The Globe & Mail is a nationally distributed newspaper in Canada and we are so honored that they have chosen to feature The Heart Bandits! The article today is titled “Popping the Question, with a little help from my Proposal Planner”. If you need help with your Engagement Planning, contact us right away. Check out our article below.
For Terence Yao and Emily Chan of Richmond, B.C., the ticket was burgers in the Hollywood Hills. Ahead of a business trip to L.A., Mr. Yao reached out to The Heart Bandits, a husband-and-wife team who arrange proposals in the city.
“I was lost,” said Mr. Yao, 35.
The Heart Bandits, a.k.a. Michele and Marvin Velazquez, put the Canadians on a horseback ride through Griffith Park. At the end of the trail sat the ubiquitous proposal picnic, complete with In-N-Out burgers and Sprinkles cupcakes, two L.A. staples. “Bunniee,” read a sparkly pink sign nearby, referencing Ms. Chan’s pet name. “Will you marry me?” read the reverse.
“It’s not like him to actually be prepared,” said Ms. Chan, 26, who will be marrying later this year. “That’s why I was so shocked, I started crying.”
The Heart Bandits have arranged 60 proposals since 2010. Ms. Velazquez has chartered private helicopters, co-ordinated flash mobs and put men on horses galloping down beaches at sunset. She’s also talked plenty of boyfriends off the bad-proposal ledge, including a fake commercial “aired” during the Super Bowl and a ring hidden in dessert, “which is super cliché and 1980s and we hated it.” She entrusts her own husband, Marvin, with keeping the proposals from getting too girly: “The guy doesn’t want to be stumbling in daffodils. My husband will make sure it’s reflective of the guy.”
Read the full article here.
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