--- title: Surprise Proposal at USC A Cappella Performance: Video description: USC a cappella groups helped a guy propose to a canonical: https://time.com/3399332/usc-acappella-proposal/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-18T20:35:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:18.984Z og:title: This Surprise Proposal During an A Cappella Show Will Make You Tear Up og:description: Grab some tissues og:url: https://time.com/3399332/usc-acappella-proposal/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdff7a590a2bc3001/6986a436e8524bc756604c43/screen-shot-2014-09-18-at-3-46-35-pm.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-09-18 at 3.46.35 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Surprise Proposal During an A Cappella Show Will Make You Tear Up twitter:description: Grab some tissues twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdff7a590a2bc3001/6986a436e8524bc756604c43/screen-shot-2014-09-18-at-3-46-35-pm.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Surprise Proposal During an A Cappella Performance Will Make You Tear Up by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 18, 2014 8:35 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 18, 2014 8:35 PM UTC [_HowHeAsked_](http://howheasked.com/a-capella-proposal)_,_ a website devoted to the art of popping the question, recently spotlighted an especially heartwarming proposal. Eight years ago, Alex met his girlfriend Anna when they were both students at USC. A few weeks ago, he took her back to their alma mater for an a cappella performance — but his plans did not involve sitting and passively enjoying the show. Instead, he [enlisted](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jk8hnZTDhU) the help of all the university’s a cappella groups to orchestrate a performance during which he eventually got down on one knee and proposed. Even if you aren’t usually a fan of sappy romance stuff, grab some tissues before watching this one. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3399332/usc-acappella-proposal/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3399332/usc-acappella-proposal/"},"headline":"This Surprise Proposal During an A Cappella Performance Will Make You Tear Up","datePublished":"2014-09-18T20:35:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:18.984Z","description":"Grab some tissues","url":"https://time.com/3399332/usc-acappella-proposal/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Marriage","relationships"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdff7a590a2bc3001/6986a436e8524bc756604c43/screen-shot-2014-09-18-at-3-46-35-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdff7a590a2bc3001/6986a436e8524bc756604c43/screen-shot-2014-09-18-at-3-46-35-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-09-18 at 3.46.35 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3399332/usc-acappella-proposal/","name":"This Surprise Proposal During an A Cappella Performance Will Make You Tear Up"}}]}] ```