Friends mocking my engagement :(

Congratulations. This would mean more to me than some fancy restaurant that held no sentiment particular to you. Ignore them. They are being unnecessarily mean. I'd question if they are actually friends. That's some people to cross off your Christmas card list.

My favourite TV proposal was at a service station in the rain! Your friend’s are idiots! It’s all about the relationship not the insta images.

Congratulations that sounds perfect , they’ve just uninvited themselves fro the wedding I hope

Jealous assh0l3s.who are not bridesmaid material

It sounds beautiful and like true love. Congratulations.

Congratulations OP!
It sounds lovely - it's meaningful to you both and made you feel happy. He loves you and thinks you are special. The best recipe for a happy life together.

I thought your proposal sounded perfect.

Lovely and heartfelt and just the two of you in a place that was special.

Your friends are dicks

Your fiance sounds like a great guy. Best of luck with the wedding.

sounds like the perfect proposal to me.
Congrat

Your friends are jealous.

Your friends are jealous. A proposal should be a special life-changing moment, without pomp or fanfare to ruin the sincerity.

That was a very profound moment for you and your partner. I would not have diminished it by sharing the details with others, especially your vacuous friends.

I love this story so much more than all the flashy engagements I see on social media.

I’m in the “it’s lovely” camp - congratulations!
And, personally, I think the fancier the proposal and wedding, the shorter the
marriage!

Why are you friends with these ghastly people?

They sound like a pair of shallow bitches.

It was lovely. Congratulations.

That's a lovely and sweet proposal.

Ditch the so-called friends, what a shallow pair of bitches.

Firstly congratulations on your engagement. I think what he did was really sweet.

My parents got engaged on a bus ride home from a night out. They were married 39 years and it only ended because my Mum died.

My own engagement was about as "romantic" I didn't want any public grand gesture thing, it didn't matter to me. What mattered was I knew he loved me and I loved him and we were very happy together.

Your friends are truly awful people. You are clearly happy with the engagement so why are they not supportive?

Congratulations.

It sounds a perfect proposal for you.

Your friends are just mean.

Your friends sound like utter cunts.

Congratulations, your fiancé sounds absolutely lovely.

I’d start looking for some far less shallow friends though.

Even if it wasn’t what they would personally have chosen, what kind of person (let alone friend!) criticises someone else’s proposal!!!

Your friends aren't being good friends. It doesn't matter what a proposal is like, if you're happy with it. Some people these days have unrealistic expectations and require a proposal to be 'Insta-worthy'. It's like the people who are more excited about the wedding than the marriage—backwards thinking and shallowness.

I was like you and didn't want a big scene. We had a very low key proposal, but the important thing was that we were engaged. We've been together 25 years and plan to stay together until the end, while plenty of couples with more spectacular engagement stories (and big diamond rings) have split in a fraction of that time.

Try not to let your friends tarnish your joy. If they're real friends, I think I'd be honest and let them know they need to stop minimising and mocking something that means so much to you. If this is how they are in general, I'd be looking for replacement friends and relegating them to friendly acquaintances at best.

This.

And remember their shitty words when you come to choose your bridesmaids!
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Congrats OP! It sounds like a beautiful, thoughtful proposal. Your mates sound like utter dicks, though.

What a pair of dicks!

Congratulations

It was lovely and romantic. They think spending a lot of money is showing love, anyone can spend money remembering a special moment to propose shows deep love, your so called friends are too dim to understand that concept.

They are wrong. Your fiancé's way is far more romantic. Spontaneous, genuine and less performative.

With half this big showy proposals, in front of people (urrgh) in fancy locations with a photographer who just happened to be there to capture the whole thing are staged anyway and the bride has played a part in picking how/when/where.

They already agreed months ago that they'll marry and she's already picked her ring but she wants her 'surprise' instagram moment up the Eiffel Tower or whatever.

Ahh, congratulations! It's sounds perfect. I think your friends are extremely shallow if they think it should be all big outpourings (usually for social media likes )!
Your fiancé sounds like he has taken time and effort and thought with your engagement.