So how did he/she propose?

MrsBryan_2

I love it that some of you got engaged after being together for only a short time and are still happily married! My mum and dad got engaged after 6 weeks of 'courting', married after 6 months of being engaged, and have been married 41 years!
We're the complete opposite!
Been together 12 years,(I was only 16 when we got together OH was 18) and we would have been married a few years ago but OH lost his job because he had to have a lot of time off following an operation. That then led to us losing our house! Fast forward 5 years, (2 years living with the MIL, hell on earth, and the last 3 years living in a crappy flat, in a not so nice area) OH has worked his way up in a very good job, and we're getting back on our feet! We've always spoken about getting married from the very start, so knew when we had sorted ourselves out financially, we would do it.
One Sunday morning we were lazing about in bed with a cuppa having a chat about what we were going to do that day, I suggested going for a run and OH said, "Yeah we could.....or shall we go and get you an engagement ring instead?" And that was that! We went and chose one together! No proposal, no getting down on one knee, but I wouldn't change it for the world!
J xx

DiamondsnPearls

BanburyBride wrote: »

I came home from visiting a uni friend one SUnday evening, his kids (11 and 8) were playing outside when I parked and usually they just wave and carry on playing but this time they raced in ahead of me and were super excited about something, OH was cooking chicken nuggets and chips for thier tea and he turned the oven off halfway though - I could tell something was going on but a hate being unnerved, then I walked into the kitchen and they were all stood there in a row, OH's daugher produced the ring from her pocked whilst they said in chorus "Will you marry us" I love this, as I am totally marrying all of them really so glad the kids were involved. Alot of people dont understand, saying that they would hate to be proposed to like that but I love it!!

The ring was my great grandmas which we had resized a few months earlier as I always maintained I wanted that ring for my engagement ring but I was still surprised!

OMG how strange!
My OH proposed to me with our children!
We have 2 boys and he got one to hold a rose and one to hold the ring, I got home from an afternoon out and when I opened the front door, all 3 of them were on one knee! :j

emz118

I love the fact that not everyone has a big romantic wedding magazine proposal story!!!

Ours was an ultimatum from me that finally got it done!!! We'd been together for almost 9 years, and to me, marriage is important before children, and neither of us our getting any younger (although I'm only 35, he's 34 and my Mum and Nan both had trouble conceiving.)

So after tears at New Year, because I was convinced he was going to propose, he promised he would within the next 6 months, then his job became less secure, so he decided not to.... it got to 6 months and I sat him down and after a massive (4 hour!) heart to heart said that when I went back to school in September (as a teacher) I would either be engaged or single. He was a bit taken a back, but he knew I meant it, and realised exactly how much it meant to me.

So the actual proposal... he took me for dinner at a pub near a very special place for us, and had planned to walk out to the top of a nearby hill/war-memorial and propose as the sun set, but the food was really slow, so we ended up in my car, in a car park that we used to go to to have talks/arguments/to make up when we were first together and both living with parents. He parked in the same space we always parked in! He had bought me a £29.99 ring from Argos as he wanted me to have a ring, but couldn't decide from 6 different ones, so bought me a cheapo to wear until we chose my "proper" one together.

So although he asked me in a car park, with a £30 ring, it was special to us!!

MrsDrink

emz118 wrote: »

I love the fact that not everyone has a big romantic wedding magazine proposal story!!!

Absolutely agree! and I'm loving reading everyone's stories!! It's the same as a little topic we had going on in the July 2012 thread, where we wrote where we met our fiances. It makes me feel all warm and gooey inside! Thank you for sharing everyone :T

celyn90

Standing in front of a glacier in Skaftafell national park in Iceland at the end of last september. I was really not expecting it at all. We went ring shopping in Reykjavik before getting the flight home (and managed to find one in under two hours!) and married in Finland at the beginning of Feburary.

Quite efficient really cel x

RainbowDrops

Aw Sugar Moon, that's such a sweet story

Bluespirit

My OH had been joking about proposing to me for weeks, and I was getting pretty fed up with him. The night before we were off on holiday last year, we went out for dinner (a tradition to start our holiday early). Mid way through our meal, OH started his will you marry me stuff again, and I sat going 'ha ha very funny' until I saw a ring box come out his pocket and him getting down next to me on one knee! We never ended up finishing our meal as we were both too hyper. The restaurant staff were very nice though and gave us both a free glass of wine!

jojo2004

Oooh, loving these stories.

My OH and I had always discussed marriage (from about 3 weeks into the relationship), but I'd said all along I wasn't ready - wanted to establish myself in my career and finish my PhD first.
Then my Mum got sick before Christmas (2010) - she's better now - and I realised that the first person I turned to was him, and that he knew exactly how to support me and make me feel I could handle the situation. So, I told him I was ready whenever he was.

Fast forward a few weeks, and we were due to go to a friend's party in Wiltshire. The snow came, and totally b***ered that plan up. When I got off the phone with my friend, OH said 'why don't we go shopping then?' (this is unlike him, although he is an ace shopper, he doesn't consider it fun). I asked him why, and he said he thought we could go to Hatton Garden.

