Can Buy Me Love

Putting money where your heart is.

I’m not sure if this is the most or least romantic gesture this Valentine’s Day in China. According to this shanghaiist.com article, a man from Hangzhou proposed to his girlfriend by creating a bouquet of 999 paper roses out of 2,000 RMB100 banknotes, worth RMB 200,000 (US$32,800). He did this in lieu of offering to buy a house and car, as suggested by his sweetheart’s family, because he could not yet afford them. Tacky or not? No matter to the rest of us; she said yes.