GTKY: How did SO propose?

carrieandtim

Love me some proposal stories! :x And Go!!

sebullows

Well, ours isn't very exciting. I knew he'd been looking at rings, he asked me for a little input. I was headed out to DC for a week on a people to people trip and he had just picked up the ring so he wanted to propose before I left. He told me after the fact that he couldn't wait another week until I got home. The Sunday before I left (Father's Day '12) he came to my apartment acting all strange, asked for some water, walked around my apartment all nervous with one hand in his pocket. I thought he was drunk. After about 15 minutes of pacing my apt he suddenly got down on one knee and popped the question. He said, "I wanted to make this special and do something really romantic, but you're about to leave for a week and I can't wait another 7 days to ask you to be my wife". I cried and we hugged for like 20 mins. And then immediately did my nails since we were about to head out and tell friends.

fish8412

We went to asheville nc for the weekend. My husband planned a day of hiking and proposed on the trail called "lovers leap". When we got back to our hotel room there was champagne and chocolate covered strawberries.

TX08Aggie

We were friends when he asked me to go to a football game with him - so we went and pretty much spent everyday after together.  A year to the day later, we were walking around campus and had to go study, so we were walking back to the truck and he kept stopping.  Every time he stopped, he held me and told me how much I meant to him and then we'd walk a little further.  I was getting suspicious, so I'm not ashamed to admit I felt his shirt pockets (he had given me a promise ring, and had it in his shirt pocket).  No ring shape in his pockets.  He hugged me again for a long time and then he told me he loved me and wanted to spend his life with me.  He then went down on one knee in front of me, let go of my hand and pulled a ring box from his boot (clever fella).  He asked me to marry him and it was a long time before I found my voice to say yes.  He jumped up and gave me a huge hug, then asked if he could put the ring on me!  :-)

myfriendscallmemeg

May 20 2012. There was a solar eclipse. We drove up to the hilltop we went and made out on on our first date. After the eclipse we were sitting there in his truck playing a game of I Spy, and he said "How about you look at this?" I looked over and he had a ring.
"Do you wanna marry me?"
"Really?!"
"Yes..."
"Really? Yes!"

We got married 6 weeks later!

The hill he proposed on was on "R hill" ...which I know call "Our hill."

mommyginab

We had been dating for a year, and on Valentine's day 2000 he proposed in our little apartment. On may 6, 2000 we were married! We conceived our first son on our honeymoon in gulf shores Alabama. Since then, we had 3 more awesome boys in 2003, 2005, and our latest surprise blessing on March 5th. We have been through some really great times, and also through some of the worst. I don't know where I would be if I had never met my husband. He is not perfect, nor does he try to be, but he is the most compassionate man. He is truly my soulmate. our 15 year anniversary is coming up, and we are thinking of renewing our vows at the same beach we went to on our honeymoon-just our boys and us.

I know it was supposed to be about the proposal, but I couldn't help myself.

jtenkorang

It was a decision we made together. I know boring but he was living in a different city and we couldn't stand it any more. So we decided and got married about 6 weeks later on New Year's Eve .

pepperedmoth

We were snuggled in bed and he asked how I felt about the idea. I said no, I wasn't ready.

He proceeded to ask me repeatedly every few days to weeks. "How about now? Do you want to marry me now?" or "I know what we could do this weekend! Get married!" He never did anything fancy, just popped it into conversations at irregular intervals.

One day he asked me and, quoting Laura Ingalls Wilder when Alonzo asks her to marry him, I said "that depends on the ring." Next day at breakfast he got down on one knee and whipped out this amazing creation --- he had hacksawed off a ring-sized bit of copper pipe and epoxied on a HUGE beryl from his rock collection (he was pursuing hi Master's in geology at the time). I laughed and said very nice try but still no, not yet.

He continued to ask me at irregular intervals until, quite some time later (maybe a month or so?) I said "Yes, all right." Then he sort of started and stared at me and said "What?" and I said "Yes, I will!" And he said, "really?"

