It was almost as if the world had stopped. I knew I was going to marry this man, but somehow it still took me by surprise. When he got down on one knee, every feeling I have ever felt rushed to my brain. I started freaking out- a good kind of freak out- but I was so excited that I started banging my head against his truck and running around in circles. I kinda felt like a dog with zoomies.
At the time, I laughed it off and played “the cool girl” who didn’t need a fuss, who was happy with the ultra simplicity and saying “it’s just soooo him,” but now that I’m 42 and divorced?
Major letdown. I realized I didn’t need it to be over the top, but a little fuss, a bit of pomp & circumstance, would have actually meant a lot.
Surreal. We had discussed it so I knew it was coming soon, but I still couldn’t believe it was happening. I don’t even remember a lot of it, I blacked out lol. 😆
My husband proposed to me at Harry Potter Studios in London, as I had once joked about being the perfect place, with the ring I had once joked about I loved.
I am always very oblivious, so I had not seen it coming, I was shocked, to say the least 😂
Asked him “What are you doing?!” when he got to one knee and took the ring box out of his pocket, could only stare at him with my hands in front of my mouth while frantically nodding yes, and lost all sense of my surroundings for a while.
A friend of us was with us that day, and was filming the whole time we were there – “for fun”. Later on I heard he was in on the plan and made us a complete engagement video ❤️ It’s so funny to watch back, it’s been 8 years and I still know exactly how I felt haha.
The reaction of the people around us was so funny to, there’s a woman saying “OH MY GOD” when my husband gets on one knee, followed by “That’s amazing! Congratulations!” and some applause. She then came up to us with her daughter and daughter’s boyfriend, telling the poor guy to “take notes” 😂
We had the venue booked before he officially asked. Everytime we went out I was full of anticipation and excitement. He took me to a haunted house in June and I thought surely this was a ruse to propose to me, it was not. It was a rough month for me emotionally getting hyped over and over again. When he finally asked I was just so relieved to say “Yes.” I felt like a huge rush of adrenaline and we ran through sprinklers after, just squealing with happiness. We’ve been married over a decade and I still get butterflies. He tells me now the only reason he didnt ask sooner is because he knew I’d be telling the proposal story for the rest of my life and didnt want to mess it up. He recreated our first date and did fairy lights on the bridge where we shared our first kiss.
We had discussed getting engaged so I knew it was coming. He asked in a very lowkey way and didn’t make any type of speech, which I was disappointed by tbh. But it was still so sweet and very true to him as he isn’t a gushy or romantic person.
He proposed to me after I told him my aunt had cancer. We never ended up getting married and I honestly hope that IF I ever get married, he simply asks me to elope.
That said, I’m not sure I ever want to get married, but I definitely don’t ever want to be engaged again.
It was magical. I felt so loved, so lucky, so blessed, so happy. It was at sunset, atop a camping bus, just the two of us and our dogs in the mountains. He declared his love and his commitment. I did too. I know life will be challenging and there will be dark times. This memory (and so many others with him and our family) will uplift me.
My husband and I started talking about marriage a year into our relationship. I made it known then I didn’t want a proposal or surprise.
I had an ex propose to me in front of a bunch of people and it was awkward.
So in December my husband was like I wanna get married now. We had already been living together for 3 years, we loved each other, and I was happy to marry him.
We will do a wedding when we save up. It just made more sense for a lot of reasons to go ahead and get married.
It felt like the room was spinning and I got the craziest butterflies I’ve ever had. I didn’t see it coming either because I was turned around. We were camping so we were in our tent with string lights and music playing. I just remember the music and the lights and the immense happiness and everything else was a blur. Thankfully it was just us because I’m sure I looked like a complete fool.
I was both shocked and not surprised at the same time (I had a hopeful feeling it might happen that weekend). My husband is a man of few words, so to see and hear him (privately) telling me just the absolute most loving things while down on one knee-a moment I’ll never forget. I just felt so connected to him, so seen and respected and loved and valued. Couldn’t wait to continue to build our life together, but in this grand new way. (We eloped 6mo later)
It was the best feeling in the world. We both weren’t that bothered about getting married so it was a total surprise. It was during a big firework show on the last night at a festival. I was on such a high for the whole evening.
