And then in December, the Shahs and the Bafanas traveled to Pune, India, for a formal traditional engagement in front of 200 relatives.
"I do a lot of speaking engagements and sometimes I feel like I'm being paid to curse in front of people who haven't heard it in a while," he said.
And to that effect, ensuring high levels of engagement helps Pinterest make sure people are returning to Pinterest over and over again, giving advertisers more of an opportunity to get in front of those users and drive Pinterest's business.
But if it ultimately leads to more hours in front of the TV, increased engagement and meeting consumer preferences becomes a benefit even without direct monetization".
We proposed to each other over a dinner of spicy noodles on New Year's Eve and took silly, blurry engagement photos in front of an all-night grocery store's wilting flower display.
Each fresh engagement photo didn't just inflict jealously -- when would it be my turn to swap vows in front of 500 close friends, family members, and people I'd invite just to make jealous?
In April, Ashley Donald and her fiancé, Erik Rogers, were in downtown Charleston, posing for their engagement photos in front of historic houses.
Google says the service has grown to 40 million users (I'm more interested in engagement numbers, but that's another story) and it's doing everything it can to get it in front of more users.
To risk failure in front of everyone.
The huge, arena-unifying celebratory ballad Mirrors moves one chap to propose to his girlfriend right in front of Timberlake, who, part-showman, part-decent human being, makes the couple's night when he announces their engagement.
