June 15, 2007
Wedding Proposals
Written by Shana in Jaunty PostUltimate Sportsfan and I were at a baseball game Tuesday night. Baseball is a kind of slow game (read: boring), so they have lots of things going on in the ballpark to entertain fans while we wait for something to happen. Some of the entertainment is pretty lame. Mostly it involves finding unsuspecting fans and showing them on the big screen in the park. They have the Smile Cam, the Cranium Cam (they make fans’ heads look really big), the Kid Cam, and the Kiss Cam.
On Tuesday during the Kiss Cam portion of the entertainment, a guy proposed to his girlfriend. It looked like they randomly picked the couple, but then the camera stayed on them, and the words “Will you marry me?” came up on the screen. The guy pulled out a ring box, got down on one knee, and proposed. The woman (poor thing was wearing purple nail polish. If only she’d known what was coming!) cried and looked impressed by the ring, and said yes.
I have to admit that I got a little teary-eyed. I can’t help it. But after the camera shut off and the game started again, I had to wonder what was going on across the ballpark. Did the newly engaged couple just keep watching the game? Did they both just order another beer and hope Hunter Pence would hit a homer in the 5th inning?
The more I thought about that proposal, the worse it seemed. I’m all for the grand gesture. I think they can be romantic. But is a ballpark, in the middle of an Astros’ game, on a Tuesday night, the best place to ask the most important question of your life?
What do you think? Good proposal? Bad? What’s the worst proposal you’ve ever heard on? What’s the best?
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Laura Says:
Last year my group from work went to a baseball (just happened to be the first game Roger Clements pitched) and someone proposed at that game too during the Kiss Cam. It looked like the girl didn’t want to kiss him, much less marry him. Poor thing had this deer in the headlights look on her face when he popped the question like “and I was going to break up with him tonight after the game”. I didn’t notice that she accepted but the guy shoved the ring on her finger and the camera stayed on them for a while and she looked ready to cry - and not in a good way. That’s a bit too much pressure to put on someone, if you ask me.
brownone Says:
I think that if was something she was hinting about and then he did it to surprise her, then it was pretty romantic. For me, the most romantic proposal happened at my wedding. My cousing, his girlfriend, and their 5 year old son came. He set it up so that we told all the girls catching the boquet to let HER catch it and all of the guys to let HIM catch the garter. Then the lights dimmed, he got on his knee, their son was holding his mom’s hand, and he proposed to her. The photographer was still taking pictures so I have it in my wedding album. They stuck around for about a week and got married at the courthouse.
Lacey Says:
Uh, Ick?
Shana Says:
Laura, I think USF was at that game last year. He told me about that poor woman!
Brownone, didn’t that sort of take away from the specialness of your day? That’s like this one guy I know whose brother announced he and his wife were going to have a baby at his brother’s engagement party. Of course, all the attention went to the brother. Why not give the engaged couple their one night? The baby won’t be coming for months!
brownone Says:
Shana, I never really thought of it in that way. They were with each other for so long and we loved them so much that we wanted to see them together. I probably would have been mad if he didn’t ask first, but I was so happy that another marriage began AT mine.
brownone Says:
Oh, and it was an indian wedding where it began on Thursday with the conclusion on Sunday. Yeah…talk about a LONG weekend!
Michelle the Merry Says:
Well, I had to tell you of the BEST proposal I’ve ever seen.
In my hometown we have “Art City Days” it has a carnival, parade, the works.
So I’m sitting in my usual spot on main street, when I see a real life knight-in-shining (black) armor. It was hot, nearly 95 degrees at only 10:30 am. So I felt bad for him being in the chainmail, armor etc. He was riding one giant of a black destrier horse.
Well, he stops the horse, his page holds the reigns and he dismounts. He walks through the crowd of people and finds his girlfriend. She gives him a hug and then he takes his helmet off, then goes down on one knee and purposes. He takes out the ring box and offers it to her. She yells YES they hug, kiss, and he slips the ring on her finger.
I was crying, it was SO romantic.
Now about a proposal at a baseball game…I guess if that’s her cup of tea, then more power to her. But to me, not too romantic IMHO.
Buffie Says:
I don’t think that is a very romantic proposal. So you can imagine my surprise when a friend of my sister got married at Turner Field, here in Atlanta. Yep the actual wedding ceremony took place on the field. Can’t imagine that red dirt getting on a white wedding dress!!!!
CherylAnne Says:
I think it really depends on the couple. My husband and I are HUGE football fans and have season tickets for the New England Patriots. Also my favorite contemporary romance series is SEP’s Chicago Stars series. So yes, I would have absolutely loved to be proposed to there on the big screen. Personally I would have found that romantic…but I can understand why others would be underwhelmed by such a thing.
Clarisse Says:
I think several people have hit on the truth here which is that a great proposal is in the eye/ear/heart of the recipient. If you want a za-za-zoo proposal and you love baseball, then the scoreboard proposal is great (Of course the awful thing is when you see on that big screen that he may be all excited but she looks a LOT like the pussycat in the Pepe Le Pew cartoons - but then that’s its own kind of entertainment for the crowd)
I come out of a family tradition of eloping so the big show is not so much my ideal of romantic perfection. My husband of almost 35 years proposed to me on July 4, 1972. As we were driving home from a date, he pulled off the turnpike so we could sit and watch the fireworks and he asked me to marry him. It was unexpected, spontaneous and just the two of us and it was exactly perfect (for us). We were married 11 days later.