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How did you propose to your now fiancee/wife?

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K I'll post a real one. I haven't proposed yet and it'll prolly be a while but I already know what I'm doing.

My g/f HATES it when I plan way in advance; she likes "spontanaity" but I like to plan because otherwise we don't get everything done. When the day comes I'm going to hopefully just be sitting around (maby with family around I dunno) and ask "What are you doing tomorrow?" She'll answer and I'll say "What about the next day?" She'll get irritated but answer. Then I'll say "Well what about the day after that?" She'll get frustrated and answer. Then I'll say "Well what are you doing next week?" She'll break and go off saying "Bill, I don't know, I'll be working and that's all I know I like to do things as I go!" I'll apoligise and wait a minute then ask "Well, what are you doing for the rest of your life?" And bam! ring, cry, yes, happily ever after.
 
I asked the doc to leave the room and said "Do you really want this kid gowing up without a father?"

















j/k 😀 no kids here.

Took her to Santa Barbara for the weekend for a reunion of a bunch of our friends. We were camping out the first night on the beach, I busted out a bottle of bubbly while we were looking at the stars. Said I'd be right back, grabbed the guitar out of the trunk and played her favorite sappy song at the time, I Cross My Heart by George Strait. Was already on my knee from the guitar, pulled out the ring and asked.
 
Originally posted by: Lazy8s
I'm gonna try getting someone at the Trojan factory to seal one up in a condom wrapper for me and put it inside the box. Make her open them for a while and whenever she hits the magic wrapper I'll pop the question. I figure this offers 2 advantages. First, she'll already be in the mood so there's guaranteed engagement sex; second, if she decides to stop putting out I'll save myself the headache!
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My version:
We went hiking. Reached a cliff. Told her she had 2 choices. She chose life.

Her version:
We went hiking at a beautiful park. While we were at a gourgeous scenic outlook point he dropped to his knee and pulled this ring out of nowhere and said "Marry me or I will jump!"

I guess the part I liked the most is she had no idea it was coming. No special dinner etc. We never went shopping for rings or really discussed marriage at all.
 
Originally posted by: Lazy8s
K I'll post a real one. I haven't proposed yet and it'll prolly be a while but I already know what I'm doing.

My g/f HATES it when I plan way in advance; she likes "spontanaity" but I like to plan because otherwise we don't get everything done. When the day comes I'm going to hopefully just be sitting around (maby with family around I dunno) and ask "What are you doing tomorrow?" She'll answer and I'll say "What about the next day?" She'll get irritated but answer. Then I'll say "Well what about the day after that?" She'll get frustrated and answer. Then I'll say "Well what are you doing next week?" She'll break and go off saying "Bill, I don't know, I'll be working and that's all I know I like to do things as I go!" I'll apoligise and wait a minute then ask "Well, what are you doing for the rest of your life?" And bam! ring, cry, yes, happily ever after.
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:thumbsup: Great idea.
 
Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
I gave her a small .06 carot diamond ring a month before just to get used to the idea that I was serious. She loved it, though the diamond was REALLY small. 😀

Her father is extremely old fashioned, so even though I don't agree with it, I asked his permission to make sure I measured up in his eyes. The next day, her father said to her, "well, I guess you're going to marry this guy....I guess that's alright."

That night, I took her out and she told me about what her father said and I played it off by saying, "I don't even think your father likes me..." It made her kind of sad, but I'm mean like that. 😛 We drove around and I tried to propose to her in a park, but it was too cold, so eventually we went to a restaurant where it was a little warmer. She ordered a bottle of champange on her own (she likes the stuff) and we ate a nice italian dinner. I started holding her hand and sliding the ring I gave her up and down her finger and eventually took it off her hand. She had been wearing it every day for a month, so she missed having it. That's when she asked, "can I have my ring back?" I asked, "why, do you miss having it on your finger? " Then she said, "yeah, I wish you could give me a real engagement ring one day..." I then said, "well, are you sure that's what you want..?" She said yes and I got down a knee right there and asked...I had the real ring in a rosewood box on my knee under the table through the whole meal. 😛 She was EXTREMELY shocked and cried alot. You can see a pic of the ring here.
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:thumbsup: nice
 
We went to the mall and i decided i wanted us to go sit on santa's lap for a picture.
She agreed and when it was my turn to 'ask what i wanted', i asked her there, or well I asked Santa that I wanted her to say yes, which she did. People there waiting in line seemed to enjoy it too.

