How were you proposed to?

[SteffiMuse]

My proposal was when I decided I wanted to go to lunch, he pulled out a ring and asked if I wanted to wear it, then asked me to pay half of the bill. Not the most romantic. Anyone had better than mine?

No proposal, no ring - just a lot of talking and we eventually set a date. For me, it was the best way :)

No proposal, we just started planning our wedding (well, his wedding, as I would have been happier at the registry office in my jeans).

TBH, if he had proposed it would have made me think twice about marrying him. Conventional romantic gestures are not my cup of tea.

I turned around he was down on one knee by the sink unit holding out a solitaire diamond ring with a cheeky grin on his grimey face. We had briefly talked about living together/getting married but this proposal was a suprise - he'd sold his car to buy the ring .
We've been together almost 23 years and it's our 21st Wedding Anniversary this year. I love him so much it hurts and he truly is my best friend

I LOVE THIS STORY SO MUCH!!!

DP informed me there was now a budget for a ring while we were in an antiques centre in York so I should choose a ring. Wouldn't tell me how much the bloody budget was though. Romance makes him too embarrassed

Just been proposed to, on a paradise beach, white sands and longtail boats.

He wasn't down on one knee as we were already sitting on cushions on the sand in a beach bar and he asked me to spend the rest of my life with him.

We then went and bought a cheapo ring from a street stall until I got the proper one back home.
We then celebrated with a bucket of Thai Whiskey and Diet Coke

No proposal here either, we were just discussing marriage and agreed to get married, went to the register office the next day and booked a date. On the date, I got my hair done in the morning, took 2 witnesses, got married, went home, carried on as normal. Very romantic! Ha The day did not matter to me in the least, its just one day, marriage is about the rest of your life.

We were together 3 months and went on a city break to Paris. On our way back from a lovely romantic meal he got down on one knee in the back of an extremely busy Metro train and proposed!! To this day he says he fell

Went for a walk on an extremely cold Sunday morning to a local park which had a Chinese garden with a bridge over a waterfall where DH got down on one knee with the ring.

Then we went to Pizza Hut (was the nearest warm place) :)

Gondola in the Venetian hotel Las Vegas

I love this thread . Brings back such lovely memories. DH proposed me after driving me around a long time. Apparently he was very scared and couldn't bring up the courage. So after driving twice through the same place (somewhere in London), I asked him what was up. He stopped in the parking lot of a mall, held the steering wheel right, got a grip and blurted it out. by then I was almost sure he had gotten himself into some big trouble and I am about to hear a bad news in a minute so he actually caught me off guard. he still denies that he was holding the wheel so tight because his hands were shaking.

I'm Chinese/Vietnamese. My husband he from Sierra Leone, West Africa.
My parents disapproved my husband, they didn't accept him and still haven't accept him.. My mom make it loud and clear that if I married him, she will disown me. And she did, she completely cut me off after I got married.
Both my parents refused to give me their blessing, both refused to show up to my wedding ceremony.. Even till this day my parents still haven't accept my husband nor accept my marriage.

He was very keen on get married, (I wasn't pregnant when we married). Anyways, I agree to married him.. And I just want to get married very simple, I don't need anything.
I didn't have an engagement ring. It was me that specificly said I don't want an engagement ring.

As for proposal, I didn't have an 'official' proposal.. I didn't get the official proposal words from him--the 'official' proposal words: the "Will you married me?" words.
But our relationship wasn't rosey or romantic at all .. My mom disapproved him since day one. He fully awared of it, but he didn't want to give up on us.

We did live together prior to marriage (but it wasn't long, just under half a year).. I wasn't pregnant when we married. He was just very keen on tied the knot.
He started talking about marriage first. But he knows my mom disapproved him; so he pretty much throw the ball at my court, and let me decided when I'm ready to get married.. He said he wants to get married, and if I want it too, we go get married.

I never got an 'official' proposal words from him. But few times a week he would brought up the marriage topic. And he said the sentence: "Baby. If you want, we can go register for marriage tomorrow.".. His 'whenever you ready, I'm just waiting on you'. Perhaps that was 'his' style of proposing?
I didn't give him an answer, I drag it on for couple months. And every couple days he would again asked the same marriage question. I was touch by his persistent, so I agree to get married.

Back then when he started talking about marriage, we did went ring shopping. I told him I don't want an engagement ring. If we get married I just want the simple plain gold wedding band.
He bought the plain gold band that I chose. And both of us wear it eversince, so pretty much he put a ring on his own left finger, telling everyone that he's taken.

We live togther, and I'm sleeping in the same bed with this guy who wear a wedding band on his left hand finger 24/7. But we not officially husband and wife. It was awkward.
Heck, since he was so keen on get married; I decided let just get married and make it official.. Forget about my mother disapproval, I can't just keep put this guy life on hold. Torture myself is enough, why torture him too?

I married him with nothing.. There was No engagement ring. No wedding reception. No honeymoon. I didn't even get to wear a wedding dress, no wedding cake, nothing.
In all fairness to him.. It was "me" that chose Not to have any of that.

And I didn't want a wedding reception. Because frankly, there was No point of me to have a wedding reception when there nobody on my side of the family going to show up.. I asked myself, what's the point of have a wedding reception when nobody on the bride side of the family going to show up?

