To ask you to share your proposal sorry

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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.

Had absolutely no intention of getting married. Then a friend died suddenly leaving his partner in an even worse position than if they'd been married. We had DD1 and had bought our house by this time. Sat in front of TV one night, chatting, agreed it would be sensible to get married. So we did a year later. No engagement ring but had eternity and wedding band designed myself. Big proposal wouldn't have suited either of us!

I made a joke about getting married in Vegas. We watched The Hangover, then as we were leaving the cinema he said "let's get married in Vegas!"

Then we picked a ring.

Then he said "here, wear this".

We had talked about marriage for a few years. I thought we’d were going to go out and choose a ring together after we got back off Holiday and that would be that.
Except we were on holiday at Disney world and one evening on our way home I stopped by the castle to take a picture of it all all lit up and as I turned round to walk away he was on one knee with a beautiful ring in his hand.
It was perfect!
The only issue we both had was the crowd, the people around us were cheering and clapping and everyone came up to us to give congratations it was a little bit much for us but it was a lovely moment still

My OH proposed to me in our bedroom during lockdown!

He bought the ring just before lockdown happened and his intention was to propose at the top of a Munro. He said he couldn't wait any longer and so got down on one knee at the base of our bed and asked me!

I said yes of course and I cried the whole day and even now as I type this haha

We had been together less than 3 months and I was pregnant although I didn't know (found out the next day). We had been out to a dodgy pub lock in the night before, where this bloke wouldn't leave me alone, and to get rid of him, DH told him we had eloped to Paris that week and got married. It was a ridiculous story but it seemed to work. Anyway the following night we were at the rough working men's club where I worked part time behind the bar for a bit of extra money to pay my rent, and he was chair of the entertainment committee (like Dave Spikey's character in Phoenix Nights ). I was pouring a pint of Guinness when DH paused the bingo he was calling in the function room and said he had an announcement to make - and then proposed over the PA system. I dropped the pint, the whole room went silent as the grave and everyone looked at me, and I was pushed towards the stage to reply. I was mortified but obviously said yes.

Now I am so glad I have that memory of DH. We were together for 20 years til he died, and it would have been difficult to imagine him doing that towards the last few years because he changed so much (got more mature and stopped drinking beer, was more shy and sensible) but that ridiculous proposal was his way of showing our community he was serious about me, when everyone thought we would never last.

We'd spoken about it for ages, in fact we'd only been together 2 or 3 months the first time we looked at rings but it didn't happen for a while. I accidentally found a ring he'd bought in his clothes drawer while putting the washing away and hated it so managed to get a conversation going about rings and showed him a few examples of what I liked. A few months later we were shopping for a graduation present for him and in the jewellers where I was buying his watch was this gorgeous solitaire in a setting like I've never seen before. I tried it on and it was so beautiful but very out of budget so sulked a bit and then forgot about it. We couldn't afford a holiday that year so we were going to stay with my dad in Kent and spend a few days in London and on one of those days we had some cool things planned, breakfast at the Sky Garden, London Eye, boat trip etc so I was bit excited as it could be the day! It was so warm so he didn't wear a jacket which meant nowhere to put the ring so I could see this ring box in his pocket We went to the restaurant at the sky garden and he started this really lovely speech, in the middle of it the waiter came and plonked our food down on the table, my partner looked from the food to the ring and back again and said 'oh we'll eat first then I'll carry on which obviously went down soooo well. But it was lovely and funny and I'm so glad he didn't get on one knee in the middle of the restaurant!!

No proposal, just a mutual decision. No ring either. Instead we spent a bit more on our wedding rings, had them designed & made by a local jeweller.

We'd been together about a year and were in a local pub discussing the upcoming wedding of a friend. He said "I'd like that for us one day" It took me a bit by surprise and robbed me of speech for a second, so he said "wouldn't you like that too"? I said yes of course I would and that was that. The next morning he rang the register office and booked it for a few weeks hence so we were married within about 6 weeks. I found out I was pregnant 2 weeks before we married and I've never managed to convince anyone that wasn't the reason we married so quickly. No engagement ring. Neither of us gave it a thought but he knows I'm not keen on wearing rings. Flat wedding bands are ok but I can't do with those stones that stick out and get in the way of things. Been married 30+ years.

I’d already had his children over 10 years. He didn’t want a big wedding and hated the fuss and said he refused to be the centre of attention. He was burying his head in the sand. Then one day when I was pregnant with another of his children, I packed my bags and told him I was leaving unless we got married! I only unpacked them once we booked a date and bought a ring. Took but 2 days!

So romantic.

It would have been around 1976, I can't remember being proposed to, I remember going to a posh jewellers in Sheffield and getting a lovely ring. Not worn it for years, my fingers are larger due to arthritis now.

