Revealed: The world's most extravagant (and expensive) proposals
msn.comBlack Tomato - a specialist travel company based in London and New York - is arguably the market leader. Each Black Tomato proposal takes place on a holiday that the company, founded in 2005, has carefully curated.
Co-founder Tom Marchant reveals that one of the firm's stand-out engagements took place in Mongolia when they sent a couple on a hunting trip with a local Kazakh (a traditionally nomadic people in central Asia) hunter, whose 'perfectly trained eagle' helps him to hunt for red and corsac foxes.
Tom recalls: 'After the eagle spotted some prey in the distance, the mighty bird took off to attack, but rather than returning with the fox, [it] returned with an engagement ring'.
When the team learned that another couple had a passion for scuba diving, they crafted a 'thrilling proposal' that involved the sweethearts 'leaping' from a helicopter into the Great Blue Hole, a famous marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. 'They explored the Blue Hole reef system in complete privacy and then conducted their engagement,' says Tom.
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