Since the mental_floss article Modern Marriage Proposals was published in 2007, I have read about many more marvelous methods men have used to asked for their sweetheart’s hand in marriage, plus a couple of proposals that started out traditionally and ended up in the news because of embarrassing unforeseen circumstances.

William Butler took advantage of the rolling fields of Underhill, Vermont to propose to Natalie Coughlin. He wrapped hay bales in plastic and assigned one letter to each bale to spell out “Natalie, will u marry me?” Then he added bales that had boxes she could mark “Y”or “N”. When he took her (blindfolded) to see them, he had a can of spray paint ready for her to check her answer. It was “Y”.  See more pictures in this gallery.

Michael Weiss-Malik works for Google. They don’t normally announce when the Street View vehicles will be out, but they did once to allow people to line up and get their pictures taken. Matt took advantage of this to “upgrade” his recent proposal to Leslie. She had already said yes, but th