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To say that Lubna Anis was having a banner day is a bit of an understatement.
The 30-year-old was involved in a couples photo shoot on Petrie Island with her boyfriend Adil Shamim, 34, on Saturday when he told her to look up in the sky.
“There was a plane and I thought, ‘Why is he showing me a plane? We are tight on time right now. We have to get the photography done,'” Anis recalled on Tuesday. “And then I looked and said, ‘Oh there’s a banner, how cute is that?’
“And then I actually concentrated on the banner and I saw my name and I said, ‘Wait. Oh my gosh, that is for me.'”
The banner read: “Lubna I’ll (heart) you forever. Marry me. Adil.”
By the time she looked back, Shamim was already on one knee.
“I started tearing up. It was like a dream, like a movie,” a giggling Anis said. “That’s when he said the whole ‘I’ll love you forever, I’ll never leave you, please marry me’ and I said ‘Yes’.
“I can’t turn away from that.”
Adil Shamim, 34, proposed to Lubna Anis, 30, on Saturday via aerial banner.
The pilot flew the banner around the island for 15 minutes while the lifeguard congratulated the two via a public address system. Strangers came up to shake the blissful couple’s hands while their photographer captured the special moment.
Many others shared the moment, too. At least 300,000, according to the International Pilot Academy, which co-ordinated the surprise. Company president Jules Selwan said its pilots take off from the Carp or Rockcliffe airport and also fly along Highway 417 to ensure the message receives the most exposure possible.
The company does aerial banner ads — they’re 45 metres long and about two metres high — for restaurants and sports teams and expects to be busy with the upcoming election. But Saturday’s marriage proposal was its first since the business launched five years ago.
“We ask for at least three to four weeks’ notice to prepare the banner,” said Selwan. That type of service runs around $1,500.
The couple met in March through friends and fell in love. Their marriage had already been arranged for November, but Shamim knew Anis wanted to be proposed to, and he wanted to do it in style.
“I was thinking big,” said Shamim. “Something that would capture her imagination and seal the deal on the spot.”
pmccooey@ottawacitizen.com
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The 30-year-old was involved in a couples photo shoot on Petrie Island with her boyfriend Adil Shamim, 34, on Saturday when he told her to look up in the sky.
“There was a plane and I thought, ‘Why is he showing me a plane? We are tight on time right now. We have to get the photography done,'” Anis recalled on Tuesday. “And then I looked and said, ‘Oh there’s a banner, how cute is that?’
“And then I actually concentrated on the banner and I saw my name and I said, ‘Wait. Oh my gosh, that is for me.'”
The banner read: “Lubna I’ll (heart) you forever. Marry me. Adil.”
By the time she looked back, Shamim was already on one knee.
“I started tearing up. It was like a dream, like a movie,” a giggling Anis said. “That’s when he said the whole ‘I’ll love you forever, I’ll never leave you, please marry me’ and I said ‘Yes’.
“I can’t turn away from that.”
Adil Shamim, 34, proposed to Lubna Anis, 30, on Saturday via aerial banner.
The pilot flew the banner around the island for 15 minutes while the lifeguard congratulated the two via a public address system. Strangers came up to shake the blissful couple’s hands while their photographer captured the special moment.
Many others shared the moment, too. At least 300,000, according to the International Pilot Academy, which co-ordinated the surprise. Company president Jules Selwan said its pilots take off from the Carp or Rockcliffe airport and also fly along Highway 417 to ensure the message receives the most exposure possible.
The company does aerial banner ads — they’re 45 metres long and about two metres high — for restaurants and sports teams and expects to be busy with the upcoming election. But Saturday’s marriage proposal was its first since the business launched five years ago.
“We ask for at least three to four weeks’ notice to prepare the banner,” said Selwan. That type of service runs around $1,500.
The couple met in March through friends and fell in love. Their marriage had already been arranged for November, but Shamim knew Anis wanted to be proposed to, and he wanted to do it in style.
“I was thinking big,” said Shamim. “Something that would capture her imagination and seal the deal on the spot.”
pmccooey@ottawacitizen.com
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