H and I were on vacation with his family in Gatlinburg, TN (where we had developed crushes on each other during a college trip 2 years prior). He asked me if I wanted to go on a date with just the 2 of us on our last night there. I was thrilled to just get out of the cabin because, well, too much family time.
Side note: for Valentine’s Day that year, I had made H a book of “coupons” for stuff like making him a batch of cookies, cleaning his room, etc. and I left the last one blank for him to fill out.
He said he wanted to go to the Space Needle downtown to watch the sunset then go to dinner afterwards. When we got to the Space Needle, we were the only people up there for 20 minutes or so. I heard some people get off the elevator, and said, “Look, there’s other people here now.” H immediately kind of freaked out and turned my head towards him. He said, “Remember this?” and handed me a notecard. It was the coupon. It said “Will you marry me?” I looked up, and he was on one knee with the ring.
The reason for his freak out when some people got off the elevator is that it was his parents; they had come up and taken pictures of the whole thing. He didn’t want me to see them.
We had fun telling the rest of his family when we got back that night. H’s aunt is a nurse, so he called her when we were on our way back and said that I had tripped on some stairs and hurt my wrist. When we got out of the car, I was holding my arm; H’s aunt came over to get a closer look, and I revealed the ring.
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Mine was not romantic or sweet or super memorable. It was a discussion for like a year or two ahead of time, then he took me to the store with him to buy a ring... As soon as he'd paid for it, he turned to me and said, "Here, you should hold onto this."
And ta-da, that was that. He made up for it at the ceremony, though. We had an outdoor wedding and forgot about music for walking up the "aisle", so he sang and got the guests singing, lol.
I found my ring in his sock drawer, and I went out to the living room like "uhhh, I think I just found something..." He got really excited and proposed in our bedroom. It was very sweet. The nice part of the surprise was that he had already booked the church for our wedding because he knew I would be stressed if everyone kept asking me for a date.
He had originally planned to propose a few days earlier when we went to a Christmas tree farm, but it turned out to be a rainy day and our car got stuck in the mud, and it just wasn't the romantic picture that he had in mind.
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We also talked about it before hand. We had only been dating a few months and were both active duty military at the time. He had left AD and gone on to a civilian job in Chicago, my plan was to follow when my time was up. He called me while I was in Georgia and said he got deployment orders (he still had a requirement in the national guard) and gave me a potential timeline and we talked about where things were headed/how we'd handle it. He told me he had planned on proposing on my birthday a few months later and wanted a year long engagement anyway. Ultimately we decided it would be better to just get hitched (mostly for legal reasons b/c the military at the time was a pain in the balls).
He came down to visit me in Georgia a few weeks later and I knew he was going to do it at some point. In GA they only do courthouse weddings on Fridays and we had already called to make sure we could do it that Friday (I was on a 4 day pass). We went to dinner at the Crab Shack on Tybee Island, where we had our first date and went and walked along the pier. He got down on one knee at the pier, he was so nervous he almost put the ring on the wrong hand. lol After that we went and applied for our marriage license b/c there was a 24 hour minimum wait to get married. It ended up being a giant cluster and thank goodness I was also born in Savannah b/c we ended up having to go get a copy of my birth certificate b/c my MNs on my ID card don't match my social security card. Anyway, we got engaged on a Wednesday and married that Friday, we went to Hooters after with a bunch of our Army buddies. We did a big welcome home from deployment/vow renewal for our friends and family when he came home about a year later.
Our anniversary is at the end of this month and we hit 10 years.
@kns1988@ladystout08 Men have way more self control... I swear to god. They plan it all out and are like, "Oh, I'll propose in 3 months..." I'd be like, " Going to the store... Drive straight to hubby and give him gift immediately." I'm surprising hubby with NASCAR tickets for next season, but I want so badly to just blurt it all out to him! How do they maintain this secret for so long...
