Friends mocking my engagement :(

Christ on a bike. Who needs enemies? What vile people they are. @UpShitsCreek you are so blessed to have such an amazing fiancé 💗

Congratulations!

Ignore them, not everyone wants an Instagram proposal which seems to be a thing now. I’d be having a hard think to myself to decide if I wanted to continue to be pals with people so shallow.

Congratulations!
I would much prefer your proposal than a big public one. I think its very romantic and lovely that he remembers the exact place.

Aww what a shame about your friends. They sound really shallow. They need to grow up. Are they envious, do you think? Anyway, it sounds really sweet and romantic to me. You should treasure it. It's a million times more romantic than my DH's proposal to me was.

Keep the fiance, he sounds lovely!

Ditch the 'friends' they honestly sound awful!

Congratulations on your engagement 🎊

Are they jealous?

My proposal was similar to yours. And quite funny too. Our friends laughed and said, ‘that is so (husband name)’ It was lovely and more meaningful for me than being proposed to at the most beautiful holiday destination. Enjoy and many congrats!!

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.

Don't let them ruin the moment for you, OP. Fuck 'em.

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.

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.

Congrats OP! It sounds like a beautiful, thoughtful proposal. Your mates sound like utter dicks, though.

What a pair of dicks!

Congratulations

This.

And remember their shitty words when you come to choose your bridesmaids!
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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.

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 sound like utter cunts.

Congratulations.

It sounds a perfect proposal for you.

Your friends are just mean.

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?

That's a lovely and sweet proposal.

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

They sound like a pair of shallow bitches.

It was lovely. Congratulations.

Why are you friends with these ghastly people?

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

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

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.

Your friends are jealous.