Awwww

I've often said, usually to much objection from men I know, that the best way I can think of to be proposed to would be at a Red Sox game or FSU football game via either a Jumbotron proposal or a plane toting a message flying overhead. I know it seems cheesy, but I can't think of a more romantic way to let me know that you understand the things I enjoy most than popping the question at one of my favorite places during one of my favorite activities. At least it would be better than the one proposal I've gotten to date, which was in my kitchen. Not very romantic at all.

So you can imagine that this story, about a man who convinced the Boston Globe to write a special marriage proposal crossword puzzle and publish it in the paper, so that he could do the puzzle with his girlfriend and use it as a springboard to the proposal, warmed the cockles of my otherwise cold heart. It's so sweet to see a man really put in the effort to make a proposal special and something that they'll both happily remember and recount for the rest of their lives.