The first time it was… nice… and I sort of knew it was coming I think, but also my gut told me it might not be the right match for several reasons. I wasn’t wrong, although I don’t regret the time I spent with my ex-husband. He’s still one of my best friends. I always thought I should’ve felt more excited about the proposal…
The second time wasn’t so much an actual proposal as a mutual acknowledgment that ‘I guess this means we’re engaged now’ haha, but I was over the moon. My husband is from the UK, I’m Canadian, and one day when we were chatting on the phone about his plans to hand in his resignation at work and get started on organising stuff to move here, the topic turned to what we already knew anyway — that in order for him to be able to stay here, we’d have to get married and then do the spousal sponsorship thing so he could get a Canadian work visa. When I excitedly asked the question ‘Does this mean we’re engaged now?’ he said something like ‘I believe it does!’ and I squealed loudly and spent the rest of the day blasting happy music and telling various people in my life haha. Despite it all being very lowkey, I knew for sure I was feeling the right things. We’d been talking about eventually being married for several years by that point anyway. He moved here last November and we just got married in May. My second wedding day was much more exciting than my first one too haha.
Extremely underwhelming. He didn’t get on one knee. He proposed way into wedding preparations because he didn’t want to confront his parents on the topic of having a wedding different from their expectations, so we had more or less everything booked at this point. He ignored my big dream about the proposal, because: “it will be too obvious that I want to propose thus it won’t be a surprise”. It was more important for him for it to be a surprise and to not confront his parents than to think about what I wanted and needed from him, even though he knew.
Needles to say, we are divorced now, after only 1.5 years of marriage. A lot of lessons learned. Going to marry again one day but with someone who went through the psychological separation of his parents and who wants to be with me and not just fill in the girlfriend/wife spot
I was rather drunk, because my husband did it on the way home after a meal at a Michelin star restaurant – the first of my life!
I felt emotionally overwhelmed and immediately started crying. I was super happy and I also felt weirdly sorry for him because I could see how excited and overwhelmed and stressed out he was, too. It was such a intense rush of emotions, haha.
It was spontaneous and so lovely. It was a pretty April day and we’d gotten ice cream and were walking along the beach. He suddenly turned to me, brought me forward into his arms like he was going to kiss me and said, “I know this is sudden and I’m not prepared, but I sure do want to marry you. Will you marry me?” The love in his eyes and the excitement in his voice brought me to tears. It was exactly the kind of proposal I would have wanted if I’d ever thought about wanting one. We went ring shopping the next weekend and got married 9 months later.
Awful!!!
I had just driven 1100 miles, slept for 6 hours and drove 1100 miles back. That’s 32 hours of driving. I went to get our moms for Xmas -we had moved away.
Then I get them here. I walk in door, exhausted and bf says he needs to talk to me. He proposed in our extra bedroom.
I screamed :NOW IS A GREAT F@N TIME!!!
I guess everyone knew but me. They were here for 10 days, couldn’t let me get 1 nights rest???
10 days later, same trip, to take them back. They wouldn’t fly.
My proposal sucked and I didn’t need anything fancy. I just didn’t want 2 days of road ass and no sleep!!!
A little underwhelming but also an “oh gosh, you really need to say no but how to do it without offending him…guess you’ll say yes and figure it all out later 🙃🤷🏾♀️” moment
It was like something I had always dreamed of. He proposed at the same location (we had our first meeting/date). Slipped a beautiful (huge diamond ring) on my hand and it all was a secret. So I was shocked when he proposed. But I’m not married now.
Sad. I knew that I didn’t want to be married at that point, and he wouldn’t stay with me if I didn’t. It’s always sad when there’s no messy drama in the breakup. Its just two people moving in different directions or at different speeds.
