Love Will Radiate from Times Square on Valentine's Day 2025

Two Weddings, Two Surprise Proposals, and a Vow Renewal on the Red Steps

(Times Square, N.Y. – January 30, 2025) On Valentine’s Day, New Yorkers and visitors looking for romance in New York City will find it at the Crossroads of the World with Love in Times Square. Each year, lovers surprise their partners with marriage proposals under Times Square’s iconic Everest (formerly American Eagle) screen; couples tie the knot on Duffy Square; and New Yorkers and visitors renew their vows on the Red Steps. These real-life love stories will unfold in front of the winning design of the 17^th annual Times Square Arts’ Love & Design Competition, Love Ever After that will be unveiled in Times Square on February 4.  Details about Love Ever After can be found below.    

Love in Times Square will follow this schedule on Valentine’s Day:

11:00 am – Wedding #1

11:30 am – Surprise Proposal #1 on the Everest billboard

12:00 pm – Wedding #2

12:30 pm – Surprise Proposal #2 on the Everest billboard

6:00 pm – Vow Renewal Ceremony on the Red Steps (Registrations can be made HERE)  

More details about the weddings:

• At 11:00 am the first couple will get hitched right in the heart of Times Square.  After a three-and-a-half-year romance, this couple is ready for a unique wedding experience for them and their two adult children.  Having both had traditional wedding experiences in the past, they are ready for something truly unique and different in the middle of Times Square.  
• At 12:00 pm a second couple will formalize their union. Having met in Times Square back in 2008, this couple is ready to make their commitment to each other in the heart of Times Square where it all began.  

More details about the proposals:

• At 11:30 am and 12:30pm, a diverse set of lucky lovers, will be surprised with a Valentine’s Day gift that they – and everyone else in Times Square – won’t see coming and won’t soon forget: a surprise marriage proposal message will appear on Times Square’s iconic Everest billboard.  

Details about the couples will be available on-site at the event and they will be available for interviews after their big moment.  Please reach out to TJ Witham at tjwitham@tsq.org for any specific requests.    

Beginning at 6:00 pm, a celebration of love and commitment will take place outside on the iconic Red Steps in Times Square.  The ceremony is free and open to people of all ages, genders, religions, races, and backgrounds and will include a live performance from a member of the cast of Broadway’s A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical.  Those interested in participating can register here online.  

The backdrop for all these festivities will be the winning design of Times Square Arts’ 17^th Annual Love & Design Competition, Love Ever After. which is a 50-square-foot geometric heart sculpture constructed of over four dozen oyster cages designed to create beauty through simplicity, where reuse, regrowth, and love for the environment and community are intertwined.The work is presented with the support of curatorial partner The World Around and collaborator Billion Oyster Project, a non-profit on a mission to restore oyster reefs to the New York Harbor as a nature-based solution to improve habitat quality.

Footage and images of the Valentine’s Day Love in Times Square events will be available upon request after the event.  

Photos and video from last year can be found here: Photos (credit: by Liz Ligon for Times Square Alliance) and video (credit: by Phatt Features for Times Square Alliance).      

While in Times Square for Valentine’s Day, we encourage everyone to rediscover their favorite local spots and explore hidden gems offering special menus, gifts, and offers, including Brooklyn Chop House, The Dickens, Barbetta Restaurant, Havana Central, Lagos TSQ, M Social Hotel New York Times Square, Russian Samovar, Swing 46, and more. More information can be found HERE.  

Details about all elements of Love in Times Square can be found at TSQ.org/Love.  

Socialmedia:

#LoveTimesSquare

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Instagram:@TimesSquareNYC and @TsqArts

Facebook:@TimesSquareNYC

TikTok: @TimesSquare.NYC

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ABOUT TIMES SQUARE ALLIANCE

The Times Square Alliance works to improve and promote Times Square - cultivating the creativity, energy and edge that have made the area an icon of entertainment, culture and urban life for over a century. Founded in 1992, the Alliance keeps the neighborhood clean and safe, promotes local businesses,manages area improvements and produces major annual events with partners including New Year's Eve, Solstice in Times Square and Taste of Times Square.As the custodians of Times Square, the Alliance works every day to improve the quality of life for the neighborhood residents and businesses while driving economic growth in New York City.  TSQ.org

ABOUT TIMES SQUARE ARTS

Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, collaborates with contemporary artists and cultural institutions to experiment and engage with one of the world's most iconic urban places. Through the Square's electronic billboards, public plazas, vacant areas and popular venues, and the Alliance's own online landscape, Times Square Arts invites leading contemporary creators, such as Mel Chin, Tracey Emin, Jeffrey Gibson,Ryan McGinley, Yoko Ono, and Kehinde Wiley, to help the public see Times Square in new ways. Times Square has always been a place of risk, innovation and creativity, and the Arts Program ensures these qualities remain central to the district's unique identity.  TSQ.org/Arts

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CONTACTS:  TJ Witham (212) 452-5234 tjwitham@tsq.org
  Ali Rigo ali@culturalcounsel.com
Shin-Jung Hong shinjung@nicholaslence.com