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True love, Romance, how did your dh propose to you?

122 replies

Helenemjay · 09/01/2006 16:34

Do these things exist? did you get the romantic proposal you dreamed off? or did you settle for a less romantic one???

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LadySherlockofLGJ · 09/01/2006 18:36

What did you say Custardo ??

Tortington · 09/01/2006 18:43

well i said yes of course - i was so happy - if only i knew then what i know now - i wudda kept mi legs shut and told him to piss off

harpsichordcarrier · 09/01/2006 18:46

on one knee
I was eating breakfast on the sofa watching breakfast tv
it was Valentines Day
we'd been going out for about 6 weeks eek
we were married 8 months later

[MT which hotel??]

galaxy · 09/01/2006 18:49

On one knee on the ramparts of Farnham Castle with dss in the courtyard below taking a photo. (It was going to be on the 9th hole at the end of our 1st game of golf together apparently. But he got the hump when I beat him)!

Ex dh proposed by putting the engagement ring in a box of chocs at Christmas. After I'd seethed internally about the crap present and started to eat them, I found the ring

LadySherlockofLGJ · 09/01/2006 18:49

Custy,

I had visions of you saying Yeah yeah whatever, just get up you great big soft jessie.

puff · 09/01/2006 18:50

Well..... after dating for 2 years I had secretly decided to dump him if I had no proposal by 15th Feb 2000. I'd sounded out the idea of living together and got a very cool response, so thought as I wasn't getting any younger (35) I wouldn't waste any more time.

You could have knocked me down with a feather when he proposed at the stroke of midnight on Millenium Eve. I don't remember this, but he says I took ages to respond - well no wonder - this was not in my plan!!!

When we got back to his house, he opened a bottle of Krug which he had placed under his Christmas tree the week before saying, "this is for a very special evening".

We laugh about it now - he had been planning to ask me for a while and thought it was obvious that he would pop the question - er no it wasn't!

Mighty glad he did though .

TambaTheDragonSlayer · 09/01/2006 18:50

I proposed to him. He was in bed very ill with glandular fever and we had only been together a few weeks, I was only 16 (nearly 17) and we got married a year later

Surfermum · 09/01/2006 18:58

He got the keys to the cottage we'd just bought (empty, no electricity, no heating and a leaky roof) from the estate agent, went round, lit a fire, organised a table, chairs, plates etc and candles and ordered a chinese take away. He told me we were going out for a drink for my birthday and it was a surprise. When we got to the cottage he carried me over the threshold. I screamed the place down as I had cracked a rib from coughing from a chest infection I'd had. When I stopped screaming, I looked down and noticed he was on one knee and he popped the question. We had our chinese and sat in the light of the fire, drinking champagne and making plans for our home.

fancyhat · 09/01/2006 19:18

ooo I;m sure I've told my story on mn before but any excuse. We were still students when we got together and after our finals I paid for us to go to a May Ball. Wasn't particularly into the ball scene, but it has to be done. The ball was everything it should be. beautiful Oxford college setting, walking home through the streets at 6 am. wonderful. When we got home I handed him my ball program and asked him to write something in it. He hesitated, and wrote "thank you for the best night ever, I love you". we had been together for about 5 months. about a month later we were chatting late one night and basically said to each other that we wanted to spend our lives together. He asked me to go and get the program. I so knew what he was going to do - he took it and wrote "marry me". I, of course, wrote "yes". He then told me how he had nearly written it on the morning after the ball, but was scared it was too early.

fancyhat · 09/01/2006 19:19

ooooo surfermum. that's lovely

tegan · 09/01/2006 19:55

Well it was nothing romantic.
We were in bed on a saturday afternoon and after a bit of nookie he said "lets go and buy and engagement ring", so up we get go to the shops and I choose the one I want, try it on, say I want it and he has forgotten his wallet. I paid for my own ring and he has never paid me back.

mckenzie · 09/01/2006 20:14

in fancy dress on the ski slopes at the end of our traditional group ski holiday last day shenigans. I had absolutely no idea.
He was dressed as a monk and I was a nun - excellent engagement photos, I dont think!
And I do remember that the box the ring was in was very badly damaged and he's been skiing all day with it in his jacket pocket and we do some daft skiing on the last day and he'd fallen over dozens of times, always managing to land on the box it seems. I'm pleased to say I loved the design of the ring and it fitted perfectly.

alittlebitshy · 09/01/2006 20:31

We were at the National Theatre, about to see"My fair Lady", he went to bar to get drinks... came bck with chanpers, got down on one knee, whicpped out homemade ring (hula hoop with malteser "diamond") and did the deed. We chose ring together a few days later. ah!!!!!

desperatehousewife · 09/01/2006 20:33

By the indian ocean on Zanzibar on millenium NYE...bless 'im!