It was amazing. We had went on this trip to Colorado for a friends wedding. Drove there which took us 12-14 hours. Did the wedding had so much fun. Then we drove up to Wyoming and stayed then to Yellowstone. When I say we drove through every kind of weather in one day, we did. It was crazy. We finally get to Yellowstone and are walking around the walks while everyone was waiting to watch Old Faithful, and he goes, “This trip has been pretty amazing and pretty memorable.” And I was like it sure has been. It’s been so fun and weather has been crazy lol. Then he said, “Can you think of anything that would make it any more memorable?” And me being COMPLETELY oblivious was like no I can’t it’s been a wild ride and so much fun and I was listing off things. He asked me the same question again and then I had gotten a little bit in front of him and turned around. He was on one knee in the middle of the board walk with the ring, HE HAD HAD THE WHOLE WEEK! That I knew absolutely nothing about lol. I burst into tears (happy tears but ugly cry lol) and hugged/kissed him. We were the only people there in that spot because like I said everyone was watching Old Faithful. We talked for a few minutes and I couldn’t stop crying then these two wonderful humans way off in the distance hollered “Did you two just get engaged? Do you want us to take a picture of you?!” They ran over and took pictures of us. Absolutely the best day of my life. Then we drove the 10+ hours home and couldn’t hide our excitement.
A very intimate, emotional experience between myself and my partner; I did not want a big over the top proposal or a public display, I wanted a special moment between myself and my partner and that’s exactly what he gave me. We both laughed and cried. I’ll never forget it.
I’ve been engaged twice, only married once. In the moment you realize what’s happening, a million things are going through your mind. Do you really love this person enough to spend forever with them? Do your values align with one another? Are you willing to compromise for the ones that don’t align? Do you think they would make a good parent? If you dont want kids, do they also not want kids? Weddings are expensive. Divorces are more expensive.
It took me by surprise, even though I knew it was coming- if that makes sense. I feel like my husband wasn’t trying to keep it a secret- “I’m going shopping and you can’t come.” 😂 got the butterflies and I still cried lol
I was with him getting water at a cold spring near our camp spot. This place is really special to me because I used to go there every summer with my family and it is where my family practiced going to indigenous ceremony growing up. I don’t show very many people that area.
All of a sudden I saw that he had placed rose petals on the ground. Not just on the ground but he even sprinkled them on a log that went over the creek lol That’s when I knew. They were rose petals from our yard.
After that I was in shock as he was proposing. It felt like the kindest, most sincere, intentional, and most thought out proposal I could have ever imagined. I never imagined how my proposal would go but I never expected it to be that way. It makes me so happy to think about. He took so much into consideration.
He’s constantly supporting my pursuit in relearning traditions and practices that my family has lost. That moment was one hundred percent focused on the kind of life he wants us to build together.
It was fun. I knew it was coming, so I didn’t have the whole element of surprise. The proposal itself was pretty low-key, but we really enjoyed telling our families and friends.
The first time I received one it was awkward and scary because I was 17 and the dude was a 40 year old with a kid who my family has only known for a few days.
I’d had boys joke about marrying me, or their parents joke or talk about how I’d be a good match for their kid etc but I’d never had an adult talk about it so seriously. I felt uncomfortable, it’s not like I was even dating this guy or knew him further than a new member of my parents church. In the moment, I wasn’t sure how to say no without making him angry. Fortunately I wasn’t alone at the time and my aunts shut him down right off.
The last time I was proposed to by the guy I’d been sort of seeing, we’d already talked about marriage a lot and our future together, of course I said yes, and I’m very happy I did! It was still scary, because it meant making a lot of big changes. But it was also exciting and I felt so hopeful about my future.
We’re still married btw!
He proposed to me at the cathedral my Nonna was married at in the 40s in her hometown in Italy. He also hired a photographer so we have photos of him proposing + couples photos in places she visited and where my grandmother played as a child. I expected it given some things (he bought me a very nice dress and asked me to wear it that day, etc), but it was so special.
We had talked about it so I knew it was coming. We had chosen rings etc. He told me we were just going to a park and dinner and I didn’t catch on. Anyway, we were writing a note to our baby who was on the way. He then asked me to read the letter he wrote our daughter and in it, he said he was ready to propose to me that night. I started crying, then he got on one knee and asked me to marry him. I was so so so happy that it happened and I just felt such peace knowing I’d be marrying him
My now-husband took me to a park I’d loved for a while and read a poem he wrote himself, and got our photographer friend to take pictures. He did it in the spring of my senior year of college.
It was so romantic and I couldn’t have had a better proposal. We will have been married for 2 years in just a few weeks!
I’ve been engaged twice. My first I don’t even really remember the proposal. We ended our engagement about a year later.
My second time was sweet and on Christmas morning. He made me think i was getting a cell phone but it was ring. It was our baby’s first Christmas, too so it felt special.
