Was "no" really an option at that point?

I once saw a big dramatic TV proposal with a whole audience left waiting with baited breath as the woman sad there and writhed a little before saying "I'll think about it". EVERYONE was uncomfortable at that stage.

If he'd done it privately then nobody would be going "hey, look at this cool thing!" and posting it on the internet, but I do feel that that is the respectful way to handle such a question. Perhaps, though, I'm just an unromantic curmudgeon.

[andrewducker]

I think that asking that question in public unless you're 100% sure that the other person is going to say yes is a complete dick move. If you've agreed that a proposal should occur, but that the proposer should be allowed to do it at the right time, and make it special, then it strikes me as being fine.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Er... okay, probably me with the unromantic again, but how do you "agree that a proposal should occur"? You either want to get married or you don't. If you do, and you agree to it then that's it, the proposal is *done*. You've proposed a marriage that both parties are happy to enter into... what's the question all about at that point? I mean, if it were a situation like that and the guy got a movie put together that was the exact same thing but ended with "and she agreed to marry me, I'm so happy" instead of a question then cool, great, nice gesture, tell the world; I like it. But putting it out there as a question is just weird if you already know the answer, and manipulative if you don't.

[andrewducker]

You either want to get married or you don't. If you do, and you agree to it then that's it, the proposal is *done*

Yup, that's the unromantic in you. Majority of the people I know knew in advance that it was coming. A proposal is an event just as much as a question.

It's like weddings - they're just a ceremony to say "We're going to be together for the rest of our lives". You don't need to have a party. Heck, it's only if you really care about the legal ramfications that you need anything. But many people want one because they want a defining event that will live in their memories.