KATE COSTELLO / Scroll
The wedding proposal is a memorable experience for the bride and groom. While some opt to be more traditional, other couples thrive on uniqueness.

Perfect proposals planned with personality

Kathryn Keller KEL05008@BYUI.EDU Scroll Staff

Louisa Albrecht soared high above the streets of Rexburg in a small plane, sitting next to her boyfriend Jon Walker. They were all alone, except for Jon’s uncle who was the pilot. They looked out the windows, and their eyes passed swiftly over the restful Idaho below. She knew this was not an ordinary date, but she did not know how extraordinary it would be in the context of her future.

As they neared Ricks College, she looked down at one of the intramural fields, and her life changed.

Huge letters lay on the field spelling “Will you marry me, Louisa?” The letters were formed by over a hundred people lying next to each other.

Soon after, Louisa Albrecht became Louisa Walker.

“At first all I saw was the ‘will you marry me?’ and I was like ‘oh my gosh, someone is proposing, how cute,’” Louisa Walker said. “Then I saw my name at the end, and I was in complete shock.”

Shock also describes the feeling Julie Evans, a BYU-Idaho graduate from Burley, Idaho, had when her husband proposed to her.

Evans was student teaching at Central Elementary School in St. Anthony Idaho, when she was called out of the room for a few minutes. When she got back into the room, her students were holding up letters that spelled ‘will you marry me?’

“I was very confused because no one at the school knew I was dating anyone,” Evans said. “I thought it was some joke. I turned in a circle around the room, and then I turned and saw my husband, holding the ring and a dozen roses.”

Other proposals exercise complete uniqueness.

David Bird from Corvallis, Oregon mailed himself to his wife as the final step in an elaborately planned procedure.

“I designed a quilt for her that was overlaid with the Idaho Falls temple,” Bird said.

“On the quilt were the words, ‘eternally together.’ I sewed a ring to the temple doors and put the quilt in a box.

“I got a refrigerator box, put a false ceiling in it, and put the quilt there underneath newspapers. I cut out a door on the side. Then I had my friends dress up as delivery men, and deliver me in the box to her at work,” Bird said.