To ask you to share your proposal sorry

[Tunnocks34]

Inspired by another thread..I’ll start...Honestly my proposal was a shambles, He planned a scavenger hunt around our house, with clues, and presents in each place with the ring being the final prize.

What actually happened was our then 3 year old son saw him hiding things, and subsequently took everything out of the hiding place and put in the middle of the room. When my husband got down on one knee, our son thought he was getting ready to play fight, and he jumped on my husbands head and the ring flew across the room, and took a good 10 minutes to find. When my husband did find the ring, he tried again except my son just kept shouting ‘what are you doing daddy?’ ‘What does MARRY mean?’

It was absolutely perfect chaos. Everything went wrong but I loved it, and it still makes me smile now.

I told him if he proposed, I would leave him. He didn’t, and I didn’t, and we have been together 21 years now. Love a happy ending.

My proposal was absolutely wonderful. My Fiancé booked a whole weekend away in November last year as he knew it would be one of the last free moments we had before our son was born. He arranged overnight care with my mum for our daughter and he even went too see my dad one day whilst I thought he was at work to ask his permission.

The weekend away was in Manchester at a lantern festival, it was something we had done the first year we got together so it was really romantic. When we arrived I even thought this would be a wonderful place to propose but it is too public so he wouldn’t do it.

He actually arranged with the events organisers. for us to be able to go back in after it had closed so it was just the two of us and in front of the lake in between lanterns he got down on one knee and proposed.

It was beautiful and amazing! I couldn’t believe how much effort he put in 🥰

We were in the middle of a blazing row and I sarcastically said "Oh yeah. I suppose you want to marry me as well." He said actually, I do. I wouldnt believe him.
A couple of weeks later he came into my work and very publicly asked me. As hes3the shyest person Ive ever met, I had to believe him and rather grumpily said yes!
Best decision of my life.

Our best friends we’re getting married and we’d not long had our first child. We were discussing legal things and issues that could arise as we weren’t married so decided it was best if we did it too!

The dog pissed on the bed, so we went new duvet shopping.

Saw a ring in a jewellers, marched in, tried it on, he bought it, stuck it in his pocket and we went to Tesco. Had to try and concentrate on a weekly shop with THE RING BULGE looking at me. Wasn't planning to buy a ring. Just a duvet.

Got home, I was hanging out the clean bedding in the garden and sod of a dog was having (another) pee, and now-husband casually saunters over with a cup of tea and says 'shall we put this on then?'

Dog, leg cocked, eyeballed the entire romantic moment with interest through billowing duvet cover.

So romantic.

It was totally unromantic. It was on my 23rd birthday, we were on our way to dinner with our parents and he said "I suppose we'd better get married now, we've been together 5 years"
I don't know if he was planning on doing it over dinner with our parents there and jumped the gun/lost his nerve and did it early, or if he was just feeling rather spontaneous in that moment.
It was nice getting to the restaurant and telling our parents we were planning on getting married though, but I never got an engagement ring.

We were doing dishes. DH flung the tea towel over his shoulder and asked me to marry him. The ring came later.

He says he wishes he'd done it differently but we've been married for years and years is it really doesn't matter to me - end result is the same.

Me: I'm pregnant! (Only been together 5 months)
Him: Sh!t, we'll have to get engaged or something or your dad will murder me.
Me: Okay then.
Him: What about a ring?
Me: I've seen one I like. (Not bunny boiling - I worked in a high street jewellers at the time not Elizabeth Duke 😆 a little bit more up market Warren James 😉)
Him: Do you get a discount?
Me: Yeah.
Him: Do you want to get it and I'll give you the money when I get paid next?
Me: Okay then.
Ffwd 23 years, we're still together, still "engaged", still got the ring and I'm still waiting for the £54 quid he owes me. 🤣🤣🤣🥰

We talked about it, as in 'yes' was a forgone conclusion.

I said I'd seen a ring I liked - I worked in an auctioneers so it was coming up in a future sale. He left a commission bid on it and got it.

We went away to where we had met volunteering a few months later, did the pub quiz with friends, won, and he proposed on the walk back. It was lovely, just the two of us under the stars.

When we got back we had an argument over where we'd get married 😂.

Oh and been married 12 years this year, together 15.

No proposal, mutual decision. We had a make or break weekend away, it was intense. But it sealed our fate.

Booked our wedding for six months later. Didn’t announce engagement. Grandmother’s ring. No regrets!

I was sitting on the sofa in the living room and it was the day after my birthday.

I was looking forward to my boyfriend coming home because he was bringing my present with him. He’d told me that he’d had my gift delivered to his place of work but it hasn’t arrived in time, hence why he hadn’t been able to give it to me on my actual birthday.

Anyhow, he comes into the living room with just a card in his hands and no present. He told me that the gift still hadn’t arrived but I could have my card if I wanted (he said he’d left it at his office on my actual birthday which is why I hadn’t received it yet).

I remember taking the card off him in a snatchy manner and saying something like, well it’s better than nothing!

