'Will you marry me?' -- it used to be enough

Just as lavish weddings were fading out because of the yucky economy a couple of years ago, over-the-top marriage proposals became a trendlet. Proposal by flash mob, proposal by video game, proposal at zero gravity -- hiring a skywriting plane just doesn't cut it anymore.

Can the marriage proposal planner be far behind?

This week, The Times' newsroom received an email from just such a planner, asking if reporters would cover an upcoming proposal she's put together for this weekend. It sounded extremely elaborate and entailed creating a hostile environment with annoyed people that would suddenly turn into a hopeful question -- well, the whole thing seemed a little dicey, not to mention that it didn't necessarily pull together logically. But then, I haven't given you any details.  More Read

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