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Any one got any good anecdotes of how they proposed?

Humerous stories of when they popped the question?

I've decided my better half deserves to have my surname ;)

Was going to do something really crazy but she's more the shy retiring type so anything loud and brash will probably not go down as well as say a quiet weekend away.

The lakes have some lovely places to visit, and was thinking that wouldnt be a bad idea.

And if she says 'no', il just wrap her body in a bin bag, tie a few bricks to her and dump her in lake windermere...
 
Had planned to do it up the calgary tower at dinner, as it rotated to a setting sun... sadly it was closed for renovations! I then thought to do it on the shore of Lake Louise in the Rocky Mountains, but the forecast was for heavy rain all week!

So I ended up doing it in the spare back bedroom of my parents in laws second home in Calgary before a family mothers day (Canadian date) brunch at a posh venue. Not as romantic for the proposal but having a family meal (the wife's Canadian side) straight after meant for heady Champaign fuelled celebrations (apart for the wife and I who don't drink the stuff)
 
We walked out to plunketts memorial at Virginia water in the pouring rain for me to go down on one knee and pop the question. We were soaked, and laughed all the way back to the car park. Still together 22 and a bit years later.

Have suffered from knee problems ever since though.
 
I proposed to my wife, by text message. I was working a nightsift and started my dinner break as my wife started her bus journey home. So i sent a text saying how much i loved her and had a question to ask her............... I then waited 25 mins so that she would be home and sent the text asking her to marry me. fortunately she said yes
 
She'd paused by a jewellers shop disply looking at rings so I just said lets cut the ******** and get wed. No down on one knee (not good with my joints) no big display of love. We've been married 13 years this year, engaged for three years before that and together for 21 years in AUgust 2013
 
Proposed on the 5th anniversary of our first date, on a weekend away in Rome. Got married on the 6th anniversary of our first date. Only one date for me to remember! If only our first date had been on her birthday...
 
The ex and I had a slightly different proposal we were actually on separate nights out with our own groups of friends (hers were work mate id never met) didn't even know where each other were going. But they ended up in a club where me and my mates were already and she hadn't seen me but one of my pals saw her enter the club. I'd had a few sherberts, thought why not go for it had a word with the DJ got him to call her name to get her to look at DJ booth so as she turned to look up he uttered the words "there's a man here wants you to marry him why don't you turn Round and let him know what you think" she turned round I was there and she just kissed me. I assumed that meant yes, but now I wish I'd made the wrong assumption :eek:

This time round though I did it right, HID & I got engaged when we were away, she's a big kid who loves Disney so I booked a long weekend for her birthday to Disney land Paris. Went and bought the ring ready to make a prat of myself. When we were out there they had the Disney on Ice show so I took her to that and along the walk back under the night light if the fountain of the Disney castle hotel I popped on one knee presented her with small Disney ring box & popped the question, she actually said yes! Still shocked now as she still way out of my league i think she may need stronger contact lenses!
 
I could write a book on the story of my engagement, but ill give you the short version....

Been together 9 years next month, have been living together for 5 years, owned a house for 3 etc. She's not your typical girl, yes she wants to get married and have kids, but only when we are ready! we both have good jobs and paid well, but marriage and kids would always wait until we were ready. im the soppy ******* in this relationship!

So anyway messing around a couple of years back, she mentioned something about a tension ring, and best companies are in america. So, being nieve i thought you can walk into a shop, say i want that one, and go with the ring. But alas, it wasnt that simple.

So i started doing research, lots of it, found loads of people over here offering to make whatever i wanted for half the price, but i decided to spend the cash and get her the real deal. Found the company in the states, found the ring, thought great, not as much as i thought! Wrong, that was ring only, then you have to pick the diamond. Started researching diamonds; found the ring, found the diamond, shopped around, some places said they wouldnt put that cut into that ring, others said they would.

Contacted the company ( Gelin Abaci) direct and asked them, they said yes, but would have to modify the ring. Went back to a couple of places, they still said GA wont do it. Asked GA to reccomend a place as im in the UK and need to do it online. They told me a place, contacted them, they said yes, recieved some CAD images from GA, chose another diamond. Size?

