Man Fakes Death... For Marriage Proposal

By Teri Pous, TIME

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Man Fakes Death... For Marriage Proposal

September 6, 2012 Updated Sep 6, 2012 at 12:42 PM PDT

If Alexey Bykov puts half as much effort into his marriage as he did for his proposal, he may yet live happily ever after -- which is something to be said for a man who faked his own death before proposing.

Byokov, from Omsk, Russia, knew he wanted to marry his girlfriend, Irena Kolokov–but he had to be sure that the feeling was (really, really) mutual.

So he did what anyone who takes “’til death do us part” literally would do. He hired a screenwriter, director, movie stuntmen and makeup artists to stage a gruesome car crash, where he instructed Kolokov to meet him.

She arrived to her boyfriend not kneeling on bended knee, but rather lying on the ground covered in fake blood.

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