Alright, I plan on proposing to my girlfriend within the next couple months and need to figure out how to do it, so I'm fishing for ideas. FYI, she just turned 24 and I will turn 24 in a few weeks. So what's your story?
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Ooh - can't wait to hear the stories! My dh just asked, no huge fan-fare, no big show etc. I loved it that way though. Thankfully he had told my mom ahead of time so I didn't have to tell her.
At first I was going to put a ring in a box of Crackerjack.
But, what I ended up doing was this.
I invited my wife to be over to breakfast and as I served the meal it went like this.
"I hope you like what I cooked. Here's your coffee. Here's your eggs. Here's your bacon. Here's your toast. Oh, and here's your ring."
No need for the butter to melt. Ruth did that, instead.
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We were going on a trip to New Orleans. I was planning to do something romantic there. I got worried that she would find the ring, or worse, I would lose it. I ended up proposing in her laundry room the night before the trip.
He proposed over the phone. I don't recommend that route. lol Granted, we've now been happily married for almost ten years, but a part of me wishes I had a romantic proposal story to tell.
In all fairness, we were living 300 miles apart at the time, and he had a revelation that the huge something missing in his life was me, and raced home to call me and beg me to marry him and move to where he was, so I did.
(we'd just bought the house a few months previous and were trying to gather stuff before end of year to guestimate taxes.)
I said…
Hey, this year you can claim me on your taxes.
Dude, if we got married it'd be even more.
I know, I know. It was terribly romantic.
That kind of mentality was kinda discussed by us too. I wanted his social security if he died.
We also wanted each other to be able to vouch for each other in cases of medical decisions etc.
That kind of mentality was kinda discussed by us too. I wanted his social security if he died.
We also wanted each other to be able to vouch for each other in cases of medical decisions etc.
I'm mostly concerned that he won't have to testify against me.
The story of my parents: My mom is from Texas, my dad a Wisconsin farm boy. After the Marine Corps Dad moved to Texas to be near my mom, and hated every single minute of it. The proposal went like this:
Phil: You are the love of my life. Will you marry me?
Deanna: Of course! [leaps into arms]
Phil: I love you and will stay in Texas if that's what you want, but will you consider moving to Wisconsin?
Deanna: If I move to Wisconsin can I have a St. Bernard?
Phil: If you move to Wisconsin with me you can have as many of whatever kind of dog you want.
Deanna: Okay.
That was 1971. They married 7/1/71, drove to WI the next day, and adopted Heidi the St. Bernard puppy within a month.
I had her roomate let me into her apartment while she was out and I hid a ring inside the bug of a rose in an arrangement of a dozen. I then hid in the apartment. When she came in and saw them she read the card which asked her to marry me?
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Dh (to be) and I really got to know each other over email. I mean, we dated-- saw each other pretty much every night-- but "conversed" all day, every day, through email. Some of them were romantic conversations, others were practical. At one point, he'd written the first part of the (Hamlet?) scene where (Hamlet? crap. I'm a bad wife) he tells Lady Katherine that he loves her (my name is Kate). But he didn't finish the scene, so I looked it up and realized that eventually, the scene ends with him proposing marriage.
A few months later, DH wrote the entire scene on a scroll of parchment paper and tied his Claddaugh ring to the bottom of it. He said he'd been waiting for the perfect moment, but ultimately realized that every moment alone was perfect, so it actually happened Thanksgiving evening, after we'd come home from my family dinner, on the living room floor. It was wonderful.
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Nice. I'll have to use that one next time she gives me crap about the laundry room proposal.
It's totally cheesy, I know. But honestly, it's true. As much as I'd love to have been whisked off to Paris and proposed to in the Eiffel Tower, the bottom line is that I'd be happier with him in the middle of a garbage heap than anyone else, anywhere else.
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After a nice dinner I took her (my ex) on a carriage ride, I had arranged with the driver to stop on the path overlooking the beach. When we stopped I did the old fashioned one knee thing. 12 months later I was married and 6 years after that we were both happily divorced. Hope you have better luck then we did.
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We were both in college and living at home with our parents. We sat in the cafeteria and wrote a simple budget on a napkin. If we could afford it with our combined income, we'd get married. If we couldn't, we'd wait (well, that's what we said). We made that budget work! Then, after classes, we walked to a jewelry store and picked out rings (very, very small diamond rings!).
I was 18. My mother almost blew a gasket, but...
We've been married 29 years now--evidence that the practical approach leads to longevity (at least that's the spin I'm sticking to, ha).
RL graduated from college on Saturday, May 17, 1998 and that Sunday he drove to his home in Kansas. I, in the meantime, had signed up for a mini-session (as I was trying to finish before we got hitched) and was staying with his Grandparents (they lived in the same town we went to college in) for two weeks.
I went to class Tuesday morning, knowing that his GP would be out for the day...they had shopping to do in Little Rock. So, after class, I slathered on the baby oil (what was that for, btw?) and laid out in their backyard. Just as I was getting good and hot and sweaty, they pull up in the drive way and out pops Michael from their back seat. I was TOTALLY surprised, but once I realized it really was him (clean shaven and all), I knew what he was doing.
He took me to their "Harding Swing" (on campus they're known for three swings and a ring) and proposed. Obviously I said yes, and went and had a shower.
The funniest part to me (later) was that my dad TOTALLY knew this was coming and kept it a secret from me. My parents came for his graduation and I was totally unaware that they'd had their "father/son-in-law" chat. And my dad convinced me that I should just plan on going up to Kansas as soon as my class was over so that we could get engaged there.
Most of me is fairly practical, but I do have a romantic side and besides being a sweaty mess, our engagement was just perfectly romantic.
Nothing crazy here either. While dating we always spent Christmas Eve at her Grandparents. I convinced the now Mrs. FlyinM to stop by my house and we'd drive over to their house. We carried on her family traditiion of opening 1 gift to each other on Christmas Eve. Her's contained a ring. While she was in shock and could not speak, I got up, moved around and was down on one knee and asked her the question. Right there before God, the Christmas tree and Homie, my cat.
It was a total surprise as we had been dating long enough that everybody had given up hope (Mrs. FlyinM included) that it would happen. Of course, her parents knew ahead of time because I visted each of them at their jobs and asked for permission.
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Casey apparently bought the ring while we were on vacation in Puerto Rico. We then went to lunch at Sr. Frogs, which promptly made me ill all afternoon/evening. While I was in the bathroom he went out on the porch and called my dad, mom, step dad and brother and talked with them. I showered and curled up in the comfy hotel bed while he convinced me to take a moonlight walk on the beach. (It wasn't easy, I didn't feel well at ALL) But he convinced me that the air would be good for me, so we went. (I couldn't figure out why he brought the camera but he did) He got down on his knee on the beach (there was no one there but us, the moon and the crabs lol wandering the shoreline) and I said yes!
We went back up to the room because I was going to be sick again (not because of the proposal!!) and then I called my parents who already knew
How did you propose marriage?
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