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Tell me about your marriage proposal

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KevinKlineSwoon · 29/07/2019 17:38

A colleague got engaged at the weekend. It involved a romantic walk, a walled garden with champagne and he got down on one knee with a ring he'd had made.

Do proposals happen like this often? Mine included the word 'inevitability' and there was no ring! Grin
How was yours?

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unlimiteddilutingjuice · 30/07/2019 08:24

We had a sensible discussion about where the relationship was going in which I informed him I would like to get married one day.
A few months later we had a more detailed discussion about dates and finances.

Alloftit · 30/07/2019 08:31

Mines quite outing but I don’t care.
We were meant to be going to the pub for Bon voyage drinks for his best friend, who was off to New Zealand for 6 months, and nothing was going right. My hair looked crap, my make up looked crap, my outfit made me look chunky, all the rest of it! DH was chivvying me along, checking his watch etc, and I was getting annoyed so in the end, I just said ‘FINE I’ll just go like this!!’ And stomped out to the truck.
Then he suggested we go down to the cliffs (a short walk away) and watch the fireworks over the bay (weekend before fireworks night). Great (!) So I said ‘fine but I’m not bloody walking!’
Got down there, he says we’ll be able to see better out of the truck and all of a sudden I realise something is going on, as he flashes the torch he’s holding around as we got to the front of the truck. Then fireworks start going off at the bottom of our land (his best friend on pyrotechnics duty!) , and he’s down on one knee and I’m crying! The ring was amazing too, antique, and he’d chosen it himself.

Alloftit · 30/07/2019 08:32

We got married on Saturday 😊

fraxion · 30/07/2019 08:42

Congratulations Alloftit

My husband proposed on holiday in Bali, no ring as he wanted me to choose it myself. Came home, picked my ring and got married 6 months later in NYC.

clottedcreamoverjam · 30/07/2019 08:44

It went like this "I would like to have children soon" "me too" "I don't want to have children unless we are married" "good idea"
We booked a wedding ceremony that week

countdowntonap · 30/07/2019 08:55

I’m Ibiza at my favourite spot at Sunset. Then had a photo of my ring with a world famous DJ Grin We were in our twenties!

cricketmum84 · 30/07/2019 08:58

Out of the blue complete surprise trip to New York. Down on one knee on the top deck of the rockafella with the whole of New York lit up below us. It was like something out of a film. Still gives me goosebumps now!!

Doormat247 · 30/07/2019 09:10

Wandered round York and I knew he was likely to propose. He paused on a very busy bridge so I hurried away as I hate the idea of people noticing and maybe having to speak to them. I'd be too embarrassed. Went to the river and the police were everywhere so when we found a quiet bench he did it there. He mumbled and I couldn't even tell what he actually said, then a homeless man came begging.
I ended up giving him the ring back and told him if he couldn't do it properly not to bother at all. He cried a bit.
He did it properly when we got home which was much nicer and then he cried again.

I guess all this should have told me it wasn't meant to be and we divorced after 8yrs. There should be some excitement in a proposal rather than 'we've been together x number of years so we should get married'.

icebearforpresident · 30/07/2019 09:12

We were lying in bed, slightly pissed, drinking a cup of tea at 1am having just gotten home from a gig. I actually asked him if was serious because by then we’d been together almost 10 years and I thought it just wasn’t going to happen (and was ok with that though I always knew I wanted to marry him). No ring.

I’m the first to admit this is tragically low key for a proposal but in all honesty it was perfect for us, If he had gone for an elaborate, down on one knee type of thing I’m almost certain I would have laughed myself silly at him.

Adversecamber22 · 30/07/2019 09:25

We were laying on a blanket in the grounds of his great grandparents house in the sunshine. It was in the formal bit of garden but on the edge of the wood. No ring but we travelled to a city that afternoon. We didn’t tell anyone for three days and just enjoyed being alone together. The house was sold a couple of years ago, quite sad and a couple of his relatives are buried there but the upkeep was costly.

rainrainsun · 30/07/2019 09:32

In a freezing muddy field outside DH's old GPs house!

We'd been together 8 years so thought he was joking

GrrrAaargh · 30/07/2019 09:36

I think ours was sweet, but really quite ordinary.

It was the day we were moving into a new flat, our first one together. DH cooked chicken and opened a bottle of wine. I thought we were celebrating the new flat. He went on to produce a ring and propose after we'd eaten. So we got engaged in the middle of unpacked boxes. A couple of friends who had been in on his plan (one had helped him pick the ring) turned up soon, and we all went out for a drink together.

insertrandomusername · 30/07/2019 09:44

'Shall we just book it then'

Said randomly in the middle of a 4 hour car journey.

We did indeed just book it and got married 5 weeks later just us and 4 witnesses half an hour after dropping the kids off at school.

We told everyone later that evening that we had been married that morning.

We arnt the slushy romantic type so worked for us 🤷🏼‍♀️

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 30/07/2019 09:46

DH was very drunk and I was sober because I was driving him home. I asked him in the car outside his house (for the second time because he turned me down the first time a few months earlier). He said 'yes'. I phoned him the next day to check that he remembered saying 'yes'. Grin

CoolcoolcoolcoolcoolNoDoubt · 30/07/2019 09:56

I love reading engagement stories!

I won't add the details of mine because it's outing but it was wonderful and I'll never forget it. Grin

Alloftit · 30/07/2019 13:20

Thank you @fraxion Grin

thecatsthecats · 30/07/2019 13:32

His first proposal - on one knee, under a streetlamp on his parent's road. I was 19, he was 18. We'd only been together 3 months.

Second - on our tenth anniversary. On a beach. I'd had some goat earlier and it disagreed with me. Was very obvious he was going to propose, so was trying desperately not to fart.

He took my word of wanting to be alone, very VERY far. Lots of people around taking pictures of the sunset. Fine, he waited. It went dark. Still people somehow taking photos. Properly dark now. One man two hundred yards away, not remotely interested in us. Really had to fight the urge to say 'Get on with it, it's pitch black and I need to fart!'

samlh · 30/07/2019 14:35

Mine was in Disney Florida, on the first morning there, having breakfast with Winnie the Pooh and Friends (i've always been fond of Tigger). He'd arranged for Tigger to bring out a cushion made of flowers with Cinderella's glass slipper on top and my ring was around a rose in the slipper.

I wasn't in the best of moods as my suitcase had gone missing from the airport and hadn't turned up and I was tired and jet lagged and when he got down on one knee I told him to get off the floor because it looked vile. He asked me to marry him and I asked him if he was f**king joking.

All of the above is on DVD as his DSis and BIL were there (on honeymoon, they invited us to join them on their 2nd week there - we didn't gatecrash without an invitation) and I just remember looking at this cushion being put in front of me and thinking it was a birthday cake.

That was about 12 years ago and we get married this year :D

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