Ill answer this one. My Dh proposed kinda cute. But Im a dumb ass so i kinda ruined it. Anyway it was christmas time and we opened presents the nite before alone. He handed me a box and in it was a little statue. The statue was a little boy on his knee proposing to a little girl. THe boy was holding a small box. Well me being stupid thought the boy was holding a cell phone.........really it looked that way to me. So i thought it was a strange gift. Mostly cus i dont collect statues or nick naks like that. SO i said thank you.
DH says to me dont you get it?

Uh no, I dont. SO he had to tell me. Uh, ok I do now. duh! Then he gave me the ring. It was still very sweet.

My husband proposed to me in 2006 when my mom flew out here from Maine to visit. First we were announcing to everyone we were moving into a 3 bedroom (still in the same area of complex's) then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. Apparently my SIL helped him shop for the ring while the kids and I were visiting my family in Maine! But I know the kids were super excited...I can still remember my daughter (SD) telling BM in these exact words.."mommy and daddy are getting married!" LMAO. Course BM yelled at her for calling me mommy. Since then she only calls me by my first name when she is around BM or if she talks about me to BM!

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DISNEY LIED...THERE IS NO 'HAPPILY EVER AFTER'

a minor league baseball game in my hometown ~ and it was announced over the intercom lol!

"To Thine Own Self Be True" William Shakesphere

And I'm glad I get the opportunity to tell you all. Because then maybe you'll see how confused I've been about the husband H turned out to be!

We had a date to go out of town for supper. H asked me to dress up a little, said we were meeting some of his friends.

He took me to supper (no friends, either) about an hour away from here. Then he stopped the car in a town between here and there, at a really nice motel. Asked me to come in with him, because he wanted to show me something.

He took me up to a suite! My favorite romantic music was playing on a CD player. There were roses all over the place! And a jewelry amoire standing in the middle of the suite, with the words "I Love You" written in lipstick on the mirror of the armoire. I opened up the armoire, and there, inside, was a jewelry box. Inside the box was-you guessed it-a beautiful diamond engagement ring.

Then the whirlpool tub-surrounded by candles, with floating candles and rose petals in the water!

He had even bought me clothes to wear the following day, and makeup-as this was a surprise to me, I'd thought we were going to dinner and then home.

It was a night I will remember always, and cherish.

Where did that man go?

Remember, this is the same man who was not even initmate with me on our wedding night!

Honestly, I'm extremely happy with our engagement story because it was definitely "us"..first off, FH and I text ALOT..even in the same house..when we are arguing about something we tend to text each other from different rooms because we don't want to argue in front of kids..or sometimes we'll text saying I miss you..tacky I know..but it's us.

Anyways, he brought me out to eat at a new fancy restaurant and he was going to propose there, but he chickened out. Well afterwards on the way home (I had no idea he was gonna propose)..we agreed to stop at a total DIVE bar/restaurant..one of those chinese places that smell like smoke,etc..but the food and drinks are good! So we are sitting at the table..and he TEXTED me saying "I want you to be my wife"...I started laughing and texted back"well you'll have to propose with a ring"..

next thing I know he takes the ring out and places it on my finger.

"He grew up in my heart, not my belly"

Sooooo, I can't share on this one.

I can share the story of the ring delivery. I "gave" her the ring by telling her there was something for her downstairs in the glove box of the car if she wanted to go down and get it. She went down and came back with nothing. So, I had to go down and get it. When I came back up she put out her finger without saying a word so I slid it on her finger. She won that little snark fest I have to say.

We left a week later for Lake Tahoe and got married overlooking the lake.

It has been a very romantic and exciting adventure ever since.

We hit our 15th anniversary in July.

Best regards,

over and over...then we got married two weeks after his divorce finally became final. Just he and I at a family property.
It was awesome.

We went to FL to visit some of my dh family, we stayed in a hotel on the ocean front, one evening we went for a walk and he proposed to me on the beach. It was romantic but he didn't have the ring right away. Instead of buying the ring he put it on layaway and bought a big go cart. It was romantic but it would have been better if he would have had the ring then.

Stop making people a priority in your life that only make you an option in theirs! author unknown

My DH brought me home a white kitten. I had been telling him I wanted one for months! He finally found her, all fluffy, with pretty blue eyes. She's beautiful. He called me before he got home and told me to go to the bedroom, and NO peeking! So when he brought in the kitty and put her on the bed I thought that was my surprise, why wouldn't I? I was loving on her, kissing her, petting her, and then I noticed the bright red ribbon he had tied around her neck. It was in a bow. But when I finally picked her up over me I saw the ring on the ribbon around the bottom of her neck.

I started crying and he asked me if I would be his wife for the rest of his life.

I cried yes through it!

He's such a wonderful, sweet, adoring man! I'm so proud to be his wife!

My proposal was alright, he took me out to eat and I took SD4 to the bathroom (YES , SHE WAS THERE) and when I came back the ring was on a little heart shaped pillow...

There is not a next time obviously, we have been married for almost a year now, so it doesn't matter at all, but god, I really did not like the fact that his kid was right there, she also kinda told me in the bathroom cuz she kept talking about "princesss cut" (yes, he bought the ring with her too) :O and I was like hmmm.....

