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BASINGSTOKE, England, March 8 (UPI) -- A British man said his girlfriend accepted the video marriage proposal he arranged to have screened before a showing of "Avatar" at his local movie theater.
Bryan Hughes, 35, said he created a film of his fiancee's friends and family singing Lou Reed's 1970s hit "Perfect Day" and arranged for the head projectionist at Vue Cinema in Basingstoke, England, to show the homemade movie prior to the scheduled screening of James Cameron's blockbuster, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday.
Hughes said he excused himself to the restroom before the film started and reappeared at the end of the song to drop to his knee and propose marriage.
Fifty of the couple's closest friends, who were hiding incognito among the movie-going crowd, stood to cheer when Kerrie Richardson, 27, accepted the proposal and a party was held outside while the real audience enjoyed "Avatar."
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