GTKY - how did your S/O propose?

ladylolly89 · April 2017

Totally stole this from September. I have no shame.
EDIT - I mean October! No shame AND no brain.

ellie111227 · April 2017

My h and I are both pretty minimalistic as far as big speeches and stuff like that go. Example: whenever we announce a pregnancy, we just drop it into a casual conversation. It's a little weird, but it's kind of just both of our personalities. Anyway....

The first Christmas we were together (we only dated about 8 months), we did Christmas stockings for each other at his apartment. He bought a little box made out of cinnamon wood from a fair trade place and attached my engagement ring to the inside of the lid. He put it in the very bottom of my stocking. When I took it out, I said, "There's a ring in here!" and he said, "Sooo, do you want to get married?" That was it.

Sometimes we like to talk/joke about who got the other one better gifts for an occasion, and he always likes to remind me that he won our first Christmas.

meilay · April 2017

It was at a New Year's Day brunch and it took me 100% by surprise. We had actually just had a drunken fight the night before about how he was taking too long to propose (we had been together 6 years at that point) and had generally just not been in a great space because of the tension around not taking the next step. Apparently he had bought the ring months before, talked to my mom, made a plan with his friends and everything and I was still in the dark. He organized the brunch under the guise of saying goodbye to our close friends on the last day of our trip to visit them and then started making a speech thanking all of them for being in our lives. He then turned to me and started making a similar speech and the next thing I knew he had said something about marriage and pulled out a ring! He never got down on one knee or said "will you marry me?" so I was lost for a moment until someone whispered "this is where you say yes" and I snapped back to reality and accepted the ring. I was a hot hungover mess but I wouldn't change our story for anything.

ladylolly89 · April 2017

DH and I had been dating about 5 1/2 months when he proposed. We went on a trip to the Black Hills to visit his grandma over 4th of July weekend 2014.
I knew he had the ring already and was sure he'd propose on this trip (I even got a manicure!).
I just wasn't sure when! I thought it would be cool if he proposed on the 4th of July because we had met on the 4th of July 4 years previously, but also knew he didn't like to be cliche.
No proposal on the 4th, but on the 5th we made plans to go into a cute touristy town about 30 minutes from his grandma's. We spent the entire morning wandering around. Still no proposal. We went back to his grandma's and he decided he wanted to take a nap. Well I was not having it at that point; I basically said that I wasn't tired and I wanted to go for a walk! So we did, and about 1/4 mile in DH suddenly hands me all of his stuff (Gatorade, sunglasses, hiking stick) and kneels down, pulls the box out of his pocket, and asks. Keep in mind, I'm standing there with my hands full of both his and my things, plus I still have sunglasses on my face! So I blurt out "you dummy! I'm holding all of your stuff!" After we got everything put down, he had to re-ask. I'm a jerk. But I did say yes.

kahlan82 · April 2017

DH knows that Prince Edward Island, Canada is a very special place to me because of my vacations there growing up. My parents had a summer home there (now permanent) and we decided to go up for a two weeks couple vacation. The first day there we toured part of the island, went to an Irish Ceilidh, and then went back to have a fire in the front yard. Nights are chilly even in the summer, so I was wearing a pair of my dad's old paint covered sweatpants, the horrible kind that cinch at the bottom, no makeup, and bug spray.
DH turned to me and I got this flash, "Holy crap, he is going to propose." It had been such a perfect day and after almost 3 years I was ready. Instead he said, "i have to go to the bathroom." I was trying not to cry and ruin the day because just a month earlier he told me he wasn't going to ready for awhile for marriage when he came out from the house and dropped to one knee.
I love that I was looking less than pretty but all he wanted was to propose and to him I looked beautiful.

shmarpler · April 2017

On my birthday, DH took me on the same hike where we'd first hung out. When we reached the top, we took a break, and he offered to share his trail mix with me. When I looked down the m&m's in the mix said "Will you marry me?" He then pulled a ring out of his backpack, and asked again. I'm pretty sure I said yes at least 3 times.