On our one year anniversary of dating I went over to DH's apartment after work and he had music playing and a card attached to the door with instructions to look at all the stations he had set up. He had a picture and memory and favorite quote (text/email/facebook message) at each station. I read each of them and then at the end I was to knock on his bedroom door and he came out and proposed. It was perfect! He put so much time and thought into the engagement. We got married 6 months later and are celebrating 5 years of marriage on 9/22!
we both love penguins and penguin related stuff, so DH proposed on International Penguin Day with a stuffed penguin with the ring sewed to its hand (super cute that he sewed it) That was the end of April, we were married at the begining of September, and just celebrated our 1 year anniversary!
We were halfway through our senior year in college and it was just before fall finals. We had been dating for about a year and a half and went on a repeat of our first date. We went to dinner and then ice skating. After ice skating we went to Starbucks where he almost proposed because it was raining (he told me this after the fact). He didn’t so we drove back to the town where we went to college and drove up to “our spot” that overlooked the entire San Gabriel Valley. The rain had stopped and there was a neat mist/fog hanging over the foothills and valley. He got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. We got married the following September and we will be married 11 years!
We had talked about getting engaged a lot, and I had helped DH look at rings because he really wanted to make sure I loved the ring. So I knew it was coming soon-ish, and had an idea of when it might be.
We were on vacation in Maine, where my family has gone every summer for my entire life. We own a small cabin up there and my DH had been with us a few summers before this trip. He knows its one of my favorite places on earth, so I had a feeling it might happen there. We had gone skeet shooting at LL Bean in the morning, and then drove up to our camp with my parents and sister and her husband. When we got there my DH asked my cousin (who is really into photography and videography) to come take a picture of us for his Facebook profile picture, which tipped me off. I asked if I should change my outfit (it wasn't super attractive) but DH said it was fine - I'm still annoyed about that. The three of us walked down the road to the lighthouse in town, which happens to the lighthouse in Forrest Gump, and got set up to take some pictures. As we were walking out the ramp DH stopped and asked me to marry him - I have NO idea what DH said, but I was very excited and happy.
As a funny (now) part to the story, the week before vacation DH had dislocated his shoulder. He was in a sling in the photos. Later that day we got engaged, after we went out to get dinner with the family at a great seafood shack, we were all sitting around the deck watching the water and DH swatted at a fly and dislocated his OTHER shoulder!! We had to drive him to the hospital about 30-45 minutes away since its a rural area, and spent a few hours in the ER getting his shoulder reset. We were telling all the staff how we had just gotten engaged and they were all rushing us out as fast as they can, so that was at least nice.
We got engaged in August, married October the next year, and will be married 2 years this October!
@leighbrek oh my husband had no patience... he had received the ring in the mail after getting out of the woods from hunting right when I was arriving at his house and he was going to wait to propose a few weeks later. Instead he locked me out of the bedroom and was acting weird until he came out of the bedroom and told me to close my eyes and put the ring in my hand... it wasn’t at all romantic but it was sweet because he couldn’t even wait an hour after getting the ring to propose.
So not romantic but here ya go... we had been together for 1.5 yrs, lived together and all and I gave him an ultimatum of getting married or leaving because I felt like he was too content and I was beyond ready. He took it to heart and bought a ring in Jan. We had a joint bank acct and I saw the purchase so I knew but pretended I didn't. He told my parents he was doing it at Easter and never did which annoyed my mom so she told me. I decided the hell with him and started booking wedding venues to tour because we had a busy summer coming up and I wanted a Spring wedding the following year. He got embarrassed on a tour because the coordinator asked my mom how long we had been engaged and she flippantly said we weren't. Then one day a few wks later, i had an extra shitty day so when we both got home from work he said he knew there was something that would cheer me up and told me to close my eyes. He had it hidden in the kitchen and just gave it to me. He claimed he had this elaborate thing planned but timing or weather was never right. It upsets me that he didnt put more thought or effort into it given the elaborate proposal he had with the girlfriend prior to me but there's nothing I can do about it. This May will be 10 yrs for us.
