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How did DH propose?
I am cleaning out the office to make room for baby *sigh* and have come across a lot of our wedding stuff...fun memories.
How did your DH propose?
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Re: How did DH propose?
It was his bday and he wanted to go to Zelda's pizza in dowtown Sac. We finished dinner, he opened up his gift from me. We used to have a conversation between us..
DH: You know what I want.
Me: What hon?
DH: You.
Me: You have me.
DH: No, I mean forever.
Me: Well, that is something you have to do. I can't handle that.
DH: I know.
Except that that night, instead of saying, "I know." he pulled out a ring and said, "Will you marry me?"
So I was proposed to in a pizza shop.
It was Christmas Eve, 2002. My mom was sick and in the hospital and we had my fathers family's Christmas party to go too.
DH and I had been dating over a year so I decided to take him with me. I drove to his place to pick him up and as usual he was running later, just getting into the shower when I got there.
He told me to sit at his desk and not move or touch anything, this is normal as he's kinda of anal about his stuff.
So he showered, came out wrapped in a lime green towel, and asked me to watch a video on his computer.
It was a slideshow of pictures of us from the last year with text about the past present and future. At the end of the show it asked me to turn around.
Well I did and there he was on one knee, still in the lime green towl, hold the box with my ring in it.
For once in my life I as actually speechless!
Top of the Eiffel Tower...
I told him that when we went to Paris it would be a perfect time for him to propose. He told me that if I didn't bug him about getting married til our trip he would. I put my "promise ring" in a baggy and a pic of the ring I wanted in a bag and gave it to him to turn in.
It was during his two weeks leave during his Iraq Deployment. We decided to take a quick trip to Vegas and he proposed while we were there, inside the Bellagio.
That's the uber short story. The cutest part though is that I'd shown him a ring in a magazine about 2 years earlier - and he remember and contacted the jeweler from Iraq and the pulled the ring mold out of the vault just for us. It was super sweet.
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He recreated our very first date from 6 years earlier. Dinner in SF... walk along the Pier... banana split at Giradelli Square... and proposal on a bench over looking the bay. Perfect!
Here is what DH sent out to announce & tell the story:
My very very dear friends,
As you know all,
young and small,
short and tall,
lazy or shopping the mall,
even while playing baseball,
and don't pass the ball,
and I still hope you still recall,
that I do love you all.
It has been a while since we communicated,
but as previously stated,
that no matter how long for mail anyone waited,
your presence is with me and is always celebrated.
So while I sit here and in my thought I drown
I always think of my home town.
I always miss being around my great friends that make me more happy than ever did any clown.
Anyway, let me get back to what I meant,
For there is a reason why this mail is going to be sent,
And it's not because I want to vent,
But it is more because I love you all 100 percent.
And while like to tell you what I have to present
And it was an experience that I underwent
And I wouldn't anyone else to tell you and misrepresent
Or to pour it down like cement
It was few weeks ago north of the bay,
When I woke up and decided to get away,
So my girl friend and I packed the car like we're going to Bombay,
And lots of stuff that easily causes tooth decay
And I decided not to wear my toupee
Are you still with me jose?
I know this sounds like an essay,
But I will try to make it short anyway,
So as not to cause further delay,
We drove around and spent quite a good day,
And as we headed back I had to convey,
So we stopped on the side of the slow-way,
It was sure no hi-way,
it was a day with an overcast just like today,
and I was in no Chevrolet,
which is a crappy car that is made in the USA
as we left the car behind and walked astray,
as we sat down watching the bay
There was a break in the clouds and we both got one sun ray,
It warmed us up more than the bon fires of the KKK
It was windy so I told my gf to close her eyes and pretend to ride the flying sleigh
As she did I pulled out a box and asked her to give me a yay, or a nay,
She said yay, and that makes her my fianc?.
And that is all my lovely friends, as contrary to what might appears I do love you all very very muchWhenever I would look at jewelry ads, I would always say "ooohhh diamonds".
On Christmas morning, we were getting ready to go to my parents house (we were living together at the time). I was in the living room watching A Christmas Story waiting for him. He came out of our bedroom, held up a ring box and said "ooohhh diamonds". Then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I have no idea what he actually said because I was crying too hard!
This was one amazing night we shared. We will always treasure it.
After spending christams in toronto with the il's we took a 6 hour train to Montreal Quebec, where we spent a few days exploring, eating drinking before new years eve. It was snowing and about 30 below at night but montreal is such a beautiful and romantic city we didn't even notice. DH planned a whole new years eve dinner in old montreal. We had an amazing dinner, and there happened to be an outdoor festival outside. Since it was super cold, we decided to hang out at a bar until new years and then go out and enjoy the fire works. At midnight we ran outside by the river in the snow, with the fire works, dh got down on one knee in the snow and said marry me.
He put the ring inside of a little trinket box in my Christmas stocking. It was also full of candy. I dumped the stocking out on Christmas morning to find that a bunch of ants got there before me and all but threw away the little trinket box. He kept saying, "but babe, look at that.....babe, just look at that.....babe, just open it."
I opened the box and about fell over.
And then we got the ant spray out. Ahh, romance.
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In a hotel room.