Flamesparrow · 09/01/2006 20:42

Put a ring in a pot of hagen daz, and wrote Marry Me in the ice cream.... then spent about 2 hours convincing me that I fancied some and to go to the freezer to get it. I was getting stroppy that if he wanted it so much he could get it himself

sobernow · 09/01/2006 20:47

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funnygirl · 09/01/2006 20:48

I was lying on our couch one Saturday night feeling tired and watching a film or DVD. He knealt in front of me and I thought he was looking for something under the couch and completely ignored him and looked past him to watch the TV!! I was completely gobsmaked and speechless - which isnt me! 13 months later we got married and 10 months after the wedding we had our lovely dd.

marthamoo · 09/01/2006 21:00

He'd just come round from the second anaesthetic for an emergency appendectomy followed by internal bleeding (hence the 2nd anaesthetic - they had to open him up again). I think he thought he was going to die and thought he'd better ask me quick. I said yes because I felt very sorry for him at the time but had no intention of marrying him just then as he hadn't even finished his degree.

We almost got married when I was 8 months pregnant with ds1 (I got as far as ringing the register office) but I chickened out when I couldn't think of anything to wear.

So I asked him when ds1 was 6 months old - more in a "isn't it about time...?" kind of way, not at all romantic. And that's when we finally got round to it - about 6 years after he first asked me!

melissasmummy · 09/01/2006 21:28

DH wrote "Marry Me?" in the card he sent with my flowers for my 19th birthday. He actually went into the shop! Usually he just rings up & tells them what to write.

When I came back upstairs (we lived in a flat) he was sat on the bed holding the box.

NewYearsRacerLution · 09/01/2006 21:30

Aw some lovely stories here

DH's number one destination was Sydney so we decided to go. On one of our last days we had arranged to do the Bridge Climb with an old school friend of mine who was out there travelling and we were up at the top kneeling down out of the way so she could have her photo taken when he popped the question. We had a hug and a kiss and the guide said 'come on guys stop pashing' (or whatever Aussies say) and so we told her and she announced it on her radio to all the other groups up on the bridge and everyone clapped and cheered. I'll never forget the look on my friend's face as I'd been saying that morning that I might propose to him but was a bit scared in case he still didn't want to take the plunge (we'd talked about it before and the ball was really in his court on this one).

It took a few years coming but he did it in style, that's for sure! I thought the bridge was very symbolic but he hadn't planned it the whole trip, he had run out of opportunities and it was the best one which presented itself at the time. We went back to do the climb again on honeymoon which was really romantic for a second time. I think we are both very lucky folk

myturn · 09/01/2006 21:34

13 years ago, sitting on top of the Wrekin in Telford (not the most romantic of settings it has to be said) dh absently mumbled 'What about getting married?' and I just as absently replied 'I suppose so.'

Not atall romantic. But he did take me out to a lovely restaurant when he gave me my ring... and I have to say he is MUCH more romantic now than I am.

myturn · 09/01/2006 21:35

Actually, was 14 years ago

JonesTheSteam · 09/01/2006 21:40

Went over to DH's house, and he cooked me a lovely meal.

Afterwards he called me in to the kitchen and got down on one knee.

We chose the ring together (though he saw it first - and he has fab taste - well he married me, didn't he? )

The only downer on the whole thing, was that the next morning his neighbour threatened me with a bread knife!!!

myturn · 09/01/2006 21:41

Why, had he wanted to marry him??

JonesTheSteam · 09/01/2006 21:44

No, I'd made the 'mistake' of parking my car outside his house, and he had bumped it into the middle of the road (was a cul-de-sac).

When I knocked his door to ask him if he knew anything about my car being moved into the middle of the street, he shouted at me and threatened me with a bread knife.

I hadn't parked over his driveway or anything, just in front of his house - and no one else had wanted to park there!!!!!!

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