A Google Maps Marriage Proposal

Now we’ve had a few creative marriage proposals and even a few geeky ones. This next marriage proposal truly takes time and preparation. Derek wanted to find a creative and fun way to propose to Kristin, his girlfriend of 18 months, so after failed idea after failed idea, he thought of something truly creative. After Derek finished his routine run one day, he was uploading the GPS information from his Garmin Forerunner GPS Watch when he realized something.

When uploaded, the path is overlaid on Google Maps. That day I ran a route that was a little haphazard and I saw what looked like a letter and then hit me!  I could run in the shapes of all kinds of things and it would appear on Google Maps.  Animals, shapes, smiley faces, words, you name it.  I decided I would run out the words M-A-R-R-Y-M-E-? and have the route uploaded to Garmin’s website and then from there I could fashion a way to propose to Kristin.

Now you might be asking yourself, how’d he do it? Well, before he set out, he wrote it out on a piece of paper (below) with guide markers to help him along the way.

 

What’s even more cool is that you can see the whole thing through Google Earth! Below we have embeded it, but you may need the plugin to view it.

 

 

Derek has the whole story on his blog, and if guess what? He’s a wedding photographer! If you want to read more details about how he put the whole thing together, be sure to see the full post by clicking here. We hope you enjoyed this story. Do you have an amazing marriage proposal story? If so, please fill out the form in our contribute section, we’d love to hear from you!