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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 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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LADYBOAK · 10/01/2011 17:02

ilovedjasondonovan - Oh my god what year was that ?? Dh did exactly the same in 2005 !!!!

pourmeanotherglass · 10/01/2011 17:05

Oh, you wanted real ones.

When I saw the title, I thought you meant invent them, like on mock the week,

LeQueen · 10/01/2011 17:05

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mommmmyof2 · 10/01/2011 17:07

I got asked for my 19th birthday while he sat next to me in bed 'what do you want for your birthday?' so i replied 'not sure anything' then he replied 'ok you want a ring!!' so we got engadged,

then I was about a 4 months pregnant, we had a huge row about the babies surname as I said it is my baby too, so out the blue he just said 'well if we get married I guess we would all have the same name, what do ya think?!' at the time I told him to get lost, two months later we were married.

He never really ever done the big gesture, would have been nice for it to have been done properly well at least without the argument beforehand

CupcakesHay · 10/01/2011 17:16

aaah - there's some lovely and odd stories there!

Mine... we'd been going out about 7 months and we'd already decided we were moving aborad with Dh's job at the end of the year - so I did have a whole leaving party/engagement party on the books for 5 months later... anyhow

We went to pub quiz and all night Dh said he had something in his pocket for me (for some reason I thought it was a cadbury's creme egg) - anyhow... nothing happened. Got home, lying in bed at my parents, about midnight - alarm set for 6am... and i'm naked... and DH says roll over and shut your eyes and I mumble "no not tonight, i've got an early start..." and he says "go on" and i say "alright hurry up i'm sleepy..." and then he sticks a ring in front of my face and tells me to open my eyes!

Not exactly romantic - but kept me happy - and still makes me laugh. And he's quite rubbish at surprises - so god knows how he managed to keep it secret all night!

Raahh · 10/01/2011 17:21

I had been with Dh 3 years when i found out i was pg. My bfp coincided with his divorce coming through (he had been separated from ex for years, but both lazy).

Anyway, it was sort of then assumed we would get married.

A few weeks later, on Christmas eve that year, he insisted I open a present early- it was a book- 'Breastfeeding for Dummies' (he thought it might be useful)- and taped into the back page was an engagement ring....it was sort of romantic, i think!

(I had known I was getting a ring, but he had said it was going to be weeks to get it re-sized)!

QuietTiger · 10/01/2011 17:24

My DH asked me to marry him in a freezing cold cow shed at 11.45pm on New Years eve. We had to cancel our plans to go out as one of the cows had to have the vet out as she was having problems in labour and the calf was stuck.

Apparently the fact I was prepared to strip off and stick my hand up the back of a cow in a draughty freezing cow shed in the middle of winter to try and turn the calf was "reassuring!" and "confirmed" that I was the woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with! Apparently he was going to take me to Paris and propose on the Eiffel Tower, the following April, but decided that he couldn't wait...

Paris would have been more romantic, but the cowshed was certaily spontaneous!

pommedeterre · 10/01/2011 17:33

We went on what I thought was a normal walk around a circuit near our house we did a lot. I was 6 months gone. We came to a tree and under it there were 12 red roses, 2 champagne flutes and a bottle of appletise. He got down on one knee and gave me a costume ring.
Going to buy the ring he had a whole day planned, shopping, a show, dinner, hotel.
I loved every single second of both things.
Ahhhhh. I'll forgive him for not cooking dinner yesterday now.

borderslass · 10/01/2011 17:39

Old soppy idiot that he is: we where in our local for sports presentation night only been together 4 months and he dropped down on one knee and asked me I still remember the exact words he used [sad or what] we've been together 22 years on April 10th.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 10/01/2011 17:42

We'd been together since I was 15 years old and on my 18th birthday he took me to Paris. He proposed over dinner in the Eiffel Tower and then we went to see Moulin Rouge. We got married the same year. Nothing overly imaginative but it was the best proposal because it was ours

PlanetEarth · 10/01/2011 17:42

My DH said one time, "Maybe, if everything works out all right between us, I'll ask you to marry me one day." Not sure I was the one obviously!

A couple of times after that I asked him to marry me, and just got, "No, I have to ask you." (sometime...)

Asteria · 10/01/2011 17:49

total reverse here - this is the NON proposal, but it is so blooming bad it needs sharing!
My ex (funny that!) and I were in Rajasthan for a holiday after being together for 2 years. We had the most amazing time. One particular day near Udaipur was utterly perfect - we hired a motorbike and explored the mountains during the day and then got dressed up for supper at the Lake Palace Hotel (which is in the middle of the lake and requires a moonlight boatride to get to). During supper he ordered a bottle of Dom Perignon and suggested that we went into the courtyard for a fag. The courtyard had beautiful camelia tres and little ponds with floating candles and fountains and whilst we stood there smoking our rancid Indian cigarettes it suddely occured to me that if ever there was a time for him to propose then that would have been it. At that exact moment he said "this would have been the perfect place to propose to you, it's just a shame that I never want to marry you" - he then accompanied our coffee with a full character assasination AND still expected a shag when we got back to the hotel room...

