Farmer uses corn maze for wedding proposal

Aug 01, 2018

Travis Drexler spent about two months mapping and cutting corn

By Diego Flammini
Staff Writer
Farms.com

A farmer from Fabius, N.Y., recently used his field to ask someone a very important question.

Travis Drexler, who along with his family operate Springside Farm, proposed to his girlfriend Allie Randall by carving a question into the farm’s three-acre corn maze.

“Allie, Will You Marry Me?” the maze reads.

Drexler approached his father two months ago about using the corn field as a canvas for his marriage proposal.

“We were out in the field in June planting pumpkins and were trying to think of a corn maze idea,” he told Yahoo today.

Travis Drexler and Allie Randall.
Facebook photo

The pair spent the next two months fitting the letters onto the maze and waiting for the corn to be tall enough, so the message could be read from the air.

A neighbour photographed the maze, and Drexler showed Randall the photo last week.

“I read it – and then I read it again and again to make sure I got it right,” she told Syracuse.com Thursday. “Then Travis got down one knee, gave me a ring and I said ‘yes’.

“There are no words in the English dictionary to describe how I felt. I am still overwhelmed and delighted.”

The proposal has received large amounts of media attention since it happened. But the moment between the eventual newlyweds was private.

“I knew that any sort of public proposal was completely out of the question for her, so the moment itself was very personal, very private,” Drexler told Yahoo. “That was a way to make a loud declaration but still have it kept between the two of us at the same time.”

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