Shine OnWashington Bus gay marriage proposal goes viral
When Alissa Haslam accused her girlfriend, Jeanne Sickel Sterbentz, of being unromantic, Sterbentz retaliated -- but in the sweetest way possible.
The next day, Sterbentz gathered a live band and 60 of the couple's loved ones and climbed on top of a bus outside of Haslam's office. When her girlfriend approached the window, Sterbentz pulled out a series of sweet, often-funny signs that culminated with a marriage proposal.
"Just the night before, we were talking about romance and I pretty much told her she wasn't romantic. I am eating crow... and will be for a long time," Haslam writes on YouTube.
The proposal, which took place July 30, was especially significant given Haslam's profession, a board member for Washington Bus, a nonprofit youth organization for hands-on democracy that helped pass Referendum 74, which legalized gay marriage in Washington State.
In fact, it was the actual Washington bus that Sterbentz was standing on when she popped the question.
The moving Washington Bus proposal is the second gay-marriage proposal video to go viral this fall. Watch a sweet Home Depot flash-mob proposal here.
