When it came time for me to propose to my wife, I wanted to do it in a creative manner. I'm not sure where the inspiration came from, but I decided I wanted to try to do it with a pop-up book. So I went to the bookstore to explore a little bit and I found "Castles" by Olmon and Sabin. That was really inspiring and I proceeded to do more research and came across your website. From there I practiced some of your simple pop-ups and found some other resources (like David Carter's How-to book.) Plus I used it as an excuse to buy a few more of your books. Then I dove in head first. It became quite the project and grew into something much more elaborate than I had initially envisioned. It ended up with six spreads, tracing a fairy tale of a hero on a special quest. After a few weeks of working in secret, I finished it in time for our anniversary dinner. We exchanged gifts and I gave her the pop-up book. My girlfriend (now wife) was quite blown away by the project, but was caught completely by surprise by the ending where there was pop-up ring waiting and a proposal. We continued the pop-up theme in our wedding favors where I designed and put together a mini pop-up book that told our story. Doing 400 was no easy feat! Cathy and I were married September 15 of this year. I've attached some photos that I took along the way to document my proposal. Once again thank you for having so much information and material available. It let me really create a memorable way to propose to my wife.
Thank you.- Eric Lau, MD.