A (decent) proposal

melancholly

specialK wrote: »

You could jump on a plane for the day, (a short haul flight). The destination need not be important as you could ask the pilot to make an announcement i.e "we are crossing over ......and X, X wants to know if you will marry him?"

(My friend had this happen to her on a flight to Australia)

i hope she said yes - that's a brilliant idea

would it too obvious to print this thread out and leaving it lying about?

[Deleted User]

Those messages behind planes cost 900 quid!

I'm rounding my options down and they are looking good. And sneeky

I'm now thinking a city break is the best option. Going to Brussels will be good as I know one of her favorite things is there: chocolate. Plus, we have the guidebook already since our last failed attempt to get there.

I can have a taxi pick her up from our house at about 4.30ish and drive her to Heathrow. I can get the heathrow express from work and be there in about 20 minutes.. I can get the taxi driver to take her and not tell her where she's going! haha, its brilliant.

I'll take her passport with me and pack an overnight bag to take to work, get her to pack a bag without telling her what's happening.

We can then jet off to Brussels and see where we end up...

It needs refinement but I see it as a good option right now

specialK

melancholly wrote: »

i hope she said yes - that's a brilliant idea

would it too obvious to print this thread out and leaving it lying about?

She did say yes, once she got up of the floor! Everyone on the plane was cheering then the hostess came along with a trolley of champers

If yours is anything like mine he would not even look at it (or look at it but not take any of it in), my friends OH was debating on the plane proposal or Aires Rock (he decided an audience would make her say yes!)

Mine decided to propose in a pub!, I said yes, then a few months later I said no, as I deserve something special (even if I do say so myself........) I told him to ask me again when he had put some thought in it!!

I am not evil, I just want it to be something special and woweee!

Three years later, he's still working on it..........oh, this thread may be left on screen, accidentally on purpose.........

BTW op, glad your plans are coming together, you will have to keep us up to date and the all important answer!!!!! (we all know what it will be though !)

specialK

Oooh, how about trying to get in touch with a choclatier over there (from a chocolate factory), maybe speak to a tour guide and ask if they can somehow have them spell out "will you marry me" in chocolate!!?? presented in a box, and the choccy card could say,

Ingredients:
1 part Mr Ringo,
1 part soon to be Mrs Ringo,
the date,
100% love

My mind is on overdrive here, sorry.

melancholly

http://www.thorntons.co.uk/ThorntonsSite/cm/chocoholicweekend.htm

i noticed these before christmas - not right for what you're planning, but worth keeping in mind for anniversaries and things!

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just to add to my gf's fussyness, she hates thorntons chocolate (and hotel Chocolat, i think its the dark chocolateness of it) ! I do like the idea of a proposal on a big piece of chocolate, that is a quality idea. I still have the thorntons 'chocolate bottle of wine' that she bought me when we moved in together saying 'welcome to our new home'

My 'big decision' is to do one or two nights. One night will be easier to organise and pack for, but it'd be a shame to go to Brussels and only spend 1 day there. I also don't know any 'top' restaurants there.

I'm quite scared to start booking this! At the moment it's just an idea.. once I book it, it becomes 'for real'

racer256

It's clear for you not be sussed out early is to take her somewhere you too normally goes and then take her to where you will propose just so that she doesn't suss you out. If you take her somerwhere unusual first she will suss you out.
Good Luck, nice to se romance isn't dead.
X

Amanda65

Could you mock up a letter saying that you had won a short break in a competition - that way it wouldn't look as though you had booked the break with an ulterior motive in mind!

Katmc2k

is there any way you are a good enough actor or have the kind of job where you could be "going to a conference" in Brussels and as she's off and the work is paying (or so she thinks) you thought she might want to come? Maybe that Jimbob from work is taking his OH or something?

Really like the proposal in chocolate idea BUT then her big decision won't be "hmm should I marry this guy or not...?"

Instead it will be "hmm should I keep this chocolate proposal as a momento of my special day or should I gobble it all up right now...?"

I know which I would do

Best of luck by the way too ringo! (And to assistme who I saw floating about on here last night....)

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I do work in IT consultancy, so have been known to go to far flung destinations at the drop of the hat. AND i have taken her with before - we spent a few days in Dublin and stayed a damn good hotel (thanks work!) the last time it happened.

Now.. i'm a terrible liar, and a worse actor. I've also never mentioned any work out in Belgium, all of my work is in the UK. I've resigned myself to the fact that the moment anything out of place happens, she'll twig. The way I've been asking the odd question about her plans for that week will have already alerted her senses by now. Remember- she has jedi person reading skills.

So, if I can't surprise her, i'll mystify her. Imagine this:

I phone her at lunch time from work on the tuesday and tell her to pack an overnight bag. I tell her I've got a surprise planned for the evening and a taxi will pick her up at X o'clock. I'll leave an envelope in the house with some money to pay the driver. I will have taken her passport with me to work so she won't twig we're going abroad.

She is driven to heathrow, I catch the train and meet her there. I take her to the check in desk and hand her the passport, then she'll find out where we're going

We stay at the Rocco Forte Hotel Amigo and I take her to a fabulous restaurant for dinner. We go for a walk after dinner and I propose to her somewhere between then and getting back to the hotel. The chocolate idea is great, but I'm a traditionalist, so it's got to be me on one knee with a ring and nothing else

Then we get waffles in the morning and fly home!

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