Lol well, my wonderful husband who I adore has very little romantic awareness. He asked me while I was sitting in my pj’s watching TV. I knew it was coming. We had picked out a ring. He kneeled down with flowers after getting home from work and started telling me how much he loved me and it dawned on me that he was asking me to marry him. I asked in shock and horror if he was and he said yes. He now knows that he blew it. 😉 He is much better about things like Valentine’s Day but he’s still a little clueless. He’s a wonderful man and I am crazy about him. But I look back now with amusement.
He went all out on the ring, it was the most gorgeous engagement ring I had ever imagined. It was custom, we picked it out together. He chose the best quality diamond and it was something I had never even dreamed of. So the ring was just absolutely gorgeous.
He was, at the time, the person I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with. We went to breakfast at a restaurant we frequented. I had thought previously of if I was wanting a public proposal or a private proposal… I don’t like being in the center of attention but surprisingly I actually wanted a grand gesture type thing. I never even told him that but he somehow read my mind and did a public proposal at the restaurant.
He had a whole speech, the entire restaurant erupted in applause and cheers, I cried a bit, put the ring of my dreams on and said yes to the man of my dreams… I was just so ecstatic. Finally I could plan my future and wedding with the man I knew I was wanting to spend the rest of my life with. It was truly the best feeling, I felt so happy. There was so much promise, such a great future together ahead of us, this was the man I was going to spend the rest of my life with… It was just so exciting! I felt so loved, butterflies, it was the best feeling in the world. Truly one of my happiest days.
The weeks to come… Were another story. I was engaged for about two months or so and had to make the decision to break it off and gave the ring back. He became something entirely else, I didn’t sign up for that shit.
Anyways, its cheaper to break off an engagement, pay back wedding deposits, than it is for an total miserable and toxic marriage. And the whole “you know when you know” trope is such a lie and can really cloud your judgement.
It was from someone I knew I eventually would marry (because of discussions we had about that being what we both wanted), so very welcomed, but I was still surprised! He was planning a different proposal time and place for two months later, but between my friends and I; we kinda figured it out 😆 he just laughed and was like “Nooo….that’s not the plan….”, while thinking crap she figured it out haha. So he secretly scrapped the original plan and did a much more elaborate and unexpected idea sooner- and that’s why I really was so surprised. I felt soo giddy and excited. One of the best days I’ve had♥️ I didn’t need it to be elaborate or as crazy as it was, but the fact he put so much effort and thought into it , and really wanted it be amazing for me in all the ways, confirmed why I wanted to marry him.
The only other time was on the phone with a long distance ex, who we still had a thing for each other and talked regularly. During one of our hour long phone calls he said, “why don’t we just get married and you move here with me” I said, “I think you need to love someone to marry them.” And he replied, ” I do, you know that right?” This “proposal” I just laughed off . Then and before, he had never said the words, “I love you.” I remember thinking, I want more to a marriage than this. And I’m so glad I waited for my now husband.
Well. I threw up in my mouth for the first one because I got so anxious and wasn’t prepared for it. So. She said, it’s okay let’s just pretend it didn’t happen. kiss and move on
Then I planned out the “real one” to a T so I’d know exactly what was coming and when. 😂 I don’t handle unexpected things well.
It was lovely. Despite knowing it was happening, I still got very emotional and nervous, and I felt so excited afterwards. It really was like time stood still for a few minutes. He chose a great moment to do it, and we had a beautiful day.
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I felt calm followed by excitement and joy. We were just talking and he said why don’t we just get married so we got rings and got married
It was almost as if the world had stopped. I knew I was going to marry this man, but somehow it still took me by surprise. When he got down on one knee, every feeling I have ever felt rushed to my brain. I started freaking out- a good kind of freak out- but I was so excited that I started banging my head against his truck and running around in circles. I kinda felt like a dog with zoomies.
It was a letdown.
At the time, I laughed it off and played “the cool girl” who didn’t need a fuss, who was happy with the ultra simplicity and saying “it’s just soooo him,” but now that I’m 42 and divorced?
Major letdown. I realized I didn’t need it to be over the top, but a little fuss, a bit of pomp & circumstance, would have actually meant a lot.
Surreal. We had discussed it so I knew it was coming soon, but I still couldn’t believe it was happening. I don’t even remember a lot of it, I blacked out lol. 😆
He did it the day before we got married, so it definitely wasn’t much of a surprise.
