{"id":3096,"date":"2025-07-29T12:22:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/man-proposed-to-now-wife-43-times-before-she-agreed-to-marry-him\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T12:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:22:02","slug":"man-proposed-to-now-wife-43-times-before-she-agreed-to-marry-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/man-proposed-to-now-wife-43-times-before-she-agreed-to-marry-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Man proposed to now-wife 43 times before she agreed to marry him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-29 12:22:00<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A tattoo artist proposed to his now-wife 43 times before she agreed to marry him.<BR><br \/>\nLuke Wintrip, 36, pulled off extravagant proposals &#8211; including renting a castle in Prague, Czech Republic, horseback riding on a beach in Jamaica, as well as several candle-lit dinners &#8211; since 2018, in a bid for marketing CEO Sarah, 38, to say &#8220;yes&#8221; to marrying him.<BR><br \/>\nExplaining the reasoning behind the first rejection, Chelmsford, Essex, East of England, resident Sarah told The Sun newspaper: &#8220;I just said, &#8216;No, we&#8217;ve only been together for six months.&#8217;<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;I loved him, but I didn&#8217;t want to say &#8216;yes&#8217; to something I later retracted.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nHowever, on the 42nd proposal, Sarah insisted to Luke: &#8220;&#8216;Next time you ask, I&#8217;m going to say yes, but just you wait.'&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nA year later, Luke took the mum-of-three to Greenwich, South East London, England &#8211; the home of Greenwich Mean Time.<BR><br \/>\nHe said to Sarah at the time: &#8220;&#8216;This is the centre of the world and I want you to marry me.'&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nShe recalled: &#8220;He finally won my heart.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;He should probably get a Guinness World Record. I am grateful he persisted for so long.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nDespite getting married in Jamaica, Caribbean, in May, the wedding was not all smiles as Sarah battled pain and ended up in hospital with a life-threatening condition because a cyst burst in her groin.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-29 12:22:00 A tattoo artist proposed to his now-wife 43 times before she agreed to marry him. Luke Wintrip, 36, pulled off extravagant proposals &#8211; including renting a castle in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}