Arthur Greene
It was meant to be the couple’s perfect moment, a picture of happiness that would symbolise their future together for the rest of their lives.
The man went down on his knees and pulled out a black box concealing his engagement ring. Just as he was about to pop the question, a Disneyland employee wearing Mickey Mouse ears snatched the box out of his hands.
The worker has achieved worldwide notoriety after a clip of him interrupting the couple’s marriage proposal went viral last week.
In the 21-second clip, a man, known only as Ante, gets down on one knee in front of his partner. They’re standing on an empty platform in front of Disneyland Paris’s iconic Sleeping Beauty Castle when he drops down on his knees in anticipation of his big moment.
The man, branded “evil” by one newspaper, scuttles over to the lovers and snatches the box out of Ante’s hand before ushering them off the platform.
It later emerged that Ante had already asked another employee several times for permission to propose on the platform.
“She said yes”,” the heartbroken man manages to say after his proposal is ruined, gesturing at the other employee.
“Yes, that’s great but over here will be even better,” the villain smirks back.
“Disneyland stands for dreams,” Ante told the New York Times this week. “Our moment was destroyed.”
Ante said he had been planning the proposal for months. Instead, he had to settle for a quiet proposal on a nearby bench, putting the ring on his fiancee’s finger before they watched the video of their ruined proposal together.
After the clip drew outrage from social media users across the world, Disney was forced to offer an apology from its headquarters in California.
“We have offered our sincere apologies to the couple concerned and we will do everything we can to make this up to them,” it said in a statement.
