The happy news is that actor Johnathon Schaech, formerly dumped by Christina Applegate for a musician of some kind, has gotten engaged to “One Tree Hill” actress Jana Rae Kramer. Yay! The pathetic news is that he chose to film the proposal and post it on Facebook. Really. In the grand scheme of things, proposals are beautiful and romantic and happy occasions. Some of us dream of receiving our engagement rings after seeing an “I love you. Will you marry me?” on the JumboTron at Camden Yards. Some want to have a romantic dinner and find their diamond rings in a champagne flute.
Posting their engagement, with oodles of dignity.
Others, I guess, want to send it to the masses on a social network. It is because it is nearly 2010, or is it something else? Schaech rented out an ice skating rink near in his hometown and brought his unsuspecting girlfriend there. She’s been skating since she was a child. He had been on skates only once before, apparently. He proposed on the ice, with the help of a video camera. That was romantic.
Where it seems to have gone from the romantic to the WTF is posting it on Facebook. Millions of people are addicted to it, and so many people would have an opportunity to share in their joy! But really? On Facebook?
Kramer was ecstatic and cried and couldn’t get over how beautiful the ring is. She was afraid of hurting it and wanted to get off of the ice. Precious. “It was the happiest moment of my life,” Schaech told People. It was everything that an engagement should be, except for the later, from-the-couch play-by-play that the couple recorded for their Facebook video. That just seemed, I don’t know, cheesy. A video for family and friends? Great idea. But for every pimply-faced teenager taking quizzes to find out which character from “Twilight” they should marry? Not so much.
Either way, congratulations to Johnathon and Jana. We can all look forward to seeing their wedding, reception, and birth of their first child on Twitter.