Man Proposed Marriage With A 25-Foot-Tall Message In The Snow

NEVIS, MN — Anybody can pay a skywriter to write a marriage proposal in the sky. It takes some real creativity to flip that idea on its head.

But aviation student Gavin Becker in northern Minnesota did just that. He pulled off a sky-high marriage proposal by writing "Marry Me" in the snow, then flying his long-time girlfriend over his handiwork.

Ed Becker tells KARE-TV it took his son Gavin about 4½ hours to write the life-changing question and draw a huge heart using a snow blower on the frozen Eight Crow Wing Lake near Nevis.

The letters were 25 feet tall.

The University of North Dakota aviation student then rented a plane and took his high-school sweetheart, Olivia Toft, for a trip over the lake Sunday.

Toft told him "yes."

Photo credit: Ed Becker via AP