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Best & worst marriage proposals....

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LadyOfTheManor · 10/01/2011 16:13

Just for a bit of fun! I want to hear the good, the bad and the ugly.

When my dh proposed to me, he blindfolded me, lead me to the edge of a cliff Hmm and had his accomplice (best friend) dig out "WILL YOU MARRY ME?" out of sand...to be then filled with petrol soaked rags and set alight.

I was sat there for ages, blindfolded in the cold, at 10.30 pm.

Needless to say the rags kept going out, but for the one second they were lit, it was wonderful :O

I've heard worse and better, so fill me in !

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StrawberrySam · 10/01/2011 16:21

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ilovedjasondonovan · 10/01/2011 16:23

DH and I went for a walk up Glastonbury Tor, sat on top and with the sun in a lovely sunset he proposed.

Not really spur of the moment as we both knew it was coming, but still lovely.

kahlua4me · 10/01/2011 16:25

my dh wrote it in the sand in massive letters so I saw it from the balcony where we were staying

faverolles · 10/01/2011 16:25

DH keeps telling me about a lovely evening out we had, and he really wanted to be spontaneous and ask me, but kept putting it off!

In the end, we had a discussion about things and decided to go into town and see if there were any nice rings in town.
He proposed the day after with a tin-foil ring (the real one was being resized).

Ah. Happy memories :)

hurrydownthechimneytonight · 10/01/2011 16:29

awww they all sound lovely!

Mine was whilst walking to a bus stop with DH on April Fools Day but it was 11pm at night!

No romance in in whatsoever... Hmm

still together 16 years on but still hardly romantic! Grin

cobbledtogether · 10/01/2011 16:29

I said to my DH that I wanted a bit more commitment in our relationship and he said "oh well will you marry me then".

Hardly the proposal of my dreams.

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LadyOfTheManor · 10/01/2011 16:30

and there are still ladies waiting for their men to pop the question!!

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christmasrocks · 10/01/2011 16:34

Oooo got to share mine.

DH took me on the orient express for dinner, naturally I studied the menu going oohh and ahh, had starter and main course, thought the waiter was just being incrediably friendly seeing to our needs etc, waiting for pud when he appeared again and gave me another menu and asked would me to check that the afters were ok for me, having had a bit of champers, wine I was like oh yeah yeah lovely, strawberries my fav, the waiter was very insistent that I check the menu again. The desert said Christmas, I love you, will you marry me !!! OMG had no idea!!!

DH not the most romantic man ever, but he took months to plan that and I still smile about it now (and feel a bit teary!!) Smile

Indith · 10/01/2011 16:36

Dh has never actually proposed Hmm, it just sort of happened at some point. Still kind of wish I could have had a lovely proposal, or at least one that beat the random Fijian Indian bloke who seemed to think that stalking walking a girl back to her hostal could get him a wife Grin

nymphadora · 10/01/2011 16:38

Both mine came out of drunk conversations Blush

hatesponge · 10/01/2011 16:40

My friend and her then boyfriend were on hols in the north of England. On their last day there they climbed a big hill (sorry am not an outdoorsy person, can't tell you what it was called!), there was a sudden thunderstorm, and so with a background of rain pelting down, thunder and lightning, he proposed :)

My proposal...when I was 6 months pregnant, he turned to me and said ' well I suppose we'd better get married then'. It wasnt even a question, more a statement. I bought my own ring (he paid the deposit but dudn't have any more money Hmm).

We never actually got married, which is not really that much of a surprise.

hatesponge · 10/01/2011 16:41

didn't have...

Milngavie · 10/01/2011 16:41

I had no idea DH was planning anything. We had spoken about marriage but that was it.

One night we went to his brothers house and his wife turned to me with a huge smile and said "Right Milngavie, when are you going to show me the ring?" I looked puzzled and asked what she was talking about. She put her hands over her mouth and said OMG!! I am sooo sorry!!! and quickly changed the subject.

When we got home I said nothing but DH got down on one knee (on top of the bed wearing nothing but his pants) and proposed.

He'd had a big thing planned but SiL had ruined that...

waitwhat · 10/01/2011 16:42

Mine wrote will you marry me backwards on my forehead so when i looked in the mirror i would see it. I screamed yes and was so happy till i tried to wash it off...The fucker had written it in permanent markerSmile

FetchezLaVache · 10/01/2011 16:42

Sod your DH, LOTM!! Mine just wrote "Will you marry me" in the sand himself and didn't set it on fire or nothing.

FetchezLaVache · 10/01/2011 16:43

Grin waitwhat!! Did he mean to use permanent marker?

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LadyOfTheManor · 10/01/2011 16:44

My dh is a pyromaniac though....the fire was probably for his benefit rather than mine!

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waitwhat · 10/01/2011 16:44

To this day he swears he thought it was a normal marker but im not so sureHmm

daytoday · 10/01/2011 16:45

First time, I was in bed with stomach cramps. He sweetly bought me up a boiled egg and a (beautiful) costume ring.

But I said 'No.' I loved him, but doh, not exactly romantic sitting in my egg stained jim jams. I cried.

Second time, one year later, he took me to Venice and in the moonlight, knelt down on a bridge and pulled out a traditional venetian diamond ring, that he had made out there by a traditional craftsman. Not a massive ring, but totally me and it fitted perfectly. Needless to say, I said 'YES!"

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LadyOfTheManor · 10/01/2011 16:45

Ha ha. The image of you spitting on some tissue and rubbing your forehead amuses me Grin

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LadyOfTheManor · 10/01/2011 16:46

Daytoday, that is wonderful! Awww how lovely! Envy pisses all over my story.

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socialhandgrenade · 10/01/2011 16:49

I was proposed to on the dancefloor at a family friend's wedding. Mortifying. He then proposed to me in an NCP carpark the following week....
Mumsnetter, I married him.

CabbagefromaBaby · 10/01/2011 16:50

I don't think it really was a proposal but the other day we were lolling about on the bed and talking about stuff...he said 'but you wouldn't want to marry me...would you?'

So I said 'well if you're asking' and he sort of giggled so I don't think he was, actually HmmGrin

It's the nearest I've had though since I was 21.

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WildistheWind · 10/01/2011 16:57

We had chosen the ring and went out for a meal and I tought he would do it officially that evening but no- a few days passed and...

In my bathtub, we were in together.

I don't know how he managed but his hand took my hand and the other hand came out of the bubbles with the ring -

We got married in ... Bath Smile

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