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This Man Spent an Entire Year Planning a Proposal for His Girlfriend

From Cosmopolitan

We all love a good viral proposal - and this one, from Chicago couple Josh Schmitz and Danielle Roesch, just might take the cake.

Schmitz met Roesch on Tinder in October 2014, and, by August of the following year, he already knew he wanted to marry her, NBC Chicago reports. He didn't want to propose to her with just an old drop-to-one-knee, however - he wanted to do something truly special, so he set out planning an epic yearlong proposal.

Every day for an entire year, Schmitz scribbled out a note to his future fiancée on a whiteboard or a scrap of paper. Some flat-out asked her to marry him; others professed how much she meant to him. Each day, he would film a quick clip of himself holding the note up for the camera, whether he was at work, at home, or on vacation.

After a year of filming these short clips, Schmitz hired someone to make a 21-minute video compilation of them all. He then had a friend of Roesch's invite her to a fake corporate event at Chicago's Adler Planetarium - but when Roesch arrived, her friends, her family, and a giant video screen awaited her instead.

The last frame of Schmitz's mini-film instructed Roesch to walk down to Lake Michigan, where Schmitz was waiting for her with rose petals and his small whiteboard, on which he had written, "Will you be my wife?" Two check boxes offered the options "yes" and "no." Of course, Roesch checked yes.

Schmitz says he was inspired to write secret notes to his now-fiancée because note-writing is part of their daily routine. The couple doesn't see each other much during the week (Schmitz is a heavy equipment manager, and he leaves for work at 4:45 a.m. every day), so the two started leaving notes for each other every morning: Roesch sees hers when she wakes up to get ready for work, and Schmitz sees his when he gets home.

In the end, Schmitz says his epic proposal was well worth the wait. "To see the look on her face of surprise, you could just tell - she's known how much I love her, but I think it really soaked in," he said. "It's the first and hopefully the last time I'd want to see my girlfriend cry at something."

Watch Schmitz's complete proposal video below.