And it was great and pretty perfect, though I still think it would’ve been funnier had he proposed after we’d gotten married LOL.
It felt like the biggest smile, the most happiness and kind of embarrassing (people were looking on).
My husband proposed to me at Harry Potter Studios in London, as I had once joked about being the perfect place, with the ring I had once joked about I loved.
I am always very oblivious, so I had not seen it coming, I was shocked, to say the least 😂
Asked him “What are you doing?!” when he got to one knee and took the ring box out of his pocket, could only stare at him with my hands in front of my mouth while frantically nodding yes, and lost all sense of my surroundings for a while.
A friend of us was with us that day, and was filming the whole time we were there – “for fun”. Later on I heard he was in on the plan and made us a complete engagement video ❤️ It’s so funny to watch back, it’s been 8 years and I still know exactly how I felt haha.
The reaction of the people around us was so funny to, there’s a woman saying “OH MY GOD” when my husband gets on one knee, followed by “That’s amazing! Congratulations!” and some applause. She then came up to us with her daughter and daughter’s boyfriend, telling the poor guy to “take notes” 😂
We had the venue booked before he officially asked. Everytime we went out I was full of anticipation and excitement. He took me to a haunted house in June and I thought surely this was a ruse to propose to me, it was not. It was a rough month for me emotionally getting hyped over and over again. When he finally asked I was just so relieved to say “Yes.” I felt like a huge rush of adrenaline and we ran through sprinklers after, just squealing with happiness. We’ve been married over a decade and I still get butterflies. He tells me now the only reason he didnt ask sooner is because he knew I’d be telling the proposal story for the rest of my life and didnt want to mess it up. He recreated our first date and did fairy lights on the bridge where we shared our first kiss.
We had discussed getting engaged so I knew it was coming. He asked in a very lowkey way and didn’t make any type of speech, which I was disappointed by tbh. But it was still so sweet and very true to him as he isn’t a gushy or romantic person.
He proposed to me after I told him my aunt had cancer. We never ended up getting married and I honestly hope that IF I ever get married, he simply asks me to elope.
That said, I’m not sure I ever want to get married, but I definitely don’t ever want to be engaged again.
Calm but also emotional and surprised. And then excitement. I know I cried but it was happy tears.
It was magical. I felt so loved, so lucky, so blessed, so happy. It was at sunset, atop a camping bus, just the two of us and our dogs in the mountains. He declared his love and his commitment. I did too. I know life will be challenging and there will be dark times. This memory (and so many others with him and our family) will uplift me.
I just got engaged a couple weeks ago. It was shocking, exciting, wonderful, surreal.
I was surprised and felt like I was the center of the world for a bit. You couldn’t take a smile off my face.
My husband and I started talking about marriage a year into our relationship. I made it known then I didn’t want a proposal or surprise.
I had an ex propose to me in front of a bunch of people and it was awkward.
So in December my husband was like I wanna get married now. We had already been living together for 3 years, we loved each other, and I was happy to marry him.
We will do a wedding when we save up. It just made more sense for a lot of reasons to go ahead and get married.
time froze, heart racing, hands shaking, couldn’t stop smiling, messy but perfect moment like “holy sh*t this is real”
I hope if it ever happens again it is proper and surreal. Last time it was a long distance relationship and the proposal was over the phone.
It felt like the room was spinning and I got the craziest butterflies I’ve ever had. I didn’t see it coming either because I was turned around. We were camping so we were in our tent with string lights and music playing. I just remember the music and the lights and the immense happiness and everything else was a blur. Thankfully it was just us because I’m sure I looked like a complete fool.
Never got one lol – my spouse and I discussed and decided to get married together!
I was both shocked and not surprised at the same time (I had a hopeful feeling it might happen that weekend). My husband is a man of few words, so to see and hear him (privately) telling me just the absolute most loving things while down on one knee-a moment I’ll never forget. I just felt so connected to him, so seen and respected and loved and valued. Couldn’t wait to continue to build our life together, but in this grand new way. (We eloped 6mo later)
It was the best feeling in the world. We both weren’t that bothered about getting married so it was a total surprise. It was during a big firework show on the last night at a festival. I was on such a high for the whole evening.
