Marriage Proposals: Geek Style!
Why get down on one knee in the location of your first date when you can make history? Here are some folks who popped the question in true geek style.
At Geek Events
- Neil Gaiman helps fan propose to girlfriend through book inscription - When signing the book, he wrote: “P.S. Will you marry Jason?” Too cute. There’s even a video if you want to see the plan in action.
In a Video Game
- Bejeweled Game Proposal - This guy programmed a version of his girlfriend’s favorite game, Bejeweled, for the DS. When she got to a certain score, a ring appeared with a message - “Marry Me?“
- Viva Pinata Proposal - Another cute video game themed proposal.
- Halo 3 Engagement - Nothing says love like “Marry Me?” written out in guns.
- Super Smash Bros. - Another hacked video game!
Mac Geeks
- Custom Engraved iPod - This guy had a shiny black Nano engraved with his proposal message. My favorite part of this is his headline: “rings you can return but an iPod is forever!“
- Time-Lapse Movie Outside Apple - Apple had a time lapse video of outside their Fifth Avenue store in NYC. This guy stood out there with his signs and got his proposal on Apple’s website. Mac geeks are pretty die-hard. Video goodness at the link page.
- Fake iPhone commercial - Wow. Mac Geeks are hardcore.
On the Big Bad Intertubes
- Proposal by Search Engine - Ask Jeeves and he just might let you in on the story.
- On Slashdot! - CmdrTaco proposes in front of a quarter million strangers.
- Twitter Engagement - Ok, I would honestly kill my boyfriend if he proposed over the internet. Yes, we’re in a long distance relationship. But seriously, some things should be done in person!
- Stuff on My Cat - This was probably the cutest proposal ever. Nothing says love like a ring on a fat cat.
- A Jedi Proposes - Wow. Just wow. The picture says it all:
By Getting All Your Geek Friends To Help…. PRICELESS!
- The League of Extraordinary Web Comic Artists! - This one is pretty dang cool… and contains the work of Ursula Vernon, Scott Kurtz, Greg Holkan, David Willis, Rich Burlew, Peter Venables, Josh Lesnick, Chris Crosby, Howard Tayler, Kristofer Straub, Frank “Damonk” Cormier, Brad Guigar, Darren “Gav” Bleuel, Jon Rosenberg, Shaenon Garrity, Meaghan Quinn, and Randy Milholland.
Married geeks… how did YOU propose?
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Wow…sure give me some ideas!!
err…not that me and my GF are up to that point(sweats) but I always thought the hole “geting on one knee” things is WAY over don.
This are great and even a hard core sarcastic person like me cant help but say…”ahhh…thats so romantic”.
I had heard about the Neil Gaiman one, and it struck me as totally awesome that he would help out like that. A marriage proposal is something that should definitely have a lot of meaning and bring a smile every time it is remembered. I’m sad to see the stuff on my cat idea taken, well I guess I can scratch that one off the list of potential ideas.
I proposed to my wife when we came out of a screening of Empire Strikes Back a bit before Phantom Menace came out.
I stopped at a jewelry store with her and I asked her if she’d like a gold ring into which you could put different colored inserts in it.
When I bought it and gave it to her, I asked her to marry me, on the spot.
I didn’t take the geek approach in my proposal. About the only geek activity I ever got my wife to participate in where a few MTG games when we first started dating. That dwindled away as I got involved in competitive tournaments. It might have been a neat idea to create a “Marry Me?” MTG card, ask her to play and “draw” it from my deck to show her (putting it in her deck might not guarantee it got played).
The actual proposal was classic romance. I had written a poem for my-then-girlfriend as an anniversary present. The poem was a 3 verse summary of how we met and our time as a long-distance couple (she moved a couple hours away to finish school a month after we started dating). I had a planned fourth verse that would be the proposal.
We took a trip a couple months later to the Ashland Shakespeare festival. I bought the ring ahead of time and decided to propose to her before the play in a park that was near the outdoor theater. I had her sit on a bench while I got down on my knee, read the poem with the fourth verse and presented the ring.
As a funny aside, she almost ruined the surprise when we first arrived at the park. I had tossed my jacket–with the ring box in the pocket–in the backseat of the car. She grabbed it for me as we got out, and felt the box. She would not stop asking me what was in my jacket as we walked down to the park. She even tried to make a grab for the box a couple times.
Awwww, this is all so warm and fuzzy.
John,
Stuff on My Cat may be taken, but what about I Can Has Cheezburger? Picture of you with a ring with the caption:
I CAN HAS UR HAND IN MAWWIGE?
while my engagement didn’t have a “geek” flair, my wedding sure did, My wife and I got maried at the renaissance festival here in Michigan. There is nothing more romantic then saying “I do” with swords and plate clashing together in the jousting event going on in the back ground
Not to mention, later one of my inlaws had my “arrested” and put in town jail, where I had to sing and dance my way out, took forever, as I can not do either very well, and least not sober 