September 2012 Weddings

How did

FI propose? 

I was just watching Anderson Cooper, at work.  Howie Mandell, just helped a guy propose with a flash mob on the show.  Good thing she said yes.


With all the new girls, lets hear some stories Smile

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  • FI, and I had our first major fight and he blurted out something along the lines of its a good thing I didn't propose tonight you're in a rotten mood!  So I said what?  Then he grabbed his keys, tossed me my coat and said lets go!  We're going to look at rings.  lol.

    The next day his son ratted him out and told me, so my dad made me go shopping with him to buy you a shiny gift last week.  What did he get you?

    4 years later it was finished and he tormented me for a week with pictures of a gold wrapped box in various places that we frequent and with friends and family.
  • FI used to play with my ring finger when he would hold my hand while driving.  I told him "you can't touch my finger until you intend to put something on it."  He would still grab it here and there and I would pull my hand away and give him "the look."

    We went out to dinner with some friends for his bday.  On the drive home, he kept doing it and I said "You know the rule!"  We were talking and I said "I don't expect you to get on one knee, or say some fancy speech.  You're not that kind of guy."  Little did I know, the ring was in the center console on that drive home. 

    When we got home, I went up to bed and started reading my book- which was a sequel to another book I had just read, and was called "The Wedding Girl."  He came up to bed and said "Are you the Wedding Girl."  and I replied "Uh, no."  He got in bed and said "you don't know that.  You don't know if I have the ring.  I have the ring."  I said "No you don't" and he said "It's under your pillow."  So I actually fell for his trap and looked under the pillow where I  saw his closed hand with something silver in it.  I said "that's foil" and when I opened his hand, I got this really weird, good feeling.  He never "officially" asked me, but what he did was good enough for me. 

    I didn't "announce" it.  I had just done a wedding that weekend and had a few red roses leftover, so I had those in a vase.  My little thumbnail pic is my ring the next day in those red roses.  I am a hobbyist photographer, so I took a pic and posted it on my photography FB page, and tagged myself.  I had previously posted pics that weekend from the wedding I did, so I didn't think anyone would think any differently.  It was only when a friend I talked to on the phone said "congratulations!" on the picture, that people started figuring it out.   
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    sorry it's long, i copied it from my wedding website:

    Thursday, July 7th was our 4th anniversary. We were closing on our house the following Tuesday, so Dan and I hadn't made any real plans to celebrate our anniversary because we had been so busy.

     

    Earlier that week, Dan suggested that we at least go out for dinner on our anniversary to celebrate. I said sure, but we could even push it to the weekend if that would be easier. Before we bought our house, we both lived at home with our parents, and after working all day and commuting to and from work, it just wasn't possible for us to see each other during the week. He said it would work fine, we could go right after his train got in, around 6pm.

     

    The next day he told me that Wildfire, the restaurant we had decided on, was completely booked until 7 on Thursday. I thought this was odd, but I figured it was a popular restaurant and Thursday isn't that weird of a night to go out on.

     

    Dan then suggested we go mini-golfing to kill time before dinner. This didn't seem weird to me because the previous weekend I had suggested we go. Congo River is our favorite place to go, and we usually go back around our anniversary. We went there one time before we started dating, and we had had plans to meet up with our friends there. They both called us separately and said they couldn't make it, and at that point, Dan said to me something along the lines of "I'd rather it was just us here anyway." You know when you really like someone, and you aren't sure if they feel the same, and they say something like this, you just get all happy inside?  We had a great time that day, playing minigolf, listening to the 90's music being played over the loudspeakers, getting hole-in-ones, and sneaking back around to play the second course (shh!). We started dating not too long after that. So, Congo River has special meaning to us. It's our place.

     

    So, we went to Congo River before dinner, and when we got there, I noticed it was particularly empty. I made a comment out loud about this, and I think at this point Dan thought I was on to him. However, I just figured that no one really goes mini-golfing on Thursday nights at dinner time, instead they are all probably at Wildfire. I found out later he had rented the entire course out.