The first time it was… nice… and I sort of knew it was coming I think, but also my gut told me it might not be the right match for several reasons. I wasn’t wrong, although I don’t regret the time I spent with my ex-husband. He’s still one of my best friends. I always thought I should’ve felt more excited about the proposal…
The second time wasn’t so much an actual proposal as a mutual acknowledgment that ‘I guess this means we’re engaged now’ haha, but I was over the moon. My husband is from the UK, I’m Canadian, and one day when we were chatting on the phone about his plans to hand in his resignation at work and get started on organising stuff to move here, the topic turned to what we already knew anyway — that in order for him to be able to stay here, we’d have to get married and then do the spousal sponsorship thing so he could get a Canadian work visa. When I excitedly asked the question ‘Does this mean we’re engaged now?’ he said something like ‘I believe it does!’ and I squealed loudly and spent the rest of the day blasting happy music and telling various people in my life haha. Despite it all being very lowkey, I knew for sure I was feeling the right things. We’d been talking about eventually being married for several years by that point anyway. He moved here last November and we just got married in May. My second wedding day was much more exciting than my first one too haha.
Extremely underwhelming. He didn’t get on one knee. He proposed way into wedding preparations because he didn’t want to confront his parents on the topic of having a wedding different from their expectations, so we had more or less everything booked at this point. He ignored my big dream about the proposal, because: “it will be too obvious that I want to propose thus it won’t be a surprise”. It was more important for him for it to be a surprise and to not confront his parents than to think about what I wanted and needed from him, even though he knew.
Needles to say, we are divorced now, after only 1.5 years of marriage. A lot of lessons learned. Going to marry again one day but with someone who went through the psychological separation of his parents and who wants to be with me and not just fill in the girlfriend/wife spot
I was rather drunk, because my husband did it on the way home after a meal at a Michelin star restaurant – the first of my life!
I felt emotionally overwhelmed and immediately started crying. I was super happy and I also felt weirdly sorry for him because I could see how excited and overwhelmed and stressed out he was, too. It was such a intense rush of emotions, haha.
He wanted to take me to our daughter’s grave, but it was my first birthday as a bereaved parent so he improvised at home. I cried so hard.
How never actually uttered the words, he just said ‘I brought money, to buy rings’ and it took me a bit to catch his drift. Still walking on cloud 9.
He does admit it was a sudden impulse but hey still together, celebrating 20 years of marriage soon
It was spontaneous and so lovely. It was a pretty April day and we’d gotten ice cream and were walking along the beach. He suddenly turned to me, brought me forward into his arms like he was going to kiss me and said, “I know this is sudden and I’m not prepared, but I sure do want to marry you. Will you marry me?” The love in his eyes and the excitement in his voice brought me to tears. It was exactly the kind of proposal I would have wanted if I’d ever thought about wanting one. We went ring shopping the next weekend and got married 9 months later.
Awful!!!
I had just driven 1100 miles, slept for 6 hours and drove 1100 miles back. That’s 32 hours of driving. I went to get our moms for Xmas -we had moved away.
Then I get them here. I walk in door, exhausted and bf says he needs to talk to me. He proposed in our extra bedroom.
I screamed :NOW IS A GREAT F@N TIME!!!
I guess everyone knew but me. They were here for 10 days, couldn’t let me get 1 nights rest???
10 days later, same trip, to take them back. They wouldn’t fly.
My proposal sucked and I didn’t need anything fancy. I just didn’t want 2 days of road ass and no sleep!!!
A little underwhelming but also an “oh gosh, you really need to say no but how to do it without offending him…guess you’ll say yes and figure it all out later 🙃🤷🏾♀️” moment
It was like something I had always dreamed of. He proposed at the same location (we had our first meeting/date). Slipped a beautiful (huge diamond ring) on my hand and it all was a secret. So I was shocked when he proposed. But I’m not married now.
I half blacked out from excitement, surprise, happiness. And then it’s over and I’m a betrothed woman. Over the moon 🤸🏻♀️
Sad. I knew that I didn’t want to be married at that point, and he wouldn’t stay with me if I didn’t. It’s always sad when there’s no messy drama in the breakup. Its just two people moving in different directions or at different speeds.
Sweet, he cried, I cried…
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Two made me super uncomfortable. But the right guy, that experience made me feel safe, protected, loved, and just aok with me being me.
