Where/How were you engaged?
 

Im trying to think of a cool way to ask my gf to marry me. Im always interested in hearing ways in which other couples got engaged. How did your other half propose to you, or how did you propose to your other half?

lurkette and I were sitting on the cement retaining wall next to the man-made river that rolled through our college town in Southern Minnesota. It was the summer before our senior year.

We agreed that we really couldn't see living without each other. Since she planned to go away to grad school, and I didn't have any specific plans, we decided that the sensible thing to do would be to get married and move to wherever she ended up going to school.

I don't recommend doing it our way if you're looking for something romantic. ;)

from what they have told me, my Dad proposed to my mom at a gas station in LA. They said that the station was replaced by a restaurant or something else that I forget now some years back .

I asked "are we" rather than "do you." My wife and I were very tight for years before we got involved romantically, and we stayed tight in a friends way as well as a lover's way. She moved to my town, we started making plans to move in together, started buying stuff together. This went on for a few months and although we had separate apartments we almost never slept alone.

Finally one evening we were sitting in a diner, and my not-yet-wife wanted some clarification on our status. I said, "I feel married. Do you feel married?" She said yes. I said, "Then we're married!" She did that rapid-blinking thing some women do on the rare occasion that a man actually surprises them, but she say "Okay!" We held hands and kissed. And although it took a couple of years to make it legal, but as far as we were concerned we were married and committed to each other from that day forward.

Our unannounced one, we were having a fun romp in the sack and we were at a nice and slow, sensual point and I truthfully asked her, and no it was not my lower head talkin just to get more sex cause that part has backfired so far. =p. Our announced engagement was at a play ground after we had taken our two ferrets out to play on the slide and dirt and stuff. I stuck the ring on my ferrets leash and handed him to her and said, "He wants to know if you'll offically be his mommy now." She cried, I smiled it was allll good.

Engraved in my European engagement ring
20-11-00 Skogafoss


I proposed on that date in Skogafoss, on the south shore of Iceland in the village of Skogar. I did not get on one knee as you can see it's icy and it was very cold. I said to her in Icelandic (she speaks some Icelandic) "Will you give me the honor of being your husband?"

I chose those words because she thought it was nice when Anthony Edwards said that on an episode of ER. To make it my own, I learned how to say it in Icelandic in about 3 days, each time I went to the bathroom or got a moment alone, I checked my crib sheet which a friend had helped me translate it into phonic Icelandic.

She initially didn't understand what I said but understood because I had the ring...

one doesn't learn "Will you marry me?" as part of normal conversational language learning. :)


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cynthetiq & skogafoss with Skogafoss (Forest Falls) behind us.

my (now)husband took me to the melting pot(a fondue restaraunt, and my fave, and our first date place) and had them put it on the cherry of the cheesecake for the chocolate fondue...it was dark in the restaraunt...and....well...i sort of ate everything on the plate, and some of the cheesecake...and finally he was like.."WILL YOU LOOK AT THE CHERRY?"...so i did...and there it was....my great-great-great grandmothers engagement ring...so he asked, i said yes, and wanted to die of embarrassment...

I took my wife out and redid our first date. We went to every little place that we went on the date (on the second anniversary of the date) and I proposed at the spot of our first kiss.

I asked her to be my wife, whipped out the ring, and her reply?

"OH SHIT!!!!!!!!":lol:

and then, "Omigod, of course!"

Mine would be like Fallons..

unofficially...We are having the slow kind of romantic sex, they kind where you are just enjoying how it feels and not worrying about who's getting off and Im on top and I leaned down to kiss him and he looks straight in my eyes and said "I AM going to marry you and make you my wife"

Officially...we went and bought a "symbolic" ring ...meaning not a "real" diamond right before mothers day this year, (Im not big on spending more than my mortgage payment on something I will only wear lol) and we told his mother the day before mothers day and then the rest of the family ON mothers day

We were both lying in bed, I was pissed off and extremly tired. He was sleeping behind me........he kept tapping me on the shoulder I hit his hand away( it was actually the ring and I had hit is clear across the room) he got out of bed acted like he went the bathroom( I still had no idea), he then got back into bed and started tapping the ring on my shoulder again, this time I turned around to say, "leave me alone, I'm trying to get some sleep", that's when I saw the ring.

Talk about felling like the worlds biggest bitch. Of course I started crying "I'm sorry", over and over, then about 10 min. later he asked "SO..........will you spend the rest of your life with me?"

I said yes, and didn't sleep the whole night. We've been married now 5 years and we are only 25 with a 4 year old and one on the way.

We've never been happier! Good Luck! :)

I asked my now wife on new years eve, well it was right at midnight. She was preggers with our first. I really wanted to do it at the lights at the zoo thingy, but that winter was too fucking cold to go out at night, so it was the next best thing.

Christmas eve, I had the ring on the tree in a liitle box. We normally open up one gift before the morning so when she asked where it was I pointed at the tree.

