Head over heels: Video of man proposing, his girlfriend fainting goes viral
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When Germán Benítez Giles proposed marriage to his girlfriend Reyna Rentería, it proved to be an epic fail – the video capturing the moment having gone good and viral.
But not because Rentería turned him down.
The Mexican would-be groom had everything prepared to ask Rentería for her hand in marriage – he even had a mariachi band to accompany him.
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And that's when things went horribly off script.
When Benítez gave Rentería a box holding the engagement ring, she fainted dead away, falling backward straight as a board.
Fortunately, once she came to, unharmed, she accepted the proposal.
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She posted a short video on her Facebook page, and it has garnered nearly 4 million views in just two days.
“For all of you, the precise magical moment of the marriage proposal followed by the whack [on the floor],” Rentería wrote in Spanish.
She also shared a photo of her on the floor as well as one of the engagement ring.
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“I’m excited, disbelieving, shocked but happy and safe,” Rentería wrote in Spanish. “There is still time, but step by step and little by little.”