It was amazing. We had went on this trip to Colorado for a friends wedding. Drove there which took us 12-14 hours. Did the wedding had so much fun. Then we drove up to Wyoming and stayed then to Yellowstone. When I say we drove through every kind of weather in one day, we did. It was crazy. We finally get to Yellowstone and are walking around the walks while everyone was waiting to watch Old Faithful, and he goes, “This trip has been pretty amazing and pretty memorable.” And I was like it sure has been. It’s been so fun and weather has been crazy lol. Then he said, “Can you think of anything that would make it any more memorable?” And me being COMPLETELY oblivious was like no I can’t it’s been a wild ride and so much fun and I was listing off things. He asked me the same question again and then I had gotten a little bit in front of him and turned around. He was on one knee in the middle of the board walk with the ring, HE HAD HAD THE WHOLE WEEK! That I knew absolutely nothing about lol. I burst into tears (happy tears but ugly cry lol) and hugged/kissed him. We were the only people there in that spot because like I said everyone was watching Old Faithful. We talked for a few minutes and I couldn’t stop crying then these two wonderful humans way off in the distance hollered “Did you two just get engaged? Do you want us to take a picture of you?!” They ran over and took pictures of us. Absolutely the best day of my life. Then we drove the 10+ hours home and couldn’t hide our excitement.
A very intimate, emotional experience between myself and my partner; I did not want a big over the top proposal or a public display, I wanted a special moment between myself and my partner and that’s exactly what he gave me. We both laughed and cried. I’ll never forget it.
It was super endearing knowing he wanted to spend forever with me after 8 years of dating.
Scary
I’ve been engaged twice, only married once. In the moment you realize what’s happening, a million things are going through your mind. Do you really love this person enough to spend forever with them? Do your values align with one another? Are you willing to compromise for the ones that don’t align? Do you think they would make a good parent? If you dont want kids, do they also not want kids? Weddings are expensive. Divorces are more expensive.
It took me by surprise, even though I knew it was coming- if that makes sense. I feel like my husband wasn’t trying to keep it a secret- “I’m going shopping and you can’t come.” 😂 got the butterflies and I still cried lol
I was with him getting water at a cold spring near our camp spot. This place is really special to me because I used to go there every summer with my family and it is where my family practiced going to indigenous ceremony growing up. I don’t show very many people that area.
All of a sudden I saw that he had placed rose petals on the ground. Not just on the ground but he even sprinkled them on a log that went over the creek lol That’s when I knew. They were rose petals from our yard.
After that I was in shock as he was proposing. It felt like the kindest, most sincere, intentional, and most thought out proposal I could have ever imagined. I never imagined how my proposal would go but I never expected it to be that way. It makes me so happy to think about. He took so much into consideration.
He’s constantly supporting my pursuit in relearning traditions and practices that my family has lost. That moment was one hundred percent focused on the kind of life he wants us to build together.
At the time, I thought it was the most romantic thing I’ve ever experienced.
It was fun. I knew it was coming, so I didn’t have the whole element of surprise. The proposal itself was pretty low-key, but we really enjoyed telling our families and friends.
The first time I received one it was awkward and scary because I was 17 and the dude was a 40 year old with a kid who my family has only known for a few days.
I’d had boys joke about marrying me, or their parents joke or talk about how I’d be a good match for their kid etc but I’d never had an adult talk about it so seriously. I felt uncomfortable, it’s not like I was even dating this guy or knew him further than a new member of my parents church. In the moment, I wasn’t sure how to say no without making him angry. Fortunately I wasn’t alone at the time and my aunts shut him down right off.
The last time I was proposed to by the guy I’d been sort of seeing, we’d already talked about marriage a lot and our future together, of course I said yes, and I’m very happy I did! It was still scary, because it meant making a lot of big changes. But it was also exciting and I felt so hopeful about my future.
We’re still married btw!
He proposed to me at the cathedral my Nonna was married at in the 40s in her hometown in Italy. He also hired a photographer so we have photos of him proposing + couples photos in places she visited and where my grandmother played as a child. I expected it given some things (he bought me a very nice dress and asked me to wear it that day, etc), but it was so special.
