"Love is a rock" proposal is an antidote to every overblown marriage proposal
By Brian FairbanksOctober 5th, 2010, 10:23 amComments (16)
What do you all think of this marriage proposal, which popped up on the internet recently and was named the Best Article of the Day by, well, The Best Article of the Day website? Love Is A Rock, as it's been dubbed (not to be confused with Rock of Love, which has absolutely nothing to do with "love"), is a deceptively simple marriage proposal, but we noticed a few unusual elements:
1. The rock concept. It's kind of a cliche, isn't it? Of course, you can look at it another way, that using a cliche shows the intended recipient of this letter that you are not forcing out brilliance, you are simply telling it like it is, in simple, unpretentious language that shows how in love you truly are.
2. It's a gimmick, perhaps, but it's a gimmick that's the complete opposite of all those over-the-top marriage proposals, like the synchronized dance party in Greenwich Village and other viral videos. As simple and strange as this is, we love it for its comparative straightforwardness.
3. It's handwritten! We've never heard of a marriage proposal being put in print before, but there must be a certain kind of woman who would absolutely swoon over this.
What do you think? Is this a terrible idea or a brilliant change of pace?
Commentarium (16 Comments)
It would have been better if the rock at the top of the letter had been crudely taped on the engagement ring instead of the diamond.
If a dude wrote that, he's got some awfully feminine penmanship.
I was thinking the same thing tkm. It could be a lesbian proposal. Also, i'll take this over that endless iPhone proposal in the movie theater that that dude who looks like a cross between Lance Bass and Chris Elliot tortured us with for his Vietnamese girlfriend.
Looks to me like just another ad for blood diamonds.
What woman would have actually read the whole thing is my question. "Ooh! A diamond! Pretty!"
I, sir, challenge your statement that diamonds are weak. Under no circumstances can I envision weakness in the face-centered cubical crystalline carbon allotrope, short of absolute zero in which matters love and marriage are secondary to the torn continuum of matter and existence.
Where does it say that diamonds are weak? I thought he was talking about love? Luckily, absolute zero is pretty much impossible, according to the laws of thermodynamics. Poets don't seem to be deterred by those laws though, stars falling from the sky and so forth.
he said rocks were weak. Diamonds are a rock, but so is sandstone. Surely the point is there is a variation in rock hardness depending on the rock.
He didn't write rocks were weak. He wrote love can be weak, using the rock as a metaphor for love. My original point was to correct 88 on his challenging the statement that diamonds were weak, when the author of the letter never wrote such a thing, he was referring to the idea of love and it's fickle nature. Even if the properties of love are synonymous with those of a rock, he wasn't specifically stating that a diamond is weak, he was just conveying the idea that a rock can be weak, which I don't necessarily agree with either, unless you're looking at it in the context of David hurling a single rock at Goliath, in which case the single rock would be pretty weak in it's effect, it would require many rocks to do real damage, which can be a metaphor in itself for how you might want to confront Godzilla, or any other inordinately large monster that may be rampaging through your city. But that would be a last resort for me, I would try to kill them with kindness first. Obviously there are variations in rock hardness depending on the rock. But I don't think that's the point. I think the point was that he was trying to convey to his fiancee how solid his love was for her, just like a rock, or a Chevy truck. Yes, it was cheesy, but cheesiness gets a pass when heartfelt sentiment is behind it, at least most of the time. But did he just leave that note flat on a table, so she could just walk in and discover it? If that's how it went down, I can't really give him props for that, especially if he owned a cat, or a dog, where the animal could just snatch the ring and go hide it, or even worse, drop it down a drain of some kind. Maybe i'm just being paranoid, but I would have had it presented in a fancy box with a red bow at an expensive restaurant after the entrees were finished. I wish them well though.
This is an antidote to every overblown proposal? I thought "hey, wanna get married?" would be an antidote. This is kind of overblown.
You think this is kind of overblown? I don't think so, and I don't think Kai Abraham does either, and he's from Hawaii.
I think I would probably say yes if I found this on my desk. Even better: he drew the ring on the bottom and came in and gave it to me in person.
hello, bearman33, quite a response. 1) ok, ok. i was sold after about the 20th word, no further needed 2) dude writes like a lady. 3) i'm drunk right now. 4) congratulations newly engaged couple!
I'm not particularly comfortable judging other people's proposals (even though I clearly have done so, here), but I hope he was at least in the room when she read it. Still, I'd want to hear it in his own voice. The fact that he wrote it down (oh hush about the penmanship; this is almost certainly not his *usual* handwriting anyway, this is his lettering a comic book handwriting), and photographed it, makes me wonder if it's internet bait. "I want to propose and say some lovely things, but how will Facebook know how awesome it was – i.e. how can it possibly MATTER – if I don't write it down, photograph it and then post it everywhere?" Yeah, I take back that first thing I said; apparently I'm pretty comfortable judging other people's wedding proposals.
Feminine penmanship?? My guy's handwriting is FAR better than my own...as a matter of fact it looks quite similar to that in the letter...makes me wonder?? lol
This would have been cute if she was a geologist.