     

    The first course at Congo River winds up and around a mountain, with a gazebo at the top. I think the gazebo is between the 10th and 11th holes. You have to walk through it to get to the next hole, but it has some benches and a nice view since there aren't really mountains or even hills out here. I was walking through the gazebo to get to the next hole, and Dan suggested we sit down for a minute. I decided to just stand and look out at the rest of the course, when he knelt down and asked "Kelly fullname, will you make the happiest man in the world, will you marry me?" Of course I said yes!

     

    He arranged for the mini-golf place to play the same 90's songs that we heard the first time there, while we were in the gazebo. It was perfect. After about 15 minutes of hugging and crying and excitedness, we tried to finish the course, but we really didn't care. We went out to dinner, and I found out that Wildfire wasn't actually completely booked, it was just a ploy to get us to go to Congo River.

     

    After dinner, we went to Dan's house to tell his parents, and then I went home to tell my Dad. However, when I got home, my dad was already waiting with sparkling grape juice. Dan had secretly taken my Dad out to dinner the previous week to ask for his permission. My Dad knew it was going to happen that Thursday, and was prepared to celebrate when I got home! I could not have asked for anything more perfect :)

     

    tl;dr- our 4 year anniversary was a week before we closed on our house, so no plans. FI surprised me by deciding to go out to dinner, with minigolf at our special place before hand, made to look like it was spur of the moment. he proposed in a gazebo at the top of the course.

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  • Kelly wins for best story!!!!


    I guess I don't really have like an awesome story to tell. It's kind of boring lol. FI (boyfriend at the time) and I took a trip to Aruba last December. We went ALL out and I kept calling it our practice honeymoon. Well, we got back around the end of December and....just kind of started talking about it? I guess for about a month? How we would do things, how we would make it work, where we would live, etc. Around the beginning of Feburary, we said "lets go look at rings this weekend." and I said "OKAY LETS GO". So we did, and it took us 3 weekend trips to find something I liked. We didn't tell anyone yet. Got the ring around the beginning of March, but I was a BM in a wedding 2 weeks later and I didn't want to steal any thunder. First day of April (hah!) we made our annoucement! Rest is history!
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  • I love reading all your stories!!! 

    Here's a bit of background. My FI and I met in college in 2001 but were only acquaintances.  We caught up in 2005 and dated for a bit but then my mom passed away and we went our separate ways bc I was so unhappy with life in general and couldn't handle a relationship.  We reconnected in 2010 after not speaking for 5 years and it was perfect timining....finally.

    Our engagement day started out as any normal day- until I got my first clue.  Tim gave me a card around late morning that said we were going on a scavenger hunt! 

    The first clue led us to UConn where we first met, back in 2001. I worked at the gym up there and he came in with his roommate who I had classes with and that's when we were introduced for the first time.  I got my next clue there and an elephant Pandora charm.  (Elephants were my mom's favorite animal)

    The next clue threw me off a bit and it took me a little time to figure out where we had to go.  We ended up at a park with waterfalls that we used to go to when we dated the first time back in 05.  There, I received another clue and a purple Pandora charm! (purple is my favorite color) 

    The last clue led us back to our house where a box wrapped in Christmas paper waited.  Inside was a digital picture frame with a slide show of us set to a song that I played for him in 2005 and told him that I always wanted it to be my wedding song.  I couldn't believe he remembered that after all this time!  The last slide said "will you marry me" and he got down on one knee with the ring and asked me if I would spend the rest of my life with him.  I started crying as soon as I heard the song start to play.

    The scavenger hunt was incredibly symbolic for me as it represented the times that our lives have crossed paths within the last 10 years. 

    After the proposal Tim gave me a card with a Pandora charm of two wedding rings on a pillow and a gift certificate to get my nails done!  He is the most thoughtful person I've ever met and this whole day couldn't have been more perfect.  I can't wait to spend my life with him.
  • He didn't I guess I sort of did. We had been talking about it a lot but hadn't made it official. He is awesome in many ways but a romantic proposal just wasn't something he was going to organize.

    Last May I was about to go see my family and my bff was visiting soon so I said something along the lines of "hey why don't we make this whole official." And he said OK. And then were engaged!

