Love on the Seine: the rise of picturesque Paris proposals

Fuelled by social media, some of the city's most famous landmarks are being used as backdrops for the lavish "American-style" proposals. "We've always dreamed of a fairytale wedding," 44-year-old Dutch businessman Sander Castel told AFP after contacting ApoteoSurprise, an agency that organises picturesque engagements. A sparkling Cinderella-style horse-drawn carriage drew up before Castel and his partner Shirley Wijgaarts, who was wearing a ballgown, in glitzy Place Vendome. The coachman produced a pink box with a glass slipper inside...