I was a luxury proposal planner. This common complaint made me lose faith in love

Jamie never dreamed he would become a proposal planner (Picture: Jamie Valentino)‘You don’t think a scavenger hunt is romantic?’ asked my client Michael*.He’d just suggested sending his girlfriend on a wild goose chase across Manhattan, retrieving clues from his exes in the order he’d dated them – I was horrified.But as a proposal planner, my role was to focus on logistics rather than acting as a gatekeeper of perceived ‘romance’.Luckily, most men