I would have hated a showy proposal.

Our DS was 3 months old, my now DH has got up really early and taken him through to another room to allow me to sleep. I woke up, wandered through to the other room, sat beside him and said “I’ve been thinking, should we get married”! Not very romantic but we laugh about it now, 10 years later.

We were moved 8hrs away and he had gone early I drove 8hrs in a van and was going back the every next morning to get the van back. We were lying in the bed doing a quiz thing and he said I have a moving present for you and there was a ring box. He had bought fizz but it was midnight so we had tea my favourite drink of all!!! Then I went away for a week and saw him again same when we found out I was pregnant I left on the sat for work and didnt see him for a week !!! It was very me if he had done it publicly I would have really hated it he knows I hate for show things I have to watch behind a cushion when people propose on tv I mean who really wants that!

We were living together , in the days when most people didn’t live together, and one day when I got home from work I was greeted with ‘we have to find another flat so we should get married’.

The two of us went for a walk and a picnic supper on a lovely Scottish beach near our house on a summer evening, partner asked me to marry him, found a shell with a hole in it to use as a ring until we could buy one. Was completely unexpected!

My fiance proposed in December last year.

We had been having a chat with the kids about what we were looking forward to in the future all together etc. We both mentioned getting engaged etc.

Then when we went to bed we were chatting and he said "so what was it you were looking forward to?". I ran through things again, including getting engaged and married. He went "so will this help?" And produced a ring and he asked me. It was perfect. At home, kids all asleep in bed.

What makes it even more special is that he had actually brought the ring back in september and was waiting for the right moment......we had a miscarriage in October, and it felt so lovely knowing that he was keeping it ready for the perfect moment, even through all that heartbreak xxx

This thread has really put a smile on my face! Some are sweet and some are just too funny!

Some of these are great! I must say my proposal wasn’t a surprise as such either as I’d already told him the ring I wanted.

My wedding ring is a family heirloom and I wanted to make sure the engagement ring was a plain, yellow gold solitaire to it would compliment it

I texted him while we were both at work one day and asked if he fancied getting married. He replied that it doesn’t sound like a bad idea. There was no ring, I don’t like rings.

We were sitting on the couch, decided it was time to get our stuff sorted (because marriage is more than just a paper), so decided to get married and booked the registry office for 5 weeks later. We told the parents almost a year later (there was a reason for that).

We're both not romantic at all. Sorry.

In a beautiful forest surrounded by wild ponies! My now DH pretended he needed a wee while out on a walk.. he was gone a while so I went looking for him in the direction he had gone, into a thicker part of the forest.. it was late afternoon in March so was getting kind of dusky... I stumbled across a blanket that had been scattered with rose petals, candles, champagne on ice, and my DH on one knee grinning from ear to ear while presenting me with the most beautiful ring I had ever seen.. It was truly gorgeous.. then to top it off some of the ponies came to see what was going on which was so sweet. My DH had planned all of this earlier in the day.

Then it got dark really quickly and bloody freezing and we had to hot foot it out of there, it got a bit horror movie ish, even the ponies took on a sinister edge!

That sounds like my DH had planned for the ponies to come over. He's not that good

It was my birthday and he had just come home from work, and I had just come home from taking the children out for the day and was desperate to jump in the shower so we could go out for dinner. I kept trying to move towards the bathroom, and he was just cuddling me. I could tell he was a bit nervous (no idea why, we'd been discussing marriage for a while). Anyway, he gets down on one knee and asks me to marry him in the living room. DD yelling "DOES THAT MEAN YOU'RE GETTING MARRIED THEN?" and baby DS shouting the whole time. Chaotic but private and personal. It was perfect. We're booked to get married next year

We’d been chatting about it for a little while, he not-so-subtly asked me to look at a couple of rings from Argos to see which I picked in terms of style - then went to a Jewellers in town and got a slightly more fancy version of what I’d indicated I liked (very thin band and small stone, I don’t wear jewellery much, especially rings and I don’t like big chunky rings as I’m constantly aware they’re on my finger!).

Then he waited for my birthday, got me Skyward Sword as a present (Zelda game) and waited for me to get fully absorbed into it. Went to his dads and printed out a few photos that were of big occasions in our relationship. Also got the ring from there as that is where it had been stashed.

Came home, sat down beside me, went through the photos with me (despite my being slightly disgruntled that he’d interrupted me on the game - what a charmer I am 😂) and then at the end he said “Here’s to the years we’ve had so far” - took out the ring - “and hopefully to the many more we’ll spend together.”

I found out a few weeks later he’d actually planned a restaurant/party with friends and family present until we were watching Hells Kitchen of all things, I randomly commented I could think of nothing worse than a public proposal - i’d want the ground to swallow me up, thankfully he took note!