Tell me your engagement story

[poppymango]

How long had you been together? How and where did he/she/you pop the question? Was it romantic? Considered and planned, or spur of the moment? Would you have changed anything?

Anybody?

He proposed at home over dinner, after 9 years together. It was lovely and intimate, I wouldn’t have wanted anything else. It doesn’t need a big show - you’re making a mature commitment to one another

There was no typical engagement for us. Discussions and heart-to-hearts over the years. We both agreed we wanted to get married soon so we just started telling our friends and family as it came up in conversation naturally. No big announcements or videoing people’s reactions (I hate all that). After we’d booked the wedding and it was all confirmed we did a little role-play of a proposal in our living room for the benefit of my 8yo stepson, just for a bit of a laugh. There was no ring though, they just looked around the room for something they could find to give me while DP was on one knee and they settled on a 2p piece 😂. I know some people would be horrified with the way we’ve done things but I’ve absolutely loved it.

That is so lovely!! Do you still have the 2p?

We decided we wanted to get married and did. Wouldn’t change a thing. Really happy, have no stress, still as much in love and fancy the pants off them!!

Dating six weeks. Watching TV and chatting, must have been something to do with relationships or marriage when he suddenly said 'but you will marry me won't you'?. To say I was shocked is an understatement. I wasn't even sure that what I felt about him was just the first flush giddiness or something deeper. I said yes without really thinking. So not at all romantic.
We had already planned a trip abroad for a long weekend a few weeks later and he says he was going to propose there (think lovely romantic European city) but he just couldn't wait. I kinda wish he had.
Anyway we married less than a year later and had two kids when he suddenly passed away. That was 15 years ago and I miss him dearly.

About 1.5 years in.

I said from the sofa one day "are you going to marry me then love or what?" he said "if you want too, yeah"

We booked it and got married in a tiny civil ceremony 11 months later.

Still happy 10 years later.

Haha no 🙈 well yeah probably somewhere in a pot of spare change 😂

I feel like someone needs to come and liven up this thread with a more exciting proposal 🤣

Met at a wedding, he proposed after 2 weeks & I accepted a week later. We got married after 14 months & have been married 33 years next month.

He proposed while we were stuck in a traffic jam on the M6 (outside the RAC building), on the way home from a friend's funeral.
No regrets, 30 years later. I am suspicious of the show proposals. Real life isn't about always about Kodak moments.

One a beach in wales by moonlight after a romantic meal out. We'd been together exactly a year when he proposed and have now been married 18 years

Had been together for 3 years. He proposed to me at centre parks on the middle of winter wonderland. It was lovely, BUT I knew it was coming as I found the ring in his sock drawer 2 weeks before 😂🤦🏻‍♀️.

I wasn't snooping, I was putting away laundry which I always do 😂.

He proposed one morning in a bed with a do you want to marry me then. We had been dating 6 weeks. We got married 7 months later and celebrated 25 years last month. Not romantic at all!

We were 20, had been together about 3 years when we decided we wanted to get married. We went together to choose a ring. No romantic proposal story, no regrets.

Christmas Day 2001. Cooking in the kitchen. He opened some champagne and said I think we should get married. I said ok then, sounds great. We went on holiday on Boxing Day to California to visit his family. Told them. They said they’d booked flights back to the UK for June 2002 so we decided to get married, at home when they were there. 22 years and still married.

If the family didn’t come back, we’d have gone to Vegas I think. That or Gretna. The whole white wedding has never appealed to me.