London Sky Garden launches £10,000 Valentine's Day wedding proposal package
You even get a limo ride
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Your support makes all the difference.To some people, Valentine’s Day is the worst day imaginable on which to get engaged. For others, however, it’s impossibly romantic and the perfect day to pop the question.
If you’re in the latter camp and want to pull out all the stops this Valentine’s Day, why not drop a third of your annual income (the average salary across the UK is £31,898) on a lavish £10,000 proposal?
This year, Sky Garden in London has put together a deal for a bespoke wedding proposal package, featuring a helicopter tour, limo ride, and seven-course candle-lit dinner overlooking the London skyline.
As tradition dictates, a man is meant to spend three months’ salary on an engagement ring, so it’s the least you could do really.
Three months of earnings on the ring and then an extra £10,000 on top for the whole proposal. It’s not much to ask for your beloved.
Yes, for this bargainous price, you can create the personalised proposal of your dreams. Which various other couples may also be doing separately on the same night.
You and your partner will start the evening with a helicopter tour over London before being whisked away in a limo (hopefully one that’s more ‘sophisticated soirée’ than ‘hen do in Marbella’) to Sky Garden, at the top of the Walkie Talking building in the City.
Up to level 37 you’ll go, to the private Vinoly Room in Fenchurch restaurant. You’ll be able to dictate how you’d like the room decorated, choosing everything from the scent of the candles and colour of the flowers to the music and colour scheme as a whole.
Naturally, you’ll then have your own dedicated butler serving you all night while you feast, sip Ruinart Brut Rosé NV Champagne and admire the views.
A seven-course Valentine's dinner tasting menu, crafted especially for the occasion by Head Chef Daniel Fletcher, in consultation with the guest, might include delicacies such as beef tartare with black truffle dressing, crisp kale and Berkswell cheese; roast Orkney scallop, delica pumpkin, hazelnut, red chicory and citrus dressing; and saddle and slow cooked shoulder of lamb.
Your dinner will finish with a “live dessert table” made by Fenchurch’s pastry chef. Essentially this will involve watching your pudding being made before your eyes.
And throughout the dinner, you'll be served a bottle of Dom Pérignon 2004 and a selection of carefully curated fine wines, paired to your bespoke menu.
So yes, it’s a far cry from the Greggs Valentine’s Day dinner you could also be having on February 14.
But if you’re not 100 per cent sure your partner’s going to say yes, perhaps it's better to be rejected over a pasty and save yourself a few grand.
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