I opened the card and on the front was written Happy Birthday to my fiancee and I remember feeling confused and when I opened the card it said inside, “What do you say?”

I looked up from the card, still confused, and there was on one knew with the most beautiful engagement ring in his hands.

I was 100% completely not expecting it and I just screamed with excitement and started crying.

It was amazing. It couldn’t have been more perfect.

Rooftop bar in a posh hotel in Hong Kong, Christmas Day. Was late so nobody saw - perfect!

In Monaco, by the sea... but he got on two knees

He tied the ring box to our dog and told me to call the dog over. I found the box, only it was empty and so I thought he was pranking me, obviously not impressed that he would do that to me!

His face went white as a sheet. Turns out when the dog bounded along the box opened and snapped shut again and the ring flew out. 10 minutes later he found it under the sofa, said “well I’m down on my knees now so might as well stay here”. Not how he planned it but I couldn’t imagine anything better and it’s a funny story to tell, especially for the people who know our twat of a dog

We had booked a fabulous extravagant holiday, and he was planning on doing it there. But I got pregnant so he decided to wait until the baby was born.

Arranged to them do it at our favourite UK destination, asked all our immediate family to come, they’d all booked hotels and organised leave from work etc.

I ended up in critical care unit for weeks after taking ill 8 weeks after having our DD, so again his plans were cancelled.

When I got out of hospital and could walk etc again, he was all over the place. My mum took me to get my nails done, sent him to the Turkish barbers for a shave and told us to go a drive somewhere for a wee day out.

Us and DD ended up in a place where DP and I had spent a few days at new year about 9 years ago. It’s a wedding venue but open to the public, and there was a wedding on at the other side. We could hear but not see the wedding. Their pipers started up, and I turned round to him and said aw listen, how beautiful. He was on one knee and I just said ‘are you taking the piss’ 😂 obviously I said yes when I realised he wasn’t! Got back home and he showed me proof of when he bought the ring (before all the shit) so I would know he wasn’t just proposing because I was at deaths door a few weeks before!

We’re getting married next July 🥰 we had a 5 year long engagement! Can’t wait.

We hiked trolltunga in Norway, he found us a secluded spot and asked me in front of the most beautiful view I have ever seen.

He had asked my dad and included my mum and sister in the ring shopping, I had no idea!

Another boring low key one here, on the sofa at home. We’d already talked about marriage a handful of times and there had been a few moments where I thought he would propose. We were in the middle of selling his flat and buying our first house together. We had a conversation where I (as the much lower earner) said that after 4 years together I had been patient, but that if he expected me to sign against a huge financial commitment (mortgage was >10x my salary) that I would need a sign that he was committed to our future. He agreed. We discussed rings. I saw a great bargain second hand ring on eBay (from a diamond dealer) and bought it for a ridiculous low price, with the intention to reuse the diamond/metal and re-set. It arrived and apart from being slightly too big it was perfect so I just had it resized. Similarly, I insisted on the actual wedding a couple of years later when he started asking about having children. It was important to me to do the wedding first. It might not be romantic, but it’s ok to ask for what you want out of your life. We shouldn’t wait for the whims of men for such important moments in life.

He took me to a local beauty spot and we went to a really secluded but that we liked to picnic in, I wasn’t even looking at him and was stood there waffling on about how weird and cool nature was and how do you think the cliff face was formed and when etc 😂 I turned around because he hadn’t answered and there he was with a ring!

If we're still together in a year, do you think we'll get married
Yes, hey why wait?
Hmm, yeah, ok.

A couple of months later - register office followed by pub followed by another pub.

That was 22 years ago.

Last of the great romantics we are 😂

Las Vegas 64 floors up on a terrace overlooking the strip with my gorgeous Tiffany ring 😍😍😍 11 year wait was worth it.

Ours was in a beautiful castle courtyard in Germany. It was late at night so no one around and snowing. It was perfect .

We took a walk one summer's night after dinner to our local park. Theres an open air amphitheatre amd we sat down in there for a rest. He passed me a box and inside was a gorgeous art deco emerald and diamond ring I had been coveting in am antique shop for over a year. He then asked me to do him the honour of becomimg his wife. It was all very Mr.Darcy but I loved it. 3 weeks later we found out we were expecting our first baby and we finally got married last October.

Went to Manila (for work), he tagged along too and worked remotely. Once work was finished we flew onto Lagen Island, bit of a trek to get there (plane, car, boat). Plus the boat nearly capsized as we got caught in a storm (another story). Had dinner one night on the beach and he got down and proposed. We celebrated with lovely food and champagne and then went back to our water bungalow and watched the stars and fish swimming around. The next day we went kayaking in the big and small lagoons.
Pretty dammed good tbh!

Walking down Oxford Street, an emerald and diamond ring caught my eye as we were walking past a jewellers.

‘’That’s a nice ring,’ said I

‘’Let’s go and buy it,’’ said He

20 minutes later, ‘I guess this means we’re engaged,’’ said He.

‘’ I guess so,’’ said I.