Author’s Note: This post was originally written in a state of residual intoxication on the morning of Saturday, June 13, 2015, shortly after a former Gawker editor promoted me to working nights—but failed to inform me that I had the weekend off. For this discourtesy I threatened him with bodily harm. Fortunately, a…
This is how a proposal is supposed to go in Southport, N.C.: You head down to that fish bar by the water Saturday night, and take a walk on the dock with your girlfriend. “Hey, is that your mom?” she wonders, “What’s she doing here?” She turns around and you’re already on one knee, deftly whipping out the box…
The classless douchebag best man who set down his Corona and took a knee to propose marriage to the maid of honor at someone else’s wedding—right in front of the bride and groom—may not be quite as classless as he appeared in the photo that set a thousand mouths afroth earlier this week. His new fiancée is the bride’s…
A young man's determination to give his girlfriend the dramatic marriage proposal she never asked for ended with a half-dozen neighbors evacuated from their homes in this edition of Please Just Propose Like a Normal Human Being.
The University of Virginia, in response to a recent Rolling Stone article that exposes an alleged 2012 gang rape at the Phi Kapp Psi chapter on its campus, announced over the weekend that it was shutting down all of its fraternities immediately. The only problem with that announcement is that the university also…
Jack Hyer, from Whitefish, Mont., staged a marriage proposal video to top all others: he recorded himself singing to The Proclaimer's "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" in 26 countries across the couple's four-year relationship.
Most proposalvideos are really awful, but that’s because they’re annoying. This one happensto be more on the “horrifying and baffling” side of the proposal spectrum —horrifying because of the unbridled terror and loud sobbing, baffling becauseshe says yes at the end.
How do you propose to someone who knows the question is coming? Step one, at least in 2013, always involves procuring high-end video equipment. But step two includes setting up as many near-proposals as possible, making it seem as though the question could come at any second. And while I might have declared proposal…
Bummer, ladies: New York Times media wunderkind/dating maverick Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) has officially popped the question to NY1 traffic anchor Jamie Shupak (@JamieShupak). Wish we were there! Don't worry though, they tweeted about it.
I think we can officially declare proposal videos over. We’ve seen dogs do it, pilots do it, even gay men in Home Depot do it. And now we’ve seen Justin Baldoni do it, which is a beautiful or awful thing, depending on your tolerance for self-promotion.
A Utah man, Spencer Stout, proposed to his boyfriend Dustin in the most romantic store of them all: Home Depot. And while the whole flash mob proposal thing is pretty ugh at this point, this one is a little less ugh than the rest.
Usually people go to great lengths to propose in a memorable way—like on-camera during a live news segment. Josh Mullins, late of Reno, Colo., seems to have done so accidentally. And while you can cast aspersions on the authenticity of the proposal—and this is the internet, so I know you will—I'm okay with all of us…
So this guy proposed to his girlfriend while giving a Power Point presentation in the conference room at Deutsch, the advertising agency where they both work. She said yes. This true story is also a Rorschach test. [Ad Age]
That strange shifting you just felt in the ground? Elizabeth Edwards rolling over in her fresh grave. The National Enquirer reports John Edwards "proposed to Rielle Hunter. Apparently Elizabeth's children are already working on their escape pumpkin. [via HuffPo]
Mark Zuckerberg has received a very serious, very real business overture from rapper Snoop Dogg, who tweeted that he'd like to buy a professional sports team with the Facebook co-founder. Think hard on this, Mark. Snoop is pretty convincing.
The boyfriend of a Weather Channel reporter interrupted her mid-forecast by getting down on one knee and proposing. Awwwww! You may now return to your regularly scheduled weather reports.
Last night Justin Johnson gave all the hopeless romantics on tumblr something to "aww" over: He took over every tumblr user's dashboard to propose to girlfriend Marissa Nystrom using a video he made about the six years they'd been together.
Love exists. Have a good weekend.
Sure, we all endured the Rose Ceremony hoops, but was there really any doubt in our minds who Matt Grant—the most British Bachelor ever!—would choose at the end of his lady-shopping journey? The second he laid eyes on Lamas Family acting dynasty heiress Shayne Lamas, our funny-sounding Casanova was a goner. Sad as…
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