(fast forward to today, it didn't work out and we didn't get married but that's just the way things work out)
 
Originally posted by: Lazy8s
K I'll post a real one. I haven't proposed yet and it'll prolly be a while but I already know what I'm doing.

My g/f HATES it when I plan way in advance; she likes "spontanaity" but I like to plan because otherwise we don't get everything done. When the day comes I'm going to hopefully just be sitting around (maby with family around I dunno) and ask "What are you doing tomorrow?" She'll answer and I'll say "What about the next day?" She'll get irritated but answer. Then I'll say "Well what about the day after that?" She'll get frustrated and answer. Then I'll say "Well what are you doing next week?" She'll break and go off saying "Bill, I don't know, I'll be working and that's all I know I like to do things as I go!" I'll apoligise and wait a minute then ask "Well, what are you doing for the rest of your life?" And bam! ring, cry, yes, happily ever after.
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aww that sounds so cute ;x

a lot of these do. particularly that one and the first story.

ive been with my bf for over 5 years now, but we're both still in college and far off from considering marriage, but when it comes i hope its cute.

tho the one with buying it in the jewelry store sounds best. not romantic, but then you know the ring is at least what she wants and what size she is.

*ahem* if user pointdablame comes around here, i wear about a size 5.5 ring, i like white gold. no yellow gold. and my birthstone is a ruby in case ya know, you wanna throw that in somewhere on top of all those diamonds 😉
 
Originally posted by: Aharami
Originally posted by: sourceninja
I took her to the mall, we went to the jewlery story. While looking at jewlery she pointed out a ring and said "if you ever decide you want to get married, I would want a ring like that". I called the lady over, asked to see it, stuck it on her hand asked her, bought the ring. Made the jewlery story lady cry.
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jewlery store lady started crying because you just paid the down payment on her new benz.


jk 😛
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A few months after we got married, she looked at her hand and said "I should of asked for a bigger ring". I got a laugh out of that. Truth be told though, if it was any bigger i would of had to make a new plan becacuse it maxed my credit card.
 
She said, "I'm um...late..."; I cut in with, "are you uh...?", and she finished with, "I think so." So I said, "Well, we were already planning to get married, so let's go buy a house and do it now."

It was so fvcking romantic, I get misty everytime I remember it.


 
Originally posted by: chickadee
Originally posted by: Lazy8s
K I'll post a real one. I haven't proposed yet and it'll prolly be a while but I already know what I'm doing.

My g/f HATES it when I plan way in advance; she likes "spontanaity" but I like to plan because otherwise we don't get everything done. When the day comes I'm going to hopefully just be sitting around (maby with family around I dunno) and ask "What are you doing tomorrow?" She'll answer and I'll say "What about the next day?" She'll get irritated but answer. Then I'll say "Well what about the day after that?" She'll get frustrated and answer. Then I'll say "Well what are you doing next week?" She'll break and go off saying "Bill, I don't know, I'll be working and that's all I know I like to do things as I go!" I'll apoligise and wait a minute then ask "Well, what are you doing for the rest of your life?" And bam! ring, cry, yes, happily ever after.
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aww that sounds so cute ;x

a lot of these do. particularly that one and the first story.

ive been with my bf for over 5 years now, but we're both still in college and far off from considering marriage, but when it comes i hope its cute.

tho the one with buying it in the jewelry store sounds best. not romantic, but then you know the ring is at least what she wants and what size she is.