Then we went and picked out a ring together over a long weekend and when we found it we went out for a very nice dinner and got rather toasted together. It was great. ;-)

tsmith312

October 16 2010 ... It was such a surprise to me I wasn't expecting it at all . We went to the pumpkin patch like we do every year . he dagged me out to the middle of the field . Told me how Much he loved me and couldn't imagine his life without me . He then said I have something for you and pulled the ring out of his pocket and asked me if I would marry him . Even better a total stranger caught it on camera and snapped a few pics for us .11 months later we were married at the rock quarry on the same farm he proposed at. We continue to go to the same pumpkin patch every year as a tradition .

PerkyErky

We were in a long distance relationship and were legally married after 11 months of "dating" when he came out to visit for Thanksgiving on 11/23/11. DH was also in the process of relocating back to Oregon and we started planning our wedding for the summer of 2012.

The day we legally got married we picked out an engagement ring. In April 2012 he had purchased a wedding band for our wedding in July (he was in Oregon at this point). One night while watching TV he had gotten up to get something and when he came back he didn't sit back down on the couch. I looked over and he was on one knee and I was thinking "what the hell is he doing?" He said "I know we are already married, but you never got a proposal. I am so happy to have you as my wife and the mother of my children. Will you marry me?" And he had the box with my wedding band. Clearly the answer was yes, saying no would have just been awkward

DTNZ4Ever

We were in Colorado visiting a friend. DH arranged for us to go to Rocky Mtn National Park. We were hiking up by Alberta Water Fall. We sat down to take in the view and DH got down on one knee and proposed. I said yes and DH had to ask me to look at the ring which was beautiful.

teaforthree

DH planned a random road trip to San Francisco, which wasn't all that weird because we took frequent trips together.  The plan was to stay in SF, visit wine country, and stay a night in Monterey on the way home down the coast.  Part of me kind of felt something was up, but I couldn't be sure.  Anyway, we went up, had fun in SF, enjoyed a day in Sonoma (and I was thinking if it was going to happen, it would be there because we did a nice wine tour and then had a really nice picnic at a vineyard, but nope).  So, after all that I figured it wasn't going to happen.  Then, when we got to Monterey on the last night of our trip, he surprised me with a proposal in bay window of the room of our B&B which overlooked the ocean.  It was really nice, and he managed to totally catch me off guard!  And the ring was a beautiful Tiffany ring, which I wasn't expecting.  We went out for a nice dinner after that.  I stared at that ring all the way home the next day  

jennybean80

New Year's Day, 2001. We were living together and young, I was 20 he was 19. He planned a fondue dinner for two. For desert he had a DQ cake (he worked there at the time) that said 'I love you' on it. He put the cake on the table, got down on one knee and proposed in our shitty basement apartment kitchen! Kind of cheesy, but sweet.
We had a long engagement and will have our 12th anniversary this summer!

LiFeIsAmIrAcLe

My DH took me for a walk on the beach, and he had put a shell where I'd find it......I walked right past it lol, so he picked it up and was like "wow babe what a beautiful shell!"  I took it from him to look at it and when I turned it over he had painted "will you marry me" on the underside and when I looked back up (or down I should say) he was on one knee.  :x

linzy523

Before our first date, DH had sent me a picture of a sunrise over the lake near his house saying how excited he was to see me later. After our first date, we were inseparable.

Flash forward to 2010, DH had surprised me with a trip to San Juan for my birthday (spoiled I know!). We didn't get in to the city until late at night, so he suggested we wake up early and watch the sunrise from the pier by our hotel.

We woke up bright and early to walk down to the pier. It was still about 10 minutes before sunrise and the pier was covered in dew. He laid down a blanket and had me sit. He pointed off to the distance to where it seemed like the sun would be coming from. When I turned back around, he was on one knee! It was perfect

Stephrm1231

On a roller coaster at six flags. He had a whole monologue going about how relationships are like roller coasters with their ups and downs but we still end the ride together! Then right before we went down our first hill he asked...I said yes, put that ring on as fast as I could, and started screaming since I'm terrified of roller coasters lol

jwls84

We had gone to a fundraising event that night and he had pissed me off so bad because he kept saying all night that he never wanted to get married.
We got home later that night and I went to bed and he came in and cuddled up to me and then started his little speech. I didn't actually think he was gonna propose, but then he pulled out the ring.
I was shocked! My friend told me later that he had actually planned on doing it the next morning but that he couldn't wait and did it right then instead.

amdecker1016

These are so sweet!

