Meet the professional proposal planners

By Lydia Patrick via SWNS

Meet the professional proposers who have arranged 3,500 engagements all over the world - and say the super rich spend up to £800k ($970,576) popping the big question.

Daisy Amodio, 40, became a professional proposal planner after she helped her brother, Danny Amodio, 36, plan his when he asked his now-wife, Annie Amodio, 32, to marry him in 2016.

Realizing she was good at pulling it off, Daisy set up her own business.

She now she has a team of seven who have planned proposals all over the world - including in London, Paris, Dubai, New York and Zanzibar.

With Valentine's Day around the corner, Daisy predicts an influx of last minute proposals and already has 11 planned for the most romantic day of the year.

Packages start at £1,000 ($1,213) but bespoke customized packages are priced on how extravagant the customer's requests are.

Daisy once lit up the whole of Times Square with photographs of the couple and has also beamed "will you marry me?" onto Niagara Falls.

The proposal expert claims she has a "100 percent success rate" and never witnessed anyone say no.

She says most of her clients are straight men who want beautiful views, candles and violinists.

Her most memorable proposals include abseiling down a cave in the Lake District, England to set up a candlelit dinner, a prank drug arrest, a porn star proposal and a cat-themed ceremony.

Daisy, who runs Proposal Planners, from Balham, London said: "Essentially our job is making people happy and helping them make the first major milestone in their life.

"It's a major deal, there's a quite a lot of pressure. We just create personalised moments tailored to that couple and it takes us all over the world."

Daisy found her calling when she helped her brother, Danny, plan his proposal 12 years ago.

She added: "He didn't know what to do. I planned this huge treasure hunt around London, and he proposed at sunset - she said yes.

"I thought: 'Wouldn't this be a fun job?'"

Daisy started Proposal Planners in April 2012 and now has a team of seven women - who have planned 3,500 proposals all over the world.

One of her priciest proposals cost £800k and took the team all over the world.

"The client wanted his face beamed on the Eiffel Tower but this wasn't possible, so I called Disney Paris and we hired the castle out to have fireworks," she said.

"They hired a private jet to do something different on every continent.

"In Times Square he wanted to do a prank, so we had dressed up NYPD cops and got them to say 'you're illegal, show us your passport' and then all the screens changed to photos of them.

"The proposal finished in Niagara Falls with their faces and 'will you marry me?' beamed onto the water."

The team ensure they individualize each engagement to the client and no request is too bizarre or difficult to achieve.

Daisy said: "A man came to me and said how much his partner loved Cats.

"I hired a cat cafe in Shoreditch, and I made 50 cat outfits that waiters wore.

"We had a jazz singer performing a Cats song and a dance."

In 2016, Daisy helped a porn star pop the big question to his fellow porn star lover.

She said: "We displayed naked photos of them all over the room in a very pretty way."

Some clients don't take the romantic route and would rather scare their girlfriends before getting down on one knee.

Daisy said: "Once we planted oregano on a woman as fake marijuana.

"Dressed up undercover cops manhandled into the cry, and she was crying her eyes out.

"They led her to a line-up of suspects and her partner was there to propose."

Another time, Daisy abseiled down a cliff in the Lake District, through mud and water with a backpack and a table, chairs, candles and champagne attached to her.

She said: "The man said how much she loved going caving and I was terrified.

"So, I abseiled down with a huge rucksack, a table, chairs and champagne.

"I had to army crawl through mud and water.

"It looked beautiful in the end."

Daisy claims the most popular locations to pop the question for her clients are Dubai, London, Paris and Iceland.

She said: "This is a busy time of year we have 11 proposals planned for Valentine's Day.

"Most men get the ring and just have no idea how to do it and need our help and they put in so much effort.

"I've only seen one proposal where the man hasn't got down on one knee - 95 percent of proposals are male on female, 5 percent are same sex and I've helped three women propose to men."

Daisy's tips for the perfect proposal:

• Location, location, location - it doesn't have to be an expensive place, but somewhere that is important to you both
• Be thoughtful - the little things matter, it doesn't have to cost the world it just needs to mean a lot to you both
• Capture the moment - whether you have a professional photographer, videographer or a friend
• Try and make sure she has her nails done
• Plan what you're going to say - even though the woman never remembers, which is why it's good to have a video
• Don't put it on Instagram before you've told your family