We spent a few hours wandering around the place, me refusing to go in any of the 'shiny' shops (they scare me), and eventually getting up the courage to go and try one on. We picked one of the antique jewellery shops, and when I put on the ring, I just knew. OH wanted it to be more expensive (he's v traditional about how much of his salary should go on such things), but I pointed out I didn't want a ring that came with a bodyguard and portable safe.

We went for a coffee to talk about it (I didn't want to put him too much on the spot), and then he nipped back to the shop and paid - they had to resize the ring, so we left it there.

The day before Christmas Eve, he asked me to meet him at Marble Arch tube. We went for dinner at Windows at Galvin (on the 28th floor of the Hilton on Park Lane, looking out over Hyde Park) - my first Michelin starred restaurant experience. Before we started ordering, I whispered to him 'Are you going to propose here?' and he said 'Of course not, I know you'd hate being proposed to in a restaurant'. The man knows me!

After dinner, we went over to Hyde Park, to the Winter Wonderland (I'm like a child about Christmas and funfairs - all squeeeeeee and overexcited) - but the guy on the gate said they were closing.
My OH had a quiet word, and the guy grinned and let us in for five minutes. We were under a tree, by the carousel when he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him - and the girls running the carousel SCREAMED when they saw him go down on one knee! It saved me from bursting into tears though!

I had always said I didn't want a big foreign holiday proposal, and the one he chose was so perfect. He still says he wanted to take me to Egypt and propose there (I'm an Egyptologist), but I keep telling him he can do it all over again when we go there on holiday. In fact, given how lovely it was the first time, he can do it anytime he likes!

x

Magicboo

aawww-all the stories are so lovely, I'm welling up!
I met my H2b 19 months ago on match.com and we're now 11 days away from the wedding. He moved in with my 5 weeks later. He already had a trip to New Zealand (my fave place in the world) booked for the whole of Feb, and asked if I wanted to go with him. I couldn't do the month, so joined him for the last 2 weeks. We were on an Island off New Zealand called Great Barrier Island, where he has friends and they told us about a lovely natural hot pool only the locals know of. We walked the hour into the NZ bush and found the pool and he popped the question whilst we were both skinny dipping! It was the most gorgeous place so beautiful and of course, we're going back to New Zealand for the honeymoon!!

ajmoney

Mine is a long-winded story that needs an introduction. Neither of us wanted to get married originally. OH has been married before and wasn't in a hurry to do it again, I have had 2 failed engagements and was (maybe still am) convinced that I am jinxed. We both always shied away from marriage conversations but slowly started talking about it a little. About a year ago I started to feel differently and wasn't completely freaked out by the idea anymore but he still didn't seem sure. We were discussing something random 6 months ago (can't remember what) and he said "oh well when we are married..." an I went off on one saying "well that's never going to happen is it?" which led to him asking why and ending up saying that actually he had been looking at rings recently, I felt like an idiot.

I am afraid I knew he was going to propose just not when. I saw him looking at rings online by accident then one day in town he left me looking at clothes to go into a game shop where I was to meet him, I wasn't far behind him and saw him in the jewellers. Not sure what to do I turned around and walked away approached again a couple of minutes later and he was still there but this time saw me and disappeared, I never told him I saw him there.

A few strange things happened over the next few weeks but I had guessed by then that he was going to propose sometime over Christmas or New Year. Christmas morning he had individually wrapped all my presents and put them in a new handbag he'd got me, I was nervous at taking the gifts out but none where ring shaped boxes.

We went on holiday a couple of days later, he acted strange on New Years Eve wanted to hang around until it got quiet but nothing, we got back to the hotel and he suggested we go onto the balcony. I don't do the cold so thought that might be it, but nothing. The following day he was adamant we going up one of the mountains so I figured this was the day. He is really nervous going up in the cable car as he doesn't like heights, I didn't know if it was that or the proposal that was freaking him out.

The actual proposal...
The view at the top of the mountain was amazing, we looked across at one of the panaromas and he suggested we went around the corner where it was quieter. I had no idea how to behave as I knew what was happening but didn't want to spoil it for him. I made a reall corny comment that it looked like we were on top of the world and he took that as his cue. He said "well seeing as we have nearly been together 7 years do you think we should do something a bit more permament?" Unhelpful me "yeah if you want" and he asked me if I would marry him. I got even more nervous when he went into his pocket and realised he had the ring with him. I didn't like it in the box as it looked too big and was worried but put it on anyway, it didn't take too long to get used to it. I did ask if I had to wait 7 years for a wedding too?

We have lived together since about 6 months and used to work alongside each other for years, if we can live, work and socialise 24/7 with each other then I don't think there will be a problem. We are getting married in July and I can't wait to finally be his wife.

So no...no big proposal story, there would have been with different weather. If he hadn't proposed on New Years Day I figured he wouldn't on holiday. It turns out he wanted to do it on the 2nd so it had nothing to do with Christmas or New Year but the weather wasn't going to be good so he brought it forward a day. If the weather had been kind to him it would have been a surprise to me. I wouldn't change it for the world...although I ould change the schnapps we got to celebrate, it was disgusting and made us both feel sick!