@bradleysmommy28 the marriage is what's important, not the engagement story 10 years is a pretty awesome milestone, and you're obviously still goin' strong!
@wkuandrea I totally agree. We're far from perfect but we've made it through a lot and have no plans of changing it! We did this weird last minute vow renewal at 5 yrs for a news story so I've dropped hints of wanting to do something similar but OUR way at 10 or 20 yrs and he always jokes that maybe he'll get a proposal together for that but I'm not banking on it LOL!
DH and I started dating when we were 17. We moved in together when we were 21. And leading up to that I was being that typical annoying GF who was basically begging her BF to propose. Finally DH told me to stop pestering him about it, he will propose when he was ready and when the time was right.
I had just graduated college and he had just started that fall semester. One Sunday, we went to his parents house to see them before I had to work that night (I was a waitress at the time). When we get there, he said he had to go help his mom run errands so me and his dad just chilled and watched X-files. He gets back and says he saw something down at the creek under the bridge when they drove back in and asked me to go down there with him to see what it was. I protested because it was freezing and I didn't feel like doing anything. Finally his dad was like, you know he's not going to stop bothering you until you go. So I did.
We walked down the road we had taken many walks on before, down to the bridge and while we were looking over the edge and I kept complaining how cold it was and how I couldn't believe he made me walk down there because I didn't see anything in the creek, he got down on one knee and proposed. I still had to work a few hours later but we just spent time hanging out and telling family the rest of the afternoon.
We got engaged on 11/24/13 and married on 12/27/14, four years this year!
Oh and DH is super impatient and had gone to pick up the ring that day and took his mom with him. Originally he wanted to wait until the next weekend when it was Thanksgiving and all of our family would be home but couldn't wait anymore since he'd been waiting on the ring to be made for a few months.
We met when I was 16, started dating when I was 18, and basically lived together from the next summer on. We had joint finances, talked about getting married, our future together, etc. He started looking for rings with my BFF (which I didn't know until later), and I also started looking at rings (for him) with his BFF (because I kind of just live by the philosophy of asking for what I want and not waiting for it to be offered). On his birthday we went to a local winery and had a picnic, and I'd embroidered "Will you marry me?" onto a fancy napkin, using the ring as a napkin holder, because I thought that was cute. We unpacked the picnic, I pulled out the napkin, and he said yes
After the picnic we got home, I gave him his real birthday present (Spiderman DVD), and we called friends and family. (He threw my engagement ring to me across the bed about 2 weeks later, it had been ordered but not arrived.) We got married 14 months later, and this month will celebrate our 11th anniversary.
We're leaders in our church, and our pastor asked if we'd give our testimonies as part of Sunday morning service. I'm ready to give my testimony and my mic cuts out. So here I am, trying to flag down the sound guy to fix it, and I don't even register that people are pointing and saying "aw". My SO put together a video montage and had it playing behind me. I still had no idea what was going on lol, I figured he put it together to play in the background (and embarrass me). But then he brought his son on stage, and DSS handed me the ring and asked "will you be my mommy forever?" It was all so stinking cute. I cried so hard. The whole church had been in on it. I'm sure it's recorded and on the internet somewhere, because the whole youth ministry was there with their phones lol.
These are so sweet! We had been dating for two years and living together for almost a year. We talked about getting married sooner than later, and one day, DH finally said, "ok let's go look at rings." We went to a jewelry store and I tried some on, but also told him I wanted to go look at another store sometime too. (I had no idea he went back the next day and bought the ring I had loved, or that he had already talked to my dad.) Two weeks later, we had cruise booked to celebrate me finishing my first year of teaching. I planned everything for the trip and when all our fun excursions were over, DH took me to the front of the ship at sunset and asked if I was up for one more adventure, and proposed. I think I talked over him the whole time he gave his little speech, saying, "Are you serious?! Are you really doing this right now?!" I probably should have expected it, but I honestly had no idea he was planning to do that. We got engaged in June and married the next June. When I booked the church, I just picked a day, and I found out later it had been my grandparents' anniversary too.
