So Alex Marsh of Raleigh-Durham decided to take it up a notch. The clever guy used Foursquare, the mobile location-based game, to propose to his girlfriend, Susan Wilkison, during dinner at Raleigh Times Bar.
In case you're unfamiliar with Foursquare, once you check in at a location, your friends receive an instant notification of your check-in and any accompanying text that you've added to the check-in.
Using this to his advantage, Marsh decided to check in at dinner with his then girlfriend, now fiancée, and wrote "popping the question!" in the text field. Wilkison got the notification immediately and said "Yes," via Foursquare of course.
In an e-mail to Dennis Crowley, Foursquare's co-founder, the newly engaged Wilkison wrote:
Subject: My fiance proposed to me last night using Foursquare!
Hello! I'm so glad Foursquare has come to Raleigh-Durham!
I wanted to share that my fiance proposed to me last night using
Foursquare. We we're at dinner, both of us had our phones out, him to check
in, me looking up something else and ping! there was his check in shouting
"popping the question!" After he put the ring on my finger, I also checked
in to the location and shouted "and I said YES!"
Now just try to top that! In fact, we hear that Foursquare has a special surprise in store for the happy couple.
