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I'm still waiting for SO to propose, but I saw a cute picture on the Halloween contest feed showing a pumpkin carved with "Marry Me?". We have pumpkins to carve and I was wondering (before I saw the picture) if SO would try that - my mind jumps to possible proposal scenarios all the time, haha.
I laughed out loud visualizing the situation as you were wiggling into your PJs.
Congratulations!
(Also, you may not be aware that the Weddingbee site was down for a while today, so that could be why you haven't gotten responses yet?)
Well, I knew that my Fiance wasn't the overly romantic type... so I figured it wasn't going to be over the top mushy gushy.
Story is, he had the ring and was waiting for my birthday this year (June 4th) to do something nice... he's never told me the original plan...
On May 11th, I got the phone call from the company I had been so hoping to work for in NY (we lived in Indiana at the time) to tell me they were paying to fly me up for the weekend for a visit and a face-to-face interview after a series of phone interviews. I was supposed to hop a plane the morning of Friday the 13th... EEK. Nevertheless, I was over the moon happy and excited! I hung up with my (now) boss, started jumping up and down squealing in delight, and I jumped into his arms and gave him a huge bear hug! I gave him the great news while wearing an ear-to-ear grin.
He asked, "Is there anything that could possibly make your day any better right now?" I said, "I really don't think so!!"
He asked, "How about I give you your birthday present now? You want it?" And I said, well I suppose if you want to give it to me early, that'd be ok!
Well, here I was thinking I was finally getting my KitchenAid stand mixer that I had been begging for. He had me stand in the living room and close my eyes. Then, he had my son come in and sit on the couch.
The next thing I know, he tells me to open my eyes. He was on one knee with the ring and I don't even think he got out the full "Will you marry me?" before I shrieked and tackled him crying.
I'm not a cryer, but I seriously was so blindsided and unbelievably happy that my emotions got the best of me. He is the love of my life.
I didn't even care that I had just woken up (I was working nights at the time) and looked like a complete wreck (In my pajamas, hair completely askew, no makeup)... I guess if he felt compelled to propose to me looking like that, then it is truly unconditional love :)
I found out that I messed up my proposal and would have been engaged 5-6 weeks sooner! Last November I threw a bday party for him, and we had planned on a quick dinner before the bar party. I called him and told him a couple was going to join us for sushi.... so he left the ring at home, and the friends cancelled at the last minute! Oops!!!
Fast forward through the holidays (I didnt want a holiday proposal and the holidays end when the ball drops on NYE). It was raining on NYE and we were having a good night just the two of us at home (had a long week, didn't want to go out afterall), and I was hanging out in underwear and a long tshirt watching movies (its our apartment, whatever), and was teasing him all about "pantsless new years". I fell asleep as was exhausted and had had a few drinks and woke up to him bounching on my exercise ball (he had kept drinking from nerves :-) ), telling me to wake up for the countdown. We stood up to count down .... the ball dropped, he went down on one knee and proposed... and I said "yes... Where are my pants, I need my pants!" I didn't want to touch the ring pantsless!
Needless to say, no one knows that part! I don't want it coming out at the wedding!
I grin every time I think of this story :-)
mmmm ok mine is cute but not the way i wanted it.....
My best friend is getting married soon and i was at a wedding fair with her i was really mad because we had talked about it and he had the ring for two months, i know this cause i picked it cause i knew it was gonna happen and i didnt want a bad ring plus he said that he couldnt find one he thought i would like. Anyway so he had this ring for two whole months and he asked me to dinner the day this wedding fair was on so i though ok this is it! me and my friend were soooo excited i got home around 6 thinking not long now ummmm nope my FI was in his sweat pants beer in hand watching football on the TV!!! Oh i was hopping mad went upstairs and sulked an hour later he shouts upstairs (football was over funny that huh) 'u want any dinner or what...' I know what yr think awww how romantic lol Well we did go for dinner to the resturant were we had our first date in the exact same table. I had already checked no box with a ring or anything soooo a few glasses of wine later i really didnt care anymore the waiter came over with the bill and he took out his wallet to pay then he produced the ring and asked me to marry him i really was shocked soooo after may tears (of relief thinking he had changed his mind) i gladlly said yes!!!
Not bad for a man who took him nearly ten years to ask me out lol
@lumos: doesnt matter how they propose as long as they do lol
FI proposed in front of hundreds of people and both of our familys at an event I was running, they stopped the whole thing and got me out in the middle and had everyone gather around. I had absolutely no idea, but apparently everyone else had known for months. We had never even talked about marraige.