My Girlfriend (at the time) and I had a tradition of celebrating Valentines day at home, (tough to get good reservations, service seems worse, and the menus get more expensive). Over the past few years, we had Alaskan King Crab legs (her Favorite) some assparagus, and some lobster mashed potatos. I carefully lay it out on the plate just like a fancy restaurant.
Anyway, candlelight a going and all I serve the plate, and pretty predictably now, (except we had this dinner for the two previous years) there is a ring on the leg. I get down on one knee, and point to her crab leg.
she cried. but did say yes

Before my wife and I dated we were goog friends. I had made a comment to her about the (then) new Aflac commercials with the talking duck. A few months later I get a package at work and it was a big, stuffed Aflac duck that screams "Aflac!" when you squeeze it.

Years down the road, we've been dating for a well over a year, it's her birthday. I found a smaller version of the stuffed duck that talked too and tied a silk ribbon around its neck with the ring on it. It was the last of 3 presents I bought her. When she opened it and saw the little duck she was like, "awwwww" but then stopped abruptly when she saw the ring.

It was truly priceless.

[size=.5]About 4 month later we called off the engagement, I moved out. Then 5 months later we had a booty-call and she got knocked up. We're happily married, have a gorgous 15 month old daughter and are awaiting our 2nd daughter early in August. Life is good.[/size]

On our six month anniversary of dating I took my girlfriend to the restaurant where we first me. I reserved the table where we had our first dinner together and had a dozen roses waiting on the table. As the evening progessed I had roses delivered to the table a dozen at a time until we had six dozen roses at our table representing the six months we had dated. I let the whole rose thing sink in a bit, making her think I was just really going all out to celebrate a six month dating anniversary then when the moment felt right I dropped to one knee and asked her to marry me. Fortunately she said yes! The restaurant was crowded and everyone around applauded and gave us a "standing ovation" many came by to congratulate us afterward. A really great night. We will be married September 9th at Venlaw Castle in Scotland.

I posted this in my journal once...

Anyway, so here's the nutshell of a story.

Quadrette (real name Jessica, which will make sense later) and I got engaged on August 8, 2003.

My cousin K, who lives up in the Adirondacks, invited Quadrette and I up to the Glens Falls area for her birthday, on that Friday, the 8th. She suggested that we join her and her boyfriend M (now her husband as of last weekend!) for a birthday hike up Sleeping Beauty mountain, in the heart of the Adirondacks.

So we drove up to my family's Adirondack place on a Thursday night and left Friday morning to meet them at the mountain. However, when we stopped to get gas on the way, K had left us a voicemail - M had some bad food the night before and had been up all night, sick as a dog, so they wouldn't be able to meet us for the hike. We were already close to the hike site so I suggested to Quadrette that we just go ahead and do the hike anyway.

So we did the hike, which took about an hour, and brought us to the most beautiful view of the Adirondack mountains:

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As we stood up there admiring the view, I told Quadrette that this was such a great hike that we should take some kind of momento home with us.

"What, like a rock?"
"Yeah, how about that one over there?"

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So she went to check it out, and when she turned it over:

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At which point, she turned around, I said some stuff and asked her to marry me.

(she said yes, the fool.)

Upon accepting, we took another few minutes to just take it all in, and then I led her down a steep trail of rocks, which curved around and led us to K and M, who had arrived at the mountaintop early (surprise!) to set up the rock and had a beautiful tablecloth laid out with champagne and chocolate-dipped strawberries for a toast.

And that was that. A fun time was had by all. Here's the ring:

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There's more to this story – my original plan, why it didn't work, blah blah blah – but it's not interesting enough to talk about.

My real accomplishment was that I didn't tell anybody other than my officemate, my cousin, Quadrette's brother and a close friend who didn't know any of my other friends. It was a lot of fun to keep everybody wondering why the hell we had dated six and a half years and I hadn't proposed. Plus, Quadrette is so good at figuring me out. I have barely ever been able to really, really surprise her. I wanted to see if I could keep a really big secret pretty much to myself, and I knew that the more people I told, the more chances I had of letting it slip at some point or another. She was pretty surprised, so mission accomplished.

uber1, if you wanna use the rock idea, PM me, I can get you in touch with the people I used. BTW, that's not writing on the rock in pen or anything, it's actually inscribed in the rock. Makes for a lovely engagement tool....PLUS it makes a wonderful paperweight or door stop! :lol:

105 days until the wedding....

quadro2000, Ha! There's a coincidence! I too proposed to my fiance' on August 8th 2003. Funny our posts ended up right together.

uber1 .. so you want to propose, well my first proposal was at a Hooters, yep it was weird. My second proposal was the 4th of July at the Cheese cake factory, a nice romantic lunch. The original plan was the 4th on the lake w/ the fireworks a blasting, but that did not work b/c no boat due to rain

I proposed to my wife in a casino. She worked there. I had a security guard hold the flowers while I got down on one knee with the ring.

We got a nice copy of the surveillance tape afterwards.