Weddingbee Blog

Blake Monahan, 29 proposed to his girlfriend Jamie Coder, 26, right in the middle of a St. Patrick’s day parade. Monahan, a marching member of the parade, enlisted the help of the band in front of him to orchestrate the proposal.

When the bagpipers reached the intersection, they stopped and formed a circle in the middle of the road, then the president of the club came over to Coder and pulled her into the middle of the circle.

“He said the band wanted to play something for me,” Coder said. “I was thinking, “What?’ I had no idea.”

What Coder didn’t realize was that Monahan had come up behind her through the crowd and followed her and the president into the circle. Once in the circle, standing bemused and bewildered, she turned around and saw Monahan.

That’s when she realized what was happening.

The couple of 10 years are planning a summer 2007 wedding.

(source: Asbury Park Press)