Coolest Marriage Proposal You’ll See All Day

Posted by Krystal Wynn on March 16th, 2010

Derick Childress is a talented photographer from Raleigh, North Carolina. He wanted to propose to his girlfriend Emily in a creative way and need I say he did just that. Over the course of three nights taking 800 individual (each 10 second exposures) shots he spelled out in light the words “Emily, will you marry me?”

The video shows the process of how he accomplished it and his website describes the painstaking steps he took each day to create the image.

I knew I wanted to find a very special way to propose to a very special woman. I liked the look of light writing, but I wanted to do something on a much larger scale. To my knowledge, a light writing of this size had never been done before. I had the idea of placing a camera at the top of a tall building and mapping out the words “Emily, will you marry me?” over part of the city. I used Google Earth to check out the views from several large buildings in downtown Raleigh, N.C. Since none of the letters could fall on areas that were inaccessible by foot, the requirements for the vantage point were very specific. I finally found the perfect spot – the top of the Clarion hotel. Luckily, the Clarion has a restaurant that is open to the public on the top floor.

After all his hard work he made the image and the video…and in the midst of a comfortable night at home he asked her if she’d like to see something he’d been working on. He showed her the video and when the image came up of “Emily, will you marry me?” he was down on one knee with the ring in hand. Needless to say she said “Yes!”