{"id":250,"date":"2014-02-10T10:44:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T23:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airtasker.com\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2019-07-25T17:21:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T06:21:05","slug":"the-wedding-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airtasker.com\/blog\/the-wedding-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wedding Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.airtasker.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Community_proposal_02.jpg\" alt=\"Community_proposal_02\" width=\"700\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/airtasker-seo-wordpress-blog-assets-prod.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/24065742\/Community_proposal_02.jpg 700w, https:\/\/airtasker-seo-wordpress-blog-assets-prod.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/24065742\/Community_proposal_02-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Traditional wedding proposals like finding a ring at the bottom of a champagne flute or getting down on one knee after hosting a picnic under the stars are cute and some would say \u201cold-school romantic\u201d but as times change, creative guys (and girls) have started coming up with more and more unique and quirky proposals \u2013 sometimes involving family, friends and even hired help to make that big moment as special and memorable as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Airtasker community member Roman Navarro was one such \u201cprogressive\u201d suitor who wanted to make his marriage proposal a day that his better half, Leah, would never forget.<\/p>\n<p>After concocting a grand plan with inspiration from a variety of aides (including his mother\u2019s advice), Roman jumped on Airtasker and posted tasks to hire three awesome Airtaskers \u2013 Jules, Ria and Cristina to \u201crandomly\u201d walk past his girlfriend Leah as she made her way home after work to Circular Quay in the Sydney CBD. As per Roman\u2019s specific task instructions, each Airtasker had to bump into Leah wearing a tee shirt printed with one word each:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.airtasker.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_5445.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5445\" width=\"700\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/airtasker-seo-wordpress-blog-assets-prod.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/24065742\/IMG_5445.jpg 700w, https:\/\/airtasker-seo-wordpress-blog-assets-prod.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/24065742\/IMG_5445-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1. Will\u2026<br \/>\n2. You\u2026<br \/>\n3. Marry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As Leah\u2019s confusion increased with each \u201cbump\u201d along the way to Ferry Wharf 4 (the very place where Roman and Leah first met after meeting each other online), Roman was there waiting dressed in his own tee shirt simply saying:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.airtasker.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_5457.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5457\" width=\"699\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/airtasker-seo-wordpress-blog-assets-prod.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/24065742\/IMG_5457.jpg 699w, https:\/\/airtasker-seo-wordpress-blog-assets-prod.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/24065742\/IMG_5457-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Me?<\/p>\n<p>Getting down on one knee, Roman pulled out the ring and had Leah beaming with excitement, surrounded by a crowd of excited onlookers, impressed with the effort, style and creativity of Roman\u2019s proposal. 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Check out our <a title=\"Top 10 tasks of 2013 here\" href=\"https:\/\/www.airtasker.com\/top-10-tasks-in-2013\/\">Top 10 tasks of 2013 here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional wedding proposals like finding a ring at the bottom of a champagne flute or getting down on one knee &hellip; Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Wedding Proposal&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"language":["en-AU"],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Wedding Proposal | Airtasker 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