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Bonneville Seattle is raising funds for the construction of a second Fisher House at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma and we need your help.An intimate proposal caught on camera
August 3, 2012 @ 7:38 pm (Updated: 10:20 am - 8/6/12 )
In an era of high-production staged marriage proposals, an intimate and seemingly private moment of love captured on camera is taking the web by storm.
In the candid photos, a photographer just happened to stumble upon the moment when a young man simply got down on one knee and popped the question.
It happened last week in Austin when photographer Patrick Lu was out for a late night bike ride with camera in tow, in case inspiration struck.
He didn't want to ruin the moment, so he posted the pictures on Reddit the following day in hopes of finding the couple. By luck or fate, friends saw the post and sent a note to groom-to-be Joel Bush. He took a look, tracked down the photographer and they traded notes. At first he was a bit dubious.
"It's a very cryptic email it just says 'Is this you'?" Bush says in an interview with David Boze and Shawn Stewart, filling in for the John Curley Show.
>Interview: The private proposal tweeted around the world
"It was so cryptic that I almost didn't download the image because often that seems suspicious it seems like spam. But thankfully I did," Bush says.
His future bride Jen Orr (she said yes) is thankful as well. The former Seattle resident and friend of Stewart's says the proposal was completely unexpected.
"To be completely honest I was thinking I was just in running shorts and flip flops and it was late and was a little confused about why we needed to go for a walk right that moment."
You can see from the pictures she's caught off guard and the moment is truly spontaneous, as opposed to the scores of staged proposals that are a staple of YouTube and the rest of the web. But she doesn't understand why their moment has become such a sensation.
"It's such a sweet story and it's important to us but it just amazes me how complete strangers unattached to Joel or I or the photographer Patrick have taken to the image it's a beautiful image though and I can see why people would enjoy it," she says.
Read about it here.
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SeattleD wrote...A private momentAugust 3, 2012 7:17 pm{ "Thumbs Up":"1","Thumbs Down":"-1" }- Reply
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