Love these stories! I don't feel so alone with all of you other ladies with very unromantic husbands.....
DH and I met at a mutual friend's house in April 2005 one month after we both got out of long term relationships with other people. I wasn't interested in a new relationship but he seemed super sweet so I went out with him anyway. I knew by the end of that very first date that this was going to be something big. By the end of the summer we were madly in love and knew marriage was on the horizon. By Christmas we were talking engagement and rings and I had planned to move in with him in May when I finished my last semester of university (he was already working and owned a house). Well, the end of February 2006 (after 8 months together), I found out I was unexpectedly pregnant with DD. Our intention was to keep our plans the same, get engaged that summer, and married the next summer like we had talked about. Well, my mother freaked the eff out and threw all sorts of ultimatums at me regarding getting married before baby came. We knew we were going to get married anyway so we just decided to do it early to appease her and keep the peace. DH already had a ring (unbeknownst to me) and on the day of my last ever university exam, he showed up at my apartment, 3 hours away. I opened the door in sweatpants and a t-shirt, greasy hair, hadn't showered in 2 days, exhausted....and there he was holding the ring up. He stumbled around a bit for words and finally got out "will you marry me" (never got down on one knee). My heart sank lol. I was hoping for something a tad more thoughtful. It still bothers me to this day....
We got engaged in April 2006 and married in June 2006, 11.5 months after we started dating. DD was born in that October. We've been married for almost 12.5 years now! In these last 12 years I have learned that he is clueless with surprises and gift giving (although he tries) but that he is great at showing his love in other ways.
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@tosh24 I am so glad to hear there is someone else out there that is still bothered by their engagement. I feel petty sometimes when I think about it but then other times I'm like, "nope, I'm worth the extra thought". Oh, men!!!
We we were going on a trip to Ireland with DHs family for a wedding. I knew he was planning to propose on the trip. We left the evening of Christmas Day, and were in the airport, sitting at a bar with his family, when he decided to propose. I literally said “you’re doing this right now?!” Hahaha. He had started panicking about bringing the ring through security and just decided to do it ahead of time. It was still sweet, though not the romantic proposal in Ireland I’d imagined. he was so nervous. The ring was way too big (a friend of mine insisted I’d be a size 7 and he believed her, I have weirdly small fingers and am a 4 1/2). The plus side of us being in the airport, I was able to go to a jewelry kiosk and get a sizer put on so I could wear it. The lady was so excited we’d just gotten engaged that she didn’t charge us.
It was also nice to go to Ireland already engaged since most of his family lives there and I was able to be introduced as the fiancée. The ring was also EXACTLY what I’d always wanted, so I appreciated him paying attention there.
We had talked about getting engaged and I knew it was probably coming shortly (I knew he was at least in the works to get a ring, though he told me he didn't have it yet. We had plans to go to a pumpkin patch with my family and his family (he orchestrated this really carefully even having my mom ask me to go and then it was on the same day his parents had already planned it so that my mom would then volunteer to just come down and go with his parents on the same day - they obviously were all in on the plan). But then we talked and I must have made a comment about how I wouldn't want my family there when he proposed. So magically my mom cancelled and his parents cancelled and I still wasn't suspecting anything. I also said I would maybe want my best friend there (I was there when she got engaged the week before). So the morning of he kept asking me to ask my BFF to come and I kept saying no because she had work later that day and I knew she wouldn't want to. So finally he asked her fiance who had to force her to come because as I imagined she didn't want to rush it before work (He knew DH was going to propose but she didn't, it was a surprise to her).
So we get to the pumpkin patch and DH and BFFs fiance dissapear for a while back behind some trees. Then they call us back there and tell us they found something. Turns out behind those trees are super giant pumpkins. DH had written on one of them! and the rest is history.
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Re: GTKY: Engagement Stories
H and I were on vacation with his family in Gatlinburg, TN (where we had developed crushes on each other during a college trip 2 years prior). He asked me if I wanted to go on a date with just the 2 of us on our last night there. I was thrilled to just get out of the cabin because, well, too much family time.
