The $250,000 Wedding Proposal Was Fake
Posted by Stephen on
June 6, 2007
Well shiver me timbers! I woke up this morning and checked my morning newspaper to see an article posted in the Taiwan News talking about the marriage proposal on the side of the Taipei 101. It turns out that the proposal was fake, but the service is real.
The Taipei 101 was running a promotion to introduce the service to the truly wealthy romantics out there. The price is even higher than I first reported. According to the paper, the cost is NT$10 million, which is around $312,500 US Dollars. Not that it’s much worse than $250,000 US. If you’re going to spend $250K, what’s another $62,500?
Since the message is now down, I guess that means that it is $312,500 US Dollars for a day. OUCH!
So now if someone decides to do it, it will completely lack originality, making it a total waste of money and a laughable way to propose marriage…
So, ideally, I should be buying my wedding proposal on a building now, thanks to the stupidly strong Pound. Then again, I still need to be in the mood to marry someone. And to have a girlfriend. …I’m gonna go cry now…
Maybe you could put a request for a girlfriend on the BT tower in London
Viral marketing at its best. Only cost you $300K to get turned down…
Seriously, how many people can actually afford that?
All they need is for one sucker to do it and they got their overhead covered for a year.
The message wasn’t fake . . . she said no
Whoever actually does that now will be totally lame. It’s like the first person to propose using the scoreboard at a sporting event…that was probably pretty cool but now it’s cliche.
Man, I really lucked out as I went completely cheap on my proposal to my wife as I packed a picnic and took her to a park that we went to on one of our first dates. She said yes and I saved myself $312,475 in the process!