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[AKLRULZ]

Gents - tell us how your proposed to your wife/fiance! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] Ladies - tell us how you were proposed to! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] This one should be fun! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[MinnieMary]

OK, I'll be the first to tell. Nine years ago my boyfriend surprised me on my birthday with a gondola ride in the canals around Naples Island (in Long Beach,CA).It was a warm night in July. There are beautiful,expensive
homes located here and you feel like you are in Italy passing under the bridges. The gondolier evens sings Italian loves songs. Needless to say, it was very romantic. [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] He quietly pulled out the little box with the ring and asked me to marry him. I said yes and we kissed. This all happened so discreetly that the gondolier had no idea what had happened. At the end of our ride my fiance told him and he was surprised and heartily congratulated us. We got married the next year on my birthday.

[SMG]

I should win most UNromantic proposal!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] I had broken up w/ Jerry and went to spend the weekend at my dad's. Jerry called and asked that I come by his house on my way home to talk things through. Of course I did (after all I was only teaching him a lesson [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] ) Anyway, after much discussion and many tears he proposed to me........ IN THE BATHROOM!!! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/cry2.gif[/img] I cried happy tears right there in the bathroom and that was almost 14 years ago! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Not the most romantic, but it worked for us! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]

[ 05-11-2002, 10:26 PM: Message edited by: SMG ]

[Shell_of_the_South]

Here's another unromantic proposal...

My husband was and still is an avid deer hunter. He left his deer stand on opening day of hunting season to propose, then left again to hunt! He said he couldn't think of a more special day that opening day!

(He's improved over 15 years!)

[abert15]

Actually, I got engaged in WDW last May. I had been annoying my fiance for months about how bad I wanted a ring. Little did I know that he was planning it for our WDW trip. His parents told him to pop the ? on the plane ride to Orlando cause they were afraid he was going to lose it. Well he decided to wait until the first nite we were at WDW. We had just gotten back to our room at PO- Riverside after a fun filled nite at DD. When we got in the toom, he was being very affectionate and telling me how much he loved me. I had no idea that this was leading up to him getting down on one knee and asking me to be his wife. I couldn't believe it! This was something I had wanted for 4 and 1/2 years and for him to do it in the happiest place on earth made it even more special!

[DVC_Don]

Well it was like this ************ CENSORED *********. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] And it worked! That was 22+ years ago. [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]

[sammycat699]

Another unromantic story. We had an ad for rings that were unsale so we drove to the store and looked. He picked out the ring that he liked and the store was to have the ring redone with a smaller stone. This was to take about 3 weeks. The store called the following week. We got the stone that we had seen. Anyway in between looking at rings I picked out my wedding dress which was ready for pick up the same day as the rings. We picked up the rings and the gown and went back to the car. He said somethng like a guess you would like to see your ring and I said yes. He gave it to me in a parking lot. That was ok. We have been married over 26 years.

[KathyL]

I actually found my ring by mistake!!! I was doing some cleaning, and one of my cats had gotten into the closet and when I found the cat (this is a big walk in closet) it was rooting around in my Easter basket (that my then "significant other") had hidden until Easter. I was so excited to find the basket filled with candy (chocolate is my weakness) that I started digging through the basket and lo and behold, came across the ring! I let out a little surprise scream and my husband came running and there I was holding the ring. My now husband was actually a little relieved as he wasn't sure how to present the basket with the ring anyway.

KathyL. [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]

[Las17]

First, I'll tell you of his original plan. He was living in Alexandria,Va. and I was living in Ky. I went to stay with his parents for 2 weeks to meet them. We took a tour of the White House and he was going to propose to me there, but we'd had a fight, so he changed his mind! I keep telling him that since not too many people could say they were proposed to there,it would have been more special.

Anyway, he took me out to dinner while I was visiting, and he proposed to me after dinner at the restaurant at the top of the Quality Inn in D.C. I was looking out at the lights of the city. It was really beautiful.

Laura

[luvnwdwgal]

First off I need to tell you that it was love at first sight for my husband and I. He was 25 and I was only 18. We would talk about getting married all the time, but he hadn't actually proposed. One night we were sitting out in the driveway (in his 1973 Vega!) and we were just talking, and all of a sudden he says "while we're on the subject, will you marry me?" Well I thought he was kidding and I said "No". And he got this weird look on his face and I knew then that he was serious. Then I said "Yes!" And this October we will celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[Chrissi]

Now, I feel like a freak, thanks... [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] I asked Walt to marry me at a tattoo party about a month after we started dating. I waited until the tattooist had started and then I think I said, "You know, this is permanent." He said, "I think I can handle the commitment," as he winced in pain. So I said, "If you can handle that kind of commitment (said somewhat sarcastically), why don't we get married?" He said, "Are you serious?" And I said "YES!!! Of course I'm serious. I don't asked men to marry me everyday, you know!" Not the most romantic, but my mom loves telling her friends what an independent, self-assured daughter she raised!

[disneyknut]

Add me to another unromantic & censored proposal...
Actually DH proposed to me twice.. We had only been dating about 2 weeks ( I was recently separated from my Ex-husband) & while driving home from dinner Jim had a few too many drinks & as we drove past my Ex's house he yelled out" Greg ***Censored*** & I want to marry her..." he really asked me about a month later when we found out DS #1 was on the way [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img] It was basically "When are you going to file for divorce so that we can get married??"
BTW.. We also got married twice!! My divorce was final June 25th & I married Jim on July 10th in front of a JP & then after I had my first marriage annuled we got married in church.
I want to get re-hitched at WDW for our 10th anniversay so i'll actually be marrying the nut THREE times!!! [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[Disney Fan]

Add me to the not-so-romantic-and-yet-very-sweet category! Friends of ours got engaged over Christmas which prompted our "serious" discussion over marriage. He actually had asked me after we'd been dating a month. I was just out a serious relationship and was like "too much, too quick". Over the course of the next year we had discussed marriage off and on. Then when our friends got engaged, we started really talking about it.

We had agreed that we'd want to get married before Christmas since we both love the Christmas season. We didn't want to wait two full years, so we thought we'd "check" into reception halls and our church. We actually had 75% of the wedding planned before we ever got engaged! We had shopped for rings and found "the one". DH , while sitting in his car, had told me how he had tried to finance the ring, but, it hadn't gone through. Then he asked if I would marry him. I called him a big giant creep, because for months I had been asking him to marry me so I could tell people we were engaged and he'd made a big production about not until I had a ring. I told him he was being mean, and why would he do this, when it wouldn't count anyway. He then said, does this count? And he gave me the ring.

He then tells me if he did anything romantic, I would have figured it out. He also said he would propose "officially" in a romantic way. We'll celebrate our 8th anniversary in December, and I'm still waiting for that proposal! LOL!

[minemoz1]

My story is similar to SMGs. DH was living in WI. I was in IL. We'd just broken up because DH was having a commitment problem. I told him we should take a "break". That weekend, he came down to talk. I blew him off and stayed at my brother's house. Later that week, I come home from work and he's parked in front of my house. He asks to come in. We talk for a while and he pulls out a ring. I lost it. [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]

We have our 4th anniversary coming up soon.