by Phil Speer
TORONTO -- Laurie Larivee and Zack Belkner had been good friends for two years, and started dating nine months ago. It was clear that they were made for each other, and it was just a matter of time before Belkner "popped the question." But his girlfriend didn't want a "traditional" proposal.
So Belkner called the World Wrestling Federation. After three months of conversations with the company, Belkner arranged to ask his girlfriend to marry him in the middle of the ring - at the Pizza Pizza Arena on Friday at FAN AXXESS -- with guest superstars Edge and Lita there as witnesses.
"She said whatever I did to ask her, she didn't want a 'traditional Valentine's Day' type thing," said Belkner, 27, of Boston. "So I figured, What could be better than the World Wrestling Federation?"
Larivee, a 23-year-old resident of Lincoln, R.I., said she was clueless as to what was going on when she was summoned to the ring during the evening session of FAN AXXESS.
"I had no idea," she said. "I thought maybe I was going to meet somebody."
Sure enough, Edge came to the ring, followed by Lita. Both Larivee and Belkner are huge Federation fans; merely meeting the two superstars would have been good enough.
But then Edge looked at Belkner and mentioned that he had heard that Belkner "had a question to ask." Belkner confirmed that he did -- he had a question for his girlfriend. He dropped to one knee; Larivee realized what was going on and started crying. She quickly agreed to marry her boyfriend, and Edge, Lita, and several hundred fans crowded around the Pizza Pizza Arena cheered wildly.
"You could tell how happy she was when she realized what he was going to do," Lita said.
Added Edge, "It was pretty cool to be asked to be involved in a pivotal part of someone's life, in a different way than entertaining them in a wrestling match."
*credit WWF.com*
