To text or serenade: Which would be the best marriage proposal?

Although the days of civilised courting and memorable wedding proposals via the would-be bride's over-protective dad are long forgotten in today's society, do modern women - against their ingrained feminist ideals - secretly want the old-fashioned hoopla of romance?

Following news that Sky News TV anchor Eamonn Holmes proposed to his beloved partner of 12 years, Ruth Langsford, via text, I cannot decide whether I think it was a sweet gesture or a lazy one.

Now I am one for modern technology - my entire life is on my BlackBerry - but when it comes to love and more importantly, marriage, shouldn't the old tradition of man on bended knee remain?

Granted, Eamonn's proposal does sound romantic. He told Hello! magazine that he had been at the races with Ruth on her birthday and was watching her celebrate a big £38 victory when he realised there was no good reason for them not to be married.

 That, combined with his impending 50th birthday celebrations, which led him to ponder his own mortality, led the Northern Irishman to do the deed.

 "Quite spontaneously I sent her a six-page text message telling her how much I love her and asking would she marry me," he explained.

More romantically, he waited with bated breath for the rest of the day until Ruth checked her phone. It was not until she got into the car to return home much later that she read the text.

Eamonn described how he watched as her eyes filled up with tears, before she finally text back to him with the words "yes please".

Ok, maybe I am a sucker for a romantic story, but isn't the anticipation that Eamonn put himself through truly romantic?

Whatever the verdict, whether you are pro modern-day proposals and detest the sickly-sweet idea of a dreamy scenario straight out of a Jackie Collins novel, or if the fairytale version is your idea of heaven, surely the proposal itself is irrelevant in the grand scheme?

In my opinion, as long as the wedding is perfect - in accordance with each couple's taste of course - then that is all that matters.

Would you be impressed if your partner proposed by text message? Or are you the old traditional type that wants him down on bended knee?