The whole city knows
the question.
We write a day around one person or a small group and stage it in the real city with actors. They do not know.
The question takes a whole day to ask. She is the last to know.
Apply for a storyThe question takes a whole day to ask. She is the last to know.
One day we wrote
How a proposal day can go
One example: she thinks it is an ordinary Saturday. You wrote the day with us; the florist, the people on the bridge and the quartet are our actors. Every proposal is written from a blank page.
At a flower stall a woman she has never met greets her by name and hands her peonies. They are already paid for.
On the bridge people stop her one by one. Each holds up an envelope with one line of your story.
In the park the bandstand is lit for two. A quartet is playing the song from your first evening together.
By the water at dusk: a ring box, an envelope with her name — and you. Everyone she met today is standing behind her.
What you receive, and when
- A day written for her alone — never staged before, never repeated
- Professional actors, rehearsed for weeks
- Every place in the day, arranged
- Everything made for the day: the flowers, the letters, the details from your own story
- Our team running the day, unseen — with a second road if it rains
- One record of the day, in one copy
- Within two daysTalk to us.
Who she is, what she has never been given and how you want to ask.
- Within a weekRead one page.
The outline of the day, with the cast and the places. Change anything you like.
- Six to ten weeksDo nothing.
We write and rehearse. She does not need to know anything.
- The dayBring the ring.
Everything else is ours.
What stays after the day
Asked in a way nobody else has been asked.
The one she will tell for the rest of her life.
Every hour of it written for her.
And one record of the day — written up afterwards, in one copy.
In their words
You write the question. We write the day.
Tell us who she is, what she has never been given and how you want to ask. You carry the ring. We carry the rest.
A whole city. Her own story.
- Ordered by
- Her sister.
- For
- Jennifer — on a Saturday she thought was ordinary.
- Lasted
- One whole day.
- The doors
- A stranger who knew her name, a fitting, a magazine cover, a gallery where every portrait was her.
“I think it's the greatest gift I could have given her.” — the one who ordered the day
Notes for the one who asks
How much does a proposal day cost?
There is no price list, because there is no standard day. The cost depends on the cast, the length of the day and what has to be built for it. We share it after the first conversation, as one figure for everything: the script, a cast rehearsed for weeks, every door in the day, and the telling afterwards. Everyone remembers how they were asked. Nobody remembers the table.
Will she know?
No. Until the last scene it is an ordinary day that keeps going right. If she would rather know that something is coming, we write it that way: she knows a story is coming, not what.
What if the day does not go to plan?
The cast has rehearsed for weeks and the story has more than one road to the same place. Rain, a late taxi, a change of mood — the day bends; the question still arrives where it was meant to.
Who arranges the places?
The flowers, the bridge, the table: by us or by a partner we introduce. Flights and hotels are booked by you or by a licensed travel partner we introduce; we do not sell travel.
Where can it happen?
In the city you choose. Teleport is based in Singapore; the cast is assembled for that city, and the roles that carry the story are played by our own people.
How long does it take to prepare?
Six to ten weeks. We walk the city once before we write.
Can friends and family take part?
Yes. From one person to twelve; some of them can be in the story, some of them in the last scene.
Will it be filmed?
Film and photography — by request. Otherwise nothing is recorded.
Apply for a story
Tell us who she is and how you want to ask.