How did you propose or get proposed to?
 

So the time has come for me to pop the question and I am looking for inspiration. How did you go about it? Success and failures are welcome as one can learn equal amounts from both.

Cute. An engagement thread to balance the divorce thread. Cosmic balance.


Congrats.

Wow this is the most perfectest topic for me right now.....:bellyroll:

Actually I proposed at the top of the ski lift in Santa Fe on Valentines day, It was pretty awesome looking back, however I now have the issues I have so thanks for making me reminisce.

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Dimmen, you sir are officially the man, sorry ichi, Dimmen has now replaced you... Dimmen san that was perfect..........

HaHa

You didn't know? Dimman > me. That have been like that for yrs lol

My wife and I were reading on the computer about how to apply for her green card, which we needed to get as she is a foreigner (Swedish). She said, hey, why dont we just get married. I said, sure, set it up. She set a date at this 300 year old ex-church that is currently a court house, and we were married 7 days later. That was 7 years ago and we are still madly in love (and in America). Point is, if you guys are right for each other it doesn't really matter how you propose. So have fun with it and do something cool and creative if you want but don't stress over it.

Nothing really special for us. I had the rings engraved with the dates, and I kept her awake the night before so I could pop the question just after midnight.

I proposed to my fiance at the Dead Sea in Jordan a bit over a year ago. I actually planned to propose on our trip to Petra but given that she is allergic to horse/donkeys and they are everywhere at the site, I decided to wait until later in the evening.

In all honesty, somewhere private, quiet and memorable is all you really need. Shows that you care

Its happened to me twice... both times as an ultimatum, "marry me or we're over".

So I gtfo.

know of a guy that took his girl hiking (they were very adventure- oriented). He busts out a picnic lunch at a nice shaded cliff overlooking a valley between two mountains. As they were finishing, they noticed some smoke on the other side of the cliff, about 100m away on some bedrock. Then, a fire started, billowing smoke into the sky.

What was on fire, but a king-sized mattress that had been cut into the shape of a heart and soaked in gasoline. He and his buddies had dragged it up the opposite cliff the night before, and one of his friends went up to light it while they had their picnic.

She said yes :)

I was shacked up with a girl in a place we had got maybe a year earlier.... The original plan was to put the ring inside a big stand mixer box (with the mixer inside....she had been looking at getting one for a while at that point) and leave it for her to find whenever she got around to opening the big box...

But I didn't want her opening the mixer and throwing out the little box by mistake, so I just brought in the big box with the little box on top and told her that she could now bake and cook for me forever....

Good thing we were both already on the same page about that last part....hahaha

roofie + corrupt minister

oooooohh yeahhhhhh

This.

My wife and I met on a "blind date" (I picked her up in my MK1 MR2) the Friday before Thanksgiving, and I proposed the following Valentine's Day (yes, less than 3 months later) in the pretty standard fashion at dinner. We got married in August the same year, and I've been happily married and she has been happy tolerant of me, for 25 years this August.

If it's right, it's right and it doesn't matter how you do it.

Our wedding happened to also be on the 10th anniversary of Elvis' death which folks were making a big deal out of at the time. Our reception was (mercifully for everyone) the first and only time I've sung in public, as the male half of the bridal party sang "Love Me Tender" with me in lead.

First and foremost make sure that you know 110% she will say yes. If your mindset is "hope she'll say yes" then you've already lost and on your way to a possible future divorce. Thats number 1.

Number 2, I agree with LazyZed do it privately; not in public in front of people period Reason being is you don't want her to say yes just to save you the embarrassment of her actually saying no. Don't make her think twice.

Finally and more importantly Dadhawk is right. Doesn't matter how you do it. I had an older acquaintance tell me that her husband propose to her in a simple way.

They did their typical movie popcorn night at his place. He then took her hand, look at it, and said to her "Hmmm...there's something wrong". Then took the engagement ring and put it on her finger and said, "There...that looks a whole lot better" in a nonchalant sort of way. Didn't even do the whole getting down on one knee asking her to marry him. He just did it and because they do movie popcorn night like almost every other week. This was out of blue biggest surprise. She wasn't expecting it and he got her real reaction in the heat of the moment.

To her that is the most memorable thing in her life and after 20 years of marriage, 2 kids, and seeing her friends getting married/divorced/re-married she still loves & dotes on her husband. And for a 40-something year old she puts 20-somethings to shame. She is fing HOT for her age. :popcorn:

I let her pick out the setting for the engagement ring. So being proposed to is not going to a surprise but how I am going to propose will be.

I am thinking of reenacting our first date and having a photographer at the restaurant tacking "promo shots" for the restaurant but focusing mainly on us. Then at the end of our first date I took her to the beach for a sunset picnic of bubbly and strawberries which we will do again and then go for a walk to a tree where I will have covered the trunk with pictures of our time together at the bottom leading up to empty picture framed with phrases like our first house, our first pets (big deal to her), our children, grandchildren and then drop to the knee and pop the question. Hopefully I will be able to get a photographer to capture all of this too.

I figure I can say something along the lines of this is how we took our first step together and we have yet to stumble so it only seems right to use this stepping stone to move onto the next step in our life together." Not exactly it but something along those lines.

Opinions? This is the kind of thing that I have done in the past so it wont seem out of place.