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Man's 30-Foot Sand Art Wedding Proposal Puts Regular Guys To Shame

The old ring-dropped-in-a-champagne-glass proposal trick? Not for this guy.

U.K.-based creative plumber Mike Wakefield just bumped the creative proposal game up a notch by decorating a beach in Newquay in Cornwall with this gigantic artistic proposal. The drawing – along with the magic phrase “will you marry me?” – took about two hours to complete with a rake.

(Mike Wakefield’s artistic proposal spanned a massive 30-by-15 feet on a beach in Newquay, England. Credit: Mike Wakefield/Instagram)

Said Wakefield via an Instagram post, “It’s not every day you get to ask the woman you #love to marry you. I had to do something special for sure!”

“We are both big beach-lovers so I could think of no better place to propose,” he told told England’s Western Morning News. “The hardest part was the timing as I had to work with the tides, work shifts and the weather to try to get everything matched up.”

Wakefield said it was the first time he had ever attempted sand art, saying, "I just made up each bit as I went along with sun beams, tentacles and spirals etc.”

Wakefield’s long-time girlfriend India Stevens, a nurse, described the proposal as "a massive surprise.”

Stevens’ parents – in cahoots with Wakefield’s plan – strolled with her down to the beach on the pretense of walking to her mother’s doctor’s office. Says Stevens, "we did not even get to the beach when I saw Mike, who was supposed to be at work. I then looked at the sand and saw the proposal and asked Mike if he had done it. He is really creative so I knew it was him.”

Wakefield then got down on one knee and popped the question officially.

Stevens said yes. And fittingly, even wrote her answer in the sand.



(Bride-to-be India Stevens flashes her engagement ring, overlooking her new fiancé’s sand art. Credit: BBC Radio/Cornwall)

Wakefield’s artistic proposal only lasted about six hours before the tide washed it away, but this couple isn’t yet done with the beach.

"We are definitely going to have a beach wedding,” Stevens said.

Congrats to the newly engaged couple, Mike Wakefield and India Stevens. Credit: BBC Radio/Cornwall)