Side note: for Valentine’s Day that year, I had made H a book of “coupons” for stuff like making him a batch of cookies, cleaning his room, etc. and I left the last one blank for him to fill out.
He said he wanted to go to the Space Needle downtown to watch the sunset then go to dinner afterwards. When we got to the Space Needle, we were the only people up there for 20 minutes or so. I heard some people get off the elevator, and said, “Look, there’s other people here now.” H immediately kind of freaked out and turned my head towards him. He said, “Remember this?” and handed me a notecard. It was the coupon. It said “Will you marry me?” I looked up, and he was on one knee with the ring.
The reason for his freak out when some people got off the elevator is that it was his parents; they had come up and taken pictures of the whole thing. He didn’t want me to see them.
We had fun telling the rest of his family when we got back that night. H’s aunt is a nurse, so he called her when we were on our way back and said that I had tripped on some stairs and hurt my wrist. When we got out of the car, I was holding my arm; H’s aunt came over to get a closer look, and I revealed the ring.
DS1: May 2016
DS2: Jan 2019
Baby #3 EDD: 6/18/24
Mine was not romantic or sweet or super memorable. It was a discussion for like a year or two ahead of time, then he took me to the store with him to buy a ring... As soon as he'd paid for it, he turned to me and said, "Here, you should hold onto this."
And ta-da, that was that.
He made up for it at the ceremony, though. We had an outdoor wedding and forgot about music for walking up the "aisle", so he sang and got the guests singing, lol.
He had originally planned to propose a few days earlier when we went to a Christmas tree farm, but it turned out to be a rainy day and our car got stuck in the mud, and it just wasn't the romantic picture that he had in mind.
Married: October 2014
Began TTC: April 2015
BFP #1: 9/18/15. EDD 5/18/16. MC 10/26/15. (9w)
BFP #2: 2/27/16. EDD 11/7/16. MC/D&E 4/20/16 (11w)
BFP #3: 9/22/16. EDD 5/29/17. DS born 4/24/17
BFP #4: 5/20/18. EDD 1/23/19.
He came down to visit me in Georgia a few weeks later and I knew he was going to do it at some point. In GA they only do courthouse weddings on Fridays and we had already called to make sure we could do it that Friday (I was on a 4 day pass). We went to dinner at the Crab Shack on Tybee Island, where we had our first date and went and walked along the pier. He got down on one knee at the pier, he was so nervous he almost put the ring on the wrong hand. lol After that we went and applied for our marriage license b/c there was a 24 hour minimum wait to get married. It ended up being a giant cluster and thank goodness I was also born in Savannah b/c we ended up having to go get a copy of my birth certificate b/c my MNs on my ID card don't match my social security card. Anyway, we got engaged on a Wednesday and married that Friday, we went to Hooters after with a bunch of our Army buddies. We did a big welcome home from deployment/vow renewal for our friends and family when he came home about a year later.
Our anniversary is at the end of this month and we hit 10 years.
DS 05/29/2013
M/C 02/14/2017
M/C 06/05/2017
C/P 03/01/2018
BFP 05/17/2018 EDD 01/27/2019
Men have way more self control... I swear to god. They plan it all out and are like, "Oh, I'll propose in 3 months..."
I'd be like, " Going to the store... Drive straight to hubby and give him gift immediately."
I'm surprising hubby with NASCAR tickets for next season, but I want so badly to just blurt it all out to him! How do they maintain this secret for so long...
On our one year anniversary of dating I went over to DH's apartment after work and he had music playing and a card attached to the door with instructions to look at all the stations he had set up. He had a picture and memory and favorite quote (text/email/facebook message) at each station. I read each of them and then at the end I was to knock on his bedroom door and he came out and proposed. It was perfect! He put so much time and thought into the engagement. We got married 6 months later and are celebrating 5 years of marriage on 9/22!
