On Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012, Isaac Lamb asked his girlfriend to meet him at his parents house for dinner. When she arrived his brother asked her to sit in the back of an open Honda CRV and gave her some headphones. He "wanted to play her a song"... What she got instead was the world's first Live Lip-Dub Proposal. This YouTube video was posted by RobertaFosse and has had over two million very happy views.
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