WATCH: A Treasury of our 16 Favorite Gay & Lesbian Surprise Proposals

If you’re the type who cries at weddings, you may want to brace yourself for this post: a mega-roundup of our very favorite gay and lesbian marriage proposals. Awwwww. (If we missed any, please chime in down in the comments with your favorites!)

Click through for surprises, flashmobs, giddy friends and relatives, and of course lots and lots of crying. Let’s kick it off with Brian and Scotty: nice, quick, to-the-point. We are tearing up already.

Looking for something a bit more epic? Our next pick involves Kylie Minogue.

http://youtu.be/SVf8fT8kn1s

According to the description, Ben proposed to Scott during Kylie’s Aphrodite tour in Perth. Then everyone cried.

Oh, but perhaps Kylie’s not a big enough celebrity for you? Well, fine, then, have a little Mariah Carey.

http://youtu.be/CBU0Ml3Yuyc

To her credit, Mariah seems like a total trooper throughout this lovely thing, popping in to offer cute remarks and champagne. Everyone is adorable, and we are now sobbing openly at our desk.

http://youtu.be/odkVu8OZhuI

So, OK, these on-stage proposals are all very grand, but some of us homebodies prefer the peace and quiet of each others’ company with no outside interlopers. And that is why these two cutest bears in the world have brought us to tears. The Christmas stuff! The music box! The weeping men! We are a wreck.

http://youtu.be/wpYEWDW0iZ8

Well, Macklemore is a hero, and that settles that.

Also, girl, we are living for that look. We are this close to proposing marriage to your stunning ensemble.

http://youtu.be/hgqgvG9gbIM

Because we gays have not quite inherited the cultural norms of marriage in the same way that straight people have, sometimes our proposals can look very nonchalant. We love this for the baffled “are you for real?” Followed by “OK, fine, I’ll do it.” And then humping.

http://youtu.be/1BVFwu0H1Co

OK, the lesbians are really raising the bar with the production values here. At first we were all, “oh, God, Glee? COME ON, we are too cool for this.” And then we were crying, so, obviously we’ve learned a lot about ourselves today.

http://youtu.be/nRWcPVeL0cc

We are back to on-stage proposals. Apparently there are a lot of homosexuals in theater or something. This is a long one — skip to around 1:40 for the start of the sobbing and then stick with it to 3:00 for the kneel, at which point everyone loses control. You may wish to pop out after that, depending on your opinion of a cappella.

http://youtu.be/vSmLWWahANU

Please don’t besmirch this Space Needle proposal with thoughts of the venue’s phallic symbolism. Jon and Justin are the cutest, that is all, and at this point our face has basically become a complete puffy mess.

http://youtu.be/stGyRrUfa2o

Oh yes, it’s another mid-performance proposal. This one features rainbow strobes. Skip to 4:10 for the excitement and an ostentatious hat, and then 5:20 for shrieks and gasps and more of us weeping into our keyboard. This post has been an emotional roller-coaster for us to write, by the way. You’re welcome.

http://youtu.be/9UhSo5w4rJw

Lesbians, you really do seem to have mastered the creative proposal. This is ingenious and you are amazing and that’s that.

http://youtu.be/FkrO9fIuDfE

Here’s another that is charming in its nonchalance. Look at how calm these boys are! And oh God the cowboy hats and country music, aw gee whiz shucks.

Also, prospective proposers, take note: you should go into the operation with a plan for the kiss, because if one person’s sitting and the other’s kneeling you may find yourself in an awkward crouchy hunchback pose. Think ahead, is all we’re saying. Also, we just ran out of tissues, please send help.

http://youtu.be/9sWLxiPXP3k

This may be our favorite for all the planning it must’ve involved. Also, the moment when Paolo realizes something’s afoot and starts looking around, bewildered. WE DIED.

http://youtu.be/zC_i00Z8-Z8

Is this a thing? The mutual proposal? From the description: “Jenn had already surprised me with an amazing proposal in Cape Cod earlier in the month and this is my proposal to her!” Well, that’s adorable. Yes, girl. Yes.

Also, there’s this: “It took place at Celebrate Brooklyn!, June 30, 2012 at Angelique Kidjo’s Women Waging Peace concert.” Of course it did.

http://youtu.be/I0SULMU7kaU

We love when fans enlist major performers to essentially host the proposal. Look at how Domenick can barely stand because he knows what’s about to happen! AWWWWW, and now we are all Garbage fans.

http://youtu.be/wH3-6tj_xFM

Oh you know, just a normal day at Google. There’s a roar of joy at 2:40, and then we are a puddle of jelly.

Well, that was an experience. Did we miss any great proposal videos? We probably did. Send us links! We will deal with them as soon as we are no longer emotionally devastated. Please also send ten thousand hugs.

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