Marriage stories from around the world continued to fill the Weddings pages of The New York Times in 2021, proving that no force of nature, not even a pandemic, could overwhelm the power of love.
But before those marriages came the proposals. In South Africa, one man had a lion cub deliver his fiancé her ring. On a rooftop in Phuket, Thailand, a missed sunset led to an even more special moment for a couple on vacation. The shortest proposal on this list took place on an airplane high above The Atlantic Ocean, and the longest unfolded as one nonagenarian attempted to get another to say yes for more than a year.
Here, those and six more of our favorite ways that couples who wed in 2021 said, “Will you marry me?”
Look What the Cat Dragged In
Matthew Steuer 56, and Constance Collins, 32, met in August 2016 at the American School of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he…
