LOVERS who want to take advantage of the Leap Year to pop the question are being offered a proposal to remember – and it’s one to hold the front page.
The Wokingham Paper is offering the use of its front page for romantics to ask one question: will you marry me?
Once every four years, tradition dictates that women are allowed to get down on one knee and ask their lover to marry them. February 29 – the extra day added in a leap year – is this day and, for our issue nearest the date, we want to give a reader the opportunity to do just that.
We will set aside space on the front page of our edition of Friday, February 26, for a romantic proposal. It’s one that the whole of Wokingham will see, making it the ultimate gesture of love.
It may be you’ve been together for years and you’ve been waiting for your other half to get round to asking. It could be that you’re fairly new lovebirds but you’re sure this is true love.
Whatever the reason for your proposal, we want to know… and we want to share it with the borough!
Wokingham Paper publisher Phil Creighton is excited at the plan.
He said: “I’m just an old romantic at heart. Lots of us plan extravagant proposals but often never get round to it. We want to help someone in Wokingham make the ultimate romantic gesture. We’d love to see someone use our front page to ask their loved one to marry them.
“Oh, and don’t forget to invite us to the wedding!”
Any lovebirds looking to propose via our front page must be old enough to get married.
If you’re in love and would like us to consider you for our front page proposal, then drop an email to [email protected] or write to us at Top Secret, The Wokingham Paper, Crown House, 231 Kings Road, Reading RG1 4LS.
In the event of more than one person being prepared to propose, we will select one entry at random from the editor’s box of heart-shaped chocolates.