I was 17 and had moved to southern California. I was up in San Jose for Thanksgiving weekend. The day before I was set to go back home to San Diego, he popped the question.
I answered him with a kiss and he thought I was gently telling him no. Ack! I had to chase him out of the room. LOL!!! Not so romantic I guess.
Side story: When we decided to renew our vows, both DH and Josh proposed to me again. I had come home from a long day at work, dinner was ready on the table. I sat down and JOsh would not stop fidgeting. He finally asked, "Dad can I go get it?!" Ok, he really yelled.
DH said yes, Josh bolted to the back of the house and retrieved a beautiful tiny box. And my son on bended knee, asked if I would marry his daddy again.
in his mom's kitchen , drunk , after a blow out at a party.
but hey he had a ring!
We were in NZ at Slope Point, the southern-most tip of the south island. There is one of those crossroads signs there that says xxxx km to Auckland, xxx to South Pole, etc. It was off the highway, miles down a teeny road, then a decent hike across some farmers' fields to get to the actual point. So we had a conversation something like this.
Me: wow, its beautiful, and to think that we are as far south as we will probably ever be on Earth.
DH: yeah, I wonder how many people come out here.
Me: probably not too many
DH: yeah, I wonder how many people get proposed to out here?
Me: what? That's a weird thing to say.
Then he made me turn around and see him behind me on one knee. We had been traveling together out of one suitcase for almost 2 months at this point and I'd never found the ring. Unbelievable!
Also at the Dog Park! We went for a picnic with the dogs, and DH laid everything out on the table - wine, cheese, sandwiches. It was an absolutely incredible day.
Then he stood up in front of me and just stood there...and stood there... kinda shifting his weight from one foot to the other...I suddenly thought, "Oh my god, he's going to break up with me! I can't believe he brought me back to the place where we met to DUMP me!"
Then he got down on one knee, said I have no idea what, and proposed. I said yes, he slipped the ring on my finger, and then gave me a big hug before I could even see the ring.
The dogs went totally crazy - they must have known something was up.
We had just bought our first house a month before and I was in the process of repainting the salmon pink family room to a more desirable color. I was yelling at him about not helping me and the least he could do was go grab another can of paint in the garage so I could keep working and not have to stop and get off the scaffolding. I popped the can open and dangling from the lid was my ring. He said that now that he had finally fulfilled all of my "requirements" (finishing school and buying our house) there was no time like the present to officially propose.
At my 25th birthday party, on a Hornblower yacht brunch cruise in SF Bay, in front of all my friends and family (we had about 40 people on the boat!).
It was awesome, I have it on video and Chris hates that. TOTALLY not his style, but it's exactly what I wanted, so I figured if he loved me enough to do it that way I should go ahead and marry him.
It was the best decision I ever made, even if he is sometimes a dumbass and leaves me with no milk.
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DH technically proposed twice.
First time.. We were cleaning out the closet and he walked over to me and said.. I can't imagine my life without you, will you marry me? I said "of course silly" and kissed him. About a minute later I turned around and said.. OMG... We're engaged! It was a funny but very memorable moment.
Second time.. DH took me to Wente Vineyards one night and sat me down on the benches, pulled out a ring and asked me to "officially" marry him.
Valntines Day 2004, with an Eeyore stuffed animal. Inside a "Luv Notes" envelope that the Eeyore was holding it had a note that said"
To Susan:
Will You?
I looked and him and said "Will I, Will I what?" and as I turned my head to say that too him he was on his knee with ring in hand and said "Will you marry me?"
I had just worked a shift at REI. It was the Saturday before Christmas. I bought him slippers and didn't want him to see. I was flying out the next morning to go spend Christmas with my parents...
I told him that I was on my way home and he had to hide in the Kitchen so I could bring his gift in to wrap it. I didn't want him to see the REI bag (um, duh Janessa) as I thought he would know what it was. He started to bicker (this is over the phone) saying "Why can't you just leave it in the car?" I told him I couldn't as my trunk leaks and it would get funky (sad, but true).
I got to the apartment, opened the door and it was sparkling clean (not the way I left it!) and was only lit by the Christmas tree and 2 candles on the coffee table with glasses of champange between them. I walked in, said "Oh, Honey! it's beautiful... but hang on, I gotta pee!" I went to the bathroom, hid the gift and came out and said "What's all this for?" He told me he wanted to congratulate me on graduating (oh, I had just graduated from SFSU the day before... or, taken the last final) and ask you if you would marry me?
I love that I ruined the most perfect proposal with a "pee break!"
We had planned a bike ride around San Ramon one weekend. I was being bratty because DH had been out every weekend and most weeknights on bike rides without me so I made him take me around. He wanted to go to Mt. Diablo and go for a hike, but I didn't want to. On our trek, I had an asthma attack. Nice, huh? We made our way back to our apartment and stopped again for the hundredth time at a fountain and he asked me, "Do you still love me?" I answered, "Of course, I do." Him: "Love me enough to be my wife?" And presented a ring--I think I said OMG more than yes. I couldn't stop screaming, laughing and crying all at once. *sigh* We talk about it often whenever we see pro photos being taken at the fountains...we hope to do that soon.
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