“Serendipity”
Directed by Peter Chelsom from
Lancashire England, born April 20, 1956, starring Kate Beckinsale
from London
England, born July 26, 1973, and John Corbett from West Virginia, born May 9,
1961.
Video clip of the proposal scene from the film
Serendipity
Year: 2001
“Serendipity” is a romantic comedy where
Kate Beckinsale’s character Sara seeks love with a man she met in
Bloomingdales. In this scene Sara returns to her home to find it has been
filled with candles and rose petals. The room is only lit by the candle light
making it a very romantic scene. She is so surprised it takes her a moment to
realize that in front of her is a giant box with a tag that says “open me”. When she finally notices the box she begins to
unwrap and open it only to find inside it is another wrapped box. It continues
to be full of smaller boxes until she gets to one small black satin box, but
when she opens it its empty. From behind comes John Corbett’s character into
the room holding a ring and says “you have to say yes first.”
This
scene is a perfect example of a romantic proposal! Roses? Check. Candles?
Check. Surprise? Check. With the candles and rose petals all over the room it gives
the romantic setting every proposal needs. The boxes filled with more boxes
make it unique and special just like any other piece of art, but what really
makes it special is that the ring is missing from the ring box. It’s unexpected
and adds even more to the surprise. Proposals are art in the way they are
designed to be specific to one person and the beginning of a beautiful lifelong
relationship. If the world didn’t have romantic proposals think of how boring
and bland it would be. This proposal is art in the way it’s beautiful, takes
your breath away, and is original. How often do you see a proposal like this?
That’s one of the reasons it’s so special and even though in the movie Sara
doesn’t end up with John’s character it is still goes down in history as one of
the most romantic proposals.
"Romantic Real Life Marriage Proposal Stories- story 2”
Year: unknown
Shouldn’t
all art hang in a museum? That’s what one man must have thought when he went to
great lengths to have the perfect proposal and even get it in a local art
museum on his girlfriend’s campus. An
anonymous man set out to propose to his girlfriend before her college
graduation and he wanted to make it memorable. He wrote on a letter going in
depth on his true feeling for her and why he loved her on a large poster board.
Next, he made the poster board look like an aged letter by using varnish and
framed it. With his masterpiece now complete he called into the local art
museum and they gladly agreed to hang his work for day to help him with his
plan. Before his girlfriend’s graduation ceremony he met her and almost had to
drag her to the museum by telling her a little white lie that he wanted to go
to see his friend’s piece in a new exhibit. After they wandered around a bit a
piece with her name written very large at the top caught her eye. While she
read it he got on the ground behind her and pulled out the ring so by the time
she was done reading his heartfelt letter to her she turned to see him on his
knee proposing. Of course she delightedly said yes, and was able to brag about
it at her graduation.
This
man set out to have a memorable, original, and personal proposal and it’s
obvious he succeeded. His proposal was like poetry how he wrote his feeling for
her in a letter, then putting it in a museum added to making it a memorable
experience for the couple to look back on. Art is something that stays with you
so you can fondly look back at it and this proposal absolutely will stick with
them. The fact that it’s so personal is something that makes it so romantic as well;
think if he just wrote “I love you, marry me” it doesn’t have the same effect
as him writing out all of his feelings for her. Art is something original that invokes
feelings and this anonymous man has flourished in all aspects.
-Posted by Natalie Hubert
-Posted by Natalie Hubert
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