    I went online, picked out a ring I liked. He ordered it. When it came in we went out to dinner to celebrate. it was very us.
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  • We were on vacation on Mackinac Island, something we had planned for FI's birthday. We are both big military history buffs so we spent a good chunk of the day visiting the Fort. While we were up there we sat in the Tea Room having wine for a good couple hours just enjoying the view.

    After we were finished he grabbed my hand and led me up to where they were doing the cannon demonstrations. It was between demonstrations and no one was there at the time. He lifted me up and sat me on the ledge, right beside the 'do not sit  on ledge' sign hahaha! I was protesting about the fact he was going to get me in trouble when he popped the question.

    Later during dinner he admited he wanted to do it in the Tea Room area but chickened out with that many people around because he didn't want to be embarassed if I said no lol
  • Mine is also copied from my wedding website:  Here goes...

    It was Thursday, I was at work and Mike was calling my cell phone.  He told me that we would be going to a nice sushi dinner the next evening.  To those who know me well, I absolutely love sushi.  To those who know Mike well, he absolutely hates sushi and anything seafood unless it is fried beyond taste and recognition.  Nevertheless, I was excited.  


    On Friday, work seemed to be dragging by.  A graduate student I work with joked that Mike would propose then quickly brushed it off, as did I.  Each time I looked at the clock only five minutes had passed.  It was going to be an incredibly long day, and I wanted my sushi!  Then seemingly out of nowhere, I became very busy.  Cells had to be taken care of for over the weekend, and a meeting to help someone with a practice talk was about to start.  The practice talk was running a little longer than expected so I shot Mike a text saying I would be running late.  I received an immediate reply stating "No, you have plans."  Apparently I had been summoned, so with a few quiet apologies I snuck out of the meeting.  


    I arrived home about 6 o'clock and got dressed.  Mike wanted to go walk around the Shipyard for awhile before dinner ... which was scheduled for two hours from now.  I huffed and puffed a bit, because I didn't want to walk around in heels for two hours and look like Quasimodo by the time we sat for dinner.  


    We got in the car and Mike stated that he wanted to take back roads, the only problem is the direction he was driving was extreme  back roads to say the least.  After some driving he pulled into a beach that we often walk our little miniature dachshund.  He told me that he had made something and wanted to show me.  We walked onto the rocky beach and he pulled out a blanket and a little hard cover book.  We both sat down and I began to read the book.


    Each page of the book showed a different time together from when we had first met until our most recent trip to New York to visit my family.  I started crying because it was so thoughtful and adorable, and I think deep down I knew what was going to happen.  I had trouble flipping the last page and out of frustration Mike said "Flip it!."  And there it was.  The big question.  Written in print, right before my eyes.  "Will you Marry Me?"  And with that, Mike got down on his knee as the waves were softly coming ashore and the sun was setting, and he asked aloud, "Will you marry me?"

    Of course I said "YES!"





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  • Todd put mine in a bag of nails....yup.  

    Earlier in the week I had pushed him over the edge, and he revealed to me that he had my great grandma's ring from my mom.  I had told him the previous winter that if he didn't propose to me by the end of the next year I would be proposing to him!  

    I asked him to bring me some nails to hang a few new things in my apartment, and in return I would make him dinner.  He said, "Okay, but I have to go home and get something first.  Maybe something for you."  He had been saying this since he told me he had the ring, but when he got to my house and was acting super strange, I knew he had it with him.