Size? Asked her twin sister, she told me a size, i was going to go with it, but i thought i would check, so one night when she was asleep, i measured her ring finger. which came out totally different to what her sis said (now this ring is being custom made, and because of the setting, the size is very important alterations can only be done by GA)i put one of her other rings onto the ring finger and it fitted snug (i later slipped it into my pocket, took it to a jewlers, which confirmed it to be the size closest to all the measuring i did!) she never woke up that night, but if she did, she would had seen me sitting up beside her, with the laptop open and measuring tape in hand!!

So now we have the ring inc modifications, diamond, size etc, so i say, yes, lets go with it. They send me an invoice and the ring on its own was nearly 40% more than everywhere else, and not because of the modifications. So we negotiate and get it down. Next thing, they wont accept a card from outside the US, has to be a bank transfer, wasnt comfortable with that, but i have some friends in the US, i asked them a huge favor and they sorted it out for me! ( I paypalled them the $$$)

All sorted, 5-6 weeks later, i get the email that it is finished and now in my friends posession. But we cant just send a ring accross, so he put's it into a box full of golf goodies for me, shipped with UPS 48hour service to the uk, and i tell him (he didnt want too at first) to put a $100 value (full value, i would hand been bent over on customs) 2 sleepless nights, then the box arrived! ;D

Weekend after that, romantic weekend away, bended knee, giggles and a yes straight away and then a constant smile for a few months!!


Other chapters of this book include,

My family = Telling my family and keeping all 4 of my sisters including twin 13year olds quiet for months. One of them stupidly txt her on christmas day asking who would be her bridemaids >:(

Asking for permisson = Asking her father when she was away for a week, then making up a story on the spot after she rang and said she had just spoken to her mum and she told her i was around their house (in the 8/9 years ive never just popped round when she wasnt at her parents!!)

Asking the Question = Stressing over the right place, right time, and making it perfect. She later told me she know something was up as i had been acting abit strange for a couple of days.

Surprise nearly ruined = I hid it in my bag the weekend we went away, she was looking for something and actually put her hand on the box (which was hidden inside 2 sainsburys bags) and moved it out of the way.

Loads more, but i wont go into them, ive gone on long enough!!
 
that was written in another engagement thread on a dif forum back in sep 2011, weve been together 10 and a half years now and was married last june!!
 
We had just finished a meal at Tavern on the Green in Central Park, NYC.

I didn't say a word, I just opened the ring box, popped it down next to her dessert and gave her a wink.
 
My girlfriend and I had been together or 12 years, We were at a party at her mum and dads house who were away, I had drunk a bottle of vodka and was a little all over the place as were most. My girlfriend came into the garden with a tray of Champagne (last think I needed) and asked me to marry her....

The rest is history...
 
ScienceBoy said:
Had planned to do it up the calgary tower at dinner, as it rotated to a setting sun... sadly it was closed for renovations! I then thought to do it on the shore of Lake Louise in the Rocky Mountains, but the forecast was for heavy rain all week! So I ended up doing it in the spare back bedroom of my parents in laws second home in Calgary before a family mothers day (Canadian date) brunch at a posh venue. Not as romantic for the proposal but having a family meal (the wife's Canadian side) straight after meant for heady Champaign fuelled celebrations (apart for the wife and I who don't drink the stuff)
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That would have been a beautiful place to do it. Stunning part of the world.

I planned to do it up at the Queen's View, overlooking Loch Tummel (http://www.pitlochry.org/things_to_do_pitlochry/queens-view.htm) but when we got there, there wasn't a view. It was so misty and grey that you couldn't see anything. So we drove on a bit further and came to Loch Rannoch and there's a little beach there, just at the bend in the road. It was deserted, so we went down and were skimming stones. My then-gf was complaining about being tired and cold and sat down on a big rock, which gave me the perfect opportunity to get down on one knee.

For some reason that I still can't understand, she said yes, we've been married 6 years now, have a little girl of 2 and have just found out we're expecting another baby in October :)

I can still see the view from the beach that day. Perfect place to do it.
 
I proposed at Stanstead airport arrivals. Stood like a knob for about an hour waiting for the now Mrs to come through arrivals after a brief hol with her mates, stood with all the taxi drivers with a big sign that said "Sarah will you marry me?" Saved me going on one knee i suppose... she still has the sign i made somewhere! (to be honest, my now 5yr old does better art work!)
 
I proposed to my other half on the top of Ben Vane overlooking loch Katrine, 20 years later we still climb it with our kids at least once a year.
 
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