A Cuban man proposes to his Italian wife with flowers and a ring.

Alejandro Ramírez Mustelier, a Cuban entrepreneur residing in Spain, surprised his Italian wife, Elena Calamandrei, at the Trocadero restaurant in the town of Pilar de la Horadada, in the Spanish province of Alicante, where he proposed to her, "now, for real", holding a large bouquet of red roses in his hand.

The owner of the bar Willy, located in La Torre de la Horadada, turned to his wife, the mother of his two children, and gave her a ring hidden among the flowers.

"Gentlemen, don't look at me like that," the Cuban can be heard saying, addressing the rest of the diners in the restaurant, while his wife, upon seeing him, replied, "I knew it." But at that moment, a musician approached playing the saxophone, and she crumbled and hugged his neck, visibly moved.

It was then that he, in front of all the restaurant's customers, said to her: "Mrs. Elena Calamandrei, mother of my two children, woman of so many years, of twenty already, of twenty-something, do you want to marry me, but now, as you are, now for real?"

Meanwhile, a young woman at another table in the restaurant is seen covering her face, very excited, as she witnesses such a romantic scene.

At that moment, Elena Calamandrei embraced the musician, who later apologized to the other customers in the establishment, explaining that it was a surprise she was not expecting. And at that moment, the couple received a loud round of applause from everyone in the restaurant.

Alejandro Ramirez left Cuba married to Elena Calamandrei, whose family had strong ties to gastronomy. It was she who encouraged him to open a Cuban restaurant in Spain. That's why they moved from Italy to Madrid and then from Madrid to La Torre de La Horadada. In Madrid, Ale, as affectionately called by friends, worked in distributing advertising. The agility he gained in distributing leaflets was then used in La Torre to promote Cuban parties that he organized at Bar Willy with "free food" and charging only for drinks.

It took a while for the townspeople to get used to the idea that the traditional Bar Willy would slowly become a Cuban food establishment that only opens eight months a year. When closing time comes, many neighbors in the area order tamales to freeze them.

The couple is also the owners of a cocktail bar (La Bodeguita) in a town near the Mar Menor, in the municipality of Los Alcázares (in Murcia).