It was perfect! I could not have dreamed up a better proposal! and it was so out of FI's comfort zone.
@trinity_542: thanks :D I still find myself day dreaming about all the planning that went into it. He told his parents then He asked my dad when they went golfing on fathers day, followed by my mother/grandmother siblings at a Canada Day barbeque. It was the whole lot of them hand walking me into inviting them all to the event so I wouldnt be suprised when they showed up. He is also HORRIBLE at keeping things a secret. I've been engaged since August 20th and I am still in shock
I also have not so mushy guy.. My birthday this year in june he took me out for dinner (first time we had been out alone since our daughter was born in march) we went to the restaurant where we had our first date, but it was closed down :( unfortunately the closest thing was tgif.. I knew he had already bought the ring so I kept thinking pls don't do it at tgif!! So weget back in the car after dinner and he's fidgeting around and making random comments when I look up and he's holding the ring out and says 'i guess we could get married'... Soooooo romantic right! I cry and laugh and hug and kiss him. But it turns out my grandparents who have been married for 52 years have a similar engagement story, so maybe its not so bad :)
Our proposal was a definite fail. DH asked my dad for my hand in marriage and my dad panicked and said "no". I walk in the room and they're both crying and it was a big mess lol. He actually ended up proposing anyway and DH and my dad are besties now haha.
I didn't get the "fireworks & air banner" proposal that I had imagined as a kid, but I could not have asked for a better one.. Nor would I!
I had literally just gotten out of the shower and into my PJs & FI comes into the bedroom with a letter. The letter went on to say how much he loved me, and why.. How perfect we are together and how happy I make him, etc. I didn't catch on at first but when he got teary-eyed and down on one knee I knew! We were crying & hugging and it was so intimate and perfect. He had already told my parents and best friends everything so they came over with wine to celebrate. He later told me how he had an elaborate plan but just couldn't wait any longer to propose because he was too excited ( He got the ring that day!).. It was intimate, exhilirating, and a moment I will NEVER forget. It really didn't matter to me how he did it at all, but I think it was perfect :)
@Mrs.ChubbyBunny: WOW! I was pretty scared my dad was going to say no also since FI and I hadn't been dating for very long (though we've known each other for over 10 years as friends).
I love all the stories!! Congrats to all!
The night FI proposed, he was on his way driving from Halifax to Quebec, and I was out at a course dinner for a course I just taught, and it was a bring your own wine spot. I had a little bit too much wine, but I rushed home, hopped into something nice to greet him with, and not totally sober, sat by the door waiting. About 5 minutes later he walks in the door and directly goes down on his knee. I cried so much I forgot to say yes and he had to remind me! I honestly had nothing really in mind for a proposal, but I do wish I had had less wine! 
@Dutchie: Oh wow!!
Fi proposed on the Eiffel Tower on Christmas day. Sounds great, but he left the ring at home (oops) and didn't really have any speech or anything, which made the entire scenario feel so unreal. Took me forever to respond because it was confusing! I wasn't expecting it either.
Mine was a huge fail. But at least it was funny. DH and I took a trip from Ontario to Newfoundland in the 1973 Winnebago we renovated (with a lot of help from great friends and family!). We spent our first night in my parents driveway since they live on the opposite side of the city, so we could continue on in the morning without worrying about traffic.
Just got engaged this past January. I found out after the fact that there was serious issues with the ring. My fiances Grandmother that lives in Fl (we're in KY) had decided to give him her Grandmothers diamond engagement ring. Long story short..it was around Christmas..and UPS lost it (aka..someone stuck it in their pocket) report filed..nothing was found. He was freaking apparently. Luckily our good friend is a jewler and he gave her one of the pearls from his mothers mikimoto strand and she made me a beautiful pearl engagement ring!
We were on our vacation to Culebra Puerto Rico with about 9 of our closest friends camping on the beach. The sun was going down..we were all a bit lit from drinking rum out of coconuts..and I ended up sitting on the blanket before he could propose so he kneeled down in front of me anyways and asked. I was in complete shock. No idea it was coming. lol After staring at him with the fly catching look on my face..I said yes!
