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How did you propose to your wife/fiancee

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Originally posted by: Sphexi
Well, I haven't proposed yet, and she knows where I lurk so I can't reveal too much 🙂...we're planning to get married sometime this summer, once again can't say too much lest she finds out 😉

But yeah, something simple and heartfelt will work well. Always good in a restaurant that the two of you like, talk to the staff ahead of time and see if they can arrange a special table for you, or to help you out in some way, most decent restaurants have no problem helping out, it gives them a good reputation.

I've got a few things in mind, one of them being at the top of a local mountain after a hike, another being in a restaurant, a third being the minute she meets me at the airport (we live a distance apart) in June.

Pick something you both enjoy, and make it special, but don't go overboard or else the meaning will be lost in all of the surrounding garbage.


BTW how much that ring set you back?
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I got the hookup from some friends in the business... set me back just shy of 5K...

-Max
 
We were arguing. I proposed. I think that got me out of trouble for that night. Went and got a ring together a few days later.
 
the plan right now is to just go for a walk around sunset, down to Pax river naval base... out to this little beach we know about.... have the ring in a chocolate box(I buy her godiva chocolates all the time)... when she goes for the choc I go to the knee. Simple but should be ok. Really need some women to read this thread and give their opinion.

-Max
 
Originally posted by: Doboji
the plan right now is to just go for a walk around sunset, down to Pax river naval base... out to this little beach we know about.... have the ring in a chocolate box(I buy her godiva chocolates all the time)... when she goes for the choc I go to the knee. Simple but should be ok. Really need some women to read this thread and give their opinion.

-Max
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wow max, you live pretty close by to me! good luck w/ proposing! 🙂
 
we were staying in quebec for the carnival festival. one night there was snow on the ground and a light snow had just started. we walked through the deserted but lit up streets of the old city and ended up at the bank of the st. lawrence. i got down on my knee and surprised her with the ring. she didn't expect it because she knew i didn't have her ring size.

i'd actually like to see someone pull of that stunt in the commercial where the guy is walking around with his girl in front of the steps of what looks like a piazza in rome or something. the guys says that he'd like to marry her all over again(they're already married but they don't have to be for the surprise) in front of all these strangers. and she's like "oh stop it" or something. then she turns toward the crowd of supposed strangers and notices her parents are there and they stand up then she realizes her friends are there too and then that everyone on the steps is someone they know and they all stand up and start clapping.

if someone actually pulled that off it would kick major amounts of ass.

EDIT: i noticed you live in arlington. you could probably pull this off on the steps of one of the many memorials in DC. maybe even that one in front of the big reflecting pool.

EDIT2: and definitely DON'T go with "stick out your left hand....i want to try something" 😉
 
Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
we were staying in quebec for the carnival festival. one night there was snow on the ground and a light snow had just started. we walked through the deserted but lit up streets of the old city and ended up at the bank of the st. lawrence. i got down on my knee and surprised her with the ring. she didn't expect it because she knew i didn't have her ring size.

i'd actually like to see someone pull of that stunt in the commercial where the guy is walking around with his girl in front of the steps of what looks like a piazza in rome or something. the guys says that he'd like to marry her all over again(they're already married but they don't have to be for the surprise) in front of all these strangers. and she's like "oh stop it" or something. then she turns toward the crowd of supposed strangers and notices her parents are there and they stand up then she realizes her friends are there too and then that everyone on the steps is someone they know and they all stand up and start clapping.

if someone actually pulled that off it would kick major amounts of ass.
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You'd need a girlfriend dumber than the diamond to not notice all the people she knows. That and think of the airfare for all getting all those people to rome. I thought about flying out to italy for a weekend and doing it... but that is just waaay too expensive.

-Max
 
Originally posted by: Doboji
You'd need a girlfriend dumber than the diamond to not notice all the people she knows. That and think of the airfare for all getting all those people to rome. I thought about flying out to italy for a weekend and doing it... but that is just waaay too expensive.

-Max
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you wouldn't need to do it in rome. you could do it on the steps of the lincoln memorial or something. isn't that the one in front of the big reflecting pool?

EDIT: i noticed you were in arlington.
 
Originally posted by: five40
Punched her in the face and said...b!tch we are getting hitched...go make me some pie.
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Wow. I can't believe I actually read that... just wrong.

Didn't stop me from laughing at it 🙂
 
Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
Originally posted by: Doboji
You'd need a girlfriend dumber than the diamond to not notice all the people she knows. That and think of the airfare for all getting all those people to rome. I thought about flying out to italy for a weekend and doing it... but that is just waaay too expensive.

-Max
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you wouldn't need to do it in rome. you could do it on the steps of the lincoln memorial or something. isn't that the one in front of the big reflecting pool?

EDIT: i noticed you were in arlington.
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Yeah thats a possibility.... on the steps of the jefferson memorial at sunset. That could work too... but she'd probably figure out that something was up... if we walk to the beach like we have a few times... I think she'd never see it coming.

-Max
 
Holy crap you don't look similar! Big and small 🙂 My next door neighbours are the PERFECT physical match. It's uncanny. Both short and equally rotund. Anyway, carry on!
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Holy crap you don't look similar! Big and small 🙂 My next door neighbours are the PERFECT physical match. It's uncanny. Both short and equally rotund. Anyway, carry on!
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We both drive Nissans though... so thats all thats really important.

-Max
 
Originally posted by: shimsham
lying in the grass, under the shade of a tree in jackson square in new orleans.
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WTF!!!

I proposed to my wife on a Monday night in the grove of trees by the Mississippi levee next to the aquarium after dinner at Louis XVI's.

ps - this is a great way to get mugged if you're not careful, hence Monday night.

 
Originally posted by: Doboji
Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
Originally posted by: Doboji
You'd need a girlfriend dumber than the diamond to not notice all the people she knows. That and think of the airfare for all getting all those people to rome. I thought about flying out to italy for a weekend and doing it... but that is just waaay too expensive.

-Max
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you wouldn't need to do it in rome. you could do it on the steps of the lincoln memorial or something. isn't that the one in front of the big reflecting pool?

EDIT: i noticed you were in arlington.
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Yeah thats a possibility.... on the steps of the jefferson memorial at sunset. That could work too... but she'd probably figure out that something was up... if we walk to the beach like we have a few times... I think she'd never see it coming.

-Max
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i found the commercial:

diamond commercial
 
Originally posted by: werk
Originally posted by: Doboji
Originally posted by: nick1985
she looks like your daughter. 😱
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I'm very very large. 6'5" 330 lbs... she's 5'1"

-Max
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DASM! I thought there was a big size difference between me and my gf...
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I'm 6'6"
I went on a couple dates with a girl a foot and a half shorter than me for a while . . .

but i'm thin, so it wasn't quite that big of a size difference.
 
Doboji is a wookie. He is 6'5''. His fiance is an ewok. She is 5'1''. They are getting married... does that make any sense?...does it?

Just kidding with the Johhny Cochran defense. Just do something special but not cheesy. Do something that you both enjoy so that both of ya'll are comfortable.
 
Originally posted by: Doboji



I got the hookup from some friends in the business... set me back just shy of 5K...

-Max
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Well dang, now I feel really inadequate for what I was thinking of spending 🙁
 
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