How did you get proposed to? <3

Proposal from first husband: couple of hours before getting ready to go out to a nice restaurant, I jumped on my ex's lap while he was on the sofa. After a minute, he pulled the ring box out of his pocket and said, "here, you were going to find it anyway."

Proposal from second husband: my favorite holiday is the 4th of July, he almost proposed under the fireworks. Instead, he waited until the next day when he took me back to the same bed & breakfast in a little town where we had our first get away as a couple and is a special place to both of us. He proposed in front of the courthouse on the town square.

Both proposals were memorable but I much prefer to remember the second one.

A week before he proposed, I was eyeing a cute little stuff toy in a toy store. He asked me a couple of times if I want that stuff toy and I said yes. When the proposal day came (celebrating our 32nd month), he asked me to go out for a lunch in a resto. When the food came, he then pulled out the cute stuff toy from his bag and put it on the table. I was so happy and laughing because I knew from the start he will buy that stuff toy. But never I did notice that tiny thing sparkling on the necklace of the stuff toy. And I was wondering why he was looking different like he wanted to tell something. Then he told me to look at the stuff toy "closely". Then I saw the ring and asked him "what's this?" (because I'm not really aware of that proposal thing in my entire life). Then he asked me to marry him.

We are getting married next year October 2012, 4 years after he proposed.

the first one said: "you want a ring or a house" *sigh* divorced.

the second and last one took me to our favorite mexican joint and proceeded to take me to the beach after where apparently he had called our "favorite radio station" earlier in the night and told the DJ the scoop and had him play Jack Johnson at a particular time, wherein he got out of the car and i said, "What, you have to pee here??" and he opened my door, got down on a knee and proposed...typical april move iwth the whole you gotta pee here comment...but it is what makes it "our story"

and the earlier part of the day is i spent the afternoon with my mom and sisters at a casino celebrating their birthday and got all ****-faced and then came home, took a nap where he had to wake me up to go out to eat...while i was feeling not so ****-faced, this, again, makes it a typical day in the life of us kind fo story

Mostly depends on the husband, mine is not very on the romantic side. . According to him.. because he was waiting for me to finish my studies in my home country and move with him.. so he would see that I was serious, according to me because he's too perfectionist and would never find the "perfect" ring, or "perfect " moment to do it. I was soooo frustrated, I had to give him an ultimatum.. either he proposed on Holidays or he would go back to England alone. And the proposal itself wasn't very romantic either. I felt sometimes like I was spoiling my own chances of having a successful marriage, and one could think he was pressured to do it.. blah blah blah.. but to be honest, one year and a bit after the wedding.. he sends things like this.. so I can say he's even more in love now than ever.

"Hi my queen of awesomeness, my beautiful, perfect wife! Missing you loads and only 1 night gone, still 16 more to go
I woke up with a very painful stiff neck this morning. Still have to put all the bins out. You would be having your breakfast in bed here now! Love you so much. Have a great halloween. Hope to see you on Skype tonight before you go out. Take care of the little prince and yourself. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx LOVE YOU xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"



A VERY IMPORTANT TIP: set a date right after the proposal, some guys are happy to be "engaged" forever. I was lucky and he came up with the idea of "when", but I see other women that say that are engaged and when you ask them, they say "we haven't talk about it yet".. sounds pretty awful.

My now husband was so romantic in his proposal. He had me thinking he was planning us a mini-vacation and I would find out where we were going on Christmas. He really had me going, I was even doing research into what places were within 200 miles of us (that's the range he gave) and even had my co-workers convinced! So Christmas Eve came and he came to my parents house before Church, downed a couple of beers which I thought was strange but I let it go and we went to Church. Afterwards we were home first and I tried to convince him to exchange gifts before everyone got home but he wouldn't let me. Our tradition is everybody gets to open one gift on Christmas Eve so we always exchange one gift then.

So everyone finally got home and of course I had to be the last one to open my gift. He tried to get me to sit up on the couch but I was comfortable on the floor. So in front of my entire family I opened a big gift bag and there was a decorated box inside that said "The very best vacation" inside of that was another box that said "that I could ever take" and inside of that was an envelopes that said "would be with you..." Now keep in mind I'm completely clueless still, I'm expecting tickets to somewhere or hotel reservations inside the envelope!! So I open the envelope and there are a few pieces of paper, still looking for tickets, and there was a piece of paper in between two others that said "forever" and the ring was taped to it!