Oh yeah and I forgot to meantion..when we arrived to Puerto Rico we had to take a ferry to get the island...the ferry broke down while we were on it(it was also night time)..and we were stuck on the ferry for 15 hours!!! lol
I wouldn't change a thing =)
@bakerella: OMG that was written beautifully ..I LOL'd at the visual !
@Mrs.ChubbyBunny: ...oh dear !! that is hysterical!
Mine wasn't a fail necessarilly, but he had me going "WTF?" for a little while. First, I thought he was going to propose on Christmas-didn't happen, then, New Years-didn't happen. Valentine's Day-didn't happen. I KNEW he had the ring! But still-no proposal. Finally, when it is a few weeks to the third anniversary of our first date he tells me that for our anniversary he is going to take me to this really nice restaurant, one that we could never afford to go to. So I'm thinking THIS IS IT!! So our anniversary arrives, and we go to the restaurant, have this extravagant meal with champagne, (which was financially equivalent to a months worth of groceries) and through the whole meal I am just WAITING for him to pop the question. But he doesn't. I'm like looking through every course they bring us, like there is a ring in it, and waiting patiently for him to say something or do something. But he is Mr Cool as a Cucumber, oblivious. Finally they bring dessert and I am SURE this has to be it. Nada-nothing but deflated disapointment. So finally, we leave the restaurant and I am feeling a little petulant and pissed, and feeling like how stupid am I to fall for this AGAIN! So we are walking down the sidewalk towards our car parked a few blocks away and he reaches his hand out, because he always reaches out his hand to take mine when we are walking. And I have to admit, for a split second I just felt like leaving him hanging, but I didn't. I took his hand-and in his hand was a little velvet box. So, that is where he proposed, in the middle of the sidewalk, under a streetlight. I know he said a lot of very nice things-but honestly, as soon as he flipped open the box I didn't hear a word of it. I did get the "Will you marry me?" though and it took me three tries, to squawk out an "OK". So after waiting for months for the proposal, when it finally came, I was totally unprepared and blown away and speechless. Still, it was perfect and now, I wouldn't change a thing.
I totally misread the title of this feed! I thought it said "FALL"/Awesome Proposal - hence my reference to the pumpkin. Haha
@ trinity_542 - I never said anything on the contrary. Not sure why you singled me out - especially after you said "ok mine is cute but not the way i wanted it.....".
Ladies, your proposal stories are all so sweet! You're warming up my heart on this chilly Fall afternoon.
Congratulations to all of you!
@ Jd64848704: Firstly, congratulations on your job! Secondly, I love that he brought your son in to share in the moment. It also sounds like he loves you so much.
@ bakerella: I agree with Canadian Mermaid - beautifully written! It played out like a funny movie in my mind. That's hilarious! I felt so bad for your DH, but I'm super happy for you guys!
@SandyThePoet: Aw, I love that! Honestly, I kind of think the way he did it was better than doing it in the restaurant because he totally got you by surprise! Something I'm sure was difficult for him to figure out since you'd known it was coming already!
Our proposal was nearly a fail! My Fiance Grant is a Marine and we'd been talking about getting married for a while. He found out he was going to be sent to Japan and things were getting more serious so things felt like they were headed in the direction of getting engaged. I'd known about the ring (my friend helped him pick it out and she told me he'd purchased it) and I knew we were going to be on a long road trip. We were starting out in D.C. and I figured that he might propose there, I love that city and we'd be on our own there (we were meeting up with family later on the road). He'd gotten a fun, swanky hotel and I thought it would be a great way for him to pop the question. Well...nothing happened. Nothing! But I knew we had a long trip ahead of us, so I tried not to overthink it.
So we began driving to Chicago, stopped and stayed with family and friends for a few days, still nothing. Our next stop was St. Norbert College in De Pere, WI to visit his sister. That's where we met and I figured it would be a really sweet and romantic place to propose. STILL NOTHING! I didn't understand what was happening. I started to wonder if he had cold feet! We drove up to Minneapolis, MN to visit with his parents. They planned a party for the weekend before we were going to head home and from the sounds of it, it seemed like it was going to be an engagement party. So all week I waited. Can you guess what happened? Nothing! His parents made the party sound like it was just a Going Away Party for my FI before he left for Japan. We drove back to Chicago, barehanded, and I just tried to make the most of the time we had left together before he left. He had 7 days to make things happen if he really wanted to propose.
