How did your S/O propose?

He knocked me up.

Haha my husband did too. We found out we were pregnant in the morning. That afternoon while i was at work he drove 45 min to ask my dad for my hand, drove back, got a ring, took me to dinner. I thought we were just celebrating the baby... we went for a walk at my college and he proposed by the pond at the library. It was a very overwhelming dsy to say the least

My husband proposed during Christmas a few years ago....only because he didn't have any other good gift ideas, haha.

My girlfriend said "Are we ever going to get married?" , I said," yeah ok!"
2 Kids and 22 years!


I know I know, I'm a romance novel in the flesh!

We had a big new years eve party 1999/2000 with about 60 people. After the stroke of midnight he asked me down to the beach to get some air. I was a little tipsy... so I was jumping around playing in the water. He finally grabbed my arm, got down on one knee and proposed. When I said yes all our friends on the balcony started to clap and shoot off fireworks. It was pretty fricken awesome!

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My ex-husband didn't actually propose. I got pregnant and four days after telling his parents we were married... the closest thing to a proposal he did give me was a promise ring on our first dating anniversary with a star wars related note saying that he wanted to spend his life with me and the ring was a promise that we were on the path to doing so. He did this on the re-creation of our first official date.

My husband proposed on Thanksgiving. We'd eaten dinner with his family and had walked back up to his parents' house (they're neighbors with his grandma). We were sitting on the couch talking and he said he'd be right back. He was gone for at least 10 minutes and, when he came back, he proposed to me. LOL the funny part is it took him so long because he couldn't get the price tag off the ring. It was supposed to be a Christmas present but he didn't want to wait any longer June 7th will be 11 years

We were discussing his upcoming 6month stint doing navy surfs and, as we fretted over money (cost of living in Hawaii ain't cheap) he concluded that a marriage would solve some of the issues. So. There you go. The romance is overwhelming.

I remain hopeful for a real wedding later.

My husband and I met at university, had been together for a long time, 11 years, had a house and a dog. We finally decided it was time to make it official, he wanted me to pick the ring since I would be the one wearing it - wanted to make sure I would like it. So we went together and I picked out a style I liked. Then, time goes on. It's Christmas Eve at my parents house. A good friend of the family dresses up like Santa every year for the gift exchange with their family. So there is Santa Claus from his toy sack handing me a big white box with a large red bow on it ... I open it up and there are a dozen beautiful long stem red roses inside and a card asking me to marry him....and hidden among the real roses is a ring box that is shaped like a rose - inside was my ring. I was so surprised. It was really nice that he was still able to surprise me and include my family. A couple weeks ago we celebrated 17 years of marriage.

He took me to Paris, and proposed in Notre Dame during Christmas Eve mass. It sounded like angels were singing. Tourists behind us cried and cheered. I was hugged by a zillion people I never met before in my life...

Of course, I had a black eye that day (My boss at work slipped on the ice getting out of a car and slammed the door shut on my head trying to catch his balance. Long story, short. >_<), but other than that, it was perfect.

I love this!!!!

We spent 6 months looking at houses for HIM, when we found a house that I fell in love with. He ended up buying it. The day that he closed on the house- we were on the phone.

Him: "So- when are you going to move in?"
Me: "When you marry me."
Him: "So- when are we getting married?"
Me: "I don't know- but I'm thinking the sooner the better."

BAM! Engaged. Married a month later.

We were laying in bed one afternoon at his parents house and we were talking about anything and everything, as we always enjoy doing and he asks me out of the blue, "If I get deployed, would you marry me before I leave?" Me, the person that has to think things through about a thousand times before I can give a person a definite answer, said, "YES!" without a second thought. We got a ring later to make it official and we married a year later when he was home on leave from his deployment that he left for two months after he "proposed" and we are still happily married six years later, only now we have three kids that make us happy too!

I proposed to my husband. I kind of made a really big deal about not ever wanting to get married. We had attended a Valentine's Charity event, and there were a variety of booths set up with various romantic themed entertainments for a small fee. One was a wedding booth where you could get "married" for $5. Another was a divorce booth where you could get "divorced" for $20. We had only been dating for about 3 months when we attended this charity ball. I was a little tipsy and agreed to the "wedding" if he promised me that we could get the "divorce" later.

It was very funny, and there were other booths around the charity where we participated in more of the festivities. When I asked to go back to the "divorce" booth he just kind of laughed it off, but I freaked out. We got into a fight over it, because I didn't like the symbolism of buying the marriage certificate without the divorce certificate.

Up until that point we had casually talked about our mutual disinterest in getting married. After the charity ball, my heels were totally dug in, and there was no way I wanted to ever think about getting married. Ironically, I worked at a bridal shop at the time.

After we had been together for several years (and were now living together), things started getting more complicated. We were sharing bills, I was spending time with his son on a regular basis. We were house shopping. We were running a business together. It became obvious to me that getting married would make a lot more sense for us. But how do I back pedal my previous stubbornness?

We had a winter vacation planned to go cruise the western Caribbean. I figured that would be a good time to pop the question. So I went and bought the ring about a week before we were scheduled to leave. Then I started freaking out. I couldn't wait a week, worrying about what he might say. After only 24 hours I felt like I was going crazy with the stress.

So instead of waiting until the cruise, I just got in my car and drove over to where he was working. He was having a horrible day at work, nothing was going right. I didn't care. I managed to get his attention away from the computer screen by putting the ring box on the keyboard.

He was confused. Men's minds don't shift gears quite as quickly as women's. He opened the box and looked at it for a moment before he asked, "What's this?"

"It's and engagement ring. For you. If you want it." I said.

He still hadn't quite gotten it, "Are you proposing?"

"Yes." I said, "What do you think?"

He didn't say anything, but pulled me into an embrace, "I love you." He said.

His reaction was a positive one, but it also wasn't a "yes," either.

I pushed, "Well, is that a yes?"

He smiled, taunting me, "Hmmmm, maybe I should think about this..."

I guess the look on my face let him know that I was not going to take his reaction lightly.

"I think it sounds like a great idea," He said finally.

Our 13th wedding anniversary is 11 days from now.

He bought me a diamond ring, which he knew I didn't like, and proposed with that - in the dark!! Not really that romantic haha but a few months later he mysteriously "borrowed" my ring and then proposed again with a sapphire ring! Still not that romantic but he tried haha

Bump! Almost time to go home so can't reply yet but I will! :flowerforyou: