How Did You Propose?

[chriso]

In front of the Church where we meet

 

[karla]

I was visiting my husbands and his family after Christmas during our break (we were both i college and lived 4 hours away from eachother) My car had broken down while we were out there and was in the garage. I was bumming big time. It was finally done getting repaired and we were on our way to pick it up. Tim suggested that we stop off at a park on the way there and take a walk. I was like ok whatever, taking a walk in the dead of winter with snow all over the place was not the thing I wanted to be doing when I knew i had to shell out a couple hundred to pay for my car. I humored him and we did. We came to a little wooden bridge that crossed a creek and we stopped to just look at the view. It was beautiful. Next thing I know, Tim was down on one knee, in the snow, asking me to marry him. I was shocked and couldn't stop crying. It was amazing. Definetly made me forget all about the car problems. The great part about it was that a few months earlier he had actually met with my parents to ask their permission. I thought that was so sweet.

 

[katelyn]

(This is a long story...sorry... )

Well, my husband was very nervous about proposing because he wanted it to be special and a surprise. But unfortunately, he was running out of options by the time he got around to doing it. You see, he was a very good gentleman and asked for both our parents' blessings before preparing to ask me.
The problem was that he asked well in advance, and didn't tell them when he was going to ask me. So, two weeks after he asked my dad, my dad called and asked me if I knew that my boyfriend talked to him the last time we visited. I said yes, because of course they had talked!

My dad never came out and said it, but in the course of our conversation I gathered that my dad was talking about us getting married. I was bouncing off the walls, and my roommates were trying to keep me from floating away after I told them about the conversation with my dad. Well, my boyfriend was already on the way to come over to our house, and I was not yet calmed down by the time he got there, so he ended up finding out that my dad had spilled the beans.

Then, one day we were at the computer and my boyfriend checked his email. There was one from his brother and it said,"Mom told me about katelyn...congratulations!" My boyfriend closed the email immediately, but unfortunately it was too late.

So, my boyfriend felt like he couldn't do something very romantic, because anytime he would suggest something romantic he thought I would jump to the conclusion that he was going to ask me.

So finally, one day we were going to go out with friends. It was dead week in college, and I was wiped out, so I said I wasn't going to go! Well, my boyfriend wasn't too thrilled about that! So he convinced me to go, and I met him at his dorm so we could go together to meet our friends.

When I walked in, he sat me down and asked me what was something I really wanted, something he could do that would make me very happy. So I thought...this is it!!!! He's going to ask me!!!

But then I notice a rectangular box sitting there, wrapped poorly, in white printer paper. He hands it to me. I unwrap it...and it's a computer game that I had commented about on a recent shopping trip!

I'm sure my expression at that point was about like this.

But then he grabbed a ring box from its hiding place and proposed to me. Luckily, humor is an important part of our relationship or I might not have taken it as well! Besides, I was too happy about his proposal to be mad about the teasing!

 

[Risen Tree]

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.

Awww! That is so cool!

 

[Risen Tree]

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)

Good for you, Dusted.

 

[JillLars]

Josh and I have been engaged for about 2 1/2 months. On our 2 year anniversary (July 30, 2003) we went to the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre for Dinner and the Musical The Sound of Music. We ate our dinner, and when the show was about to begin, the announcer came out and started announcing birthday's in the audience, then he said "We are in for a very special treat tonight because Josh Monson would like to ask his girlfriend Jill Larson a very special question" At this point my mouth was literally hanging open. Josh got down on one knee and said "Jill, we've been going out for 2 years, and I love you very much, will you marry me?" I said yes immediately, and I started crying. The spotlight was on us and all 580 people in the theatre were looking at us. It was very cool, but the lights went off for the play and hadn't even looked at the ring yet because I was so shocked! It was an awesome night!