Six Year Marriage Proposal: Man Spells Out His Love Around The World

The Huffington Post Canada   First Posted: 11/23/11 10:47 AM ET Updated: 11/23/11 11:11 AM ET

Wedding Proposal

Imagine knowing from the early days of your relationship that your partner was 'the one.'

This was the case for a Canadian couple who dated for 6 years, and about a year into their relationship, started to symbolize their love with letters.

"[We] had the idea to document some highlights of our lives by taking pictures with letters," the man wrote on his YouTube page. "We wanted to prove that if one day we got married that ''w-e a-l-w-a-y-s k-n-e-w.'"

The video shows the couple, identified on Facebook as Dave and Tina, holding letters that spelled out the phrase at several locations around the world including Las Vegas, Paris and Rome.

In their final destination, as Tina holds the letter 'W,' Dave has two people hold up a sign that read, 'ILL YOU MARRY ME?' behind them as they pose for a photo.

When Tina sees the photo, she says yes and breaks out in tears.

The video has gone viral and solicited all kinds of responses.

"OMG how wonderful, makes me happy to realize that there are some romantic men in the world...my boyfriend prefers to travel without me and when we do go away together he videos the scenery and himself and never me," one commenter named debslg1said.

Others were more critical: "What letters would you use when you'll divorce her?" commenter andrei3600 said.

What was your wedding proposal like? Let us know in the comments below.

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Imagine knowing from the early days of your relationship that your partner was 'the one.' This was the case for a Canadian couple who dated for 6 years, and about a year into their relationship, s...
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09:24 PM on 11/23/2011
6 months, tops
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sangazure1
Flaming bleeding-heart knee-jerk Liberal
04:50 PM on 11/23/2011
My husband and I had been going together for about a year, when a couple he was friendly with decided to sell their house. He told me he had always loved that house, and asked if I would like to buy it with him -- which meant selling my house and his condo. I told him I wouldn't sell my house (which I loved) unless we were going to get married. So he said "OK." Not terribly romantic, but we've been happily married for fourteen years.
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Wren Egan
04:11 PM on 11/23/2011
Amazing.
03:43 PM on 11/23/2011
I never got a formal proposal. We just agreed to get married at some point. I didn't want a ring, but I did ask for a nice trash can. The story is here: http://diaryofagolddigger.blogspot.com/2010/03/in-which-i-get-engagement-trash-can.html
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BBQribsNOnapkin
tl; dr
02:47 PM on 11/23/2011
Totally freakin awesome.
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Jennifer Hagan
Expat Mother of two living in France.
02:06 PM on 11/23/2011
That is just simply beautiful.
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ok so now what
wants peace, works for justice
01:33 PM on 11/23/2011
It's a cute story, but if they "always" knew, why did it take 6 years?
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Jennifer Hagan
Expat Mother of two living in France.
02:08 PM on 11/23/2011
Well, it is better that he waits than to hop into a marriage that will end just like that. It is better to wait and to be sure that the love you have is enough. You can love someone forever and that person can be "the one" but that doesn't mean that the circumstances are always right to marry them at that time. Maybe, he wanted to be financially ready and not a burden. Maybe he wanted to wait for a myriad of reasons. The most important thing is that THEY knew. They were ready and they are happy.
12:55 AM on 11/24/2011
they look pretty young still...
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kalamatiaNO
Where is the outrage from the left?
01:32 PM on 11/23/2011
Second time around can be the sweetest, and in my case it was. My husband had acted as a groomsman in my wedding in 1982. He was the brother of my maid of honor and got the honor because my ex-husband did not have enough friends (should have been my first clue...) to complete the complement of four ushers for four bridesmaids. When this never-married man learned of my impending divorce two decades later, he invited me to a surprise birthday party for his sister and a week later he took me out for breakfast. It was that morning he admitted he had "had" it for me all those years, although when we saw one another socially throughout those two decades, he never would have let on. We eventually moved in together and a few years later he proposed at the B & B he chose to take me to on my birthday.

He waited until the stroke of midnight, then surprised me by presenting a gorgeous sapphire engagement ring (my birthstone). We have known one another more than 30 years, been together ten years and married for the past six. He is indeed my soulmate and we are just as crazy about one another as we were in our early days together. Sometimes God doesn't deny. He just delays....
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kungp00hbear
01:29 PM on 11/23/2011
That was such an incredible idea.

I love, at the end, "Who *are* you?"
01:27 PM on 11/23/2011
After our first date I wrote a letter to my new girlfriend about what I felt, how excited I was, and how hopeful I was that she was the one. I added a new letter to the envelope every month we dated. I gave her the letters the night before we got married. She got another envelope on our 5th and 10th anniversaries too. Someday she'll get more on our 25th and 50th anniversaries.

Not quite as romantic as the video, but I'm pretty happy with the gesture.
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blisslet
bringing a little glamour to the stones and bones.
01:40 PM on 11/23/2011
Beautiful. SHe's a lucky woman.
12:57 AM on 11/24/2011
very romantic IMO
01:26 PM on 11/23/2011
Reading the headline I thought it was a proposal for a marriage that would last 6 years! You know, kinda like a car battery guarantee.

Within 6 years - she gets to keep the house; after 6 years she is out on her own. Take your chances!

Oh well...
01:22 PM on 11/23/2011
Proposing to the love of your life is one of the most nerve wracking things I've ever done. Hopefully, I will only do it once. But it's probably as bad for the guy as the wedding is for the woman. But the thing is that this guy was so thoughtful and really put his whole heart and soul into the proposal. That's gotta count for something. They were halfway around the world from their home and he'd worked on the proposal for clearly a very long time. I'm happy for them. If he feels anything like how I felt when I proposed it's a moment not to be forgotten.
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Thunder Chicken
It's not rocket surgery...
01:17 PM on 11/23/2011
Impressive. Most impressive.
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intellifran
insert clever line here...
01:12 PM on 11/23/2011
It was not extraordinary but it was great. he asked me at my favorite restaurant in Malibu. He's shy and the restaurant was crowded so he didn't get down on one knee. The waitress' reaction was the best. I asked her for champagne and she asked the occasion. I showed her the ring and she said "Oh my God, Oh my God! I'll be right back." We left dinner early and went to my parents house to celebrate. I was thankful my family could be part of it.
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Alain Posteur
12:44 PM on 11/23/2011
I started spelling "divorce" in pictures of myself six years ago. Can't wait till my wife finally gets it.
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Jennifer Hagan
Expat Mother of two living in France.
02:09 PM on 11/23/2011
Stop being a coward and divorce her. No offense but if you wanna leave hit the pavement my man. Life is too short to live in misery.
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Alain Posteur
03:02 PM on 11/23/2011
Are you sure its not better with pictures? Seems to work great for this couple. You don't think it would be easier on her?

I REALLY want to hear your insightful thought on this. Perhaps I could spell divorce in her morning alphabits?

What do you think?
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BBQribsNOnapkin
tl; dr
02:46 PM on 11/23/2011
lmfao