zseirecarg · April 2017

DH was living in CT and I was living in Maine at the time. He was coming up for the weekend to visit. I had just got back from a work trip to PA where I bought him a t-shirt. When he got to my apartment ridiculously late, I was excited to give him the t-shirt and said "I got you something!" after I gave him the shirt, he said "I got you something too, close your eyes" and when I opened them he was down on one knee

I couldn't believe it - was totally surprised.

sejica · April 2017

I freaked DH out because as he dropped to one knee I got this look of concern, which he was totally not expecting, since we had dated for 6 years, and he thought it was pretty obvious he was going to propose seeing as how we were in front of a remote waterfall in Ylapa Mexico. The thing is, he had broken his foot a day earlier, and I was worried dropping to his knee would be incredibly painful. He just had a moment of panic as to how he had gotten to this point and I was not reacting like he expected. We laugh about it now though. The other half of the joke is that I was going to keep breaking appendages every day until he proposed - he broke his foot the 2nd day of our vacation, proposed on the 3rd, so I guess it worked

BellaO21 · April 2017

DH and I had been dating for almost 3 years, and living together for pretty close to the entirety of our relationship. My parents, brother, and sister were in town for Easter and we had decided to take them to check out the Opryland Hotel. For anyone who hasn't been there before, there are tons of shops, a river where you can take a boat ride, waterfalls and a whole bunch of restaurants inside among other things. He was rushing me all morning, and somehow managed to piss me off on the way there (from another car)... I don't remember what exactly I was mad about but I know it had something to do with his driving lol. Anyhow, we were walking around the hotel- had lunch with my parents and walked over near the waterfalls. My brother and parents stopped to take photos and DH walked away while I wasn't paying attention. He had walked over to a somewhat more secluded area of the waterfall, when I found him I was mad that he was being "antisocial" and sat down next to him to find out why. Next thing I know he's down on one knee in front of me. I kept saying to him "shut up, stop, get up, what are you doing?! Oh my God" (side note: I get really uncomfortable in ANY type of emotional situation) I GOT UP AND WALKED AWAY!!! I didn't even answer him.. I had to be reminded to give him an answer, of course I said yes and he put the ring on my finger- we still joke about the proposal to this day. My whole family was behind it too- apparently he asked for my dads "permission" when they got into town earlier that week.

doodleoodle · April 2017

DH and I had been dating a little over a year. It was New Years Eve and he took me to the same place where we had our first date, which was a riverfront area with cute little restaurants and shops. We ate at the same restaurant and walked around even though it was freezing outside. When the clock struck midnight a fireworks display began over the river. DH then dropped onto one knee and asked me to marry him. So cliche, but so sweet.

Knottie42089123 · April 2017

Oh lawd, we took a last minute trip to Puerto Rico. On the third day we went hiking in the rainforest and had climbed down to see a waterfall. It was not an easy route and one of us could have easily gotten hurt. Once down there he placed his phone against a rock so we could take a picture. In the flash of a second he keeled over with a leg injury, I'm freaking out because we have no cell signal and he would need to be airlifted out of where we were, there's no way I would be able to carry him out of there. Well this mother effer was faking it and pulled out a ring. The phone captured everything on video. I was so confused by everything. Afterward I asked if my parents knew and he said no >:-(

Kylieslip24 · April 2017

So I had just gotten a kitten, first one ever and I did not know what I was doing. He wanted me to come hang out with his friends and I was nervous to leave the kitten because I had a feeling he wasn't acting right. He convinced me and I went and spent a few hours with him and his friends, we ended up having a big fight, I walked out on him and when I got home I found the kitten dead. I called him freaking out, mad at him for taking me away from the kitten and so guilty I let him die. He drove over right away and buried him and held me all night while I cried. The next day we had a talk and decided we should get married. Lol we had only known each other for 6 months at this point, so yes we were young and crazy. That day we went and picked out my ring and called to tell our parents. The next weekend he went to pick up the ring and drove me to his favorite spot up in the hills behind his parents house, he did his speech, I said yes, and then we went back to his parents house where our families were waiting to celebrate.
He kind of regrets that he didn't surprise me, but I don't mind, we do everything weird. Lol

