There Was A Marriage Proposal Hidden In Today’s Good Weekend Quiz
This is adorable.
In case you needed a reminder that the world isn’t terrible all the time, please enjoy this story of a Sydney man who hid a marriage proposal to his girlfriend in today’s Good Weekend quiz.
Eagle-eyed readers of the Sydney Morning Herald might have noticed something strange about the quiz in today’s paper. If you took the first letter of each question, they spelled “Will you marry me, Melissa Rose?”
My heart exploded when I first heard about this back in October – I think I even yelled it across the newsroom. Two months later and it’s still my favourite story. I’m dying to know what Melissa said #GWquizproposal @GoodWeekendMag @smh pic.twitter.com/dIT1e7k2PY
— Sophia Phan (@Sophia_Phan) December 7, 2018
The secret message was placed in the paper by Good Weekend editor Katrina Strickland and quizmaster Conal Hanna on behalf of a man named Dennis Neuen.
“We’ve been together for just coming up to three years and we’ve pretty much done the quiz religiously every week, it’s always been the one thing that’s been our thing,” Neuen told the paper this morning. “She’s one of the kindest people I know, she’s incredibly generous and incredibly intelligent, she won the university medal, she’s beautiful. At the end of the day, she’s just my best friend and has always been my best friend.”
Luckily for Dennis, Melissa felt the same way.
“I got up to ‘will you marry me Mel’ and I just started crying,” she said.
She said yes! ? @MelGodwin__ Thank you SO much to @GoodWeekendMag @smh @katrinastrick @pallavisinghal_ . Off to celebrate now! ? pic.twitter.com/SHt8EZc4Et
— Dennis Neuen (@dennisrneuen) December 8, 2018
A big congratulations to Dennis and Melissa, the two most adorable nerds in Australia.
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Feature image via Dennis Neuen/Twitter