The most complex marriage proposal ever? 有史以來最複雜的求婚?

Any men thinking of popping the question to their beloved – start worrying. Because bar's just been raised for the amount of effort you have to put into your marriage proposal.

Going down on one knee wasn't quite enough for George Aye, a designer from Chicago. So he decided to propose in a more elaborate way, with the help of an art gallery, some computer modelling, a laser cutter and an awful lot of foam core.

And the video he posted to YouTube of his endeavours has become a huge hit, with 50,000 people viewing it in just a two days.

Aye – originally from Surrey – proposed to his girlfriend, Sara Cantor, a planner at another design firm, at a fake opening party on Friday, in Chicago art gallery 40000. The gallery was exhibiting the work of non-existent artist 'Serge Gandaora' – actually an anagram of 'George and Sara'.

The artwork – actually made by Aye himself – was a complex, abstract piece featuring a large number of unusual white shapes on poles, called My Early Muir Owl.

Constructed over the course of several weeks out of laser-cut foam, after planning the piece by creating a 3-D model on a computer, the artwork just looked like a collection of random shapes… except when viewed from one angle, where it spelled out 'Will you marry me?'



'Will you marry me', of course, is an anagram of 'My Early Muir Owl'.

For tradition's sake, Aye went down on one knee as well – and he was rewarded when Sara said yes. And now that his video's become a hit, the happy couple have been on the receiving end of well-wishers from around the world.

'I'm completely floored,' said Aye on his blog.

'Thank you to everyone that have sent their congratulations. And sorry to all the single guys that now hate me. If your woman starts hinting, get sketching.' (Metro.co.uk)