Every couple has those stories they’ll probably share with their kids someday about how they met and fell in love (“Your mother and I were both drunk at a college party when…”). But probably the most romantic story of all is the one where one finally declared love for the other, most likely in some kind of grandiose way. But regardless if he gave you flowers or if she wrote you a passionate letter, none of those declarations come close to the story about the woman who declared her  love by fasting for a week (Actually, I made that one up, but I’m sure it happened somewhere). Check out these five four three (this was harder to research than I thought) outrageous declarations of love throughout the world:

I love you, let me post the ways

A woman in the U.K. decided to declare her love to her boyfriend by covering his truck in 500 Post-Its. “I spent over an hour-and-a-half writing the notes with felt-tip,” the woman told Metro. What did her boyfriend think? “He said it was the most romantic thing anyone had ever done for him,” the woman said.

Courtesy of BBC

Sand art

A man in North Yorkshire, England wrote a 120 ft birthday message to his fiancee in the sand at a beach. He told BBC,”I’ve been asking her what she’d like for a long time but she doesn’t really want anything. So, I thought ‘right, do something completely different.’” Yeah, good luck trying to top that gift next year.

Shout your love

In a small village in Japan, husbands take a tour bus to a cabbage patch in Gunman where they stand on a platform and shout their love to their wives. Since it began in 2006, the whole event has become a tourist attraction. How romantic?