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Man Proposes 148 Times Before His Girlfriend Notices

Published

9 years ago

January 19, 2016

INSTORE Staff

It was a romantic undertaking
that lasted for five months.

In what has to be one of the most elaborate marriage proposals ever conceived, 38-year-old Ray Smith managed to pop the question nearly 150 times before his girlfriend ever realized it, Yahoo writes. As you can see from this screenshot pulled from a video that Smith made documenting his venture, he did it by writing “Will you marry me?” on a small card and sneaked it into photos – 148 of them over the course of five months, to be exact. According to the article, she said yes after he revealed the photos in a slideshow on Christmas morning. Smith pulled it off by convincing his girlfriend, who was pregnant at the time, to take all the photos in order to “track the progress of the baby, which was a little bit of a ruse.” Indeed. But a ruse well played, sir, a ruse well played.

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