How Did You Propose?

[LifeInYou]

I'm sure this one has been done before, but can we do it again?

 

[PegasusOnFire]

My fiancee took me to some softball fields that I used to play at when we met, 8 years earlier. It was Nov 5 and you could see the northern lights. It was really awesome, though I was really hungery and thought that we were going to go out for dinner. He started asking all kinds of questions that didn't lead up to anything. He handed me a wraped box and as I started to unwrap it he took it back from me. Then he said, "I am going to do this the right way." He then got down on one knee in the bleachers and proposed. I was so surprised, I didn't even know that he loved me that much. Well we talked for a little bit more and all I could say, after saying yes, was, "I thought we were going to go out to eat."

 

[lucypevensie]

We got engaged on the anniversary of our first date. We re-created out first date by shopping at the same mall and eating at the same ice cream shop. He'd been at my house all day long and I was expecting him to go home soon, but he suggested going for a drive, which we did. We went for a walk in the dark on a really pretty college campus and right there under an arch her pulled the ring out and asked me. I was amazed that he was able to carry that ring around all day long and then finally pull it out at the end of the day.

 

[psycmajor]

All I know is that public proposal is NOT for me. It better be in private.

An ex proposed to me outside of his parent's house on the asphalt near his father's pickup...I think it was early November. It was wet and dark outside. Took him a while just to find the words, then he said, "I think you know what I'm about to do." That didn't work out, thank God. And he didn't even have a ring *shrug*, which was good, because it would have been harder to break off the relationship.

He was so immature. Fortunately, the guy I'm with now I'm sure I want to be with for life.

 

[Dawn Marie]

Lol, I haven't been proposed to officially yet. But my boyfriend and I have already decided that we are definitely getting married one day... and I don't even need a ring. Hopefully he'll get me one anyway. (Stu, I know you're reading this. lol)

 

[Flipper]

Mine came as a complete surprise and wasn't exactly romantic. It was on a Saturday. The weekend before, I was a chaperone at a confirmation youth group trip out of town. That whole week after I got back, he would hardly talk to me. I would call him and he would only talk 5 minutes then get off the phone. By the weekend, I was convinced that he wanted to break up with me. I told my mom as much Saturday morning before I went to work. After work, I went over to his house because we were supposed to go out to dinner later that evening. We sat on the steps and talked. I figured out then that he didn't want to break up, but he still didn't seem right. He all of a sudden got up and went upstairs when the phone rang. I went downstairs and played solitare on the computer. He came back down and stood behind me sounding like he was out of breath. I turned around and he, looking like he was about to pass out, pushed a box into my hand. I opened it and it was a ring. He still didn't say anything. I asked him if it was what I thought it was. He asked me in a voice that wasn't his what I thought it was. I told him that if it was what I thought it was then I guess the answer is yes. Then I grabbed him as he collapsed in my arms (for the record, he's 6'4" and built like a football player - no easy task). Bless his heart, he was scared. Then we had to go to dinner with his family. They still joke that we were both walking in a daze. Also, the phone call was his mother and sister asking him if he did it yet, and if he didn't he better or they were going to do it for him.

 

[coastie]

LOL.... your poor husband... I remember how scared I was... my heart beating a mile a minute, I was light headed and felt so ashamed because I wasn't able to afford a ring yet.

I was just a seaman apprentice and my ship was in Oakland for a month in dry dock, which was great for me, because that's where my girl friend lived anyway.

I had been living in San Diego on a ship for a while, and I was having a hard time adapting to being around people that I acutally liked.

SO I walked with my wife (then girl firend) down the docks at Jack London Square one night in April. We walked for a long time and finally came to a quiet dark spot on the pier.

We both sat down on a bench and I turned to her and told her that I couldn't afford a ring yet, but that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. I finally stuttered through "Will you marry me?" and she just hugged me for a LONG time, then FINALLY said "yes."

I bought the ring about 4 months later when the military finally started paying me rather than just making deductions.

 

[IslandBreeze]

These are SO sweet! I LOVE hearing stories about this!!!

My brother-in-law spilled the beans that my then-boyfriend had the ring in possession. So I knew a proposal was coming; I just didn't know when. Well, there is this walking trail system in our area. It just so happened to be the very first place Jay told me that he loved me. We started going for walks down there quite frequently right before he proposed. Then one day in October (it was GORGEOUS--the leaves had turned, and that day it was 75 degrees), he waited until he had gotten to the EXACT spot that he had first proclaimed his love to me, and took the ring out of his pocket, got down on one knee, became very pale and said "Would you marry me?" I started jumping up and down, screaming because I was so excited (I'm not one to hide my emotions). Then I started crying, and in-between the screams and cries I managed to squeak out a yes. We got married a year 360 days later.

 

[PegasusOnFire]

Cammie, that is so cool. BTW my fiancee's name is Jay. LOL

 

[DustedOffMouse]

Well, I am the one that proposed to him.