Such a charmer! He went to Afghanistan a week later, so I had to wait months before I could dump him!

BitOfFun · 10/01/2011 17:51

He took me out on a yacht near the Phi-phi islands and arranged for a pod of dolphins to spell out the words 'Will you marry me' in a swimming formation, then one of them leapt out of the water bearing the most beautiful diamond ring on a tiny velvet cushion, and he plucked it from its mouth and presented it to me, whereupon I fell sobbing into his arms, clicked my fingers and summoned a flock of hummingbirds to spell out the words 'Of course, darling' just behind my left shoulder. He sobbed too, and then we rode the dolphins all the way back to shore.

emmanana · 10/01/2011 17:53

Loveliest one I ever heard was one of my best friends.

Little boy was born prem, and it was touch and go for a few weeks. After a while he was getting stronger every day, and was just coming out of the woods. When they went for the daily visit Dad was most insistent that she parked the car, whilst he went on ahead. She looked at the incubator when she arrived. The lovely nurses had dunked the ring in some steriliser, and had put it LO's hand.

He said *** wanted to help me ask you something....

Welling up thinking about it...

She has a photo of him holding the ring on her bedside table. He is now 10 years old, strapping, into his football and rugby and it's hard to look at the picture and think it's the same little man...

PlanetEarth · 10/01/2011 17:54

Asteria

BurnAfterReading · 10/01/2011 17:55

my ex husband walked into our living room and just gave me a ring, no "will you marry me" no romantic gesture - he just gave me a ring and said "here"

We discussed marriage and it was either that or buy a house so once the purchase of our house fell through we got married.....

Anyway, I wore the ring and that was us "engaged" so we started to tell people and when I presented the ring to his Sister she said "yes I've seen it, I chose it"

Needless to say he is my ex husband :)

bupcakesandcunting · 10/01/2011 17:56

My DH proposed to me on the beach that the Bounty advert was shot on in the 80s. It was lovely, sunset, only us on the beach with a man playing a mandolin in the distance.

Got back to our room and went to get the ring out of my bag to inspect more closely. Then the colour drained out of my face as it dawned on me that I'd left it on the beach

midoriway · 10/01/2011 18:03

New Years Eve, drunk, in pub, no ring. 10 wedded years later, still very much in love, still no ring.

fairycake123 · 10/01/2011 18:06

BitOfFun, yours sounds wonderful.

Mine met me on the outskirts of town and said "Marry me Fairycake you never have to be alone, I love you and that's all I really know, I've talked to your dad, go pick out a white dress, it's a love story, baby just say yes."

pawsnclaws · 10/01/2011 18:09

DH is famously rubbish at surprises - but had booked a weekend away for us and was very secretive about where/when etc.

The night before we left he suddenly got up and announced that he was going for a walk. The funniest thing was that he obviously meant it to sound casual, but he stood there and really emphatically said "I AM GOING FOR A WALK. I SHALL BE BACK LATER." He went down the road to ask my dad for my hand so to speak.

The next morning we arrived at a lovely romantic old hotel, where unknown to me DH had arranged a romantic proposal involving champagne, flowers etc over dinner.

Unfortunately, the minute we were shown into the room DH got overwhelmed and over-excited, tried to clutch me to his heaving breast to pop the question, and managed to push me backwards over an armchair and into a feature fireplace where I banged my head really hard on the brickwork. Well after that, I had to say yes, didn't I?!

LeQueen · 10/01/2011 18:10

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ZillionChocolate · 10/01/2011 18:11

Asteria, that's terrible! Hope you can laugh about it now.

blondieno1 · 10/01/2011 18:12

Mine was lovely, though not as extravgant as some. We had just moved into our new house together and were so happy, one night we were in the lounge watching tv as you do in our pjs when he got down on one knee in his homer simpson slippers and pulled out a haribo sweet shaped like a ring and asked me if id be his wife. I said yes immediatly and.wore the ring until the following day when we went ring shopping. We have been married 7 months and are very happy!

jellybeanstastepurple · 10/01/2011 18:20

I was five and he gave me a gummy ring (he was seven.)

And then he asked me again properly when I was 25 on holiday in Tuscany :)

nymphadora · 10/01/2011 18:21

Dd2s friends parents had a baby v prem. When everyone turned up for babies christening when he was about 6 months old, there was also a wedding . No presents but collection for SCBU

I know it's not a proposal but I think it's lovely!

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