Oh and I found out later that all the kittens in that litter died. They had fleas really bad and I think they were anemic.

mtvkv5 · April 2017

We were in Vegas for vacation and we went out to dinner at the restaurant at the top of the Palms hotel, with a great view. I ordered the chocolate soufflé for dessert and it came out under one of those silver domes, or so I thought. They lifted the dome and it was the ring with "Will you marry me?" written in chocolate. He got on one knee, I said yes, and everyone clapped. I guess I am predictable because he had called ahead knowing I would order the soufflé and to have them bring the ring instead! I did get my soufflé too!

swanbrooner · April 2017

DH and I were friends before we got together. He moved across the country in 2010 and "accidentally" took a record I let him borrow with him. It was one of very few Queen records he didn't own, Queen Live Killers to be exact.

He moved back in 2011, and we were shocked to find ourselves accidentally sort of dating. It just hit us that there was really something there! We knew within a vey short time that this was it for us. Flash forward a couple of years- I've graduated from college, we are living together, and I'm close to finishing up my first year of teaching.

It was a Friday night (April 26th!), and DH said something about having a date night. This was pretty normal, so I wasn't suspecting anything. We went to one of our favorite restaurants, had fantastic conversation, and I had toooo many cocktails. He started to get nervous at this point because he had made up his mind to propose that night, and I was getting sloshed.

He stalls. We stroll downtown. We kiss under the sign of the bar we met at when we were just friends, which also happens to be where I saw him first when he moved back. He takes me to my favorite little ice cream place. He's slowly sobering me up.

On the way home, I make plans for us to hang out with our friends who are a couple. I'm messing up his plans inadvertently again. He agrees, but wants to go home first. I think this idea is pointless and get annoyed.

When we get home, he goes off to the bedroom. I'm on the couch, still slightly buzzed and annoyed.

He comes out with a record. The record that he "borrowed". I'd forgotten all about it. He starts saying something along the lines of that he had to come clean about stealing my record and he'd been thinking of a way that he wouldn't ever have to get rid of it. I'm super confused.

Then, he kneels, and I see a ring in the record sleeve. I'm shocked. He is just staring at me, so sweet with teary eyes and this grin.

It feels like 5 minutes pass. He doesn't "ask". I prompt him to ask. I say, "Duh."

Then, he tells me how I kept throwing wrenches in his plan all night!

silliegirlie143 · April 2017

SO many great stories!!!

We had purchased my ring from the jewelry store where my sister worked so I knew he had the ring and it was only a matter of time until he proposed. Christmas was a week away and we were going home for the holidays so I figured he would ask me during our trip.

The day before we left he woke me up, kneeling by my side of the bed and asked me to marry him. He said he was originally going to ask when we went back home, but he didn't know if the families would give us any time alone. He wanted our proposal to just be us... and he didn't want to wait a single day longer before asking me to spend forever with him.

Of course I said yes! And then I told him he should have at least let me wake up and brush my teeth before asking me! Hahaha

huskermom14 · April 2017

DH and I were 20 and 19 when we got engaged and had been together for a year and a half (we started dating our senior year of high school).

He had told my roommates what he was going to do so they could help me get ready, but just told me we were going out for a date night. So I got ready and my one roommate was like "no, you can't wear that" and made me put on a dress. It raised a red flag and I remember thinking no way is he gonna propose tonight, right?!

Then he comes and picks me up and he's all dressed up as well. He took me to Omaha to a French Cafe in the Old Market and I kept bracing myself for it and he kept not proposing. By the time we left the restaurant I was convinced that he wasnt actually going to propose and he just had wanted to do a special date night.

We went on a walk around the park in the Old Market and I asked if he'd take a picture with me since we were dressed up so nicely. So he took my camera to these girls and apparently told them what he was going to do, so as they were taking pictures, he turned and gave me a hug, and then grabbed my hands and I could feel the ring box. I immediately was like "Oh my gosh" and he goes "got it figured out yet?" Then he proceeded to ask if he had to get down on one knee and I told him yes and then he asked me. I love that we have it all in pictures.

