to ask how your DH proposed?

[CarryOn90]

Feeling a bit 'meh' about my own love life this evening

I want to hear all your lovely stories

[lizhow14]

He didn't
I did on 29th February 2012, we got married in the July x

[Tinkerball]

The romance of my proposal just can't be be beaten - lying in bed and he says to me "I'm resisting the urge to put a ring on your finger", to which my response was "what's wrong with me you are resisting!"

17 years and 2 kids later we still have a laugh about it!

[Sallyingforth]

Not very romantic I'm afraid.

After we spent a weekend together on our first date (!), as DP left to go off to work he said "We'll be getting married of course." and I just grinned.

Nearly seven years later we haven't done it yet but we both assume that we will some day.

[Bramblesinforrin]

Down on one knee in front of a huge bank of candles in notre dame cathedral in Paris. Speech and all! We chose the ring together on a different day - he knows I'm fussy! Still together after 27 years. :)

[Voodoobooboo]

MyDPs have a much told story. Dad was dropping Mum home after a dance, leaned back in his car seat and said "I s'pose w ought to get married then". She was his 3rd fiancee so others were not optimistic. However Dad now points out that my Mother is not a quitter and they've just celebrated 52 years!

[SignYourName]

We were on a night out with some friends and colleagues and he got down on one knee in a corner of a bar completely out of the blue. He hadn't planned it and in many ways it was completely out of character (we rarely went out "weekend drinking", it was the one and only time we were in that bar together, he is quite a romantic person and a busy city centre wine bar on a Friday night in front of other drinkers wouldn't be the place you'd expect him to propose if you knew him) but it was special because, as he told me afterwards, he'd glanced across at me to where I was chatting with a friend, thought "I want to spend the rest of my life with Sign" and acted on it straight away.

That was 15 years ago; we will have been married for 14 years later this year.

[jeee]

Italy - Rome - Trevi fountain. Though I'd already chosen the ring, so it wasn't any kind of surprise. My engagement ring subsequently lost its diamond - which isn't any kind of metaphor for our relationship.

[halfdrunkcoffee]

We were spending four months travelling. We were walking some of the Sunshine Coast Great Walk in Australia and were having a rest to look at a waterfall when DH asked me to marry him. He said he hadn't planned to ask there (one of his other possible locations was behind a massive waterfall, which would have been far too noisy). We had talked about getting married before however, so it wasn't completely out of the blue. We bought a ring later.

[LokiBear]

I was in a sulk because England had lost the rugby world cup final. He asked if a diamond ring would sort my face out. It did!

[TalcumPowder]

Honestly, I haven't the slightest memory of it. I remember several subsequent attempts to persuade me into marriage, but I remained obdurate for over 20 years. We eventually got married for deeply unromantic, practical reasons a week before our baby was due, and neither of us could tell you the date.

[I8toys]

He didn't - we sort of mutually agreed lying in bed one day 3 months after we got together at Uni - I was 20 and he was 22. He cobbled together some money and bought me a ring. Been together 23 years and married 18 years next week.

[Agggghast]

In the pouring rain, in the west of Ireland, waiting for friends to bring the car round. I was shivering so he put his coat around me and said "I just want to keep you warm for the rest of your life, please marry me". We were both students and both our parents objected but we married a year later and were incredibly happy for 27 years until he unexpectedly died.

[Cravey]

In front of a plantation house on Barbados. One week before Christmas so lights everywhere. I shouted at him to get up off the grass as I would never get the stains out. Then realised he was holding a ring and burst into years. The most romantic thing he's ever done.

[Toofattorun]

Agggghast - That's brought tears to my eyes, what a beautiful and yet so tragic story.

[redexpat]

First time, lying in bed. Second time, over the weetabix. Had to practically force him down on one knee.

[Purpleflamingos]

At a local boating lake, on a wooden bridge over the water, under an old fashioned Victorian gas style streetlight at midnight after a couple of drinks in a country pub.

[Agggghast]

Toofat, I don't feel it is tragic, the memory still keeps me warm. I was so lucky to have been loved by a wonderful man and my three DC are a constant reminder/ joy. When I read on this thread about what some people go through, I am grateful.

[Agggghast]

Not this thread, this website!!!

[VSeth]

Top of the Empire state building, last night of a fantastic USA trip, just after midnight. We then got the ring in the diamond district next day, we got a bargain as it was valued at 3.5x what he paid for it!

I wasn't allowed to tell anyone until he asked my Dad

[Moorea]

Some of these are lovely!

Mine was in Moorea, in the South Pacific. It was in one of those incredibly beautiful places where the palm trees are growing horizontally over the bay.

He gave me a black pearl and went down on bended knee, and could barely get the words out for crying! He also cried throughout our wedding ceremony & the births of our children

When we returned home, he gave me the ring.

[Memphisbelly]

We went to a burger shop (a posh one, he wants me to point out) he put the ring on thr tray next to the drinks after fetching them from the bar, then hexsaid 'well?' I had to point out he a tually hadn't asked me anything
Couple on the next table were mid quiet arguement and she sat eyeballing us then left for her to be sat on the same row in the cinema after the burger....alone, she had clearly sent him packing

[mummytowillow]

We went to London, he took me to see Swan Lake at the Opera House. I'd wanted to see it for ages.

As we walked over Tower Bridge he proposed. We also got upgraded to an amazing suite at the hotel as he told them he was proposing!

Shane were divorced now

[Suefla62]

We went to a friends wedding. During the reception his said "we should do this". After the reception we walked to a local jeweler and picked out a ring (it was £6). It's our 45th anniversary this year, and the ring is still one of my most precious possessions, although he did upgrade it on our 25th.

[wobblyweebles]

I told him he had to marry me so I could get a green card.

Beat that for romance...