Earlier this week, a Russian businessman decided he'd make sure his girlfriend knew exactly what "till death do us part" meant. Alexey Bykov enlisted the aid of a stuntman, a makeup artist, a screenwriter, and a director to fake his bloody death in a gruesome car wreck. When all the carnage was set, he laid down and played dead until his beloved arrived at the "accident" scene. When she saw his "corpse" and burst into tears, he miraculously rose from the dead and popped the question — incredibly, she said yes after threatening to kill him for real. According to Katie J.M. Baker at Jezebel, Bykov was trying to show his would-be bride "how empty her life would be without me and how life would have no meaning without me." How romantic and not at all manipulative!
The YouTube era has provoked a boom market for meticulously-scripted public wedding proposals, which have sometimes earned their starring fiances national media attention, talk-show appearances, and view counts in the tens of millions. Though Bykov didn't tape his proposal, plenty of his predecessors have. Here, 8 more strategically attention-getting public wedding proposals:
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