Turns out he had been down to ask my dad's permission the week before and ended up staying the night at my house because my dad coached little league at the time and had a bad loss the night he went down and was in such a bad mood my mom told DH it may not be the best time to ask. So instead he asked my dad at 6 the next morning, haha!

awoodruff27 · April 2017

Okay so I will start this off that my husband is not a big romantic gesture guy. He is small things everyday guy.

We had only been "dating" for about 3 days technically. We dated on and off for 2 years, broke up for a year, both dated other people then got back "together". We wanted to date but he was deploying to Iraq in 10 days.

So we were cuddling on my parents couch watching Cast Away talking about what we were going to do. Me wait for him? He was stationed in Hawaii so do I move myself there when he gets back? Do we just see how it goes while he is gone. He goes "why don't we just get married?". I was all "are you serious?!" He said "yeah if we get married the army will move you to where I am" Me "is this your idea of a proposal?" Him"yep". It was a spur of the moment thing so he didn't have a ring. I got that 2 days later on my birthday. He handed it to me as he went into the grocery store to buy me beer, I was only 20.

He left a couple days later, we got married 36 hours after he got back from Iraq. That was 9.5 years ago...

Stankonia2014 · April 2017

DH and I met in the Army in August 2005. We had hung out a few times and gone on a few dates. The night of my birthday (Sept. 2005), we were watching a movie or maybe even the super romantic Chappelle Show, I can't recall, but he just said 'we should get married!' So the next day, we got married at Judge Tribble's House of Love in Hopkinsville, KY. We had literally only known each other for three weeks. We were also deployed to Iraq a week later and spent our first year of marriage in a war zone.

If you know me you know that now that this is totally out of character for me. I don't make hasty decisions, I stew and stew on them. This was the best decision I had ever made. We've been married for almost 12 years now.

swanbrooner · April 2017

@Stankonia2014 I'm fairly close to Hopkinsville even though I'm in Indiana.

I think your and @awoodruff27 's stories are so romantic because of the "all in" nature of them both.

CapricaAndrea · April 2017

My proposal needs a little backstory: I was friends from college with DH's sister, and we were both at her birthday party years after school ended. DH and his brother were bored at one point and were throwing little balls of paper at each other across a pub table, and an errant one hit me instead at the next table over, which involved me, led to us talking, and pretty much immediately dating after that.

Less than a year later he and I moved into an apartment together, and our first night there, he was dead set on making dinner and having champagne. I assumed it was just because we had had some difficulties in actually getting moved in, troubles with his previous landlord, and a bunch of delays before we were actually able to spend our first night there and that he just really wanted to celebrate it finally happening.

Just before dinner we started unpacking, and for some reason he started with my box of fragile/collectible things. He playfully started throwing balls of newspaper at me as they became empty, until one hit me that still had something small in it. I instantly got a bit mad and told him to be more careful with my things, only to open it and be completely confused by the fact that it held a ring I didn't recognize. I looked up to find him on one knee and I'm pretty sure my first reaction was "seriously?!" before actually saying yes.

The funniest part that I like telling people is that just that morning we had a conversation where I was playfully teasing him about how I could hold out on getting engaged longer than he could!

And to keep up with our paper-throwing story, when we got married I crumpled my vows at the end of reading them and threw them at him

LMMama · April 2017

Mine is nothing crazy. I had taken the day off to go to my DD's Halloween party/parade at her school. My DF said he was going to take off as well and that we should go get our Halloween pumpkins after it. I thought it was weird that he wanted to take off in the middle of the week to pick pumpkins but whatever. We had been arguing lately and I thought he was just trying to be nicer to me.

