WHO knew grocery shopping could be so romantic?

An Italian man proposed to his girlfriend at a grocery store in Venice this week, asking her to marry him over the microphone at the checkout counter.

“My love, I want to ask you something in front of everyone,” Salvatore Costarelli is seen saying into the microphone in a video published on the website of the Corriere del Veneto newspaper.

“I love you, you’re my life, and I want to ask you: will you marry me?”

Someone off-camera begins clapping and the camera pans to the detergent aisle where a woman, Tiziana Famao, is seen leaning over her cart in surprise before wheeling it out bashfully.

The couple hug next to the frozen vegetables, a ring is unearthed from Costarelli’s pocket and placed on Famao’s finger, and a long kiss is accompanied by laughter and applause from the cashiers.

“When I heard those words I did not understand anything anymore,” said Famao, calling her new fiancé “a very shy person” ordinarily.

The happy couple, cashiers and other shoppers later toasted with a bottle of Prosecco that was chilling in the refrigerator, awaiting the big moment at the Despar supermarket in Mira outside Venice.

Costarelli said he planned days in advance.

“I also thought of the classic proposal in a gondola.

“But I chose the supermarket… to make her understand how much I care about her.

“A gesture like that she will not forget for the rest of her life.”

The wedding is planned for December, in Sicily. – AFP, June 19, 2022.