World's Most Rubbish Proposal...

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... but it was perfect all the same

I knew he was going out to buy a ring yesterday, we've been together 8 years and have a date set for the wedding already, so yesterday morning he announced he was off into town to ring shop... i asked him who it was for

Anyway, I gradually got really excited throughout the day then he rang me at about 4pm and I asked if he'd been into town... he said no... I was absolutely crushed. It was then I realised the whole engagement thing must mean more to me than i thought and the fact he hadn't got a ring today like he said he would felt like a massive blow.

Turns out he was trying to throw me off the scent and had actually got the ring, but he was a bit too good at lying and it massively backfired

Anyway! Fast forward a couple of hours and I'm sat on the sofa, DP calls me into the kitchen, gets down on one knee, the dogs think he's about to play with them so jump on him and push him over... ring box goes flying across the floor and gets stuck under a kitchen cupboard

Poor DP spends 15 mins fishing under the cupboard with a coat hanger to retrieve ring box while I absolutely die laughing and the dogs try to lick his face..

Ring box was eventually retrieved and dogs secure in the other room, DP proposed on the kitchen floor and I, of course, said yes

He then had to go out to work so I spent the rest of the evening in the bath with a glass of wine researching venues...

We were going to DTD (obviously) when he got home but he was really tired.. made a valiant effort but it was not to be

We are off out tonight to celebrate properly so hopefully we can redeem it!

Make me feel better, has anyone else had a worse proposal?

I was slicing onions when my OH said ' right want to get married then?' I got such a shock I sliced my finger open and spent the evening in A&E getting stitches. Still have a scar 26 years later...

I took DW ring to a restaurant on holiday, with it in shirt pocket. However we ended up with a crap table by the kitchens, so it wasn't the right time in the end.

Later proposed on the beach, to be met with 'yes, but the ring will have to go back'

DW has no memory of saying that - and we are up to 12 years so doing ok

Ex told me he was going to get a ring, and then said "Do I really have to get down on one knee" He did, and I said yes, then he told me X had invited him over to play video games all evening so he was going out!

Surprisingly enough we are not together!

He proposed on my birthday. It wasn't planned that way but I'd had quite a shit couple of weeks and he wanted to cheer me up!

My OH proposed at the zoo and brought a bottle of prosecco... But forgot glasses, so we used a picnic knife to saw a water bottle in half rather than drinking out of the bottle. So smooth and very memorable

Ooh, mine was fairly shite! My now ex husband was in the army, and was based on Northern Ireland at the time (I lived in the Soith West of England) so I got used to taking what contact I could get as and when. My mobile rang at 1.30am and a very sleepy me answered, he was plastered and spent 15 minutes talking absolute bollocks with all his mates egging him on in the background. By the end I was well and truly pissed off, and just as I threatened to hang up so I could get some sleep before having to get up at half four for work, he said 'I've been talking to my mum and since I'm being relocated next year, she thinks we should either split up or get married. What do you think? I don't want to split up and my mum says it's ok.'
I blearily answered with 'If I say yes, can I go back to sleep?'
'Yes.'
'Ok. Now go away, I have to be up in three hours for work.'
And that was that! Until three months later when I got to go ring shopping WITH HIS MUM.

We were in bed and he pulled out a ring and said 'so.....will you wash my socks now?'

Readers. We were now divorced.

Fast forward 13 years and DP has been planning his proposal for months. Can't wait.

DH and I were camping over Easter, it was raining. I was sat in the passenger seat of our car eating my muesli from a plastic kids bowl. He came around from the boot and crouched down under a big umbrella, it was too wet for him to go down on one knee!
Obviously I said yes and we've been married nearly 13 years.

Congratulations OP, that is a fab and unique story to tell

Dh proposed to me in the parking lot of a motorway service station, in the rain. This was actually a very sweet gesture, made to commemorate all the other times he'd made romantic gestures in totally inappropriate places/situations (petrol station forecourts being a favourite). He doesn't really do romance but we are very happy.