Aaaaah, look at the sweet young couple. So in love. But why are they standing in a pumpkin field?

It reads, "Ari please marry me." In pumpkins.

From The Daily Hampshire Gazette: “John Laing and Ariel Baruch went for a drive one Saturday. When the couple reached the top of Mount Sugarloaf, they looked down at a field where a thousand pumpkins spelled out “Ari Please Marry Me.”

“It was a lot of pumpkins,” said Laing, 25. “She was speechless for a good 30 seconds.”

But Baruch, 23, said yes.

“I was just staring at him and crying,” Baruch said. “I knew it would happen someday.”

Laing had spent part of the preceding Thursday and all of the Friday setting up the approximately 80-foot letters in the nearly one-acre field.

Laing works for an insurance company in New York City. Baruch is a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts. The two met while attending highschool in Tampa, Florida.

Laing said he knew he wanted to write his marriage proposal in a field, so he approached Warner Farms owner Mike Wissemann several weeks ago. Wissemann enlisted the help of maze designer William Sillan.

Sillan was going to mow the message into the grass field, but Wissemann said he suggested using the 12 bins of pumpkins he had just harvested instead.

“John was not used to hauling pumpkins around all day, so he was pretty whipped,” Wissemann recalled.

When Sillan went out Friday afternoon to see how Laing was doing, he reported that Laing told him ‘Everything I ever wanted is in this field.’”

He always knew he wanted to write his marriage proposal in a field?

Oh well, nobody’s perfect.

Via Flavourwire

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