Oh, young, modern love! Nowadays, the promise of happily ever after comes with not only the traditional engagement ring, but also sometimes a hot, ultracool, must-have device that may survive longer than most marriages. In this case, an iPad 2. The free engraving that comes with a new mobile Apple device can be tailor made to just about anything, and one man used it as a way to propose marriage.
In the story he shared with 9to5Mac, the enterprising young man stayed up all night to order the iPad with the inscription "Will You Marry Me?" He received it yesterday and took his girlfriend to the National Redwood Forrest in northern California. He crossed a river — on a downed Redwood, no less — and braved the rainy season's on again, off again drops to find "the largest tree in the world" (at least in his eyes, since the Sequoias weren't anywhere around) and got on one knee to make the proposal.
No surprise: his girlfriend said "YES!" Then: "Now give me my iPad!"
We know her only as Jessica and we can only imagine her delight in wasting no time downloading Angry Birds and immediately beginning play on it or one of many apps on the iPad 2, while her smitten suitor, known only as Jordan C., beamed in satisfaction nearby. Well played, sir.
Perhaps Jordan C. found inspiration in other marriage proposal engravers, such as JD Andrews, who in 2005 engraved a black 4GB Nano with the words that make women everywhere swoon: "Will you marry me?" (She said yes, but the sizeable rock might have been persuasive, too!)
Andrews points out the technique is not without risk: "It would have been a shame if there was a mix up and she got the one that read 'congrats crazy Jim on the big 5-0.'"
Or perhaps Jordan C. wanted to one-up Zach Iniguez, whose story TechCrunch shared last year. Iniquez used his iPad as a lead-up to the proposal, with a slideshow he made for his girlfriend they watched together on the same bench they'd met years earlier, ending with that familiar phrase (strange how there's never any variation!).
In no time, I'm sure we'll see a FaceTime proposal.
More stories on creative ways to happily ever after:
- Marriage proposal video too good to be true?
- The universal language of love: cell phone proposal
- One man's iPhone proposal - here's hopin' Apple won't sue
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