Mine was on new years day 2008.
I was 18, he was 20. We had only been dating for five months. But known each other for 13 years!
Right at midnight he proposed.
We were young! I am glad we waited two years to get married.
Here we are almost four years later!

AshleyO925

Zane is military and I was living 11 hours away. After 4 months of dating I wanted to relocate so we could be together but the only way the military allows that is to be married. So we had discussed it and decided to go to the courthouse and get married in a few months. We agreed no ring since he had gone through a divorce and was in pretty bad debt. I went down for a week when school was on break to visit.

He came home from work on his lunch break and I was sitting on the couch. He got down on his knees in front of me and said "hey so do you want to get married?" I was like "duh we already discussed this." He pulled a box out of his pocket so I started freaking saying that we agreed no ring and he opened the box and said I know I didn't get you one. There was just a note that said IOU on it. My face kind of dropped because I thought it was a ring. Then he started laughing vand pulled the ring out of his pocket. My husband the trickster. We got married a month later on May 26th, 2013.

LoveMoose85

We were at a Colorado avalanche game in December right around Xmas time in 2009. After the game we decided that we wanted to walk over to the Cheesecake Factory for dessert and wine. Well outside the restaurant there were horse drawn carriage rides. He asked me if I wanted to go on one, it was absolutely freezing but I agreed. Low and behold he pulled out the ring and asked me all cuddled up under blankets among the city Xmas lights. Later the carriage drops us off at a fancy hotel with a room filled with candles. He had planned the hole thing, and even packed my suitcase for me and snuck it there..I'm one lucky lady!!

ladyglittersparkles

We were getting ready to have some of my family from out of town stay with us (my Grammy was in him hospice) I was also training for tough mudder. It was a crazy day (may 5 2011) I had been out all morning at the gym and getting last minute things for guests and I wanted to lay in the back yard and get some sun before I had to head to work. I was flustered and couldn't find my tanning oil so I blabbered something about I'll only be out for a few min and went out to the hammock. Shortly after I had been out for a while Kris came out and was mumbling and offered to put my tanning oil on that he had found. I don't exactly remember how it all started but he had been talking to me for quite a while on one knee and then said "well what would you think about marrying me?"
I started shaking said really?!?
And then yes! We both cried and then called our families.
We waited to tell my Grammy in person and she was thrilled. She had a conversation with DH that day that I have still yet to know what it was about and that's ok... She was so happy for us and it means the world to me that she knew I would be taken care of. (She passed away a few days later)
It means so much to know that my DH wanted her to know! ( he wasn't going to propose until our upcoming vacation but did a few weeks early so she could be included in our happy news)

( even writing this has me bawling)

sopranoali

DH and I had a whirlwind relationship, we both fell in love fast. Usually this was something that would scare me, but not in this case! We went to the pretty pond on our college campus one day, and I could tell he was super nervous. He went to put his arm around me, and ELBOWED ME in the nose. Luckily the ring is awesome so I can forgive

Brich3321

We booked a trip to Vegas towards the end of 2010 for April of 2011. New Year's Eve he asked me in kind of a drunken state, I agreed...no ring nothing. We didn't tell anyone because I said I wouldn't until there was a ring (didn't need anything spectacular, I just wanted it to be official). Then Valentines weekend he made it official at our home we shared together, down on one knee, ring and all. We got married in Vegas during our vacation with 7 friends that made the trip to celebrate with us. Was the BEST and most fun day of my life!!