    We ate dinner, and I went straight to hanging the stuff.  I kept asking him to hand me a nail but he was just standing behind me like a weirdo, not saying anything.  I turned around and he was holding a little bag of nails with my ring in the mix.  I started jumping around the kitchen and asked if he was really going to propose to me.  He said, "Nope.  Just brought it to tease you."  Of course he was kidding :)  He later told me he felt really lame putting it in a bag of nails, but he couldn't think of anything better and he was running out of time.
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    [QUOTE]Mine is also copied from my wedding website:  Here goes... It was Thursday, I was at work and Mike was calling my cell phone.  He told me that we would be going to a nice sushi dinner the next evening.  To those who know me well, I absolutely love sushi.  To those who know Mike well, he absolutely hates sushi and anything seafood unless it is fried beyond taste and recognition.  Nevertheless, I was excited.   On Friday, work seemed to be dragging by.  A graduate student I work with joked that Mike would propose then quickly brushed it off, as did I.  Each time I looked at the clock only five minutes had passed.  It was going to be an incredibly long day, and I wanted my sushi!  Then seemingly out of nowhere, I became very busy.  Cells had to be taken care of for over the weekend, and a meeting to help someone with a practice talk was about to start.  The practice talk was running a little longer than expected so I shot Mike a text saying I would be running late.  I received an immediate reply stating "No, you have plans."  Apparently I had been summoned, so with a few quiet apologies I snuck out of the meeting.   I arrived home about 6 o'clock and got dressed.  Mike wanted to go walk around the Shipyard for awhile before dinner ... which was scheduled for two hours from now.  I huffed and puffed a bit, because I didn't want to walk around in heels for two hours and look like Quasimodo by the time we sat for dinner.   We got in the car and Mike stated that he wanted to take back roads, the only problem is the direction he was driving was   extreme    back roads to say the least.  After some driving he pulled into a beach that we often walk our little miniature dachshund.  He told me that he had made something and wanted to show me.  We walked onto the rocky beach and he pulled out a blanket and a little hard cover book.  We both sat down and I began to read the book. Each page of the book showed a different time together from when we had first met until our most recent trip to New York to visit my family.  I started crying because it was so thoughtful and adorable, and I think deep down I knew what was going to happen.  I had trouble flipping the last page and out of frustration Mike said "Flip it!."  And there it was.  The big question.  Written in print, right before my eyes.  "Will you Marry Me?"  And with that, Mike got down on his knee as the waves were softly coming ashore and the sun was setting, and he asked aloud, "Will you marry me?" Of course I said "YES!" PS I absolutely love everyone's stories!
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    So being a sushi lover, who can't get it where I live---- Did you get sushi?!
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    [QUOTE]In Response to Re: How did : So being a sushi lover, who can't get it where I live---- Did you get sushi?!
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    <div>Yup!  And it was delish, I saved a pic of it because the presentation was gorgeous!  </div><div>Here it is:</div>
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    </div><div>FI got some chicken and broccoli dish.  He was SO happy there were other options :)</div>
  • Everyone has such awesome stories, I love reading all of them!

    Alright I have to start with some background too.  FI and I bought our house almost 2 years ago (in March).  When we bought the house we bought a little gnome to put on the front step at Christmas Tree Shop.  We named him Shamus Resendes (to merge our two cultures).  The next summer Christmas Tree Shop had another set of gnomes so we bought Shamus a friend, Manny.  Sometime in August (I think) I was leaving for work and I noticed a mess on our front steps as I was backing out of the driveway.  So I stopped and looked harder.  I realized that someone had taken poor Manny and smashed him in a pile on our front steps.  Shamus had been gnome-napped.  We were heart broken over the loss of our "mascots" and Eric went so far as to call the local police.

    Flash forward to labor day weekend, we had plans to have my family over for a cookout on Sunday so he and I were getting the house cleaned up and getting the food ready.  I was in the kitchen sweeping the floor and he was in the backyard getting ready to mow the lawn.  He calls me to come out to the back patio and sounded very urgent/confused.  As I walked out the back door he pointed to the steps leading to the patio and said "Are those yours?"  Piled on the step where three of my rings (2 that I wore everyday and 1 that I hadn't worn in months).  Automatically my mind flashes to Shamus and Manny and I'm wondering if the culprit had broken into our house and dropped my rings on his way out.  I'm freaking out inside trying to think of a logical explanation.  Then he pulls out a box and opens it, and says "Is this yours?"  Inside was the most amazing ring, it was so me.  He got down on one knee and asked me to marry him.  I was so surprised that I forgot to yell at him for scaring the daylights out of me!

    We were leaving for Disney World the Friday after Labor Day and he originally planned on proposing in front of Cinderella's Castle but didn't want to lose the ring or have the surprise ruined going through security at the airport so he came up with this idea.
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  • Awww I love reading these stories, they are cheering me up today! My FI proposed to me on a trip to England and Paris. His parents live in England now so we were visiting them for about a week and then moving over to Paris for a few days. First he threw me off by asking about my ring size about two days before we left. I was sure he wouldn't be able to get a ring in time so I thought maybe he was preparing for Valentine's Day the next month. Apparently he had already bought the stone and picked out the setting, so immediately after we figured out my ring size he went outside to go "call his sister" and really he was calling to tell them to ship it!

