Will you describe your marriage proposal?

I was told “I’m moving in to your place.” 3 months later I was instructed “We’re getting married, Captain Romance. I’ve told my folks.” The wife just LOVES recounting the legend of how I was “brought to heel”.

Whoa, a bit of a trend here… my wife suggested, after we’d been living together for about eight months, that we get married. We did. This year was our twenty-fourth anniversary.

He took me to the church where we met, told me to stand in a specific spot by the staircase, and explained that it’s where I was standing when we were 12 years old the first time I made him laugh. He said he wanted us to make each other laugh for the rest of our lives, got on his knee and asked me to marry him. It was pretty cool.

My husband proposed to me in Bloomingdale’s. I worked there at the time. I remember standing on the first floor and he faced me and took my hands and said he wanted to get married. He didn’t have a ring, because he knew I didn’t want a ring we couldn’t afford. He reminded me that I had mentioned to just get a zirconia for now. I really was fine without a ring, but he wanted me to have a ring. He tends to be very traditional about some things. We went over to the jewelry counter and picked one out.

When we were dating, my wife went to a bridal shower. They had plastic rings on the cake and she took them. She “jokingly” asked me if I wanted to get married with one of them. She was testing the water to see what my reaction would be. She didn’t know I was already shopping for a real ring. About 2 weeks later I asked her properly and seriously. She, of course, said yes.

She had already been living with me for a couple of years and neither of us were in any hurry. Well, I was not for sure. If she was dropping hints I would have certainly missed all of them. Her father got cancer and was in the middle of cancer treatment. The thought occurred to me that I may not get the chance to properly ask him. So I did and it of course got back to her. Approaching me she was like well, when do you want to do it? I was like “what, now?” I was told: “Yes, now.” We shopped together for her ring and married a few months later in Vegas. I never actually had to directly propose. It gave her family something to focus on other than her dads cancer. He survived it by the way.

So I’ll leave out the spiritual portion.

I came home from work, 28 years old, he’d set the table with my china, whole 9 yards, candles, cloth napkins, meal ready. I said, It looks lovely, whats this for?
He goes to the living room, comes back with a dozen roses in a vase. I bend to smell and see shiny stuff on them. He had a wedding set on each stem, from his moms lockbox, for me to pick from. Then the proposal, not on a knee, that was that.

We started dating when we were 16–17. Finished high school, college, started careers. Nine years later…

I got to her house early, before she left for work, and placed a box on the roof of her car. Big bow, pretty box. Tag said “Open Me.” Inside were other nice boxes in descending size — each with different items in them and accompanying tags. “Play Me” with a cassette and our song on it. “Read Me” with a poem/love letter I wrote. Finally, “Marry Me” with the ring in it. A really nice ring, if I say so myself. I was hiding behind a shrub, waiting to walk to the car at the right moment.

At least, that was the plan.

Instead, she was running late for work (as usual), saw the box, retrieved it, stuck it in her back hall, and drove away to work.

I just stood there, in the shrub.

I already did this on another thread so won’t repeat it here.
Just so you know I’m not ignoring a very nice question :-)

That’s okay, @ucme. When you get older, you won’t mind repeating yourself. You might not remember you already said it. But you won’t care either!

That’s okay, @ucme. When you get older, you won’t mind repeating yourself. You might not remember you already said it. But you won’t care either!

He was returning to England the next day after a visit here and we were waiting to see if my work permit would come through for a job there. We were talking about our future and he said, “Maybe we should think about getting married?” Thank God it wasn’t on a Jumbotron!

We were in bed. XD

@seawulf575 Could you repeat that please? I can’t read see :D

I bought her a Downey and Burke purse for Christmas. Inside it was a note, “will you marry me.”

She opened the present, thanked me, and went on to her next gift. I said, “no, you have to look in the purse.”

We had been together for 4 years. We had lived together all of that time, and ran a business together. I don’t know what tripped his trigger after all of that time, but one day we got home from the shop. He fixed me a drink (unusual) and told me to sit on the couch.
I did. He then proceeded to say shit just to piss me off.
I obliged.
I stood up, ready to walk out of the room, he pulled me back down and just stuck a box under my nose.
He said, “I’ve thought a long, long time about this…and yes. I’ll take my chances. I want to marry you.”
I was stunned. I had no idea it was coming.
I said, “I’ll have to think about this….” That upset him a little!
I said, Hey! You got to think about it! Why can’t I?”
About 2 weeks later, out at the lake, we got married..
Our honeymoon suite.

@Zenvelo Dooney. I love them. :)

@all, thanks for sharing some treasured memories.
Sometimes, the best plans skew sideways. Still, the feelings of that anticipation, excitement, surprise, they keep those memories precious.

@AshLeigh, oh that is too sweet! I need some milk to wash that one down.

@ARE_you_kidding_me, you had me tense. I’m glad it had a happy outcome.

@seawulf575, aw, she beat you to it, but it shows you both were on the same page. That seems like a good sign.

@cookieman, ouch! In the bushes with your love-on?
What a sweet idea.

@ucme, but always a pleasure to have you stop by. Perhaps someone has missed the other thread.

@KNOWITALL autocorrect. I spelled it Dooney….

I was on my lunch break and ran to meet her during her lunch. I asked her to marry me while we were at my house. She said yes, we ran to the courthouse to get our license and then I called a preacher to marry us. We married that same afternoon! It was quick and it was beautiful.

This question made me remember things. I needed that.

@Coolhandluke What a nice thing to read:)

I spoke with my (then) boyfriend everyday on the phone and it turned into talks of the future and then he told me that he was going to have part of his check sent to me monthly so I could save up for our wedding and he went on about how his mom is going to love me. (wow was that a fairy tale). LOL I don’t remember a question really being in there. He couldn’t come over Christmas because he had duty and he was considering going Awol because his superior hated him and stuck him with working on the holidays and I got worried he would so I went to visit him instead and then I stayed and we got married 2 months later.
Looking back now. It’s amusing but not very romantic. But back then, the world was horribly against our love. We were Romeo and Juliet and our family and the military would never get in the way. Laughing my butt off now though. God we were dramatic. He was risking prison to see me and I risked my mother never talking to me again.

Aww, daring love!

I went to one knee, (the only time I ever took a knee for anyone) one of her daughters was sitting there. I took my bride to be hand and asked her to marry me. My words I used made the daughter cry. Her mother said yes. Her oldest daughter was my Best Lady when we got married. The daughter that cried stood beside her mother.

Did you plan a speech, or did you take a chance on speaking in the moment?

I spoke from the moment. I looked deeply into her eyes and held her hand and slipped the ring on her finger.

Almost crying. It sounds like a sweet day.

He got down on one knee and proposed on Christmas Day. (He had asked my dad the night before.) We were married the following April and this spring will be our eleventh anniversary.