matitice

July 11, 2009 was a particularly hot day. DH asked me to take a walk through the neighborhood with him & I said okay even though it was still 100 out at 7:30 PM. After 20 minutes I starts complaining that my hands were swollen from to much salt, the heat, & not enough water so we headed back to his place. Once we got there I was tired & wanted to just be lazy the rest of the eve but he wanted to take a drive. Again I agreed even though I didn't want to go at all. I think he knew it but he handed me a lovely glass if ice cold water & we hopped into his truck & hit the freeway. We ended up in the town of Auburn, CA about 20 minutes away. He suddenly said, "Let's walk out onto the Foresthill Bridge." So we parked & started on our journey across the bridge.
Side note: One if our first dates was to dinner & then a walk on this same bridge.
Anyway, we hit the middle of the bridge & he stops & pulls me to turn towards him. I notice he's shaking & the words are tumbling out of his mouth in a nervous manner. He says to me, "I never thought I could love someone as much as I love you. You're my best friend & I want to spend the rest of my life with you." I of course said yes & then we hugged & I started cracking up. He asked me why I was laughing & I said, "You totally have a boner!" He got all embarrassed but realized it was a pretty random time to get a boner & he laughed too. Then he pulled the ring out of his pocket & handed it to me, HA! He told me that he wanted to ask me on our walk but then when I said my hands were swollen he panicked thinking the ring wasn't going to fit. The drive & ice water were to help reduce the swelling of my hands so when he did ask the ring would go on, lol! He handed me the ring to put on myself in case my fingers were still to fat. It wasn't the most romantic proposal but it was the perfect proposal for us.

KariB509

It was a few days before Christmas. We were in college and were home for break. My H had just gotten back from a trip to San Fransisco with a friend. He said he had a gift for me. He was being weird so I had a suspicion he was going to propose. Anyway, he sat me down on the couch at his mom's, went back in the bedroom and came out with a wrapped gift. I thought OMG this is it! I took the box, unwrapped it and there was nothing there. For a split second I was super disappointed but when I look up from the empty box, he was on his knee.
That was waaaaaaay back in 2007! We got married July 31, 2009.

rachmckenna

January 2006. We were spending a Sunday together because they were the only days we had off together from work. He started taking me on a scavenger hunt to all of the important places we had been to when we were dating, or where important things happened. Some of the places were the movie theater, my job, the places I had my internships at, my apartment where we met. The last clue led us back to our apartment and he proposed there. Pretty creative

carrieandtim

Where to begin?

Would you all hate me if I started with how we met? I shoulda combined the two!

Short story: One of my best friends and one of his best friends are brother & sister. They technically put us together.

Long story: My best friend, after hearing my criteria for a man, told me I should meet her brother's best friend, Timmy. Since he lived in Denver, and I in Seattle, I brushed it off. I wouldn't be interested in long distance, nor moving. A couple weeks later, I was shopping for her bridal shower with her mom. We got on the topic of dating and she suggested I meet her son's best friend since the 4th grade, Timmy. I said not interested. Then another few weeks later at her wedding, I was sitting next to her brother's fiancé and she said I should meet Timmy, after discussing my man criteria. After the third person, I started wondering who this guy was. She called my best friend's brother over, explained my criteria and asked him who I should meet. Through his drunken stupor, he said, "Timmy!!!!"

I gave him my email address to give to Timmy. A couple days later, I got a Starbucks cup with this quote:

"I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word." -Augusten Burroughs

So I got Timmy's email address myself and emailed him "Hi!" on July 31, 2006. I remember thinking when I clicked send, "This is it!" We emailed back and forth for two weeks, then added phone calls. On October 13, since his best friend and then wife offered their free miles to Timmy to join them on a trip to Seattle, he came to meet me. What a great visit! From landing to take-off, it was 31 hours exactly. Did I mention our number is 31? If you add up all the letters in our first, middle, and last names, it equals 31. Same for the towns and states we lived in when we
met. See the date I emailed him?

In December I flew to Colorado to visit him and meet his family. In February of 2007, he flew to Seattle again to meet my family. In April, I flew to Colorado to go to a teaching fair since we had decided by then that I would move to Colorado that summer. (Just so happens my teaching certificate expired in WA that summer!) During this trip, we went ring shopping. Just because, right?