I was actually annoyed because he was on his phone a lot at my DD's school and later found out he was trying to track down his brother to take our picture during the proposal. We went out on the pumpkin hayride and when we got out into the field with my DD he proposed. Nothing over the top- great pictures though! His brother had to take the hayride out with a pre school class and was sitting in the field waiting for us for like an hour- very creepy.

danij0 · April 2017

DH and I met in 5th grade. We "dated" off and on in middle school, but started really dating senior year of high school. We went to the same college (OU Oh Yeah!) together. The summer after junior year of college DH got a great internship in Houston, TX. I decided to go with him for the summer. We had been together for 3.5 years at this point and I already knew he had the ring (its reset from his grandma's and I believe he had it done during spring break that year and kept it hidden). A couple weeks after being there he asked me to make a reservation for a nice restaurant for a date night. The day of the date he asked me to go buy us a bottle of wine. I was about 90% sure what was going on. While I was out of the apartment he got home from work. When I walked in there was a path of lit candles, about 40 photos of us throughout the years and flower pedals leading to our room. When I opened the door he was on one knee, made a speech and I said yes! Then we called family, had wine and went to dinner at The Melting Pot. It's actually really nice having a very special memory in our first apartment together that we will probably never return to.

meg2704 · April 2017

Love these stories!

My husband and I had been dating for three years. I was at home taking a nap and he came over to cook dinner for our anniversary and do laundry, since I had a washer and dryer in my house and at his apartment he had to pay. So he comes in with two bags of groceries and his laundry hamper. I'm waking up on the couch and kind of cranky (don't like being woken up, ever!) and he yells from the laundry room that he needs help. I roll my eyes and walk over there to help this grown man do his laundry, and he was on one knee with flowers in one hand and a ring box in the other! And champagne underneath his dirty clothes.

So we got engaged in my kitchen/laundry room. After we called everyone he made dinner and we drank champagne and it was great!

kcrocetto27 · April 2017

DH and I met at quizzo (pub trivia), we were on rival teams and his was the best team in Philly. Soon enough, we were dating and I was playing with that team, we even travel for tournaments. After 3 years of dating, he proposed to me on stage at the big annual quizzo event here in Philly in front of a crowd of 300 or so trivia nerds. There was a whole comedic set up for it where I won in a raffle to "play for a prize" on stage, our friend is a comedian and he gave me all the worst clues and I kept getting the questions wrong until he asked a question where the answer was "Yes" and DH was on his knee, it was hilarious and great. If you look up "the proposal nerd 'round the world", it's on YouTube.

mombod · April 2017

DH and I did a road trip to Virginia Beach for a vacation. I was sleeping and when I woke up we were in Williamsburg and he had rented out a private cottage for us to stay in. He said he wanted to show me around and go for a nice dinner. We went for a walk and it started to rain. He took me to the english gardens behind the Governor's Mansion. He asked me to hold the umbrella and got down on one knee and opened the ring box. He had a speech which I cant totally remember bc I was so happy. After we went to dinner and they had champagne waiting for us. It was so perfect and we had our whole vacation ahead of us to celebrate. Wr got married about a year later and will have been married 5 years in September.

CapricaAndrea · April 2017

kcrocetto27 said:

DH and I met at quizzo (pub trivia), we were on rival teams and his was the best team in Philly. Soon enough, we were dating and I was playing with that team, we even travel for tournaments. After 3 years of dating, he proposed to me on stage at the big annual quizzo event here in Philly in front of a crowd of 300 or so trivia nerds. There was a whole comedic set up for it where I won in a raffle to "play for a prize" on stage, our friend is a comedian and he gave me all the worst clues and I kept getting the questions wrong until he asked a question where the answer was "Yes" and DH was on his knee, it was hilarious and great. If you look up "the proposal nerd 'round the world", it's on YouTube.

OMG the video is adorable, that's so awesome!

kcrocetto27 · April 2017

@CapricaAndrea haha, thank you! We are nerdy and in love.

krex-2 · April 2017

DH and I actually met through an online dating app (Match). I winked at him because I liked his sense of adventure and how close with family he seemed. We went on our first day 5 days later, and he proposed 4 months after that.

Proposal story: I wanted to take some photos to frame and hang in my apartment so he suggested a garden in the town we live in. I'd never been before but it sounded good. We went early in a Saturday morning and actually saw a couple having wedding photos done there.

