Top places to propose (according to YouTube postings)

By Barry Neild, CNN
2 minute read
Updated 12:56 PM EST, Wed March 4, 2015
FloridaTix.com analyzed wedding proposals posted on YouTube to calculate that the Empire State Building is the 10th most popular place to propose. Who wouldn't fall for a view like that?
10. Empire State Building (New York) —
FloridaTix.com analyzed wedding proposals posted on YouTube to calculate that the Empire State Building is the 10th most popular place to propose. Who wouldn't fall for a view like that?
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The London Eye is the UK's only top 10 entry. Better hope it's a yes otherwise the 15-minute ride down from the top is going to be awkward.
9. The London Eye (London) —
The London Eye is the UK's only top 10 entry. Better hope it's a yes otherwise the 15-minute ride down from the top is going to be awkward.
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The Grand Canyon scored 4,470 "I do" uploads on YouTube. If the marriage doesn't pan out, you'll always have a great metaphor for your relationship to look back on.
8. Grand Canyon (Arizona) —
The Grand Canyon scored 4,470 "I do" uploads on YouTube. If the marriage doesn't pan out, you'll always have a great metaphor for your relationship to look back on.
Courtesy Michael Quinn/National Park Service
We still love you Paris, but maybe just, y'know, as a friend. The Eiffel Tower places seventh on the list with 5,420 YouTube proposals.
7. Eiffel Tower (Paris) —
We still love you Paris, but maybe just, y'know, as a friend. The Eiffel Tower places seventh on the list with 5,420 YouTube proposals.
OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images
More metaphors for troubled marriages -- roller coasters -- didn't dissuade 5,650 couples from uploading their expressions of love at Universal Studios Florida.
6. Universal Studios Florida —
More metaphors for troubled marriages -- roller coasters -- didn't dissuade 5,650 couples from uploading their expressions of love at Universal Studios Florida.
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Why propose by a European historic landmark when you can propose by a European fake historic landmark? So say 8,480 YouTube uploaders.
5. Disneyland Paris —
Why propose by a European historic landmark when you can propose by a European fake historic landmark? So say 8,480 YouTube uploaders.
Disneyland Paris
What makes the view from the top of the Rockefeller Center (32,700 YouTube proposals) more romantic than the Empire State Building? Only a hardened cynic would suggest it's the slightly cheaper tickets.
4. Top of the Rock (New York) —
What makes the view from the top of the Rockefeller Center (32,700 YouTube proposals) more romantic than the Empire State Building? Only a hardened cynic would suggest it's the slightly cheaper tickets.
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It's free to enter. There's no one dressed as Mickey Mouse. There isn't an amazing view. And yet New York's Central Park bags 33,600 proposal videos and third place on the list. There's hope for humanity yet.
3. Central Park (New York) —
It's free to enter. There's no one dressed as Mickey Mouse. There isn't an amazing view. And yet New York's Central Park bags 33,600 proposal videos and third place on the list. There's hope for humanity yet.
TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
Flash mobs gather, billboards flash and approximately 33,000 people wander through Times Square on a daily basis. So, no pressure at all on the 45,000 uploaders who said "I do."
2. Times Square (New York) —
Flash mobs gather, billboards flash and approximately 33,000 people wander through Times Square on a daily basis. So, no pressure at all on the 45,000 uploaders who said "I do."
Andrew Burton/Getty Image
Just don't call it a "Mickey Mouse Marriage." Disney World Florida has featured in 59,700 videos of lovers getting engaged.
1. Disney World (Florida) —
Just don't call it a "Mickey Mouse Marriage." Disney World Florida has featured in 59,700 videos of lovers getting engaged.
Walt Disney World Resorts
Most romantic places to propose
CNN  — 

If they remade “Casablanca” today, chances are its epic emotional climax would feature a slightly less poetic farewell between bar owner Rick Blaine and his old flame Ilsa. Urging the woman he loves onto a plane to escape to freedom, Humphrey Bogart’s character would utter the heartfelt words: “We’ll always have Disney World Florida.”

OK, so it doesn’t have the same ring as Paris, but apparently Mickey Mouse’s Sunshine State outpost is where modern couples are more likely to have shared their most romantic moment.

Online ticket retailer FloridaTix.com reached this dispiriting conclusion after scouring YouTube for every wedding proposal video uploaded since 2005. Of more than 200,000 tallied, Disney World Florida claimed 59,700.

Proven passion killer

Gallingly for France’s city of love, its most famous landmark doesn’t even make it into the top five proposal spots.

The Eiffel Tower languishes seventh, behind a slew of New York locations, Universal Studios Florida and – most galling of all – Disneyland Paris.

Paris performed marginally better in the top 10 list of cities for marriage proposals, placing a modest fourth behind New York, Los Angeles and London.

Still, the uploading of YouTube videos isn’t exactly a scientific measure of romantic inspiration and in some cases, Internet oversharing has been a proven passion killer.

“Don’t play it again Sam,” as Rick never said in “Casablanca.”

Top 10 global proposal sites

1. Disney World (Florida) (59,700 uploads)

2. Times Square (New York) (45,500)

3. Central Park (New York) (33,600)

4. Top of the Rock (New York) (32,700)

5. Disneyland Paris (Paris) (8,480)

6. Universal Studios Florida (Florida) (5,650)

7. Eiffel Tower (Paris) (5,420)

8. Grand Canyon (Arizona) (4,470)

9. The London Eye (London) (4,080)

10. The Empire State Building (New York) (3,470)

Top 10 cities to propose in

1. New York City (113,000)

2. London (112,00)

3. Los Angeles (94,500)

4. Paris (85,800)

5. Las Vegas (62,000)

6. Florida (53,200)

7. San Francisco (40,600)

8. Orlando (29,400)

9. Barcelona (15,600)

10. Rome (11,100)