I'm so happy to see a fun blog! (Although I really NEED the venting blogs to keep me sane!!) My husband did the most romantic proposal ... first, he drove to ask my parents if he could marry me... ummm keep in mind - I am 40 years old!! (But never married - I had some health issues when I was younger and it screwed me up for a long time, so I never married!) Anyway, he drove 5 hours to my parents house, asked them without telling me and then drove 5 hours back, all while I was away on a work trip! Then for Christmas, he gave me a calendar and some beachy things ...to have home beach parties, he said. When I opened the Calendar - there was written - "Cancun trip" on one of the weeks of May and two tickets to Cancun at the resort where we took our first vacation! Go ahead 5 months... In Cancun, we had a couple of great days and then there was one day where he said he didn't feel well, so we were hanging in the room. The front desk called the room and asked us to pick something up, so he sent me to go down and get it. It was 4 dozen roses - one for each year we had been dating in a beautiful arrangement! And then the woman that gave them to me kept talking and talking.. and I'm like.. thanks, but let me get back to my Man!!! But she wouldn't stop. Finally, she lets me go, and on my way to the room... Swear to God! - there was a black-out at the resort! (5 minutes!) But when I walked into the room, it was serendipity because he had candles everywhere and the jacuzzi going and champagne. And then, on the bed... a big box. So he says - Open the box, there's something in there for you to wear to dinner! So I open it and it's a pretty white negligee... so I put it on and he's like, oh... you forgot something in the box... so I"m looking in the box..and when I turned around - he had the ring in his hand. It makes me tear up just thinking about it! I need to visit this site because of BM, but I just truly adore and love my husband. When I called my parents to tell them, they let me in on the fact that they had known for a few months. I never thought I'd get married because of my health issues - I have a great career and had a great single life... but every day I just thank God for this lovely man!! Thanks for the wonderful memories!!

We both knew it's what we wanted and we were both ready..
It was priceless.. every bit of it..

WHEN AM I GONNA GET A RING DAMMIT AAARRRGHGHHHHH

But in all seriousness, I have no idea how he's going to do it. I assumed that he would just buy it and give it to me with no romance, but he says he wants the romance. We've been together for so long and already did the whole "I want to marry you" thing, he's asked me to marry him before but never a real "proposal" per se.

*~So sayeth Nymh~*

He was driving me home and we were talking when out of nowhere he pulls over to the side of the freeway... It wasn't planned, he didn't have a ring, had no money to buy one if he even wanted to, just proposed out of nowhere and 'promoted' my promise ring to the new title of engagement ring. I never did get one...

we took a vacation with his three kids and my two, we were at dinner and a waitress brought it out on a dessert dish,no on the knee thing, which I have always wanted..
it was nice but I would have rather it have been more romantic, just him and me ..I think a proposal is a private/intimate thing, although I am happy to be engaged I was disappointed in the delivery

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one."

The first one was what I could afford at the time. It was not cheap by any means, a half carat H VS1 round with a small plain gold wedding band. It went through several modifications over the years until it was crushed in a Christmas shopping disaster when my wife and SS were looking for my Christmas gift.

She was devastated and they spent an hour crawling around the store looking for the diamond. They found it eventually so we could have gotten everything fixed.

But, I decided that after ten years of a great marriage, wonderful family time and consistent career success it was time for an upgrade.

My Mom and Dad were in town for the holidays and Dad and I spent all day on the 24th shopping for the just the right solitaire and wedding bands. I had already gotten all her her Christmas stuff so this was BONUS material. Let just say I went a bit overboard.

When she opened the two boxes she was speechless and went directly to tears (with a big smile on her face). I love that woman to death and the look on her face was the best Christmas gift I have ever had.

I think I will do it again in about ten years when I re-propose on our 25th. The real gift will be that she will get to have her wedding (bigger rock, big white dress, horse drawn carriage, monster cake,etc....) in her home town with her friends and family around. Our first wedding was in Tahoe with a few friends and limited family. Her parents could not make it and my dad could not be there. The next time everyone will be there and it will be a major production.

I can't wait to see the look on her face.

Best regards,

My DH made reservations at the Atlantis, which is a very nice restaraunt on top of a sky high hotel on the beach. He had a stretch limo pick us up and on the way there he poured the champagne and gave us each a glass. At the time I thought we were celebrating our one year anniversary, but it was more than that. He took out my ring, a 1 carat princess cut that I absolutely love. He got down on one knee (in the moving limo LOL) and said "will you marry me?" in the most nervous, shaky voice I've ever heard. It was the cutest I have ever seen him and obviously I said yes and we both teared up. Then we went and had our dinner overlooking the ocean at sunset. It was amazing Oh and I got a big fat dessert too! haha

"Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy"

of our bathroom. Oh how romantice. We had plans that night to go to the ballet & dinner, which was a big thing as my DH lived paycheck to paycheck at the time. The ballet tickets had been my xmas gift. I met him at his place to get ready to go out after work. He had stopped at Target to get a few items & was putting things away in the medicine cabinet & turned to me & said hey, there is something else still in the bag. He took out a ring box, dropped to his knees & proposed.

All day long he had been trying to think of the right romantic way to do it, but had gotten so excited about asking me he couldn't wait a minuet longer.

He regrets that he choose that spot, but I think it is cute that he just couldn't wait to ask.