SO HERE'S HOW IT EVENTUALLY HAPPENED. He had ordered the ring from Tacori. Apparently it ended up taking much longer than expected and he had to keep calling to check in on the progress and when it was finally ready he had it sent to his hotel room. He took me to breakfast, then took me to our special spot in the woods, got down on one knee and asked me to be his wife. It was perfect! It wasn't what I had been expecting but it was beautiful. He eventually told me what happened and how he'd planned on doing it in D.C. (I was right!) 5 days after he proposed, he left for Japan. We got legally married last week when he was home on leave and we're planning a big family wedding for July 6,2013 
Mine was both fail and awesome at the same time!
This April we were in Europe on a holiday. At the end of our holiday we visited Neuschwanstein Castle... this castle was on the very top of my 'must see before I die' list. Words cannot describe how excited I was to be seeing this castle.
He knows I always wanted to take the horse and carriage up so we went to the line to wait... only to discover that 2 bus loads of a certain ethnic group of tourists notorious for doing this were already there (must have been at least 60 of them which is so rude. Too bad for anyone else who might want to do the same thing... and no you cant wait, you have to get there at a certain time as you are booked into a group when you get the ticket) which meant we had to walk up half an alp to get there... which was a bit dissapointing as I always wanted to do it :(
So we get to the castle and begin the tour. Unfortunately there were some VERY, VERY rude tourists who ruined the tour by pushing in, speaking over the guide and complaining that no one spoke English (hello! You are in a foreign country!). They made him rage so bad! He even yelled at them to 'shut the fvck up' as the guide could not get her voice over them and they would not listen to any thing she was saying.
So after the tour we walk to the Marienbrucke (Maries Bridge) that gives the picture postcard photo of the castle... only to encounter the same rude tourists who spent the time complaining that the trees were not green and not letting anyone near the railing for a photo (Quick! Someone tell the Alp god to magically change all the trees so none drop their leaves in winter just so you can get a photo where everything is green!!). Sigh
So we finally get a pic and go sit down on a rock wall for a rest... it was then he got on one knee and pulled out the ring! I cried and cried and cried. It took me 20 mins to say yes as I was crying to hard HAHA
Turns out he wanted to ask whilst on the horse and carriage on the way up. Once that idea was scratched he wanted to propose in the castle. Once that was scrapped he was going to ask on the bridge. Once that was ruined he asked on the wall... and I couldnt be happier :)
Note to tourists: if you are in a large group PLEASE prebook things! And if you are in a foreign country, please be nice enough to learn basic phrases and understand that not everyone on the planet speaks English or eats the same food you eat. Le sigh.
We've been together for 5 years and looked at rings about 4 months before he proposed. At that point I was starting to lose it.. Like another poster said, our anniversary, my birthday, Christmas, new years and valentine's day all passed and each time I thought he would do it. I couldn't wait any longer!
In March this year there was a "super moon" which was a really huge full moon. My FI planned to propose on the beach under the big full moon.
Our friends asked me if my FI and I wanted to go to dinner with them on Friday night. I said sure and asked my FI. He acted a little strange like he didn't want to go but then gave in. Apparently Friday was when he was going to propose!
So a couple more days go by and he tells me that he planned a nice dinner for us. We went out to dinner and I thought for sure he was going to propose. We planned to go to the beach and everything.. I was so excited. We finished dinner and came home to change before going to the beach and he went outside. He was looking for the full moon and couldn't find it. It hadn't risen yet. So after all that, the moon didn't come out so he gave up on the proposal.
I was really upset. I thought for sure he was going to propose and then he didn't I thought I was losing my mind and going crazy with the waiting.
A few days later I was in the kitchen washing my hands and he came home from guitar class. He said that he splurged and bought a new guitar. I came into the living room and he set the guitar case on the coffee table and bent down to open it. Inside were two dozen roses. I was so happy and thought they were because I had been upset earlier in the week. I was smelling the roses and looked down and he was on one knee holding up a ring!
On one hand it is a little sad that his big proposal plan didn't work out but on the other hand, it's nice that it happened in the living room of the home that we made together and it just felt like "us".
@lumos i was simply saying that whatever way a proposal is done it doesnt matter as long as he does it it never goes the way you have it in yr head.
@trinity_542:From what I've read and heard, that's so true. I'm trying not to think too much about it!
I feel so bad for my poor fiance- he had a very sweet, romantic and meaningful proposal planned and my dumb ass messed it up. Hahah!
