Five Epic Proposal Fails If you're going to ask someone to marry you today, don't do it like this

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When proposing, there are certain unwritten rules you pretty much have to follow: 1) spend at least two months salary on the engagement ring, 2) make sure to ask for the parents permission in advance, and 3) if you're pretty sure something is going to go terribly, horribly wrong because you're proposing in a food court, video tape it and post it on YouTube. Luckily, YouTube has an in-house video ninja whose sole job is to find the best such videos and send them to us:


Sharing a heartfelt story and serenading your GF before getting down on one knee? Great idea. Sharing a heartfelt story and serenading your GF before getting down on one knee in front of a Sbarro's? Even better idea.


Or better yet, a Zale's!


Two words: Jesus Jam.


If you're gonna propose in the middle of the Third St Promenade in LA... actually no, don't do that.


In the woods. With a dog. What could possibly go wrong?

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Five Epic Proposal Fails

Published: February 13, 2013 at 3:00pm EST

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