Andrea -- FTM at 39!
We were on vacation in Maine, where my family has gone every summer for my entire life. We own a small cabin up there and my DH had been with us a few summers before this trip. He knows its one of my favorite places on earth, so I had a feeling it might happen there. We had gone skeet shooting at LL Bean in the morning, and then drove up to our camp with my parents and sister and her husband. When we got there my DH asked my cousin (who is really into photography and videography) to come take a picture of us for his Facebook profile picture, which tipped me off. I asked if I should change my outfit (it wasn't super attractive) but DH said it was fine - I'm still annoyed about that. The three of us walked down the road to the lighthouse in town, which happens to the lighthouse in Forrest Gump, and got set up to take some pictures. As we were walking out the ramp DH stopped and asked me to marry him - I have NO idea what DH said, but I was very excited and happy.
As a funny (now) part to the story, the week before vacation DH had dislocated his shoulder. He was in a sling in the photos. Later that day we got engaged, after we went out to get dinner with the family at a great seafood shack, we were all sitting around the deck watching the water and DH swatted at a fly and dislocated his OTHER shoulder!! We had to drive him to the hospital about 30-45 minutes away since its a rural area, and spent a few hours in the ER getting his shoulder reset. We were telling all the staff how we had just gotten engaged and they were all rushing us out as fast as they can, so that was at least nice.
We got engaged in August, married October the next year, and will be married 2 years this October!
All your stories are great!
Andrea -- FTM at 39!
I had just graduated college and he had just started that fall semester. One Sunday, we went to his parents house to see them before I had to work that night (I was a waitress at the time). When we get there, he said he had to go help his mom run errands so me and his dad just chilled and watched X-files. He gets back and says he saw something down at the creek under the bridge when they drove back in and asked me to go down there with him to see what it was. I protested because it was freezing and I didn't feel like doing anything. Finally his dad was like, you know he's not going to stop bothering you until you go. So I did.
We walked down the road we had taken many walks on before, down to the bridge and while we were looking over the edge and I kept complaining how cold it was and how I couldn't believe he made me walk down there because I didn't see anything in the creek, he got down on one knee and proposed. I still had to work a few hours later but we just spent time hanging out and telling family the rest of the afternoon.
We got engaged on 11/24/13 and married on 12/27/14, four years this year!
Oh and DH is super impatient and had gone to pick up the ring that day and took his mom with him. Originally he wanted to wait until the next weekend when it was Thanksgiving and all of our family would be home but couldn't wait anymore since he'd been waiting on the ring to be made for a few months.
Dating: 10/3/08 | Married: 12/27/14
TTC #1: August 2015 | BFP: 2/3/16 | EDD: 10/7/16
DD: 10/5/16
TTC #2: September 2017 | BFP: 4/28/18 | EDD: 1/7/19
DS: 1/9/19
We met when I was 16, started dating when I was 18, and basically lived together from the next summer on. We had joint finances, talked about getting married, our future together, etc. He started looking for rings with my BFF (which I didn't know until later), and I also started looking at rings (for him) with his BFF (because I kind of just live by the philosophy of asking for what I want and not waiting for it to be offered). On his birthday we went to a local winery and had a picnic, and I'd embroidered "Will you marry me?" onto a fancy napkin, using the ring as a napkin holder, because I thought that was cute. We unpacked the picnic, I pulled out the napkin, and he said yes
After the picnic we got home, I gave him his real birthday present (Spiderman DVD), and we called friends and family. (He threw my engagement ring to me across the bed about 2 weeks later, it had been ordered but not arrived.) We got married 14 months later, and this month will celebrate our 11th anniversary.
Married: October 2014
Began TTC: April 2015
BFP #1: 9/18/15. EDD 5/18/16. MC 10/26/15. (9w)
BFP #2: 2/27/16. EDD 11/7/16. MC/D&E 4/20/16 (11w)
BFP #3: 9/22/16. EDD 5/29/17. DS born 4/24/17
BFP #4: 5/20/18. EDD 1/23/19.
