Lego love leads to engagement for couple
A lego-loving couple are hoping to build a future together, after the little bricks played a big part in their engagement.When Joe Sparano decided to pop the question to his girlfriend of six years he knew Lego had to be involved.
Their eyes had first met over a box of bricks at a toy store where they both worked, and the pair have regularly bought each other Lego box sets as gifts since they started dating.
So 30-year-old Joe, a graphic designer from Nebraska, started planning a Lego based proposal where he wanted to pop the question to Kristin Kacerik, also 30, at a picnic for their dating anniversary.
He had a selection of three Lego boxes specially made which he would give Kristin.
The first two celebrated moments in their relationship and their favourite things, a box called 'Kristin & Joe' contained minifigures of the pair riding bikes and a box labeled 'Our Favorite Things' had Lego versions of their belongings, from a TV and book collection to a microscope and pizza.
The third - which recreated their picnic, including their bottle of wine, picnic hamper and blanket - was called "Engagement Picnic". As she unwrapped the third box Joe would ask her to marry him… and produce an engagement ring made of Lego.
All went as planned and Science teacher Kristin said yes - the couple now plan to marry on July 18th, 2010.
Joe said of his idea: "Last September, after looking through a Lego catalog together, it struck me just how perfectly Lego represents our shared experience.
"Not only were we both huge Lego geeks growing up, but neither of us really stopped. Kristin didn't know it at the time, but I had already been searhing for months for some kind of fantastical proposal scheme.
"We regularly gifted Lego sets to each other, so the fact that the proposal started with Lego sets was not at all unusual.
"Once she opened the third set, everything clicked, she started to cry, and I popped the question."
The custom boxes were built from the ground-up and modelled after the 1980’s Lego style which the pair had bought when growing up.
Joe designed them on his computer using a die-line traced from an actual Lego box and had them printed on a large-format printer before trimming and folding them by hand.
He had then filled them with bits of Lego which had been individually purchased online, in all he says they cost £300 to put together.
LINKS
Joe Sparano @ Flickr
LEGO
The first two celebrated moments in their relationship and their favourite things, a box called 'Kristin & Joe' contained minifigures of the pair riding bikes and a box labeled 'Our Favorite Things' had Lego versions of their belongings, from a TV and book collection to a microscope and pizza.
The third - which recreated their picnic, including their bottle of wine, picnic hamper and blanket - was called "Engagement Picnic". As she unwrapped the third box Joe would ask her to marry him… and produce an engagement ring made of Lego.
All went as planned and Science teacher Kristin said yes - the couple now plan to marry on July 18th, 2010. Joe said of his idea: "Last September, after looking through a Lego catalog together, it struck me just how perfectly Lego represents our shared experience.
"Not only were we both huge Lego geeks growing up, but neither of us really stopped. Kristin didn't know it at the time, but I had already been searhing for months for some kind of fantastical proposal scheme.
"We regularly gifted Lego sets to each other, so the fact that the proposal started with Lego sets was not at all unusual.
"Once she opened the third set, everything clicked, she started to cry, and I popped the question."
The custom boxes were built from the ground-up and modelled after the 1980’s Lego style which the pair had bought when growing up. Joe designed them on his computer using a die-line traced from an actual Lego box and had them printed on a large-format printer before trimming and folding them by hand.
He had then filled them with bits of Lego which had been individually purchased online, in all he says they cost £300 to put together.
LINKS
Joe Sparano @ Flickr
LEGO
