Man Forced To Marry Fiancée After She Gets 22k Likes On Facebook Post

Stuart Gunn/Facebook

Usually people get married for all sorts of reasons: love, money, visas. It’s something that many of us will experience.

But the proposal for the wedding is usually a very traditional affair.

Either the gent gets down on one knee, or hides the ring in a glass of champagne, or nowadays pulls an elaborate flash dance in Disneyland followed by a ridiculous fireworks display and aeroplane banner.

Perhaps even stranger, is the engagement of Amanda Barr and Stuart Gunn…

Stuart Gunn/Facebook

Amanda has been badgering Stuart to marry her for the past ten years, but he kept saying no.

So Amanda decided to take matters into her own hands.

SWNS

With Stuart’s agreement, she posted a status on Facebook, saying Stuart would agree to marry her if the post racked up 500 likes.

Predictably, the article went viral and ended up with 22,000 likes and 10,000 shares.

The post was captioned ‘Let’s get me down the aisle guys’.

So as many of you already know me and Stuart has Been together now for 13 years we have 3 amazing beautifull children, a…
Posted by Amanda Barr on Sunday, 23 July 2017

The full post read:

So as many of you already know me and Stuart has Been together now for 13 years we have 3 amazing beautifull children, a lovely home, were are happy and content.
The only problem is my last name!! Iv been nagging him for the past 10 years now to get married but no luck such as yet!! So enough is enough now I’m not getting any younger I would love to be married by next year.
So Stuart has said if I get 500 likes and 50 shares by the end of this month he will propose this year and set a date for next year so I need all mine and Stuart’s family and friends to share and like the hell out of this post.
LETS GET ME DOWN THE AISLE GUYS (sic)

It took considerably less than a month to get to 500 likes, with the post reaching the goal in less than an hour!