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GTKY - how did your S/O propose?
ladylolly89
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Totally stole this from September. I have no shame.
EDIT - I mean October! No shame AND no brain.
EDIT - I mean October! No shame AND no brain.
Re: GTKY - how did your S/O propose?
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.
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.
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.
Me: 34 DH: 35
Married: July 2009
BFP: November 2012 after 2 years of TTC DS born August 2013
Diagnosed with PCOS April 2016
3 months of trigger shot with timed intercourse BFN x3
First IUI: 9/17/16 BFP: 9/30/16 EDD: 6/11/17
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.
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!
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!
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...
Mom to Madison- 5 and Lillian 2....and now surprise baby #3!
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.
I think your and @awoodruff27 's stories are so romantic because of the "all in" nature of them both.
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
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
MC 4/15
BFP 10/10/16
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.
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.