Gallery: Downtown Detroit at Holiday Time Is Instagram-Ready for These 19 Couples

This continues an annual holiday season tradition we began in December 2016 and resumed the weekend after Thanksgiving with this year's first gallery with 12 photos.

Randy Nelson gets a smooch 'neath the tree.

These wonderful things are the things
We remember all through our lives

Downtown attractions draw visitors all year, keep people there after work and fill residences in the city's core. This month, those lures -- restaurants, bars, music, shows, sports, free events -- are supplemented by holiday happenings.

There's a towering evergreen, heated market booths and lounge tents, skating outdoors on ice and indoors on a roller rink, and weekend carriage rides. This winter wonderland includes the Woodward fountain, colorfully lit Campus Martius Rink, fire pits, a giant menorah and that 60-foot Norway spruce with ornaments and over 19,000 multi-colored LED lights -- a ready-made photo backdrop.

So it's no surprise to see a stream of snapshots from young couples, new parents, decades-long pairs and even this marriage proposal to Mary Estes-Dotani of Allen Park by an automotive industry manager from Northville:

She said yes! pic.twitter.com/xBsgwrDC7I
— Bob Gurecki (@Rgurecki) November 26, 2018

We enjoy romantic schmaltz with our holiday cookies and cocktails, and are glad you do too. Local lovebirds share these sweet treats below on Instagram.

We'd love to also see your pose at our page on Facebook or Twitter, or attatched to an email. (Please identify each person by at least first name -- preferably by full name -- and city.)