To ask if anyone here has proposed to their OH

[FatBottomedGal]

Just that really! I’d love to hear some stories from women who’ve proposed to their partners, why they decided to do it, how they did it, how it went down with their OH & friends/family.

I’m very much ready to get married and I don’t necessarily see why I should wait for my OH to pop the question first, but I’m also worried about him saying no, or feeling weird about it?

I did. He said no.

I did. We had been talking about getting married, then I kind of freaked out and we nearly broke up. I knew that he would be too worried to ask me after my commitment panic, plus I wanted him to know I was sure. So, I bought a ring, took him to dinner, and proposed. It was lovely - meant it was a surprise, and he was very happy! Been married 5 years now.

No, not even engaged.

I did!
We'd been to his friends wedding in the day and got a bit drunk. We were in bed together and I just asked him.
In fairness we already had DS1 and had discussed general future plans which involved being married so I was pretty sure he'd say yes.
Picked up our son from his GP's the next day and said "oh by the way we got engaged last night"
We went ring shopping a few weeks later. He did hold onto the ring when it was delivered and gave it to me with a nice card so he did have some input there.

I kind of did.

I had a friend who had moved to live with her DP, they'd been together 8 years. In that time he'd been very ill and she took on both his care and being the main household earner for the last few years. Sadly, he died, and he hadn't made a will. DF lost everything in a massive legal battle with his family (brothers and sisters, he had no DC and his parents were long deceased). DH and I supported her through it as best we could but it really made me think. We'd made mirror wills a few years back but at that point we'd been together 18 years, our DC (1 of mine 2 of his) were no longer at school so the terms of the wills weren't really relevant as they had been about providing for the DC.

So our proposal wasn't in the least romantic! I just said to him "I've been thinking, we either need to make new wills or get married. I quite fancy being married, what do you think?" and he agreed, so 6 weeks later with minimum fuss for the actual ceremony but a massive party afterwards we were

We just had a sort of conversation.
I said I'd like another baby as we already had Ds1 aged 18 months.
He said he supposed we should get married really if we were gonna try for a 2nd baby.
I said ok. When do you fancy?

We got married 8 weeks later. Small registry office wedding. Ds2 was born the following year.
We've been married 28 years next month

We had been together for about 10 years and had DS, and I decided that actually I would like to get married. We discussed it, met a lady who designed my ring, he then took the ring and surprised me with it.
It was lovely!

Had been together for years, was never interested in getting married then one day I was. So, over a curry I said 'I've been thinking and I'd like to get married' He said 'Ok then'

Romance is big in our house 🤣

I sort of did. Seeing each other 3 months - he was the best man I had ever met. I said one morning in bed - shall we you know? And he said yes. We got engaged.

Now 26 years later, 22 married and 2 kids. Got married after 4 years together.