Originally, he planned to take me out to lunch/dinner at the location of our first date (a pub in our college town), and set it up so we sat at our first date table. Then he was going to take me for a walk on campus and propose in front of an especially picturesque building where we had class together when we first started dating. (Awwwwww...!)
Well, he picks a day to plan this lunch and I say "No, I don't want to go to Deer Park- I want to go to Home Grown!". My poor guy goes back and forth with me on this for about 2 days, and I eventually give in. Towards the end I was joking with him and bickering just to be funny and saying "You want to go to Deer Park so you can propose to me, right?". Poor guy. I literally had no idea this was coming so soon and I was just playing with him!
So we finally make it to lunch, and they sit us at the wrong table. (He had gone in previously and specifically requested our first date table). When we sit down he sees that our first date table is open and asks if we want to move there. I say no, becaue I didn't want to be a bother. So he gets up to "go to the bathroom" and asks the hostess to switch us. Once we move to the first date table I say something to the effect of "Oh good! Now you can propose to me!" again, completely joking!
During lunch he's barely eating- I should have taken this as a hint- but I am absolutely clueless. He's telling me that he'd like to go for a walk afterward and I said hell no! It was 12/4/11 and one of hte first days of the season that was truly bitter cold and windy. I did NOT want to be outside!
So, my poor sweet fiance is now forced to propose to me in the college bar. So fantastic! He says he has something for me and reaches for his pocket. I kick him under the table and tell him to stop playing. (Just a month prior, we were out to dinner for our anniversary at a VERY nice restaurant and he played this game with me! hahah). But out comes my gorgeous ring and then the shock hits. I could barely speak, I was going between tears and incoherent babbling for a while before I finally said yes. One of the funniest things about this is that he didn't even get down on one knee- because he knew I never wanted a proposal in such a public place bc I didn't want the attention on me!
So here we are, newly engaged, hugging and crying in the booth. After me crying "I love you so much! I can't believe you did this!" I turn to saying "Wahhhh I'm sorry I'm such an asshole for ruining all your plans!"
So yeah, that's how I foiled my own proposal. But everything was great, regardless. We didn't have that super romantic story, but we have a story that is funny as hell and perfectly indicitave of our personalities and our relationship! Maybe if I had a clue that the proposal was actually coming I would have been more compliant!
My partner and I had been ring shopping and I'd selcted an antique sapphire ring. We had a trip to Mendocino planned and I assumed she'd propose there. However, the day before we were supposed to leave her father was put in ICU with sepsis, and we had to cancel our trip. The next day she was coming home from the hospital and told me to get ready because we were going to lunch. She picked me up, I got in the car and off we went. She was acting very, very nervous and kept asking me if she told me something did I promise not to be mad? The way she was acting I honestly thought she was about to break up with me or something. So, she drove me to the mall and into the underground parking. As we were parking she told me she wanted to spend the rest of her life with me and couldn't buy the ring I wanted because when she went back to buy it, it had already been sold. She thought if I was going to spend the rest of my life wearing a ring that I should pick it. She asked me to spend the rest of my life with her while we sat in the parking garage! Of course I said yes. Turns out her plan had been to buy the antique sapphire ring and bring it on our trip to Mendocino. Then she was going to hide the ring under a shell on the beach, point the shell out to me and get down on 1 knee on the beach when I took the shell off the ring. Even though we'd cancelled our trip she didn't want to wait to propose to me. So, we got out of the car went to a jewlery store and I picked out my sapphire ring. The great part of that was she gave me no budget, she wanted me to have whatever I wanted. I took it easy on her though......LOL! After I chose my ring the whole store clapped and cheered for us, something I wasn't expecting as a lesbian couple. It was really sweet.
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Okay, so we've all seen the posts here about those of us who certainly did not get the dream proposal that we have been imagining since we were 5. But in the end, our hunnies love us! So let's here the stories about the dissapointing yet awesome proposals!!
Mine was at Disney World! I knew it was going to happen since we had talked about it, and I was sure there would be something with Cinderella's castle, or in front of Mickey or something....
Nope! My FI was afraid of all the fuss so as we were getting ready for bed the first night in our resort ( I am literally wiggling into pajama pants), he kneels down and tells me that he was going to make me wait a few days into our trip - but he couldn't wait to call me his fiance.
While it was not in front of the castle, or even in the park, or even when I looked halfway decent after a long day of screaming on rides - it was probably better that he asked me to marry him in a carpeted room....since I said yes and tackled him.