Couple Vow to Be Valentines--Permanently

Laura Miller, 26, and her boyfriend of one year, Mike Mello, 31, both of Glendale, kicked around the idea of getting married Sunday night, but Mello had never got around to formally proposing.

“He said, ‘Why should I have to propose?’ ” Miller said.

Monday morning, Miller was listening to Garabo and Murphy, radio personalities on country station KZLA, when the show’s hosts announced they would help out any listener with a proposal or an apology on Valentine’s Day.

She immediately called the radio station to enlist its help in proposing to the unsuspecting Mello, on Tuesday--Valentine’s Day--at his workplace.

The station dispatched “Stupid Cupid,” a KZLA listener known only as “Buzz,” to propose to Mello on behalf of Miller.

Wearing red tights, boxer shorts with red hearts on them, and plastic angel wings, Buzz showed up at Mello’s workplace--a door--and window-making business in Sun Valley--with Miller, and read to Mello a poem that Miller had composed for the occasion:

“It may now always show/And sometimes I wonder if you even know/ That I love you, dear, with all my heart/So please say yes and that we’ll never part.”

“It’s so mushy,” Miller admitted.

But Mello accepted her proposal right away.

“I wasn’t expecting it. Everybody at work was shocked.”

“He looked like he couldn’t believe it,” said a giddy Miller.

She said that after they had both gone back to work, Mello called her and joked, “I’m going to get you back for this!”

As of yet, the couple have not set a date for the wedding, nor have they exchanged engagement rings.

But Mello said this was the best Valentine’s Day of his life.

Said Miller: “I’m 26 years old, and I’ve never had a Valentine.”

And now she’s chosen one for life.