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When you proposed for engagement, was it a surprise to him/her ?
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TwinkleToes77
Diamond Member
I knew.. I helped him with the ring size 🙂
blackdogdeek
Lifer
we were going to quebec for the carnival festival(don't let the name fool you, it's very cold during carnival in quebec 🙂), and i wanted to propose then even though i didn't know her ring size and she knew i didn't know her ring size. the store where i got the ring was very friendly and told me they do resizes free and that if my fiancee didn't like the style of the ring, we could take a new direction when we came back from quebec. so i bought the ring(8 months interest free payment plan) and kept the whole thing secret from everyone except the sales guy.
in quebec one night during a light snowfall, we walked through the old city which had christmas lights on and made for a very lovely setting. we walked down to the bank of the st. lawrence river and i got down on my knee and proposed(in the snow). and at first my wife(gf at the time of course) said "get up out of the snow, what are you doing?" because she thought there was no way i could have a ring since she didn't give me her ring size.
when i pulled out the ring she was shocked to say the least. she started crying in joy and we hugged and kissed and laughed right there for about 30 minutes while i explained the whole story about the resizing and stuff. it turns out the first person we ever told was the night shift concierge at the hotel where we were staying and that because it was so late at night and all the restaurants were closed that our celebratory dinner turned out to be wings, fries and pizza at 2am 🙂
when we got back, the store did indeed resize the ring free, and not only that time but on subsequent visits as well.
ps - my wife used another ring she wore to hold the bigger engagement ring on until the resize.
in quebec one night during a light snowfall, we walked through the old city which had christmas lights on and made for a very lovely setting. we walked down to the bank of the st. lawrence river and i got down on my knee and proposed(in the snow). and at first my wife(gf at the time of course) said "get up out of the snow, what are you doing?" because she thought there was no way i could have a ring since she didn't give me her ring size.
when i pulled out the ring she was shocked to say the least. she started crying in joy and we hugged and kissed and laughed right there for about 30 minutes while i explained the whole story about the resizing and stuff. it turns out the first person we ever told was the night shift concierge at the hotel where we were staying and that because it was so late at night and all the restaurants were closed that our celebratory dinner turned out to be wings, fries and pizza at 2am 🙂
when we got back, the store did indeed resize the ring free, and not only that time but on subsequent visits as well.
ps - my wife used another ring she wore to hold the bigger engagement ring on until the resize.
Parrotheader
Diamond Member
When I asked her was a surprise. That I asked her was not. She knew we were going to get engaged at some point within the next year or so as we were nearing the end of college and had been dating for almost 4 years at that point. But I thought she deserved that special moment that totally catches her off guard. And since I was going to go straight into grad school she was thinking that I might not be in a rush to get engaged yet. We had not done any ring shopping together and she had not forced the issue. She knew it would happen eventually.
I was able to determine her ring size by taking some of her other rings in with me and having them figure it out at the shop. I inheirited my grandmother's diamond (which was a very nice stone, much more than I could have afforded at the time and more than my gf would have wanted from me) and had it placed in a new setting. I took her to the city where our first college was (we'd transferred our soph year) under the auspices of a weekend getaway. We spent most of the day lounging at the beach, visiting old haunts and having just a really good relaxing time. On the way back to our hotel that afternoon I asked her if she wanted to stop by the gardens where the pond was where we used to feed ducks all the time. She said sure thinking that was all I wanted to do. But there was a storm coming up on the horizon so I had to floor it (and freak her out in the process wondering why I was so hellbent to feed the ducks) to try and not lose this window of opportunity. We got there and fed the ducks who are so un-afraid of humans that they literally cornered us up onto a picnic table. She was standing on top of the picnic table, so I took a step down to the seat (so I could get the kneeling effect.) When she asked me to hand her more bread I reached into the bag prentending to grab a piece of bread and opened my hand to reveal the ring and proposed. Naturally she started crying and all the usual stuff you'd expect. The cool part was the ducks who had been very loud up to that point were dead silent during the whole proposal phase. 😀 It was really cool. It was a great moment and I'm glad I'd worked so hard to conceal it as it meant a lot to her (and still does.)
I was able to determine her ring size by taking some of her other rings in with me and having them figure it out at the shop. I inheirited my grandmother's diamond (which was a very nice stone, much more than I could have afforded at the time and more than my gf would have wanted from me) and had it placed in a new setting. I took her to the city where our first college was (we'd transferred our soph year) under the auspices of a weekend getaway. We spent most of the day lounging at the beach, visiting old haunts and having just a really good relaxing time. On the way back to our hotel that afternoon I asked her if she wanted to stop by the gardens where the pond was where we used to feed ducks all the time. She said sure thinking that was all I wanted to do. But there was a storm coming up on the horizon so I had to floor it (and freak her out in the process wondering why I was so hellbent to feed the ducks) to try and not lose this window of opportunity. We got there and fed the ducks who are so un-afraid of humans that they literally cornered us up onto a picnic table. She was standing on top of the picnic table, so I took a step down to the seat (so I could get the kneeling effect.) When she asked me to hand her more bread I reached into the bag prentending to grab a piece of bread and opened my hand to reveal the ring and proposed. Naturally she started crying and all the usual stuff you'd expect. The cool part was the ducks who had been very loud up to that point were dead silent during the whole proposal phase. 😀 It was really cool. It was a great moment and I'm glad I'd worked so hard to conceal it as it meant a lot to her (and still does.)
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