There no engagement ring.. But we do have our wedding rings, our simple plain matching wedding band.
And these simple plain gold wedding band is all we have. We didn't buy any new rings, we use these simple matching gold band rings that we both been wearing, turn it to our wedding rings on that day we got married.
No regrets, I have zero regrets. If I can go back in time, I married him this exact same way again; I wouldn't change a thing.

I have known him 5 years (got married 15 months ago).. The first 2 years we were 'just friends'. I didn't agree to be his GF until after 2 years of knowing him.
He is an awesome awesome husband. I have zero regrets.

thestairs something wrong with being pregnant before marriage? Genuine question.

No.
All I mean in this is I wonder why he was keen on get married when I wasn't pregnant. We live together like husband and wife anyways. Why he was keen on get married?
It just marriage wasn't on my mind at time, I was find with just be his girl. Living together and not married is fine with me.
But he was very keenon get married. So I was just wondering why, that's all.

we went to a fancy hotel spa for my birthday where he was going to do it, but they messed up the booking so he spent the whole time looking twitchy and distracted. after we finished there, went for a drive down to a beautiful little harbour and sat in the car watching the waves. he said, "you know what would make this day even better?" and pulled out a ring box :) then we went out for massive burgers and fizzy wine. that was in december and we're getting married this time next year!

Oh I see stairs sorry I read it all wrong!

WaitroseCoffeeCostaCup, it is okay Ms. WaitroseCoffeeCostaCup. I should be the one that say sorry. Sorry.
English is my third language, so I know sometimes my posts is not very clear.
I have a monkey brain too. My trains of thoughts it scattered all over the place, so my post can be confusing. And it long-winded too. I know it hard to read. I understand.
Happy Wednesday to you and your family.
If you haven't share your proposal story yet, please share.

first fiance "oh shit, you might be pregnant? erm.. wanna get married?"
second fiance (first husband) - post-coitus "you want to get married, then?" "yeah, ok, why not?"

third one "since I'm having your baby, could you please commit to me now?" "but rings are expensive" "not ones I like, can't stand big diamond stuff" "oh, oh, I suppose so then" (should have taken warning from that really!)

fourth fiance (second husband) "don't [start a relationship with me] unless you're in it for the long term thing" (I'd learned from#3 at least!) "I'm in for whatever you'll have me for. I'd marry you tomorrow if you'd let me" followed by a proper proposal christmas morning when we exchanged rings. first wedding anniversary on sunday :)

We were in NYC in November 2014 and it was bloody freezing but he kept insisting that we go for a walk in Central Park. I huffed and moaned the whole way around because I wanted to go to the natural history museum instead. We stopped at Shakespeare Garden and, while looking at the little placards with quotes on them, I started a really long winded, boring monologue about Shakespeare and his plays, completely oblivious to the fact that DH was on one knee with a ring

We went back to Central Park and got married four weeks ago today

This will probably out me as well

We went on holiday to Japan at Easter and went to Kyoto for the first few days. We had a lovely meal out and then went for a walk amongst the cherry blossom to the river. It was quiet with just us and he knelt down and proposed. after suspiciously fishing around in his pocket for a minute or two

This happened the very first day as he was so scared of losing the ring that he wanted to get it over and done with so I could have the responsibility of looking after the ring ....we went for Japanese whisky cocktails to celebrate.

It was the sixth anniversary of our first date. We'd gone to a safari park for the day with DD (then 5mo), then for tapas in the evening. I'd had it on my mind for weeks, it was driving me crazy, and that day it came to a head. I blurted out "I need to say something!" but he said he wanted to say something first: how would I feel about getting married in the spring?

That was it, no ring, no down on one knee. But fine, whatever, I was still chuffed. I bought my own rings off Etsy (apparently Dutch people don't do engagement rings ).

stairs honestly, my fault! My story is further down the thread!

DP had been acting strangely for weeks, going out in the eveningstates and being vague about his plans, coming home late from work etc. I got really pissed off with him and accused him of having an affair . Things were a bit tense after that....

A few weeks later, on Christmas Eve, we were staying in a little cottage on the side of a Welsh mountain and he asked me to come and look at the stars with him. As I was looking up he got down on one knee and proposed.

Turns out that he'd had an engagement ring made for me and he'd been having meetings with the jeweller, picking the tone of gold, the stone, the setting. He always says I'm impossible to surprise but I was completely stunned.

I was at work, a little distracted, the then GF asked me what we were doing for the weekend. As we had nothing on at all, which was extremely unusual, I said, 'well as we aren't doing anything else, let's get married.' GF looked at me and said, 'yeah, ok.' And left me to carry on working.

By mid week we'd booked the registry office - luckily found a cancellation - and a venue for the meal afterwards (a result of the registry office cancellation), and done the paperwork, we'd told friends and family, on Saturday morning, be at this address, 11am. The only people we told what was happening were GF's parents and our best friends who'd be the witnesses.

As we woke up on the Saturday morning, we realised we hadn't sorted out rings, so were waiting outside a jewellers when they opened and pretty much grabbed whatever fitted.

How flash and romantic eh?

Last week was our 23rd anniversary, so the outcome was better than the proposal :)

DH came home after taking his driving test, announced that he'd passed - then produced a bunch of roses from behind his back and proposed to me! I knew it was coming as we were planning to get married, but he'd chosen a moment I wasn't expecting it & caught me completely off guard. We went to choose the ring together the next day. We've been married almost 26 years now