Why do some people propose in public?
Why do some people propose in public? By Mark Bosworth BBC World Service Jimmy Hill's very public proposal to Josie Stanford A wedding proposal is the most intimate of occasions - so why are a growing number of people proposing in public? The traditional wedding proposal was a low-key sort of thing. One might think of something in a restaurant or a peaceful garden. When it was in public, any bystanders might have been completely oblivious. But now a slew of YouTube videos are testament to a wave of ever more elaborate and often very public proposals. You can see compilations of proposals at baseball and basketball stadiums in the US. Some unkind souls have even gathered together the most notable refusals. And the flashmob wedding proposal - a craze which may have begun in the US in 2009 - is increasingly popular in the UK. In November 2011, a marria