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    $55,000 Engagement Ring Cupcake? Edible Marriage Proposals Made to Order

    What looks better: the ring or the cupcake?What looks better: the ring or the cupcake?As Valentine's Day approaches, so inevitably do marriage proposals. With around 10 percent of engagements planned for February 14th, food purveyors have started offering package deals to make the whole process easier. Of course, having your own pre-wedding planner comes at a price.

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    Pizza Hut, the delivery chain that caters to both kids birthdays and college after-parties, will do it for $10,010 . The pie chain just announced plans to provide limo service, a ruby engagement ring, flowers, fireworks, a personal videographer, along with breadsticks and a medium cheese pizza for the first ten people who place the order. This is not a joke .

    It remains to be seen how many people will spring for the delivery deal but expect to see at least one pop up on YouTube to the delight of the Pizza Hut marketing team. Note: It only comes with one free topping so choose wisely.

    It's not exactly a deal, but it's a lot cheaper than the going rate at another eatery. Cupcakes Gourmet, a Pennsylvania-based bakery, will make that special someone a red velvet cupcake topped with an 8-carat diamond ring. Through a partnership with Warwick Jewelers, a local diamonds n' things store, ring buyers get a 15 percent discount and free edible pillow to present it on. The grand total: $55,000. But, if you want a smaller carat diamond, the bakery will work with you on price.

    Folding proposals into fancy dinners and surprise desserts has long been part of the job for restaurateurs. At the White Barn Inn in Maine , for example, they make their own chocolate heart-shaped boxes for the grand ring presentation. They even have a script for waiters ("For you, we have something extra!").

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    But the all-inclusive theme is new. Shopping for a ring becomes a lot more enticing when food is included, but be careful where you hide the goods.

    In 2009, Kaitlin Whipple swallowed the ring her fiancé hid in her Wendy's milkshake. After the emergency room fees and x-rays, not to mention the efforts to salvage the diamond days later, that $10,000 disaster-free pizza seems like a bargain.

     Watch other ways romantics tender the "Ultimate Proposal" to the ones they love:








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    • Bettie  •  Fort Worth, Texas  •  3 months ago
      I have 50 years coming up in June and I am still waiting on the engagement ring! We were in school and decided to wait on the diamond till we could more afford it. Now it doesn't even matter. P.S. I would marry him again in a heartbeat.
      • sheryl 3 months ago
        Congrats!
      • TMF 3 months ago
        You don't hear that very often anymore.
      • Randy A 3 months ago
        Bless you both !!!!
    • marie  •  Corpus Christi, Texas  •  3 months ago
      my fiance spent $1500 on my wedding ring and band and to me thats still to expensive. for $55k id rather get out of debt and pay off my cars and have lots of spending money. :)
      • sylvia 3 months ago
        obviously.....you also won't be buying a mercedes or a mansion....your point?
      • Char 3 months ago
        Sylvia, what is your problem? You are just a nasty #$%$ hole aren't you?
      • Anita Bath 3 months ago
        Sylvia is a butthole.
    • Regina  •  Wilmington, North Carolina  •  3 months ago
      i'd rather have the $55,000 for a wedding, a new car and a down payment on a house, thank you
      • A Yahoo! User 3 months ago
        same!
      • A Yahoo! User 3 months ago
        xD
      • Laurel 3 months ago
        Yeah...it's amazing how many people plan so much for the wedding and so little for marriage.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  3 months ago
      Many men don't have $10,000 let alone $55,000 to spend on an engagement! $5000-$10000 is what people normally spend on a wedding with a 50% divorce rate! Lol!
      • Lynette 3 months ago
        If more people put as much effort in their marriage as they do their engagement/wedding, maybe the divorce rate wouldn't be so high.
      • jacky 3 months ago
        ABSOLUTELY FALSE!!!!!
      • AmandaP 3 months ago
        I don't care that much about a ring.
    • Gus  •  3 months ago
      "Pizza Hut, the delivery chain that caters to both kids birthdays and college after-parties, will do it for $10,010 . The pie chain just announced plans to provide limo service, a ruby engagement ring, flowers, fireworks, a personal videographer, along with breadsticks and a medium cheese pizza for the first ten people who place the order. This is not a joke".

