Perfect Proposals Online

Our wedding proposal consultancy was featured on Jessica Soho Reports, a multi-awarded investigative journalism/lifestyle television program on GMA-7, last Saturday. I believe they did a feature on one of our wedding proposal clients, and talked to us briefly about what we do. Which is wedding proposal consultancy in the Philippines.
I say “I believe” because I missed it. Hahahaha! Isn’t that funny?  Great promotional opportunity on television, and where was I? In my bedroom taking care of Nicki, my eight-month-old. Time flew by and before I knew it, I was getting calls and text messages from interested parties and friends.

Then I did a Homer Simpson - slap on the head with matching D-OH! - and realized daddyhood had once again ruled over self-promotion. But I don’t regret it one bit.

At any rate, welcome, all you interested future fiances and fiancees. If you’d like a wedding proposal to remember, give us a call and let us deliver the Yes for you.

In the mood for a stunt? Propose to someone who you have no chance in hell at all of marrying.

Mexican TV reporter Ines Gomez Mont, who reports for Mexican television show TV Azteca, was politely jilted by New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who is currently dating supermodel Giselle Bundchen (more popularly known as the former love of actor Leonardo DiCaprio).

Wearing a short white wedding dress, veil and red pumps, the reporter blurted out “Marry me.”

“I have a few Mrs. Bradys in my life,” he answered promptly.

“He is very gorgeous,” Gomez Mont said afterwards, “I know Gisele is very gorgeous.”

Videotape your wedding proposal, upload it on YouTube, and get a chance to win a wedding package, an engagement ring, and two airline tickets. The wedding proposal contest, sponsored by 1-800-Flowers.com, has more information here.

If you’d like to take a tip from some American celebrities, here’s a website that has put together some creative wedding proposals. Go check it out.

A 19-year-old Asian maid has been thrown in jail for seven days after her Bahraini employer learned she had let her 30-year-old Indian suitor into the house to propose. While the maid was a ‘good worker,’ she seemed to have overlooked the fact it wasn’t her home.

Meanwhile, we suggest her Indian fiance loosen his purse strings and offer his wedding proposal somewhere else, hm?

Educated women in India who go ahead with a marriage proposal despite dowry demands from their future in-laws will be prosecuted.

Boy, that just puts our ting-hun in perspective, doesn’t it?

We apologize for the more than year-long delay in the publication of Perfect Proposals: Popping the Question the Pinoy Way. The wedding proposal industry in the Philippines continues to evolve and grow, and we, as innovators in this industry, need to keep on our toes and make sure the fruits of our labor will meet the exacting standards of men out there interested in giving their women the best wedding proposal they can have.

We’ve spent the past few months adding on to the book, adding more wedding proposal ideas (more than 100 now!), as well as streamlining the questions in the ‘Are You Ready’ chapters to make sure you know what you’re getting into.

Our target date for launch in sometime 2007. At least two publishing houses have been kind enough to wait for the revised product before placing their bids for this book, so we’re very optimistic we can get Perfect Proposals: Popping the Question the Pinoy Way out in bookstores and elsewhere before the end of the year.

Take a tip from this Colorado soldier who dressed up as a knight in shining armor, complete with horse and tights.

Perfect Proposals Online is in the running for a Philippine Blog Award in the Home and Living category. Cathy and I are honored and touched. Thank you, whoever you are out there who nominated us, thank you.

The Home and Living category, based on the websites we’ve seen there, deal with health, family, food, and lifestyle, we think. I’m not sure if it’d be more appropriate to pop us in with the Business/Entrepreneurs or the Fashion/Lifestyle, but at this point in time, we’re just plain tickled. Thank you!

Anyway, do visit the official website of the Philippine Blog Awards, and check out some really great blogs today.

This creative gentleman in Roanoke, Virginia, won a contest from a newspaper and got to splash his proposal all over the front page of the Roanoke Times. His girlfriend said yes, but the first persons to hear her were the clerks at a local DeliMart where she bought a newspaper (after getting a call from a co-worker who tipped her off).

Placing a wedding proposal in a newspaper is fun, relatively creative, and a very good attention-getter. Just make sure your girlfriend actually reads the paper.