'Corny' proposal pays off

COREY Cook hoped his girlfriend would accept a marriage proposal - no matter how corny it might appear.

So he paid an Ohio farmer to carve the words, “Michelle, will you marry me?” into his family’s cornfield.

A heart surrounded the message, which covered about seven acres - large enough for Michelle See to spot from a small plane - as the couple flew from Columbus to north-eastern Indiana.

The reply to the proposal was a “yes.”