*ahem* if user pointdablame comes around here, i wear about a size 5.5 ring, i like white gold. no yellow gold. and my birthstone is a ruby in case ya know, you wanna throw that in somewhere on top of all those diamonds 😉
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LOL
 
Originally posted by: sourceninja
I took her to the mall, we went to the jewlery story. While looking at jewlery she pointed out a ring and said "if you ever decide you want to get married, I would want a ring like that". I called the lady over, asked to see it, stuck it on her hand asked her, bought the ring. Made the jewlery story lady cry.
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:thumbsup: 100% success rate.
 
Originally posted by: pnad
My version:
We went hiking. Reached a cliff. Told her she had 2 choices. She chose life.

Her version:
We went hiking at a beautiful park. While we were at a gourgeous scenic outlook point he dropped to his knee and pulled this ring out of nowhere and said "Marry me or I will jump!"

I guess the part I liked the most is she had no idea it was coming. No special dinner etc. We never went shopping for rings or really discussed marriage at all.
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LOL
 
Originally posted by: pclstyle
Nobody's going to steal your patented woman-wooing technique, so just share 🙂



Stumbled across my newly-wedded cousin's theknot.com wedding page, and i thought their proposal was pretty cute, so it sparked some interest in 'methods-of-choice'.

One special Saturday night, I walked into a room at the Drake Hotel thinking that I would be getting together with Vinnie's family to celebrate his dad's birthday. Little did I know what lay ahead! When I entered the room, it was aglow with candles and colorful lanterns everywhere. Immediately, I started to cry and asked, "Where are your parents?" Vinnie replied that he wanted to do something special for our 10 month anniversary as a surprise. Of course, his parents were at home relaxing.

He had prepared an area with 10 unlit candles. He told me that each candle represented one month of our relationship and that after lighting each one I would get a gift. Before getting the gift, however, I had to say something I appreciated about our relationship.

I lit the first candle and began my task. After I finished, he gave me a kiss - the first gift. As I lit the remaining candles, he gave me more gifts - a CD with love songs, tickets to a Broadway musical, three of my favorite types of candy, a framed picture of Grand Central, a colorful green box, and pearl earrings.

After lighting the last candle, I found the final gift wrapped inside the green box. It was a photo journal of our relationship. "This is a story..." it began. Page by page, it described our journey with images and words. The final page read, "this is only the beginning...to be continued..." At this point, he asked me if I had gotten him any gifts. Of course, my answer was no - who celebrates a 10 month anniversary?.

Thinking everything was done, I excused myself to the bathroom to compose myself. When I came back out he told me he had one final gift hidden among the 10 candles. I looked through them but couldn't find anything. "Look harder," he told me. Then I saw the ring and when I turned around Vinnie was on one knee. "Will you give me the gift of saying 'yes'?" Everything since then has been a blur.
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my own is a ways off, but lend me your inspiration
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WTF what a loser. If I were the girl I'd be freaked out.
 
Originally posted by: LoKe
Originally posted by: LolaWiz
we had been talking about it a long time but he said we would have to wait another year after he graduated college to get engaged.

One night, we were laying in bed, he was playing with my hand in the dark and he slipped it in!
i was shocked. it was just the two of us and it was priceless! :heart: nothing extravagant or over the top but memorable for me!
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:shocked:
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She did say she was shocked. 😛
 
I bought my wife's ring sometime in November, and I intended to give it to her on Christmas Eve (when she & I opened our presents to each other). I was just a poor college student, so buying the ring broke me and I couldn't afford to get anything else for her. So at the time I worked in customer service at Sears, and I pilfered a whole bunch of those stupid gifts that they give you if you fill out a credit application (stuffed toys, cheap crappy ceramic picture frames, etc.) I wrapped all these in separate boxes so that it looked like I had bought her a bunch of stuff.

I had a decorative bow, part of which was a small piece of styrofoam that was made up to look like a full sized present. I got an exacto knife, carefully removed the paper from the little "fake" present, hollowed out the styrofoam, and put her ring in it. I then reassembled the "fake" present/bow and put it on one of the other boxes. The idea was that after she had opened all of the "real" gifts, I was going to tell her that she had one left, and that it was in plain sight.