We had been dating for two years and living together for almost a year. We talked about getting married sooner than later, and one day, DH finally said, "ok let's go look at rings." We went to a jewelry store and I tried some on, but also told him I wanted to go look at another store sometime too. (I had no idea he went back the next day and bought the ring I had loved, or that he had already talked to my dad.) Two weeks later, we had cruise booked to celebrate me finishing my first year of teaching. I planned everything for the trip and when all our fun excursions were over, DH took me to the front of the ship at sunset and asked if I was up for one more adventure, and proposed. I think I talked over him the whole time he gave his little speech, saying, "Are you serious?! Are you really doing this right now?!" I probably should have expected it, but I honestly had no idea he was planning to do that. We got engaged in June and married the next June. When I booked the church, I just picked a day, and I found out later it had been my grandparents' anniversary too.
DD- 11/2016
DH and I met at a mutual friend's house in April 2005 one month after we both got out of long term relationships with other people. I wasn't interested in a new relationship but he seemed super sweet so I went out with him anyway. I knew by the end of that very first date that this was going to be something big. By the end of the summer we were madly in love and knew marriage was on the horizon. By Christmas we were talking engagement and rings and I had planned to move in with him in May when I finished my last semester of university (he was already working and owned a house). Well, the end of February 2006 (after 8 months together), I found out I was unexpectedly pregnant with DD. Our intention was to keep our plans the same, get engaged that summer, and married the next summer like we had talked about. Well, my mother freaked the eff out and threw all sorts of ultimatums at me regarding getting married before baby came. We knew we were going to get married anyway so we just decided to do it early to appease her and keep the peace. DH already had a ring (unbeknownst to me) and on the day of my last ever university exam, he showed up at my apartment, 3 hours away. I opened the door in sweatpants and a t-shirt, greasy hair, hadn't showered in 2 days, exhausted....and there he was holding the ring up. He stumbled around a bit for words and finally got out "will you marry me" (never got down on one knee). My heart sank lol. I was hoping for something a tad more thoughtful. It still bothers me to this day....
We got engaged in April 2006 and married in June 2006, 11.5 months after we started dating. DD was born in that October. We've been married for almost 12.5 years now! In these last 12 years I have learned that he is clueless with surprises and gift giving (although he tries) but that he is great at showing his love in other ways.
*TW loss and children mentioned*
Apr 17: IUI #1 = BFN
May 17: IUI #2 = BFN
Jun 17: IUI #3 = Late BFP (18 DPO) | NMC 17Jul17 @ ~6w
Aug 17: IUI #4 = Cancelled due to premature ovulation | TI = BFN
Sep 17: IUI #5 = Cancelled due to overstimulation (10+ follies)
Nov 17: IVF #1 = Cancelled due to non-IF related health issue | TI = BFN
Dec 17: IVF #1 = Puregon 200, Menopur 75, Orgalutran, Suprefact trigger due to OHSS risk | 22R, 18M, 16F, 10B frozen
Feb 18: FET #1 (medicated) = BFN
Mar 18: FET #2 (natural cycle) = CP (beta 1: 54; beta 2: 0)
EDD: 07Jan2019 Team Green
My Rainbow Baby Boy born 03Jan2019
It was also nice to go to Ireland already engaged since most of his family lives there and I was able to be introduced as the fiancée. The ring was also EXACTLY what I’d always wanted, so I appreciated him paying attention there.
So we get to the pumpkin patch and DH and BFFs fiance dissapear for a while back behind some trees. Then they call us back there and tell us they found something. Turns out behind those trees are super giant pumpkins. DH had written on one of them! and the rest is history.
Married: November 2015
TTC#1: January 2016
BFP #1: 5/02/16 - MC: 5/27/16
BFP #2: 10/06/16: 6 - EDD: 06/20/17
DD Born 06/23/17
TFAS: April 2018
BFP #3: 03/21/18 - CP
BFP #4: 04/23/18 - EDD 01/04/19