It is a storyline which would do credit to the schmaltziest of Hollywood love stories.
A man makes a film about how he and his intended met, is shown asking her mother's permission to marry her, before racing to the cinema on a motorbike to ask for her hand.
The intended recipient of the proposal watches the film on the big screen, dumbstruck.
The final shot of him in the film entering the cinema's foyer links into him actually walking down the steps to his girlfriend's seat.
The romantic scene was played out at Melton's Regal Cinema at the weekend as Mihail Banciu completed three months of work on the project.
Girlfriend Yassmina Denideni, who had gone to the cinema with friends, got the shock of her life when her man on the screen was suddenly at her side, getting down on one knee to propose.
Thankfully, she said "Yes".
Mihail, 27, who is originally from Romania, said: "It took me more than three months to make the movie.
"I wanted to make it in actual time with the final shot of me in the cinema, having a drink for my nerves before walking down the steps to where Yaz was sitting.
"The friends she'd gone to the cinema with were in on it and there were about 20 of her family sat in darkness at the back of the cinema so she didn't know they were there.
"She started to cry and the audience applauded as I put the ring on her finger – thankfully, she said 'yes'."
He said: "When I first met Yassmina I knew I had to be with her no matter what.
"I was so nervous on the day, I woke up at 4.30am. I just wondered what would happen. The cinema was so helpful and said whatever we needed they would help with."
The couple, of West Avenue, Melton, who have been together for 16 months, met while working on cruise ships.
Beauty therapist Yassmina, 23, said: "I was so shocked I was shaking for hours afterwards, but it was such an amazing surprise.
"I couldn't believe it, I've never been so shocked in my life. I couldn't work out what was going on at first. It was all too much, but in a good way. I had a good cry."
She said of the film: "It showed pictures of a beach and the commentary was about a couple who met on a cruise ship and fell in love and I thought, 'that's a coincidence'.
"Then when I saw the picture of me as a baby I worked out something was going on. He was very smooth and I had no hesitation in saying 'yes'.
"He is a pretty romantic kind of person, but I was surprised he wanted to do this in front of everybody.
"Everyone in the cinema was cheering, although I think at first some people wondered what was going on. Everyone thought it was sweet."
Yassmina's mum, Michelle Greenwell, 43, who appears in Mihail's film, said: "I thought it was fantastic, he really wanted to go the whole hog.
"There were 22 of us at the back of the cinema. We were all crouching down so we wouldn't be spotted and he was in the projection room.
"There were a lot of tears and then we were all cheering and hugging – it was lovely."
