The most extravagant celebrity proposals

IMAGINE walking with your partner to your favourite secluded beach, hands linked, laughing at sweet nothings, stealing loving glances.

Less than 200m away, a heartshaped bush of red roses with dozens of candles awaits you. Is this a picnic, you wonder? An anniversary celebration? You giggle, excited that your partner has gone to such effort.

As you walk into this cornucopia of roses, their scent filling the air, your partner gets on one knee and asks for your hand in marriage.

The past few months have been the best in years, and you are both happy and at ease with each other. Plus, your children are friends. It makes sense. Of course, you say yes!

That was the scene when Kourtney Kardashian was proposed to by Travis Barker at the Rosewood Miramar in Montecito, California, last weekend. The 45-year-old rocker has been dating the 42-year-old reality star for 10 months. However, they have been friends and neighbours for some time, and their children are friends.

Their engagement was caught on camera for the Kardashian/jenner upcoming Hulu reality show.

Here are some other extravagant proposals:

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian

Kim and Kanye had an extravagant wedding in Italy, but it started with the proposal in 2013. The rapper hired the San Francisco Giants’ stadium and had a 50-piece orchestra serenade Kim with Lana

Del Rey’s Young and Beautiful as the scoreboard wrote the words: “PLEEEASE MARRY MEEE!!!”

Eva Longoria and Jose Antonio Baston

While on holiday in Dubai, the actress and producer’s businessman and TV executive beau organised for a romantic set-up of Persian rugs and patterned cushions in the middle of the dunes, creating an Aladdin-esque experience, before proposing with a ruby ring. Eva was speechless.

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom

The singer and her actor baby daddy went to dinner and then to an art show. But unlike any other couple, Bloom decided they would use a helicopter. It didn’t go according to plan, Bloom struggled to get the ring out of his pocket, leading him to smashing the bottle of champagne he had arranged to celebrate. Perry still said yes. Bloom had the helicopter land on a rooftop where all Perry’s friends and family were waiting to celebrate.

Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady

American football player Tom fabricated a story about how the model’s apartment was flooded, and she rushed home to check. The house was filled with rose petals and candles. He then got on his injured knee and declared his undying love.

Gisele told him to get up and stop making his knee worse, instead of saying yes.