We have all been trained by television and love songs to believe that big romantic gestures are the key to forever winning someone’s heart. Sometimes, they’re not.

If you are going to propose to the love of your life, you’d wanna be 100% that they felt the same way, as one heartbroken dude is no doubt realising at this very moment.

Pausing a gig at the House of Blues in Florida, this poor guy started expressing his deep love to his girlfriend, and a few hundred of his nearest and dearest.

Despite her body language giving off very clear signs — the shaking of her head for example — he still went down on one knee and popped the question.

She walked offstage, the air was sucked out of the room, and… things got awkward.