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

On a fb message just now after nearly dieing 48 hours ago of a massive heart attack. how romantic is that propsing from your hospital bed via fb

Hubby did a fake newspaper and had 'Normal will you marry me?' on the front page. He made loads of pancakes for breakfast and I (half asleep, with toothpaste stained jogging bottoms on, braless and the smelliest morning breath) was half asleep and didn't notice until DH said 'aren't you going to read the morning papers?'. Then he took me away for a romantic weekend.

On a cable car in Singapore - only slightly spoiled by me shrieking that he was making the car rock.

Twitchypalm did you reply? On FB? Is he going to be okay?

I like these threads...even the sad ones.

A few days prior to my birthday he got all het up and apologised and said my present wasn't going to arrive in time. I said it was fine and not to worry. On my actual birthday he asked if I wanted my card or did I want to open it with my present when it arrived - I told him I would wait.

Three days after my birthday he came home from work and handed me my birthday card and instead of it saying "happy birthday to my girlfriend" it said "happy birthday to my fiancé". I was really confused to looked up and saw DP standing there with the ring.

Possibly a cliche engagement but at the same time I wasn't expecting it at all!!!

I had a 2 day business trip to the city where we had our first holiday.
I was supposed to fly back on the Friday, but DH spoke to my boss and got me Friday as holiday, then flew out secretly on Thursday and checked into the beautiful hotel where we had stayed on holiday, which was the other side of the city to the ugly hotel work had put me up in.

He then asked me to go and take a picture of the view from the hotel and send it to him, because he was missing me and missing our holiday and wanted a reminder of it.

So I got into a taxi, a bit annoyed at having to trek over there and went out to the pool area at the back to take the picture, only to find him, on a sun lounger with a ring. We changed my flight and spent the weekend there afterwards.

Well we were engaged on and off for years after getting engaged 3 weeks after we got together. In the advert break for (showing my age here) the X-Files he said, "So shall we set a date for this summer then". Nice an romantic like.

We were in a lochside lodge on a week away before we lived together or anything. The view was nice I'm guessing but we were 19 and not interested in that, just each other!

Anyway in a post sex glow he started mumbling about how he had meant to get a ring before we came away but didn't know my size... blah blah blah.

I stopped him and said 'are you proposing'? He replied 'I think so'.

That was good enough for me! Picked up a ten pound Elizabeth duke ring on the way home then he got me one on tick a month later. Poor lad was just an apprentice at the time! Thanks that was 13 years ago.

We weren't going out with each other at the time as we we'd been 'on a break' for 18 months, but we were still friends. He very unexpectedly went down on one knee in my garden after a lovely, but platonic, evening together. It was great fun telling our parents the next day as they were so shocked. 16 years later proves breaking up doesn't necessarily mean it's the end of everything I guess!

He did it in front of my family at dinner. It was completely unexpected and tbh I felt pressured to say yes and not ruin it
We had had a massive row a couple of days before that was nearly a deal breaker and he still went through with it and I think he should have waited. I wanted to marry him (and I did!) just wished he had done it more privately but I have never let on

On New Year's Day in the snow at my favourite place near my folks' house. Down on one knee and with a beautiful ring that he had designed. It is now the site of a music festival and it makes me smile that one of its features is a giant illuminated heart that actually beats over the spot where he asked me. Apparently I never said yes...!