Capture your proposal on film

Auckland-based Perspectives Photo and Cinema helps people devise cover stories to explain the cameras without arousing suspicion.

It's not just wedding pictures filling photo albums - modern-day lovebirds can pay for proposals to be captured, too.

Auckland-based Perspectives Photo and Cinema director Isaac de Reus said his company used video and photography to record the joyous, but usually private, reaction to a marriage proposal.

The team helped people devise cover stories to explain the cameras without arousing suspicion.

One couple, Kylie and Mat Nimmo, supposedly won a Facebook competition to model for a "promotional shoot". The romantic night-time proposal, in a Muriwai forest glade, was met with surprise and tears of joy by the unsuspecting bride-to-be. The clip was aired in church before the bride walked down the aisle.

Auckland Wedding Photography's Steven Neville also shot a glitzy proposal under the guise of a competition win. The evening included a helicopter ride, waterfront meal and limousine ride before the pair arrived at a theatre where a marriage proposal was projected on to a giant screen.

"Then he opened the ring box and she was flabbergasted."

Proposal shoots started at $1,000. The Nimmo shoot has amassed nearly 1.4 million views on YouTube.