Wedding Proposals Gone Wrong (VIDEO)

It's summer, the time for weddings! A few of my friends are getting married this summer and fall, so lately I've been thinking about this time-honored tradition. However, it wasn't until I ran across this compilation on Buzzfeed that I realized the plan does not always go perfectly, the ending is not always happy. So, for those of you thinking about popping the big question, I urge you to check out the videos below, which chronicle the terrible moments when that huge decision you've made turns out to be poorly planned or the wrong decision entirely. Make sure you don't up like these poor souls.

WATCH: (more videos here.)

Man proposes on live TV and does not receive the response he's looking for.

This is not the player's fault; this reporter is just an idiot.

This one had such potential! Alas.

The silence at the end of this is almost too painful.

I don't want to totally bring you down, so let's end on one that's just a huge success.

Comments

[Algrokos]

the last one looks so fake, like a soap opera. and she looks FREAKED out.

[DRaymond]

Ok everyone, time for some real world rules

Real world rule 1. In the real world, unlike movies or television, a proposal should not be a moment of suspense. If you aren't completely sure of your relationship with her, and her relationship with you, and have already discussed your feelings about making a long term committment, then you have no business at all proposing.

Real world rule 2; The purpose of a proposal is not to make a great YouTube video. It is an important moment between the two of you, just the two of you. Staging it for a big crowd only displays your own insecurity in needing to bring on additional pressure and insensitivity to her feelings by applying such pressure to her.

Real world rule 3: If your guy has ignored rules 1 and 2 and gone ahead with a surprize public high profile proposal go ahead and say yes and then privately break it off with him. You will most likely wind up dumping him completely, but if he ignored rules 1 and 2 it may not be a very promising situation anyhow.

[KriTiKiT]

he's just going to cheat and get divorced

[ddanimal]

Complete certainty is never possible in a relationship.

rule #2 is absolutely correct.

rule #3 is good advice also.

[LesleMora]

Ooooh, I just can't bring myself to watch the poor saps.

[ohpleaseno]

FAKE. Move along, nothing to see here...

[sweetwhine]

I often wonder why men propose in public places like this.

Do they feel they have a better chance of getting a "yes"?

[jonez]

I remember the football proposal, the guy even received racist mail, and threats for proposing to a white girl. . The other ones look fake.

[WalterNeff]

The Disney thing is a promotional viral video - it's not a real proposal.

[el dude00]

"Is there a 'Mike' in the audience?"...and then the camera IMMEDIATELY goes to Mike and Mike IMMEDIATELY answers. And then when he asks her, both he and she do not seem natural at all." -tkondaks

Believe it or not, I'm the dude who is on the keyboard from the first link. It was a Valentines Day episode of our wildly popular but now defunct talk show. We went to commercial with me saying "awkward" because it was. Still is really.

When you are doing a live show, you have to seat people on the show accordingly. We knew that he wanted to do something special. But we had no idea what it was, and how it would all go. I'm not aware of a "natural" way that rejections are supposed to go. Perhaps the taped version seems fake, but if you were there it was a kick to the teeth.

[joncushman]

They all fakes except for the Boise State football/cheerleader.

[peterg76]

Possibly faked, but these things do happen. I give the men in real life credit for taking the risks.

[HekmabaJuzimax]

ProposalsGoneWrong.com: Come for the proposal, stay for the fraud.

[ThinkTavern]

The first one, I felt a little bad for the guy, but come on. Proposing after just a few months??
That's quite immature. Not even enough time to have rough patches or arguments and see how you resolve them as a couple. Not long enough to know that you are compatible for life. And public proposals are tacky.

[JoeGdr]

Agreed. It was probably less painful having to go through that (self-inflicted) public embarrassment than it would have been to have to call off the relationship after just a few months or years of a difficult and unhappy marriage.

Marriage is stupid anyway, though. Statisically, half of these marriages would not have even lasted.

[tbone99]

A man who would embaress a woman in front of a crowd is a man who deserves a NO WAY These guys are more involved with wanting to be celebrities than wanting to relate to their GFs

[CherrySpring]

I agree. Especially the Disney one. It was more about him than his girlfriend. He wanted to put on a show, not sweep her off her feet. Their entire marriage will be like that, his narcissistic need for attention, and her standing back watching it thinking "why didn't I just say 'no' from the start?"

[Danind]

That's not the sad part. The sad part is that this boy is obviously gay.

[vinainor]

That is so true! But they are also overconfident that the woman will say yes or else they would have considered the embarrassing consequences to themselves too. Their insensitivity to the realistic possibilities and myopic concern for being the center of attention in a public situation suggests that they are narcissists and women who say no to them are saying no to a life of serving a narcissist. Smart move!

[latinopride]

typical feminist remark

[LeftLeanWing]

The Disney Proposal was a ShowStopper -

But what if she said 'No' ......

Would the song have changed to a WHAA WHaa Whaa whaaaaaaaaaa ?

[Rutrow]

Of course they're set ups. It's the same girl in #1 & #4. These are jewelry store ads. Don't be a dupe!

[Tom Allen]

No it's not. And, these aren't anything like jewellery store ads. Yes, they're flashy and overconfident, but I have no doubt they're real. Besides, if they were ads they'd have some kind of corporate logo in there.

[defdes]

Really Tom? Guess you are not a big student of human behavior. They are all fake except the fox news, and all REALLY bad actors.