Did you have a fancy proposal?

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I didn't. We decided to get engaged together and I even chose the ring. When I tell people they're very surprised, and say they hope their other half takes them on a fancy holiday before popping the question.

Am I alone in getting engaged like this? I don't know if I've missed out on the excitement of a surprised proposal. But surely in a long term relationship you know it's coming? And will have spoken about it at least? The proposer will need to know the other wants to get married surely?

He proposed in Shakespeare Garden within Central Park. I didn't notice at first and had a little rant about Shakespeare until I saw that he was on one knee with a ring

18 months later we went back and got married in the Park, just the two of us.

He had been planning a fancy proposal but ended up blurting it out when we were having a nice moment together. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Yes I did. Somewhere that meant something to him to do with his heritage. He planned it perfectly.

He rolled over in bed at about 6am, when I was barely awake, and said ‘I think we should get married’. We had a quick chat, agreed it was what we both wanted, and married 3 months later. No engagement ring or party (although we did spend the night of his ‘proposal’ In a fancy hotel getting plastered and shagging, so that was nice 😆).

Discussed it and picked rings together, which is very much the done thing over in this neck of Scandinavia, so expected the proposal when it arrived but it was still romantic and perfect

I was in hospital, recovering after major surgery, he said ‘I suppose we should really be married’

So we did.

Nope. He proposed on a night away that I'd booked. He works almost all weekends so decided to use the one that we had away together. I'd just come off a 12 hour night shift. We'd chilled on our lovely hotel room, went for dinner, then he insisted on bringing me for a walk on the beach that was right outside our hotel. It was black dark and freezing, we stumbled across the sand, then he got down on one knee. It was perfect. Low key, private, beautiful. Then we went back to the hotel and got in the huge shower with a bottle of prosecco. Perfect.

We had already sort of decided in principle - the actual proposal was in a small restaurant, in a pretty French village, on the last day of a driving holiday. There was round of applause from the otherwise entirely French clientele when I said yes.

Not fancy, but quite charming.

( If he hadn’t proposed on that last evening, I had the ferry tickets and it would have been a longggg swim back for him)

We were on holiday but a cheapie SC abroad, we'd been up a volcano and DH later said he'd planned to do it there but it was too busy with coach trips etc, so we drove down to the coast for a picnic lunch (, I'd planned that bit so wasn't meant to be part of the proposal), it was deserted but beautiful and he knew I'd never wanted a big public thing, so he got down on one knee and asked me, no big fancy speech etc, he did already have the ring. He was going to ask the Christmas Day a couple of months before but DM told him not to, to wait until a better time!!

Christmas morning, the ring was in a present. Was lovely

We had agreed and i knew it would be coming up in the next year or so but I didn’t expect it when he did it. Our proposal wasn’t a big gesture but it was special place to us and I loved it

Sorry mega fancy proposal here! I was whisked away on a surprise trip to New York (I know it was gonna be a proposal as soon as we got to heathrow and he told me where we were going!) romantic meal out and then down on one knee at the top of the rock. It was perfect and romantic and dreamy and like something out of a film. Saying that I would have been just as overjoyed if he had presented me with a ring over a roast chicken dinner a la Meghan and Harry

No - we were in bed, nearly asleep, and he poked me in the back and asked me if I'd marry him. We'd talked about the subject a couple of weeks before.
We then had an incredibly romantic couple of weeks choosing a ring and deciding on our wedding plans before we told anyone that we were engaged, and that was really special.

I proposed to him at 11.30pm on 29th Feb after a shag 😂

We were having lunch in kfc! I turned him down and told him to make it romantic!! Luckily he asked me again later on... but we had discussed and planned.

No, just us at home. Christmas Day but I don't think he'd really planned it beforehand, he just asked after the kids were in bed whether I wanted to make this arrangement permanent (I thought 2 kids and a house were pretty permanent already!). I really thought he was joking, but he wasn't.

No fancy proposal, no fancy wedding, but a very happy marriage so far.

OP we did the same, talked, agreed and chose a ring. Then DH bought the ring earlier than we agreed and proposed on a day out

Mine proposed halfway up a mountain steep hill that I was whinging about climbing because I was five months pregnant and it was warm and I didn't have a drink... with my late nan's ring that he had in an H Samuel box that my mother had made him promise to swap before he proposed I was a bit gutted to see the box as I'd always wanted my nan's ring, so relieved when it turned out to be in there.
I conspired with the registrar to wind him up about that when we had our separate interviews before getting married.

Yes... very much so

I think it’s a bit weird to have the idea of marriage sprung on you as a surprise. We absolutely talked about it. We bought a stone (gemstone, not a diamond) from a gem merchant when on holiday and had it made into a ring (surprisingly cheaper than buying from the high street shops). So we designed the ring together but I never saw the finished ring until he gave it to me. I’d hate a big grand proposal and my dh definitely knew me well enough to know this! He took me out for a walk and packed a picnic lunch and champagne, marched me up a massive hill so we could see the view, and proposed over lunch. We did go away for a surprise weekend after, but it was just a tiny little cottage by the beach, not like a ‘holiday’.

On a beach at sunrise. It was a 40 min drive & I was the only driver so he woke me up said he wasn’t telling me where we were going, just said take a left here etc.

I only clicked with what was probably happening about 20 secs before he got down on one knee.

I told my OH I didn’t want a public proposal as I hate that sort of attention.

He did a scavenger hun in our house, including our sons. The final prize was my engagement ring.

We had been living together a year or so and had talked marriage, both very committed to the relationship. We went to Paris with some friends and when he agreed to go up the Eiffel tower I knew he wanted to propose cos he absolutely hates heights. Proposal itself was , 'do you still want to get married?' 'Yes' 'Then we should get you a ring when we get back ok?'. So I wasn't bowled over on a tide of romance. But I wanted to marry him and haven't regretted it one single day - he's a good man, a good husband and a good dad. 19 years next week.

We had casually talked about marriage previously so it was on the cards at some point, but yes I got a fancy ass proposal on a gorgeous holiday in the Florida Keys. Got sent for a massage, then he picked me up and took me for a stroll in tropical gardens and took me to a clearing where he had a little table set up with flowers, champagne, a proposal cake and a wedding cake topper.

Like a pp, he used up practically all his life's worth of romance for that one afternoon 😂 luckily he makes a mean bacon sarnie eh.

No, in a pub meeting up after a huuuue argument where I had called time in it.

DH admitted he was very upset and was so relieved I had turned up after a couple of drinks blurted out "so we're going to get married then, yes?".

Not romantic but very genuine, and he puts up with me so can't grumble haha