    The whole time we were in England he had the ring under the seat in his dad's car because he couldn't decide where to do it. We hung out with his parents for most of the week but he wanted to do it privately. On our last day in England we were staying at a hotel in London, just the two of us, and we went to visit Hampton Court Palace a little outside the city. He basically dragged me all over the place looking for the perfect spot and I was totally oblivious! I just thought he wanted to see EVERYTHING and I was enjoying myself, so whatever. Finally we made it to a beautiful secluded garden. I was taking pics and he was standing behind me, and he kept saying, "Now take a pic of that. Now take a pic of that." Finally I was like, "WHY do you want me to take so many photos of inanimate objects?!" He said something and I turned around and he was on one knee! I was so completely shocked that I can barely remember what he said, which is sad for him because he spent weeks planning it, haha. But it was very sweet. He said he wanted to propose in England because he thought I would expect it more in Paris, but also because he wanted Paris to be our "engagemoon." So after he proposed we went back to London, had a fancy tea in this really fancy hotel, and went to a play that night. The next day we got on the train to go to Paris for basically the best three days ever. It's funny because we didn't tell anyone, not even our families, until our last night in Paris. So it was basically just between us, and the first person who knew was a bartender in London after we went to the play!
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  • This is fun!
    So, we had been talking about it for a while, we even had our venue picked out (FI picked it out when we were camping one summer), so it was kind of a waiting game lol.

    Anyway, Wednesdays I work late, don't get home until almost 8 sometimes. When I got home this particular evening my FI was in the living room and he said to me "I got you a surprise, its in the refridgerator", now I was expecting dinner or a cannoli b/c he had been working near a bakery that day that made awesome cannolis. Anyway, I went into the fridge and saw a big Godivas box and was a little surprised. I opened it and there were half a dozen chocolate covered strawberries in the box (my favorite), one was missing, and I said to him "oh, sure you went and ate one before I could open it" and then I noticed a ring where the strawberry should have been. That's when he came in and he said "well?" and I said "I'll think about it".
     He told me later he couldn't do anything big, or out of the ordinary b/c then I wouldn't be surprised, I would know something was up, and he wanted me to be surprised. He was right and I love the way he proposed.
  • Love this thread!

    After 4 years, he finally put a ring on it. There were no roses or violins - he's just not the romantic type - but luckily I didn't need much convincing. How did he do it? It all started with a pen and some paper. "Here, write down all the names of the guests you'd invite to our wedding." Yup, that's about as close to a proposal as I received at first. Within a few days of creating a guest list and researching a few venues, we had a venue booked and a wedding date set; all without an actual proposal or ring on my finger. In fact, when I told him the venue was available on our date, he said "Well, I guess we're getting married." We're not exactly the traditional type.
    My fiancé's mother offered her engagement ring to us to use however we saw fit. We brought her ring to a jeweller and chose a design for the ring. Then I had to wait for the official proposal, which I reminded him was indeed necessary even though he knew I'd say yes. Sure enough, a few weeks later, he made arrangements for our neighbours to watch my son so that we could have a lovely dinner downtown. We both indulged in a fabulous meal at The Keg and then took a little stroll over to the National Gallery of Canada, which will be the location of our wedding reception. There, in front of the gallery, beneath the white glow of the giant spider eggs (see pic below), he pulled out the beautiful ring and officially asked me to marry him. Oh, and I said yes.



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  • Somehow he managed to surprise me even though I knew almost every step along the way....
    I had been anticipating a Christmas/New Years proposal. Though our anniversary is also Dec 28th, we had just bought our house a few months earlier and marriage was something we knew we both wanted, and talked about regularly. We were attending a cousins weddign in Florida and making a vacation of it in mid-January I figured there are many perfect chances for a proposal in that month of holidays and celebrations.  But alas it all came and passed and I was kind of bummed I'll admit.  So not long after we settled back into normal blah February life I found a post it note that he had dropped and it was in a woman's writing so it piqued y interest-it had websites written on it-website to look at settings for designing a wedding ring!!!

