Disney – 2017(IOWA) — With Emma Watson starring as Belle in Disney’s live action em>Beauty and the Beast hitting theaters in March, what better time to celebrate the handiwork of Joel Lynch?
Who’s he? Once upon a time — well, back in October — the graduate student at Iowa State University decided he wanted to pop the question to his Beauty fangirl girlfriend Cara Szymanski in a really epic way.
He explained to Imgur that he’d never sewed a stitch before, but with trial and error — and lots of coffee — he managed to re-create, by hand, Belle’s famous yellow ballgown.
He presented the finished piece to her on January 14, at a location that bookworm Belle would dig: inside the university’s Parks Library.
It was in the Periodical Room that Cara modeled the fancy frock, and with the title track from Beauty and the Beast playing, he took a knee and presented his real-life Disney princess with a ring. “Mustn’t forget the ring,” he joked.
Needless to say, Cara said yes.
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