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Meet the professional proposers who have arranged 3,500 engagements all over the world

2023-02-13 1 Dailymotion

Meet the professional proposers who have arranged 3,500 engagements all over the world - and say the super rich spend up to £800k popping the big question.<br /><br />Daisy Amodio, 40, became a professional proposal planner after she helped her brother, Danny Amodio , 36, plan his when he asked his now-wife, Annie Amodio, 32, to marry him in 2016. <br /><br />Realising she was good at pulling it off, Daisy set up her own business.<br /><br />She now she has a team of seven who have planned proposals all over the world - including in London, Paris, Dubai, New York and Zanzibar.<br /><br />With Valentine's Day around the corner, Daisy predicts an influx of last minute proposals and already has 11 planned for the most romantic day of the year.<br /><br />Packages start at £1,000 but bespoke customised packages are priced on how extravagant the customer's requests are.<br /><br />Daisy has once lit up the whole of Times Square in New York with photographs of the couple and has also beamed 'will you marry me?' onto Niagara Falls.<br /><br />The proposal expert claims she has a '100 per cent success rate' and never witnessed anyone say no.<br /><br />Her most memorable proposals include abseiling down a cave in the Lake District to set up a candlelit dinner, a prank drug arrest, a porn star proposal and a cat-themed ceremony.<br /><br />Daisy, who runs Proposal Planners, from Balham, London said: "Essentially our job is making people happy and helping them make the first major milestone in their life.<br /><br />"It's a major deal, there's a quite a lot of pressure. We just create personalised moments tailored to that couple and it takes us all over the world."<br /><br />Daisy found her calling when she helped her brother, Danny, plan his proposal 12 years ago.<br /><br />She added: "He didn't know what to do. I planned this huge treasure hunt around London, and he proposed at sunset - she said yes.<br /><br />Daisy started Proposal Planners in April 2012 and now has a team of seven women - who have planned 3,500 proposals all over the world.<br /><br />One of her priciest proposals cost £800k and took the team all over the world.<br /><br />"The client wanted his face beamed on the Eiffel Tower but this wasn't possible, so I called Disney Paris and we hired the castle out to have fireworks," she said.<br /><br />"They hired a private jet to do something different on every continent.<br /><br />"In Times Square he wanted to do a prank, so we had dressed up NYPD cops and got them to say 'you're illegal, show us your passport' and then all the screens changed to photos of them.<br /><br />"The proposal finished in Niagara Falls with their faces and 'will you marry me?' beamed onto the water."<br /><br />The team ensure they individualise each engagement to the client and no request is too bizarre or difficult to achieve.<br /><br />Daisy claims the most popular locations to pop the question for her clients are Dubai, London, Paris and Iceland.<br /><br />She said: "This is a busy time of year we have 11 proposals planned for Valentine's Day.<br /><br />"Most men get the ring and just have no idea how to do it and need our help and they put in so much effort.

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