The waterworks started IMMEDIATELY, I was so happy! He later told me he had a whole speech prepared but he couldn't get any words out without crying so he just asked, "Will you marry me" and of course I said yes!

It was amazing, we've now been married about 5 months!

We meet online 18 years ago. A few weeks in he asked if I would marry him over the phone. But it wasn't an obvious proposal to me so I asked "If you are proposing I would say yes." He mailed me a ring. When I flew out to Orlando he dropped to one knee and proposed in the airport! 18 years and one daughter later we are still going strong.

A local magazine did a story on it and the ring last year. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150470016320992&l=0bbd81de48

Cool story. I'm from Orlando and know about Church Street Station. My husband proposed to me at a cemetery. I know, weird, right? Well, we had gone to a wedding earlier and then we went to the cemetery to put flowers on my mom's grave for her birthday. While we were there he dropped to his knee and read me a poem he had written about a frog and a princess or something kind of corny like that and then asked me to be his princess forever. I said yes and we're still together 26 years later.

He took me to the restaurant we went to on the night when we became an "official" couple... so it's always been one of our favorite spots (it's a pretty average Italian family-owned place heh). Suddenly the cashier from the front of the restaurant comes up and says, "Sir, please come up front, there's a bill that you didn't pay last week." I thought it was pretty weird but tried not to think anything of it because I knew that he had just been to that restaurant the week before. So he comes back, and we are finishing our food and the same guy comes over with a big bouquet of roses! I thought it was super sweet so I was checking them out when I looked over and suddenly he's down on his knee with a box asking me to marry him! I was SHOCKED so I asked him if he was serious for a minute then I said yes!

So yeah... like I said I was *really* surprised. I wasn't expecting a proposal for another 2+ years (we've been together almost 5 years, he proposed in July). I was honestly at a point where I was getting really discouraged and didn't think he'd ever do it... turns out he was saving for the ring for six months

I was in the middle of studying for my AP Government final, stressed as hell, on the phone with Alex, and he just asked. I just stopped for a minute and said "what?" he repeated it and I said yes. Then I proceeded to tell about timing. That was not good timing. But, I guess it got my mind off of my final!

ps, I calculated the time spent studying for that final: 15 hours total.

Oh dear,, I guess it's my turn. Mine was TOTAL surprise.

We have only met a month before but he was so sweet, so well-mannered and all that. For that reason I enjoyed being with him. Two weeks after we met, he became more involved in my life, including going to church with me. This was really nice but then, he was so sweet, so well-mannered,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, must I repeat it?

A month after we met, we were watching a movie,,, he looked at my finger and asked If I would like a ring for it. I told him that it is not needed. He gave me a ring and said "for our friendship" I thanked him and thought.. WHOA,, that's real diamond!?!? Crazy guy! I even asked him directly if it's real! :blushing:

After the movie, we went to Denny's for late night dinner. One of our friends, the one who intro both of us came to our table. My husband showed him the ring he gave me. He asked,, "when's the date?" I replied "we aren't" then I turned around and saw him with his face sooooooooooooooo RED! I asked him,, " are you telling me you couldn't find a word to ask?" He nodded yes.

That crazy guy wanted us to marry in 2 months, I told him NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.. If he really loves me, he can wait a year! I felt it was too fast to begin with so it's logical to wait,, right?

Well a year and 2 months later (we couldn't get married on day he proposed cuz of Lent) he said to me,, IT WAS WORTH THE WAIT....... Of course it was!

Unfortunally, I lost him to cancer 6 years later, but I am blessed with two precious gifts from him -- two lovely daughters.

My husband was home for a few days right before he deployed to Iraq. I had surprised him with baseline tickets to the St. Louis Cardinals on a Thursday, on Friday we had a huge party with all of our friends and got completely wasted, and on Saturday we went 4 wheeler riding to the creek where we had our first picnic together at and he got down on one knee. I knew it was coming because we had talked about it before, but in the moment it felt like a surprise. It was one of my happiest weekends.

