The Most Over-The-Top Marriage Proposals Ever

Romantic movies are the best. My favorite part is when the guy realizes he's madly in love with the girl and does some huge romantic gesture to sweep her off her feet. But you know what's even better? When a guy makes a truly thoughtful, creative, and loving romantic gesture in real life. That's what these men did when they proposed to the women they loved. Each of these over the top proposals took a lot of time, energy, and care. And watching them is like getting to see the end of a romantic movie that actually happened.

Kornelius Bascombe, a television producer in Los Angeles, planned his proposal for months. His girlfriend, model Rachel Jordan, thought they were going up to the rooftop of a bank for a photo shoot. Little did she know it was actually a marriage proposal. In the beginning of the video, he told the audience all about the setup—how he contacted a photographer who then reached out to Jordan to set up the fake photoshoot for the proposal. "Today's the day, we about to get real, we about to pop that question!" he told the audience.

When he brought Jordan up to the rooftop, there was a helicopter setup for the "photo shoot." The two sat in it together, and then Jordan stood in front of Bascombe, holding red rose petals in both hands. As she spun and opened her hands, for what she thought was the photo shoot, the rose petals whirled into the sky, and she found Bascombe kneeling with an engagement ring. She gasped with emotion. After a heartfelt proposal, she said yes.

"I didn't sleep at all," Bascombe told ABC News. "She had no idea why I was stressing out the night before. I was just telling her it's because of work." Jordan was super impressed and told ABC News, "What he pulled off for the proposal amazes me and I think I'm still in shock. But the great thing about him is [that] he shows me that level of love everyday. He makes me a very lucky woman."

Dave's flash mob proposal required a film team, dancers, and actors. In the description to the video on YouTube, Crisanto, the proposal "producer," shared that over 100 phone calls and emails were sent to make the proposal a reality. They even stationed "undercover members made from Dave's supportive networks" throughout the area to participate in the lead up to the proposal, including a couple who mentioned that they lived in Dave and his girlfriend's favorite vacation spot and a club promoter who encouraged the couple to go to Times Square to dance.

The flash mob kicked off with Dave breakdancing in the middle of the circle. He was then joined by a large group of dancers. His girlfriend looked on, smiling, but looking a bit confused. After a few minutes, someone handed her an earpiece. Dave said, "Don't freak out. It's me. Give a thumbs up if you can hear me." After she gave him the go ahead, he went on to tell her how much he loved the three years they had been together.

He finished by saying, "Three years, and we haven't gotten sick of each other. I hope you're ready to grow that number, because I have a big question for you." Right then, the dancers held up letters reading "Will you marry me?" Then Dave got down on one knee and asked, "Do you want to be with me forever?" She answered,"Yes I do!" 

When Melissa Dohme told her high school boyfriend that she was leaving him to attend college, he pulled out a knife and stabbed her 32 times. One of the first responders, firefighter EMT Cameron Hill, told Inside Edition, "Nobody lives that gets stabbed that many times." Dohme thought she would never date again. She told People,  "I didn't even want to open my heart up to anything. I was afraid, but then I met Cameron."

The two reconnected ten months later at a luncheon in Dohme's honor. They began dating and fell in love. Four years after that, Hill planned an unforgettable proposal for Dohme. He told her she had been chosen to throw the first pitch at a Tampa Bay Rays baseball game because of her story, but it was really a setup for a marriage proposal.

Hill wrote "Will you marry me" on the baseball and jogged out to give it to her so she could throw the first pitch. When Dohme looked down at the baseball, she gasped. He knelt in front of her, and to the roar of the crowd, asked, "Melissa, will you marry me?" Her answer was,"Oh my god, yes!" As they hugged, the announcer said, "Ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it for Melissa and Cameron!"

It took Dean Smith an entire year to make his video proposal for his girlfriend, Jennifer Kessel. Every single day of that year, he recorded himself with various signs bearing the date and messages like "I love you so much!" "Marry me, Jennifer?" and "Make me the happiest man on earth!"

"I knew that Jennifer was a fan of proposal videos on YouTube and would tear up at the sincerity and thoughtfulness of each proposal," Smith told The Huffington Post. "She showed several of them to me, and I decided that I wanted to make her tear up to her own proposal." When the couple was in Aruba with Kessel's family for her birthday, Smith arranged for her family members to lead her down to the beach, where she watched the video on a phone, facing away from the ocean. The video ended with the words  "Turn around." When Kessel faced the water, she saw Smith there, waiting to propose in person.

"The thoughtfulness that went into making this video is truly beyond any words that I have," Kessel told The Huffington Post. "When I turned around and saw Dean standing in front of me, we both broke down in tears."

Tyson Henderson, a videographer who has made hundreds of proposal videos, wanted to do something special for his proposal to his girlfriend, Hayley. He decided to sing "Hey Pretty Girl" by Kip Moore and taught himself how to play it by watching YouTube videos. But he didn't know when he would sing it to her. Then he got a brilliant idea. He asked mom to suggest that Hayley set up a surprise birthday party for him. Unbeknownst to her, she was actually planning her own surprise engagement!

At the party, Tyson and his mom told Hayley that they were going to play Pin the Tail on the Donkey and then they blindfolded her. With her blindfold still on, Tyson began singing. She pulled it off, sank down into a chair, and watched him sing, her eyes tearing up.

Tyson then got down on one knee and proposed. Afterward, he revealed that all the people she had invited to his "surprise" party knew what the real surprise was. Luckily, she was so happy she didn't mind being tricked.

Jeremy wanted to propose to his girlfriend Kelli in a way that she would love. Because he knew that she loved Christmas, he chose to propose at an outdoor mall in Provo, Utah, which was beautifully lit up for Christmas. He reached out to Hema Jr., the singer of Kelli's favorite song, "Hey, Brown Eyes" and asked if he would serenade Kelli. Hema said, "It was so gutsy of him to just ask that I was like, 'Yeah, for sure, let's do it.'"

Jeremy told Kelli they were meeting at a restaurant to have dinner with a few other couples. When Kelli got to the mall, she told her friends she wanted to get in out of the cold, but they convinced her to stay and listen to the music. When Hema Jr. said, "This song goes out to all of the brown eyed people out there," she realized who he was. "My heart just dropped, and it was pounding," she said. "I've been listening to that song since I was 15 and I found it from some guy on YouTube, so nobody plays that song."

Jeremy came out with roses, then brought Kelli up to the stage, where he proposed. Kelli wrote in How He Asked, "I pretty much just fell into his arms being completely overwhelmed with how happy, surprised, and excited I was to be in that moment."