      No...it is a joke.....Nothing says love like having Pizza Hut as your pre-wedding planner.
      • Laurel 3 months ago
        Nothing says lazy like having Pizza Hut as your pre-wedding planner. :P
      • ratdog 3 months ago
        at least drive to Burger King
      • war machine 3 months ago
        papa jons
    • ratdog  •  Galloway Twp, New Jersey  •  3 months ago
      Two things i cant afford, $2. a cup cake and a $50k ring
    • Juice  •  Las Vegas, Nevada  •  3 months ago
      I'll save the 55,000 dollars lets just get hitched in vegas for 20 bucks and use the money for a vacation or something that would bring in more money. Thanks, but no thanks.
    • Solitaire  •  3 months ago
      I just want the frosting, please.
    • anoymous  •  Wausau, Wisconsin  •  3 months ago
      my wedding ring cost $150 my wedding was a courthouse affair for $75 and let me tell you i have been married 5 yrs and plan on being married a great deal more. Just because he didn't spend a small fortune on the ring and we didn't go into debt over our wedding doesn't make us any less happy accually i think we are happier cuz we didn't have to pay off a wedding or huge guady ring. and got to spend the money on the things that really mattered bills rent the kids ect
    • Devyn  •  Tampa, Florida  •  3 months ago
      GAH! If a guy EVER spent that much money on a something for me, I'd have to kill him.
      What a waste of money!

      You could do so much more with it than have a ring on your finger.
      Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those anti-nice-things kind of people. I love the several name brand items that adorn my closet, but you can find a GORGEOUS ring at the local mall for well under $1,000, of which looks, in my opinion, much better than that plain $55,000 ring. It doesn't have to be expensive to be nice.
    • Ted  •  3 months ago
      I hate when they do this...it is NOT a $55K cupcake...its a $55K diamond...or when they glue diamonds to a cell phone and say its a $50K cell phone...NO, its still a $2 cupcake or a $100 cell phone....just happend to have diamonds on it...
    • SarahC  •  Tampa, Florida  •  3 months ago
      Is it just me or is that cupcake not even very pretty or fancy? C'mon you paid $55,000! At least make a decent cupcake!!!
    • Cheryl  •  Pell City, Alabama  •  3 months ago
      When my ex asked me to marry him, he asked me while sitting on his bed, I did not get an engagement ring, I bought our wedding bands, got married in his parents house among friends and family (which I loved), and had a very small reception of cake, a keg of beer, and a few snack items. My dress and his suit were both bought at a thrift store. After 21yrs of marriage, he ended it. I can say we got our monies worth. LOL!
    • That Girl  •  3 months ago
      My husband still wins for best proposal. He'd told me months before that he was going to have a fake proposal before the real one So when he used a ring pop bag with the ring hidden inside, I thought it was him teasing me-until I opened the ring pop bag and found a tissue with a ring in it.
    • Miyuka  •  Utica, Michigan  •  3 months ago
      For Valentine's Day, do not get your loved one anything. If he/she get's angry, get rid of him/her. That person is no good and has a very tainted view on love through monetary eyes.

      One day a year meant to declare love. How silly, that should be a common thing when you're together no matter what day it is.
    • Zachary  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 months ago
      Why does the price of this matter to anyone? If you are not fiscally able to purchase this, then ignore it. Why do you find it important to show how much better you are because your ring cost $150 or $1500 or $15000.
      There are plenty of people in this country with disposable income, I'm not one of them, but it doesn't mean I should tell them what to do with their money.
      Though this article may not be for your price range, it is just an article no more no less.
    • MillionaireFriends.CoM  •  3 months ago
      Meet sexy women and rich men.

      I realize this is the era of the citizen journalist so we should expect crap, but I still find it frustrating that in this article it isn't until the very end that the pitcher in question, Mendoza, has his team identified, the Storm Chasers in fact, but no where is the city where the Storm Chasers come from mentioned. In the old days trained journalists were taught to get all of the pertinent facts, you know, the who, what, where, why and how, out of the way at the beginning of a story, preferably in the first paragraph. There is no discrimination when it comes to journalism today. Anybody who wants to can do it. Its just not done very well. PS After signing in the "comments" option wasn't working at Yahoo. Typical.59509060345
    • Doug  •  New York, New York  •  3 months ago
      The mere fact that we are all commenting on something soooo STUPID makes all of us equally STUPID. LOL
    • BW  •  San Francisco, California  •  3 months ago
      edible pillow? im bought.
    • annie  •  3 months ago
      $55k for an ugly ring, and to boot you get an idiotic fiance? I'll just take the cake, thanks.

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