I'm all mushy reading these! I've been with my boyfriend for a little over 6 years, and we've known each other for 17. Lived together for 5. I have no shame and have been displaying my ringless left hand in front of his face at every opportunity. I've ascertained that he has paid for the ring but has yet to pick it up, so I told him he really should do it by thanksgiving because it'll be easier to let my family know that way :laugh: He gets really grumpy and says I'm sucking the romance out of it. Which is true. But come on. 6 years. That clock is starting to tick!

When he tries to be romantic, he pretty much does it by the book, which is very sweet and at the same time very silly. But I'm not expecting anything too wild and crazy. I also told him NOT to do it on my birthday, which is Dec 7, because god forbid something happens, like a divorce or a death by freak accident scenario, then my birthday will always be connected to the proposal... etc. Is that unromantic of me, lol? He probably wanted to do it then, too, because we always go to Disneyland on my birthday and that would be a pretty great place for it :bigsmile:

I handed him about 10 positive pregnancy tests. Then came the "Our parents are gonna want us to get married now you know...."

We had been talking about seeing a fertility doctor to get me started on hormone therapy so we could have a child, and while discussing it he said "before we have kids, you should be my wife" and threw the ring at me. My reaction was "are you serious? is this a prank?" then after establishing it wasn't there was allot of screaming and crying and kissing and baby making practicing.... that was 2 years ago, now we've been married for a year and a half and are expecting our first child in May, we couldn't be happier!

My wife loves Disney World (who doesn't), so I planned to do the proposal there.

We went out to a nice dinner with a window seat so that we could watch the fireworks over the water. I considered doing it at dinner, but when we got to our dinner late, our view of the fireworks was blocked by other viewers on the walkway outside the window, screaming kids ran by our table and we seemed surrounded by "loud talkers", it just didn't feel like the right time.

I had tried to arrange to get a caricature drawing of us arranged, having the artist draw me proposing, and of course following up with the actual proposal once my girlfriend (now wife) had seen what was drawn on the page, but ran into several issues. One artist told me that he was no longer allowed to do full body drawings, but that they were instructed to only do shoulders and up portraits. Another artist said they don't usually do it, but would on this occasion for $490 USD (not that I want to look cheap, but that seems outrageous for a drawing).

In the end I decided to ask in front of Cinderella's castle. They have Disney employees all over the parks taking pictures on request. They take the picture, give you a card and then you can order the pictures later if you'd like. We posed for the pictures leading up to Cinderella's castle first, then I asked the photographer to take a few more. I turned to my wife, said my predetermined mini speech, and knelt to ask for her hand in marriage (while the photographer took pictures...me kneeling, my wife bawling).

Less than 15 minutes after saying "yes", my wife had found and was posing in a pair of Minnie Mouse Bride Ears.

My two young daughters and I had "adopted" this soldier named Shawn when he was serving his first tour of Iraq. Shawn and I ended up falling in love during his deployment, over letters, care packages, and phone calls. When he had been home a couple of months, he asked my father's permission. My dad said yes. Later, in December, we took my girls to the mall to see Santa. Shawn asked me to sit on Santa's lap for a picture, too. I thought that was ridiculous and laughed and said no. He begged me to do it, and said that it would mean a lot to him. Shawn is a very sentimental guy, so I figured if it was important to him, I would swallow my pride and sit on Santa's lap. I felt pretty stupid. So I'm sitting with Santa, and of course he asks me what I want for Christmas and all that. I started making things up, saying dumb things like, "a pony" (I figured Shawn would never know, he just wanted his silly picture). Santa asked if I would settle for a card, and handed me one. I opened it, and there was my proposal. My husband is really romantic, and it was a beautiful proposal... there is a picture of me after I read it, and my face is definitely saying, "Is this for real?" Then Santa pulled a jewelry box out of his pocket and handed it to me (my face is HYSTERICAL in that picture! I'm even crooked on Santa's lap, like I'm about to fall off, which is basically true). The next picture is me with a GIANT smile on my face We've been married two and a half years, he is currently deployed again, and our son is three months old. I wouldn't change a thing about our marriage, and I wish the best to you with your future engagement and marriage!

OK, you have to post the pictures!!!!!! This was great!!!!!!