How did you react when you were proposed to?

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Lighthearted and feel-good thread.

Just thinking back to my proposal; I kind of expected it but at the same time when DH got down on one knee I just held my face in my hands whilst standing there and burst in to tears for a good minute or so before saying yes. Which surprised me because I didn't think I'd be so overcome with emotion!

What was your reaction?

I asked him if he was serious.

I thought I should feel overjoyed. We didn't get engaged.

I text back - yeah, let’s do it.

We just agreed we wanted to marry each other and so we did.

Cried like I’d been dumped, not proposed to. The photos of my big swollen crying face and puffy eyes are not great 🤣

Shocked. Asked him if he meant it. We'd only been dating 6 weeks. Told him I needed a week to think about it 😁.

I hate how I reacted, I was so embarrassed! We were just at home, so no audience. Walking home from work that day a really clear voice popped into my head saying ‘he’s going to propose tonight!’ Which was a lovely thought. Got home and he’d cooked me dinner and was wearing a suit so that was a dead giveaway 😂 at some point he told me to close my eyes and then he went to get the ring from wherever he’d hid it and he was SO nervous when he said ‘will you marry me’… I was just like ‘of course!’. I was 21. We were the first of our family and friends of same age to get engaged so I think it was just uncharted territory and felt a bit judged when we told people, I think that’s where the cringe came from.
Got married a year later. It’s our 13th wedding anniversary tomorrow :)

Never been asked 🤷🏼‍♀️

I said yes without hesitation. It was a spur of the moment thing at a ball. The champagne, dj, ball gown, bench in the rose garden under the moon, made it the right moment. Rather unromantically, he then said "you'll want a ring now I expect".

35 years ago.

@CoffeeBeansGalore how long ago was this and are you still together?

I am guessing some of us doing the proposing

I kind of had it twice.
I asked him why he hadn't been married, he was 38. He replied he hadn't met the right person so jokingly I said " well I'd marry you"
The next day he took me to a lighthouse and got down on one knee.
I obviously said yes. Nearly 21 years ago.
We got engaged after 3 days and married 12 weeks later. 2 children and many animals later still together.

I didn't like it, we had only been together about a year and hadn't even discussed marriage so I felt put on the spot and said I wasn't ready. I felt really bad about it but these things need to be mutually agreed not sprung on the other person. A few months later after some actual discussion we did get engaged and then married.

He knew not to get down one one knee if he had any chance of me saying yes! But then he also knew about my feminist views and as a man secure in himself he has always respected and supported that. So it was a definite yes! ❤️

I vomited into my mouth and swallowed it. That's the truth. I had already had way too much wine which doesn't always agree with me and we'd been travelling all day. We were in an alcove in a restaurant and a waiter came along with a bottle of expensive champagne and DH insisted I have a glass because we were celebrating. Then he asked me, we hadn't specifically talked about it, we were still young and I assumed it would eventually come up. I was so shocked the vomit came. Dh drank most of the champagne and was up all night with diarrhoea in an awful dump of a hostel, so I had to do the long drive while hungover and then when we stopped for a break we got robbed and lost all cash and cards. Sort of a funny story now. Bloody nightmare at the time. Still married though!

I hid my anger that he had done it in front of friends while tipsy in the park (not random drunk proposal but planned that way). I had in mind that I would not say yes if he did it drunk but felt pressure since we all knew I wanted to get married.
Yes, it turned out to be a red flag!

@raysan Doesn't sound great! Did you marry him?

We’d been out walking and it started raining so we were sitting in the car eating sandwiches. It wasn’t v. romantic but I suppose he felt relaxed. I said yes and laughed, because it was so ridiculous. 😂

I said ‘For fuck sake, darling, you know that every time you say this I am even less interested in getting married than I was the time before.’

Reader, I (eventually) married him.

Same for me. There was no proposal. We just gradually agreed to marry as our relationship progressed.

I cried great big ugly tears, which is ridiculous because we’d talked about it, decided it was what we both wanted and we’d bought a ring, which had to be resized. It was just a shock because the ring came back a lot earlier than expected, so I wasn’t expecting it. And then I couldn’t keep the grin off my face. I was so happy.

There were four other proposals, which were horror, sadness, sadness and glee (the glee was more a late teens thing knowing it would infuriate our parents rather than any particular desire to spend our lives together).

Same as you - cried and didn’t respond for a while. He said to me you know you have to give me an answer right? 🤣 the only time I ever saw him nervous apart from one other time.

We were going out for dinner but I came home to find my landlord had taken some of the furniture in my flat ( not living with dp at the time )
When dp turned up I was crying and shouting at the landlord down the phone and told dp I wasn’t in the mood for a meal

He said
But we have to I want to ask you to marry me
I cheared up somewhat 🥳 and asked him to get on one knee 🤣🤣🤣. I said yes and we went out for the meal. 🥰

’oh nooo, I’ve been such a stroppy bitch’ 😂 DH had asked me out for a ‘last minute’ (to me!) date and I didn’t want to go as I was tired and my hair wasn’t going right and I couldn’t find anything to wear and it was cold etc etc… then I realised what was going on and felt awful! Then I cried, then said ‘oh god I can’t even see the ring, what if I don’t like it?!’ as it was dark and fireworks only light up for a second or two 😂
I am normally nicer, I promise!!

I was only 18, I don’t think I cried and we didn’t make a big deal out of it but I was overjoyed 🤍