The wrong couple’s sunrise proposal Courtesy of JP Photography. Peters woke up at 2:30 a.m. in order to hike up Hawk’s Bill Crag and set up his equipment before the 6 a.m. proposal time.

"I saw the couple's silhouette on the cliff, so I started taking pictures with them in it because I thought it would be cool in the pictures," Mr Keane wrote.

Silhouettes of Sylvia Drake and Charity Bryant of Weybridge, Vermont, (c. 1805-1815) is possibly the first depiction of a same sex couple. Collection of Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History ...