Venezuelan Juan Manuel Ávila is a Bon ice cream motorized delivery boy and motorcycle taxi. His girlfriend is 20-year old Yaritza Alexandra Acosta is an ice cream store vendor at the Moreno family Bon ice cream shop in the La Sirena shopping mall located in Las Caobas in northern Santo Domingo. On Wednesday, 13 September 2017, her birthday, boyfriend Avila decided it was time to celebrate her birthday by asking her to marry him.
His pals at work backed him up all the way, helped him buy cake and red roses and then taped the emotional surprise marriage proposal and posted it online for all to share. Avila, encouraged by his pals, would propose the old fashioned way, kneeling down to ask for her hand. His pals wouldn’t stop asking for kisses until they heard the big “yes!” from Yaritza, and all is captured in the video.
The couple’s friends were prompt to make good on important wedding gifts, including house furniture from La Curacao store. And Bon Ice Cream company had promised the honeymoon trip would be on them. And of course, the ice cream for the wedding celebration would be on the house. Others gifts include the bathing suit and beachgoer clothes for when Avila goes to the beach resort for the honeymoon.
The happiness of the couple and friends has been spreading. Even El Torito (Hector Acosta), the merengue band leader, has offered to sing free at the wedding. La Sirena shopping mall announced they would pick up the tab of the young couple’s monthly shopping bill for a year.
Media reports that Avila migrated with his mother to the Dominican Republic 14 months ago, fleeing from the difficult situation in Venezuela.
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MetroRD
14 September 2017
