The marriage proposal has become something of an art. There have been proposals at baseball games, on YouTube and even proposals in the form of police raids. But one we hadn't seen yet seen came in the form of a newspaper column earlier this month in The Item of Sumter, S.C. (Photo: McCormac and now fiance, Whitney Bragg)
Nick McCormac took time from his usual coverage of local and state politics to tell the story of how he and his girlfriend met at a bar through a friend and talked all night and into the morning. Everything for them seemed to fall into place almost too perfectly over their year-and-a-half long relationship, he wrote. The actual proposal speaks for itself: "No matter what I do or what I say, no words could ever justifiably describe how I feel about you. But there are six words that come awfully close. Whitney Bragg, will you marry me?" McCormac told Nina Mandell of the New York Daily News that Whitney "read the column on the computer as the two were getting ready to leave for work as McCormac looked on nervously." She "turned around and had tears in her eyes" and took a few seconds to respond with a "yes."
The column has received heavy response. It was first linked on the journalism website Poynter.org, and then again on the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association site last week under "Reader's Corner." For McCormac, his proposal just made sense: "I'm a lot better at writing than I am at speaking. Ever since I've become a professional writer, I've looked at it as something really unique."
Nick McCormac took time from his usual coverage of local and state politics to tell the story of how he and his girlfriend met at a bar through a friend and talked all night and into the morning. Everything for them seemed to fall into place almost too perfectly over their year-and-a-half long relationship, he wrote. The actual proposal speaks for itself: "No matter what I do or what I say, no words could ever justifiably describe how I feel about you. But there are six words that come awfully close. Whitney Bragg, will you marry me?" McCormac told Nina Mandell of the New York Daily News that Whitney "read the column on the computer as the two were getting ready to leave for work as McCormac looked on nervously." She "turned around and had tears in her eyes" and took a few seconds to respond with a "yes."The column has received heavy response. It was first linked on the journalism website Poynter.org, and then again on the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association site last week under "Reader's Corner." For McCormac, his proposal just made sense: "I'm a lot better at writing than I am at speaking. Ever since I've become a professional writer, I've looked at it as something really unique."
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