He surprised me at the beginning of May with a visit to Seattle for my birthday. Then at the end of May, I flew to CO to visit, but also run my first 10K. In July, he bought a one way ticket to Seattle to help me pack up my place into a U-Haul and go to the Oregon coast with my family before moving to CO.

Did I mention that in May, I booked our wedding venue? Yeah...wasn't even engaged yet. But wanted to get married on Saturday, May 31, 2008 since 31 is our number.

Anyway, on our last night in Oregon, July 31, a year to my first email, we packed up a dinner picnic and went to watch the sunset on the beach. He talked to me about how much I've changed his life in the past year and wanted to give me something to celebrate knowing each other for a year. He handed me a silver cup that had our quote, I mentioned above, engraved on with our names. Inside the cup was sand, rocks, and a shell. Inside the shell was a ring. He got on one knee, said more romantical things, and asked me to marry him!!!

It was beautiful. Just beautiful. So, on May 31, 2008, at 11:31 am, we got married!

carrieandtim

The next morning's sunrise.
We call this our "three rocks with the three rocks" picture!

KariB509

@carrieandtim‌, my H and I started dating on July 31, 2004 and were married that same day in 2009. 31 is a good number!

acdiaz11

A year after we started dating, MH planned a romantic dinner at a local restaurant for us to celebrate. We had decided to make gifts for each other instead of buying them to save money. Throughout dinner he kept asking me if I wanted to go to my favorite yogurt place a few doors down after dinner and I kept telling him no because my dinner came with dessert. He must have asked 5 or 6 times and I was getting pretty annoyed because I just wanted the flan that my dinner came with. After dinner he asked if I wanted to go for a walk and he led me to a courtyard nearby. Lucky for him there was a huge art sculpture in the courtyard that distracted me from seeing all of our family and friends sitting around the courtyard (!!!). He led me to a table and asked me if I knew why he took me here and I said that we had gone there before we started dating and gotten yogurt and talked (so that's why he was insisting on getting yogurt!!). He asked if I wanted my gift and told me to close my eyes. When I opened them he had placed a handmade jewelry box in front of me and asked me to open it. Inside was the most beautiful ring I had ever seen!!! And I still didn't notice that all of our family and friends were standing there!! He told me he couldn't wait any longer and asked if I would marry him. I of course said yes and when everyone started cheering finally noticed who all of the people surrounding the table were.

southerncharm24

I had told him numerous times he meant everything for to me for him to ask my dad permission and for my parents to be "there". They live about 8 hours away and are rarely included in life changing events due to distance.

We were on vacation with one of my brothers,his family and my parents.(this brother and I live in the same area,so we alway vacation together with my parents when they visit) I knew it was coming as we went to look at rings months prior and to be honest I always was on edge when my parents where around because I knew it was a possibility.

One evening my brother and SIL called for my to join him on the balcony too check out something and to make our plans for the night. No biggie. Meanwhile DH was inside with my parents, again no biggie. DH come out after a few and ask me if I'd go for a walk with him. At this point in our lives we were smokers so this was usually our code for smoke break. No problem, lets go! We make it down to the beach and get maybe two blocks away... DH says, I'm just going to do this... Drops to one knee in the sand and asked me to marry him. Duh, yes of course! As we walk back to the hotel, my family is out on the balcony cheering and celebrating. They all knew and while I was with my brother, DH was inside asking permission from my parents and getting himself ready. Very sweet!