However, things didn't exactly work out as planned.

A couple of weeks before Christmas, she had her wisdom teeth taken out. It went badly for her. She got infected and was in major pain at Christmas. I think she had a hard time even talking.

Also, about a week before Christmas, I had to go to the emergency room with severe stomach pains. As it turned out, I had appendicitis and had to have emergency surgery. My appendix was so enlarged that laser surgery wasn't an option, and they split me open (about a 3-4 inch incision on my lower right abdomen).

So when Christmas Eve rolled around, the best I could do was take my pain killers and lie on my back on the couch. However, my plan proceeded as expected, and she got her ring. It was quite a Christmas to remember, even though we were probably a pitiful and/or hilarious sight.
 
Originally posted by: NuclearNed
I bought my wife's ring sometime in November, and I intended to give it to her on Christmas Eve (when she & I opened our presents to each other). I was just a poor college student, so buying the ring broke me and I couldn't afford to get anything else for her. So at the time I worked in customer service at Sears, and I pilfered a whole bunch of those stupid gifts that they give you if you fill out a credit application (stuffed toys, cheap crappy ceramic picture frames, etc.) I wrapped all these in separate boxes so that it looked like I had bought her a bunch of stuff.

I had a decorative bow, part of which was a small piece of styrofoam that was made up to look like a full sized present. I got an exacto knife, carefully removed the paper from the little "fake" present, hollowed out the styrofoam, and put her ring in it. I then reassembled the "fake" present/bow and put it on one of the other boxes. The idea was that after she had opened one of the "real" gifts, I was going to tell her that she had one left, and that it was in plain sight.

However, things didn't exactly work out as planned.

A couple of weeks before Christmas, she had her wisdom teeth taken out. It went badly for her. She got infected and was in major pain at Christmas. I think she had a hard time even talking.

Also, about a week before Christmas, I had to go to the emergency room with severe stomach pains. As it turned out, I had appendicitis and had to have emergency surgery. My appendix was so enlarged that laser surgery wasn't an option, and they split me open (about a 3-4 inch incision on my lower right abdomen).

So when Christmas Eve rolled around, the best I could do was take my pain killers and lie on my back on the couch. However, my plan proceeded as expected, and she got her ring. It was quite a Christmas to remember, even though we were probably a pitiful and/or hilarious sight.
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pitiful and hilarious or not, it's your story - and it's pretty damn cute 🙂

I'll take a wild guess and say you didn't go down on one knee? 😉

 
Originally posted by: Thraxen
Originally posted by: JS80


WTF what a loser. If I were the girl I'd be freaked out.
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It's OK if you're jealous.
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10 month anniversary? WTF is that? So elaborate and you've been dating for 10 months? I would understand if it was a 25 year marriage anniversary but what that guy did after 10 months of dating is sorta freaky. I dunno maybe I just have the LA attitude...
 
Originally posted by: pnad
My version:
We went hiking. Reached a cliff. Told her she had 2 choices. She chose life.

Her version:
We went hiking at a beautiful park. While we were at a gourgeous scenic outlook point he dropped to his knee and pulled this ring out of nowhere and said "Marry me or I will jump!"

I guess the part I liked the most is she had no idea it was coming. No special dinner etc. We never went shopping for rings or really discussed marriage at all.
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heh, i can imagine her taking the ring and pushing me off the cliff :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: crystal
Originally posted by: LoKe
Originally posted by: LolaWiz
we had been talking about it a long time but he said we would have to wait another year after he graduated college to get engaged.

One night, we were laying in bed, he was playing with my hand in the dark and he slipped it in!
i was shocked. it was just the two of us and it was priceless! :heart: nothing extravagant or over the top but memorable for me!
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:shocked:
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She did say she was shocked. 😛
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You mean slip a ring in right? I'm sorry but I have an imaginative mind and need things spelled out or everything will be taken totally out of context 🙂
 
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