We had met January 20th and decided we were to be a couple two days later. I was in the spring of my sophomore year in college and he was a first semester freshman..he had waited a year and a half to come to college, and we are the same age. By two weeks in, we knew it was forever, but to save his parent's a heart attack, we decided to wait to get engaged and that we wouldn't get married until after I graduated. So the spring went by and soon it was June. We had decided to take summer classes so we could stay together. On Wednesdays, he didn't have to work and I didn't have class, so we decided to go hiking in the Pine Creek Gorge (the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon) on June 13th of 2001- we'd been together four months and twenty-one days. I knew he would eventually propose to me, but I also knew, that knowing him, he would wait for like three years just to please his parents because he was such a daddy's boy. :: lol But so there we were hiking, and we sat on some rocks to take a break, and I said to him, "I know you said you will ask me when the 'time is right'. But we have talked about this and we know its going to happen regardless, and so I want to know formally. No more of this 'we think' business. You know I love you and I know you love me, but I am just not waiting any longer. So will you marry me?" And I'm crying and he's trying to calm me down and we are both hot, dirty and sweaty lol. And he says "Ah babe, you know I will!" We try to go up the the Gorge right around the time we got engaged ;o) Then, three weeks later we went to pick out a ring

Now, we've been engaged for two years and twenty-four days and our wedding is in two months and twenty days- on September 27th.

And the thing is, I had always dreamed of getting a romantic proposal . So for like a year now, I have been telling him "I asked you if you wanted to marry me, but you never bothered to ask if I wanted to marry you or if I was just seeing what you would say!!!" He looks at me and laughs and says he keeps forgetting to do it. He was supposed to for Christmas (the only thing I asked for, lol) but here it is over six months later and he still hasn't, lol. So we'll see ;o)

 

[Knight]

Sure these are always fun!
My husband proposed to me on my birthday at a romantic Italian Restaurant. I was so so so shocked! He got down on his knees and the whole place saw and he proposed and I of course said yes! Then we got married three months later!

Three months????!!!! That's got to be the shortest engagement that did not involve a shotgun.

I proposed to my wife on the evening when we were to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of our first date. It was pretty simple. I told her that I loved her and I would continue to love her and asked her to marry me. I actually surprised her. She expected the proposal a few months later.

I even got her an opal ring (her birthstone.) We went out the next day and found the diamond engagement ring. (I admit that I was too chicken to buy it in advance. Not afraid of her answer, mind you, I just wanted to make sure it would be something she was going to like.) We were married about nine months later.

 

[coastie]

"Three months????!!!! That's got to be the shortest engagement that did not involve a shotgun. "

Why wait?

I was getting underway to spend 4 mos. in south america, so we got married about 3 mos after our engagemtn too.

 

[DustedOffMouse]

Coastie-

Where did you go in South America and what did you there? (I did my undergrad thesis on the effects of Christian missionaries on the Indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon..I'm an anthropologist..) Just curious

 

[PegasusOnFire]

My dad proposed to my mother on a Monday and they were married on that Friday.

 

[IslandBreeze]

My dad proposed to my mother on a Monday and they were married on that Friday.

 

[Knight]

Nine months these days is considered short also
We couldn't wait... we had planned 6 months but that was just too long so we said ok lets do three months! My dad loved that "Dad, remember the wedding I was planning for May? (looking at him in puupydog eyes) well we want to get married three months sooner"
They almost had a heart attack!

I would love to have seen the look on his face.


I've heard of shorter but not many. I wouldn't have minded a six month engagement but we had some friends getting married around that same time. (My wife was in their wedding and both the bride and the groom were in ours.) Also, I think my wife would have been WAY too stressed trying to plan a wedding in that time. You have to understand that I married the wedding expert. She has been in more weddings than I've even been to! The first (and only) wedding I actually participated in was my own! My wife has probably forgotten more about weddings than I'll ever know. I keep telling her she should start her own wedding planning business.

 

[coastie]

Coastie-

Where did you go in South America and what did you there? (I did my undergrad thesis on the effects of Christian missionaries on the Indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon..I'm an anthropologist..) Just curious

Well, not to take this any further off topic but, I only went to South America for a Christian Mission once... that was to Roatan to build a school in 97 or 98.

All of my other missions to South America were migrant interdiction and anti-drug trafficking enforcement.

I was no anthropologist. I was a grunt worker (Deck Force) on a Coast Guard Cutter.

I dream of going on a mission there again someday. I LOVE Chile, Costa Rica and Honduras.

As far as my experience with the Christians in those countries, I'd say that for the most part, by density, they have a much stronger more devout Christian following than we do in the states and other so-called religious countries do, like Ireland.

Most of the most devout Christians I ever met were from South American countries

 

[Gabriel]

Before I even met my wife I was in an antique store near my house and I saw this beautiful engagement ring. I was actually looking for a tea set and/or furniture when I saw the ring. I asked to see it and fell in love with it. The owner of the store told me a bit of it's history and I just wanted it so I put some money down on it and began paying a bit each week as I got paid. I didn't even have a girlfriend. I still paid the ring off a few weeks later, had it appraised, put it in my jewlery box and kind of forgot about it.

While on a sales call a few weeks later I met a lady ( I was trying to sell her advertising) who tried to set me up with her friend. I am NOT about blind dates so I declined. But I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I called her a week later. 3 months after I met her friend I was still working as a salesman at a radio station. One Friday I recorded a commercial right before I left. The commercial was to air at 5:05 that evening. I went to my girlfriend's house, put on my station and told her she had to hear the commercial I recorded. It was my proposal. As the commercial started I dropped to one knee and presented the ring that I had purchased months before for no good reason (so I thought). She started to shake and cry and she said yes! Within 5 minutes old folks from her church (now our church) were calling her to see if she said yes (it was an old folks station). And the DJ asked me over the air if she accepted so I called him and told him yes. He said he got a ton of calls asking if she accepted and then a ton saying congratulations.

It was cool. She still has the tape and the ring.........and me!

By the way, no wise cracks about me antique shopping.

 

[Wypadek]

how sweet!!

 

[pecan]

I just wanted to say to FLIPPER that i laughed my butt off at your description of your proposal! That has to be one of the funniest stories i've heard!! LOL