Within two days of posting a unique proposal video, Matt Still and Ginny Joiner of Henry County became Internet stars. 
 
 The 7-minute YouTube video, named “Greatest Marriage Proposal Ever,” was posted three days ago and has logged nearly 3 million hits. 
 
 Here is a link to the video. 
 
 “We were extremely shocked by it,” said Still, 30, of the viral hit. “We posted it just so our friends and family who couldn’t be in the audience could see it. It just spread.” 
 
 In the now-famous clip, Joiner is at a McDonough movie theater with her brother on May 7, unaware of what Still has planned. Instead of the previews you would expect, a clever video that Still created with his friend Michael Escobar rolls. The ending, of course, is a happy one, with Still bounding into the theater and Joiner accepting his proposal. 
 
 “He got me good,” said Joiner, 26. She now sports a custom-designed ring with a round center diamond encircled by smaller stones with a single ruby on the side to be worn closest to her heart. 
 
 The two have known each other for 15 years but haven’t been dating that long. Still, on their second date, they each knew the other was “the one.” After an elaborate dinner date featuring candles and rose petals Joiner said she felt like she was in a movie. No, Still countered, “we’re going to make the movies jealous.” 
 
 That tagline served as the title for his short but memorable clip. 
 
 We caught up with the couple Wednesday evening, after a busy day of interviews. He sells insurance and she works as a caregiver, but they were living the celebrity life for a day. They’ve made the media rounds here locally and also talked to radio stations in Detroit, Philadelphia and Canada. They taped a video interview via Skype with “The Today Show’s” web site. 
 
 “It’s insane,” Joiner said. 
 
 They don’t have a date for the wedding, but are expecting a full house. 
 
 “I have no clue what we’re going to do,” Joiner said. But knowing Still she knows they’ll make it a memorable event. “Everybody has these high expectations!” 
 
 - Jennifer Brett/The Buzz/jbrett@ajc.com ||||| Another day, another engagement story guaranteed to make everyone else feel a little inadequate. The enterprising Matthew Dick managed to persuade the legendary Times cryptic crossword setters to include a proposal in their clues, and the subsequent betrothal has been splashed across the papers today, perhaps because the dead tree posse are relieved to feel cool and current for a short minute. 
 
 Increasingly, proposal stories are cropping up online. Videos of extravagant dance troupes and would-be grooms shuffling manfully along go viral, while a photo of a couple getting engaged in front of a pair of newlyweds invited criticism worldwide. One man even staged a fake reality show in order to propose to his tearful partner. 
 
 If your partner proposes in private, does your relationship really mean anything? Does your beloved really cherish you enough to put a ring on it? If there’s no camera crew ready to film your surprise and awe (and aww), how will people know that your proposal story is up there with the best of them? While it’s always nice to know that people want to declare their love so publicly (especially in the UK, where most of us would fake a seizure if a flash mob surrounded us), there does seem to be a certain level of narcissism in the public proposal. Mostly, the person being proposed to has barely a supporting role in these video clips, while all the focus is on the instigator. This is most clearly illustrated by the groom who filmed himself every day for a year holding up a sign saying “Will you marry me?”. Leaving aside the fury I’d feel that someone wasted a year doing something so ridiculous, what is really telling is that the bride was barely given a look in throughout the whole performance. Bodes well for the next 65 years. 
 
 Only about five other people in the world are interested in your relationship. Nobody else cares 
 
 Although a crossword is a unique way to pop the question, I’d argue that the growing pressure to come up with a creative and fresh way of proposing takes something away from the moment when you actually do it. Sure, marriage is an antiquated and patriarchal system (I’m not bitter at all), and loads of them end in divorce, but for those who want to go down that road, is being accosted on a red carpet by a man on a horse (and I am not just throwing out ideas here) really the way you want to begin the journey? 
 
 For the most part, only about five other people in the world are interested in your relationship. Both sets of parents (because they don’t want you to keep living in their house), and possibly an ex who keeps a close eye on you just in case they get lonely. Nobody else really cares. It’s not enough that your mates have to shell out for a themed wedding weekend and coo approvingly at the honeymoon photos, now they must learn complicated choreography so that you can dance through a bingo hall to present a ring to your partner as they are simultaneously enveloped by puppies (I made that one up, feel free to use it). 
 
 If you want to propose, consider doing it without a camera. You don’t need to come up with a wacky idea and you don’t even need to invite friends, strangers or hired performers to witness the happy event. Instead, it can be a happy and intimate moment, a story just for the two of you. Sure, it might not be Disneyland perfect, but look on the bright side – if your partner says no, at least it won’t be on YouTube for the rest of your life.
– Bad news, boys. A Georgia man has set the "unique wedding proposal" bar very, very high. In a video that has received more than 5 million hits on YouTube in a matter of days, Ginny Joiner sits in a movie theater watching what she thought was a pre-film trailer ... but turned out to be video of boyfriend Matt Still asking her father for her hand in marriage—and then racing to the theater to propose. Still, 30, says he's amazed that so many people have seen the proposal. “We posted it just so our friends and family who couldn’t be in the audience could see it. It just spread," he tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Joiner—who said yes—says she expects the wedding to be as memorable as the proposal. "I have no clue what we’re going to do,” she says. “Everybody has these high expectations!" (Click here to see another very unusual marriage proposal.)