    He had an elaborate plan all set up for St. Patrick's day, but the day he picked up my ring he went to show my bff at the bar she worked at, all the girls there saw it including the owner, who is a family friend.  The next night I went to dinner at the bar owners' restaurant and she nearly gave it away.  That compounded with own suspisions made think surely it was on the horizon, (it was also 3 days before Valentines day) 

    That night after I finished dinner, he came home and we were headed to visit his brother (who was very ill and sadly died about a month later) for the weekend.  While he was pumping gas I was doing my usual fighting and organizing (FI thinks his front seat is his filing cabinet and I always have to wait for him to pick up and arrange things to get into the car-its something I whine about a lot) So I was putting his receipts away and making sure I wasn't sitting on a pen or anything when from between the seats I pulled a trifold vinyl folder-I instantly knew what I had found-it was the diamond certificate!! 

    As you can imagine I was a wreck-do I tell him I found it, let it go? what? Its Valentines weekend and we had canceled plans to go see the family because they needed help and his brother was having another bad week looking like things were declining again-it would be totally selfish to be worried about jewelery now, but we had a 4 hour drive.   I assumed (correctly) he just wanted to show his brother the ring and tell him about his plan, FI used the same jeweler that he bought  his wife's set from, and it was a positive thing for him to talk about with his brother during a hard time.

    So he was such a good boy and Surprised me with dinner at a nice restaurant about half was home on Sunday (v-day)  He starts off an Exit and says oh we should gas here because blah blah-it wasn't a normal pull off and didn't seem like there was going to much around.  They had met the fam there for a Thanksgiving there so his parents wouldn't have to drive as far and he remembered it being very nice.  SO now I'm all oh god he is going to propose I I Iook like crap i didn't know I dresses for a 4 hour car ride, not fancy proposal dinner.  Joke on me, yet again he did not propose though we had a lovely dinner.

    Cut to Monday Feb 15th 2011I happened to be up when FI got home from work that night. (I was catching up on laundry and everything that didn't get done while we were out of town that weekend) Which was a pretty rare occurrence-he got home from work @ 1 am.  He comes in chats for a minute says he for got something in the car, then comes back in and yells fro me to grab the puppy that she has something in her mouth.  I was sitting on bed and he had sent her running in, without even looking I stick my hand in her mouth, say oh well she swallowed whatever it was-he's standing in the doorway now, and says no no look again as he plops her in my lap her collar shifts and a ring box slides down around her neck. 

    He didn't even officailly ask me we just cried and kissed etc... he says you made me so nervous, and I had a great plan but then I realized I can;t keep secrets from you and I  was told proposing on Valentines was cliche and so I came home and you were up and I figured why not as good a time as any and I might have a shot at surprising you this way!

    so yeah I got proposed to by my FI/pupy at 1:30 am while in my pajamas the day after Valentines day!! I LOVE it!
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  • I'll try to keep it short because its kind of weird lol.

    FI is really bad at giving hints about presents. So in Dec 2010, when he told me he bought me a "very expensive xmas gift" that was "very important" to him, I kinda had an idea what was up. But then he would drop more hints that made no sense, and I would get thrown off. I was kinda confused but pretty sure he got me a ring.

    One day we were acting like kids and having a tickle fight in bed (don't lie... you do it too!) and he said "Do you want your present now?" I said no, and that I could wait till xmas. He said he reallllyyy wanted me to have it before xmas though but I insisted I didn't want it yet.

    Later that day, I just got home from work and put on PJs and sat down to watch Cops (yes.... we watch that. All the time.). My mom called and said "Do you know where your bf is? He is at the bar with your father!" I didn't think anything of it because he and my dad get along great. He came home soon after, and was extremely sweet. He gave me a hug but I could feel his heart was pounding. I knew something was up. I sat back down and he asked if I wanted my present now. I reluctantly agreed, and he told me to hold out my hands and close my eyes. When I opened them, there was the ring! He asked if I would marry him and I said "Of course I will!" I can't lie though, I really wasn't surprised that it happend, I was surprised at the ring he bought. It was nothing like what I had shown him in the past, but I sure like it more now!