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oceanangel0502

4th of July 2012 out on our boat. We were out on the boat for the day and were heading to the dock to drop our puppy off at my parents before we met up with friends on their boat to go watch fireworks. DH stopped the boat in the middle of the bay and said "I can't wait any longer" I looked at him like he was crazy, he got down on one knee and said "I love you more than you will ever know, will you marry me?" I looked at him with a year in my eye and just shook my head yes, I couldn't even talk!
He was trying to wait til we were watching fireworks but he said he was too excited too wait another 8 hours haha

theluckiest9

Ours is kind of lame too. At the time I was in my last year of college. He'd already graduated and was back home in Australia. We'd talked a lot about the future since we were doing the long distance thing. We decided we wanted to get married and started planning the wedding, got the immigration process going for me, etc. When I went to visit him over Christmas break he proposed (with a ring) at his parents' farm. We got married that summer and moved to Australia. Here we are almost 8yrs (married) later!

jfb29

Halloween 2010 in the gardens at Biltmore. We were on a weekend trip up the blue ridge parkway. I was mad bc it was taking him too long to propose (he had told me he would by the end of the previous summer and he kept dragging his feet). It was a simple proposal. The first location he chose to do it in the gardens didn't happen bc some guy literally sat down right next to us chomping away at some food so we started to walk back to the house and we sat down on a bench where he popped the question FINALLY!!!! We were married about 8 months later which was the best day of my life until Addie came along.

CruiseGirl28

He proposed on Christmas. He was planning on taking me for a walk to see Christmas lights that night. But he got too nervous, so had proposed in our living room before we went to my moms house.

He gave me the ring that my dad had given my mom!!

maganonymous

I hope I can condense mine...my DH did the best job EVER in proposing to me.

We were going to the Jason Aldean concert at the state fair that night with my best friend (Jason Aldean was my favorite artist at the time). We both had the day off work, so we decided to go just "looking" at rings that afternoon. We found one that we both really liked, so we bought it. He let me wear it out of the mall. About halfway to the fair, he asked for me to give the ring back because he wanted to do the proposal right. I was sad because I was so excited to show my friend, but I gave it back.

As soon as we get to the fair and meet my friend, DH takes off all on his own. My friend and I are like "well ok then...let's go find some cheese curds without him then!" lol. Just as we are about to buy our cheese curds, DH asks me to hurry over and meet him at the local newspaper booth. I thought it was weird, but we went over there. He then said 'follow me!" and we all hustled over to the local country radio station booth, where he waved the DJ over. The DJ said "so, you're a Jason Aldean fan huh? Do you want to meet him?" And I of course was like HELL YES! So he asked if I would dance on the counter of the booth to get the meet and greets...I figured that was a small price to pay...but I wanted my friend to do it with me because she wanted to meet him too. The DJ said that since my boyfriend asked that he was the one who had to dance with me. I was a little disappointed but said ok and he told us which song we were supposed to get up on the counter for (an upbeat song good for dancing).

Well, Jason Aldean's new song at the time was Big Green Tractor and when that came on, DH pushed me up on the counter. I was super disappointed because I was like "there is no way I am going to win these meet and greets dancing to a slow song!" and after a minute or so, the DJ cut the music and DH proposed to me in front of a big crowd! Then before the show (which we had 5th row tickets to!), the DJ personally introduced DH and I to Jason--he got to see my ring before my own mom! I was on cloud 9!

WoodShopGirl

Going to post then I will go back and read.

In Venice on a gondola ride.

He was taking pictures all day and continued to do so while we were on the gondola. I kept nagging him to stop worrying about getting the pictures and just enjoy the moment.

He was fiddling with what I thought was the camera in his jacket pocket and I was starting to get frustrated and yell at him. Then he pulled out the ring box and got down on one knee in the gondola. It was rocking back and forth quite a bit from him getting down on one knee.

I don't remember at all what he said!

Best damn boat ride of my life!

benevolentforce

I love all these stories. @theluckiest9‌ I didn't know you were in AUS too!

We had always said that marriage wasn't important to us, and didn't change our commitment. But, nearly 5 years in we changed our minds one day.

We had a loft apartment (we lived together basically from day 1), and I was upstairs in the office and he was downstairs in the living room. We were talking about life and death and family, and one thing led to another and we somehow agreed we were ready to get married. No ring, no fireworks, no champagne, but it was just right for us. Three months later we threw a huge new year's eve party, and were married at sunset. We still don't wear rings.