We had talked about it so I knew it was coming. We had chosen rings etc. He told me we were just going to a park and dinner and I didn’t catch on. Anyway, we were writing a note to our baby who was on the way. He then asked me to read the letter he wrote our daughter and in it, he said he was ready to propose to me that night. I started crying, then he got on one knee and asked me to marry him. I was so so so happy that it happened and I just felt such peace knowing I’d be marrying him
My now-husband took me to a park I’d loved for a while and read a poem he wrote himself, and got our photographer friend to take pictures. He did it in the spring of my senior year of college.
It was so romantic and I couldn’t have had a better proposal. We will have been married for 2 years in just a few weeks!
I’ve been engaged twice. My first I don’t even really remember the proposal. We ended our engagement about a year later.
My second time was sweet and on Christmas morning. He made me think i was getting a cell phone but it was ring. It was our baby’s first Christmas, too so it felt special.
Lol well, my wonderful husband who I adore has very little romantic awareness. He asked me while I was sitting in my pj’s watching TV. I knew it was coming. We had picked out a ring. He kneeled down with flowers after getting home from work and started telling me how much he loved me and it dawned on me that he was asking me to marry him. I asked in shock and horror if he was and he said yes. He now knows that he blew it. 😉 He is much better about things like Valentine’s Day but he’s still a little clueless. He’s a wonderful man and I am crazy about him. But I look back now with amusement.
It was so incredibly exciting, I was on cloud 9.
He went all out on the ring, it was the most gorgeous engagement ring I had ever imagined. It was custom, we picked it out together. He chose the best quality diamond and it was something I had never even dreamed of. So the ring was just absolutely gorgeous.
He was, at the time, the person I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with. We went to breakfast at a restaurant we frequented. I had thought previously of if I was wanting a public proposal or a private proposal… I don’t like being in the center of attention but surprisingly I actually wanted a grand gesture type thing. I never even told him that but he somehow read my mind and did a public proposal at the restaurant.
He had a whole speech, the entire restaurant erupted in applause and cheers, I cried a bit, put the ring of my dreams on and said yes to the man of my dreams… I was just so ecstatic. Finally I could plan my future and wedding with the man I knew I was wanting to spend the rest of my life with. It was truly the best feeling, I felt so happy. There was so much promise, such a great future together ahead of us, this was the man I was going to spend the rest of my life with… It was just so exciting! I felt so loved, butterflies, it was the best feeling in the world. Truly one of my happiest days.
The weeks to come… Were another story. I was engaged for about two months or so and had to make the decision to break it off and gave the ring back. He became something entirely else, I didn’t sign up for that shit.
Anyways, its cheaper to break off an engagement, pay back wedding deposits, than it is for an total miserable and toxic marriage. And the whole “you know when you know” trope is such a lie and can really cloud your judgement.
It was from someone I knew I eventually would marry (because of discussions we had about that being what we both wanted), so very welcomed, but I was still surprised! He was planning a different proposal time and place for two months later, but between my friends and I; we kinda figured it out 😆 he just laughed and was like “Nooo….that’s not the plan….”, while thinking crap she figured it out haha. So he secretly scrapped the original plan and did a much more elaborate and unexpected idea sooner- and that’s why I really was so surprised. I felt soo giddy and excited. One of the best days I’ve had♥️ I didn’t need it to be elaborate or as crazy as it was, but the fact he put so much effort and thought into it , and really wanted it be amazing for me in all the ways, confirmed why I wanted to marry him.
The only other time was on the phone with a long distance ex, who we still had a thing for each other and talked regularly. During one of our hour long phone calls he said, “why don’t we just get married and you move here with me” I said, “I think you need to love someone to marry them.” And he replied, ” I do, you know that right?” This “proposal” I just laughed off . Then and before, he had never said the words, “I love you.” I remember thinking, I want more to a marriage than this. And I’m so glad I waited for my now husband.
Well. I threw up in my mouth for the first one because I got so anxious and wasn’t prepared for it. So. She said, it’s okay let’s just pretend it didn’t happen. kiss and move on
Then I planned out the “real one” to a T so I’d know exactly what was coming and when. 😂 I don’t handle unexpected things well.
It was lovely. Despite knowing it was happening, I still got very emotional and nervous, and I felt so excited afterwards. It really was like time stood still for a few minutes. He chose a great moment to do it, and we had a beautiful day.