Why the ceremony before, during and after a proposal?

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One of my colleagues, Vivian came into the office looking extremely excited and beaming this morning. I asked her why and she showed me her the engagement ring on her left hand…

Wow! I was happy for her and congratulated her.

But she did not stop at that. She kept asking me to listen to how he proposed and I was like later na, work plenty for ground. When I saw she would not rest until I knew the whole detail, I left my work to listen to her.

Her boyfriend of eight years (They have been dating since they were in secondary school)had called her the day before and they planned to eat out at a restaurant.

She said as they sat down later in the evening, she noticed he was behaving strangely. As she was about to ask him what was wrong, he fell on the floor unconscious.

She screamed and ran over to him with tears in her eyes. She called for help, but those nearby did not do anything to help her out. She took water from their table, sprinkled it on his face and brought out her phone to call his driver to come take them to the hospital.

Just as the driver opened the door of the eatery, her boyfriend stood up smiling, and just like that everyone around who were quietly watching her and doing nothing to help before stood up. Then his best friend brought a ring and tada! Her boyfriend got down on his knees and was like "you are the love of my life, I have loved you since forever, and I don't think I can live without you. Would you please marry me?"

(To make this more dramatic, I have decided to make it a dialogue between both of us)

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Chemmy: Really! So he pretended to faint just because he wanted to propose?

Vivian: Yesso! (Smiling, laughing and blushing at the same time) It was very romantic.

Chemmy (Rolls eyes) and what did you do?

Vivian: I was just crying and smiling altogether like an idiot... I was so shocked!

Chemmy (already bored) but why were you shocked? You guys have been together since like ever.. It is expected that he would ask you to marry him na, abi why have you both been together for many years if it is not to get married.

Vivian (hisses) I should have known you won't understand this gist, abegi, lemme go gist someone else who can understand jare.

She then went on gist others.

My view: I am not a kill joy and I actually apologized to her later, but I think all this paparazi about proposals should stop. For crying out loud, why should a man pretend to faint all in the name of proposing?

A few days ago, the news of how a lady who publicly proposed to her boyfriend and got rejected was all over the internet. I have also read news about how in the bid to propose in a unique way, a lot of people lost their lives.
I don't know about how my own proposal would look like o, but abeg, that one was just so extreme.

What do you think?