Can you set up a proposal at an observation deck?

Every major observation deck prohibits outside décor, structures and open flame, and several run their own paid proposal packages instead. Some also restrict tripods and professional camera rigs. So this page exists to say the useful thing rather than sell you something: if the deck is where you want to ask, book their package or just ask, and let us build the part of the evening that happens before or after it.

When is the best time to propose at an observation deck?

Sunset slots sell out weeks ahead at every deck. If you are pairing it with a setup elsewhere, remember the queue down is as long as the queue up.

What kind of setup suits an observation deck?

Ask on the deck, celebrate elsewhere — the setup goes in a suite, a private room or an apartment nearby, and the deck gives you the photograph. Marquee letters — for the second location, where the celebration actually happens. A flower wall — somewhere you control, so the evening does not end when the deck closes.

Proposal locations · New York City

Observation deck proposals

Worth being straight about this one: the observation decks are the most-searched proposal spot in New York and the least workable for décor. They are ticketed, staffed, and they do not let you bring an arch in.

The spots

Where people actually mean

Top of the Rock, with the Empire State Building in frame
The Edge at Hudson Yards
Summit One Vanderbilt
The Empire State Building's own 86th floor deck

Observation deck proposals — Proposal Perfection NYC

What suits it

What we would put there

Chosen for this setting specifically — scale, shape and how it holds up in the conditions.

Ask on the deck, celebrate elsewhere: the setup goes in a suite, a private room or an apartment nearby, and the deck gives you the photograph
Marquee letters: for the second location, where the celebration actually happens
A flower wall: somewhere you control, so the evening does not end when the deck closes

Marry Me Marquee Letters — Illuminated MARRY ME letters, tall enough to read across a rooftop and bright enough to shoot at night

Worth knowing

They will not let you set up

Can you set up a proposal at an observation deck?: Every major observation deck prohibits outside décor, structures and open flame, and several run their own paid proposal packages instead. Some also restrict tripods and professional camera rigs. So this page exists to say the useful thing rather than sell you something: if the deck is where you want to ask, book their package or just ask, and let us build the part of the evening that happens before or after it.
When is the best time to propose at an observation deck?: Sunset slots sell out weeks ahead at every deck. If you are pairing it with a setup elsewhere, remember the queue down is as long as the queue up.
What kind of setup suits an observation deck?: Ask on the deck, celebrate elsewhere — the setup goes in a suite, a private room or an apartment nearby, and the deck gives you the photograph. Marquee letters — for the second location, where the celebration actually happens. A flower wall — somewhere you control, so the evening does not end when the deck closes.

Elsewhere in the city

Other places people propose

Each one has its own access, its own light and its own rules.

The next step

Plan your proposal at an observation deck

Tell us the date, the place and the person. We will design the rest, deliver it, style it and clear it away before you have stopped celebrating.

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Observation deck proposals

Where people actually mean

What we would put there

Marry Me Marquee Letters

Monarch

Cold Sparks

Custom Packages

They will not let you set up

Other places people propose

Central Park

Brooklyn Bridge Park & DUMBO

Rooftops

At home

Long Island City

Hotel suites

Restaurants

Waterfront

Plan your proposal at an observation deck