After taking photos, I tried to leave so we didn't get in the photographer's way, but he asked if we could sit down for a few. I didn't have a clue what was going on...he handed me a letter he'd written to me, talking about how much he loved me. I read it and he was like "you're done already?!" (I'm a fast reader). He told me to turn it over and read the back...he'd written out our engagement announcement that we would later put in the newspaper. When I looked up he was on one knee, asking me to marry him. I legit asked him a few times if he was serious, because it wasn't a funny joke. We'll have been married 9 years in May!

lovesclimbing · April 2017

He broke every rule in the book. You know, that Pinterest "rules of how to ask me to marry you" list? We'd been hiking, so I was sweaty and certainly no manicure. He forgot to get down on one knee. He didn't use my full name. No photographer there.

It was on top of a hill as the sun was setting, and he waited until other people had left and just asked. Very simple but amazing.

lizerspitz · May 2017

We'd been talking about marriage for a while (we started out a close friends so marriage was an easy conversation for us). I had been expecting him to propose for a month or so because I knew he had spoken with my parents.

He was waiting for good weather.

We went canoeing on a nice day in October. I think from his perspective, the day was doomed because before I got into the canoe, my foot slipped into the water and I got my pants wet. He had some exercise pants in the car I could change into, and he blocked the window of the car while I changed.

We canoed out into a little boulder in the middle of the water and got out, as we had done before. He proposed by asking me to be his wife while kneeling. We hung out on the boulder for a little while before getting back into the canoe.

On our wedding invitations, my DH drew a silhouette of us on the boulder. We have a professional photograph of the bridge and boathouse we passed when we went out to the boulder that reminds me of our trips out on the river, and especially our engagement.

berg · May 2017

These stories are all so great!

DH and I grew up in NJ but love the Red Sox. We would head up to Boston to catch a game at Fenway for a long weekend every year. I was convinced that when we went up this time he would propose. Two days before we left we were talking and he said something that made me think it wasn't going to happen then. I was super bummed. I watched him pack the last of his things and put it in my car. He never checked his list twice or re-opened his bag. That convinced me it wasn't happening. He didn't seem nervous at all. I joked on the way up that I would totally know when he was going to propose because he is the worst at keeping secrets from he. We got up there late at night since there was so much traffic. I had booked the hotel myself months before and when we got to our room found out we had been upgraded to a suite. I said omg I'm the best hotel booker ever, we got upgraded and I paid like nothing for it! I am amazing! I walked in before him and saw the bed covered in daisies (my fav). I dropped all my bags and just stood there staring at it. I kept saying, "So I think they put us in the wrong room" over and over again. Finally it hit me, this was happening. This was IT. I turned around and he was on one knee and he said the most wonderful things and I cried and said yes. Later he told me, he was kneeling for so long he had to lean on the coffee table while I processed it all. We went to the bar next store and celebrated. We called our parents that night, but waited another day to tell everyone else. It was so nice to have the time to ourselves. To be noted that this is the one and only time in 12 years that he has every been able to pull one past me.

Our wedding anniversary was last week. But we're going to Boston this weekend to celebrate one last time before we're a family of three.

JennMof3 · May 2017

I loved reading all of these stories!

My hubby and I met in high school. I was 15 and he was 16 when we started dating. For my 19th birthday he picked me up from our apartment in a Limo. While we were driving he got down on one knee and proposed. The princess cut diamond was in a wooden box with blue silk.

We then continued on to our dinner destination the Olive Garden. When we arrived my family, his family and our grandparents were all seated in the restaurant. It was a complete surprise and a wonderful night.

Mistiemorning · May 2017

It was September 28, 2014. We had been dating for over 3 years by then. We went for our annual hike which is very scenic and climbs upwards pretty high. Its a tough one. We stopped to rest where the view was beautiful and he asked if I was happy with the way things are between us and I said yes. He said he wasn't quite happy and that he'd be happier if we got married (he took his grandmother's ring out at that moment). I of course agreed. I was elated. I had maybe suspected it that day because he said he had a couple surprises for me but I honestly didn't think he was ready to propose so all in all I was pretty surprised!! We got married October 31st 2015.

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