    I right away called and texted people, but when I texted my brother and told him that FI just proposed, he wrote back "what the hell is wrong with you!? Why would you tell me via text? Call!" Lol.
  • I love all the stories... Mine is a bit strange... I am still waiting for my proposal :)

    FI grew up in hershey PA, i grew up in Sri Lanka (half the world away) and we met in Chicago about 2 yrs ago. We had been dating for about 8 months when he first  asked about what kind of rings I wanted.. I always wanted a Sapphire (they come from sri lanka) I told him exactly what kind of stone i wanted, and that I wanted a simple ring...

    Last summer he met my parents for the first time, and asked my dad for my hand... since then every moment i was expecting a ring... by october when there was no ring i started getting worried... Specially as he had talked about wanting to get married in 2012, and he knew that sept 1 was important to me (its my parents anniversary) and it was coming up soon... at which i tactfully explained how long it takes to plan a wedding, and how we have to give my family atleast 8months notice because they have to travel from so far away...  then he said fine, lets set the date for sept 1 and look at a few venues when we go to hershey for thanksgiving.... so we looked at places and realized that everyone else books thier wedding venue more than a yr out and we had very few choices left.... so we went ahead and booked a place and paid a deposit. BUT STILL NO RING!
    I cried the night before going to look at places because i wanted to introdce him as my fiance and I couldnt...
    I thought Christmas for sure - but i opened my presents and STILL NO RING!

    Then I found out that he was working on getting the sapphire from sri lanka (like i had origially wanted) and working with a jeweller to custom design the ring and how complicated it had become... He had to wait for someone trust worthy to bring the ring back to the USA for him... Its finally here - my aunt brought it over, but i still havent gotten it yet....

    I told him i would have said yes even if he had used a plastic ring from the dollar store and that he didnt have to go through all this trouble... he said that i deserved something unique and special

    So i know its coming, and i cant wait to see it - but the wedding is 206 days away and STILL NO RING!

  • Here's our from our wedding website.  I had FI write it from his point of view!

    It began like any other Saturday morning. We slept in for a while, making the most of a rainy start to the day. There was no need to rush the day by as we only had a few errands to run in the morning and tickets for the NC State football game that afternoon. But this was no ordinary old Saturday. This was the day that I would ask Alison to marry me.

    My plan was perfect. I was going to pop the question after we ran our few quick errands that morning so we could celebrate all afternoon at the game but, as usual with our "quick" trips out, this small excursion turned into an all morning shop-a-thon. My hopes of pulling this off as planned faded with every trip down aisles at Target. Then Walmart. Annnnd Marshalls. By now it was do or die time. I somehow got her talked out of a trip to DSW and was ready to head home and hit my knee. Of course all of that browsing works up quite the appetite. So before we headed home, we stopped for the perfect cold, rainy day lunch...Wendy's chili.

    Now there was no way I was going to be able to do this before the game. It would be too rushed and I didn’t want that. So we went on with our afternoon plans and went to the football game, which seemed to last forever. Not only because I couldn’t wait to ask Alison but because it rained the entire game.

    After the game, we headed home tired and cold but happy because State won. It was time to do what I had been waiting all day to do. As soon as we got home though, Alison started getting ready for bed. I needed to get the ring out of my closet without her seeing and ruining the whole surprise. Now with her just around the corner brushing her teeth, I snuck the ring out of the box and into my pocket. But before I could propose, she was already in pajamas and sporting her retainer, then she quickly jumped in bed and started reading her book. I asked her if she would go get the clothes out of the dryer in an attempt to get her standing so I could be on my knee. No such luck. Not deterred, I climbed up beside her and sat down with the ring now in my hand. After all of the day’s distractions and delays, it was finally time. Oddly I wasn’t nervous at all just very excited. I put my arm around her and asked if she would do me a favor. When she said yes, I asked if she would make me the happiest man alive and marry me. She said yes!!

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  • edited February 2012
    I love reading everyone's stories! Y'all have some amazing proposal stories!

    My FI proposed to me at a football game. Most girls I know would cringe at this, but I'm a huge football fan, and this was actually my dream proposal. We traveled down to New Orleans to visit my family for Christmas. While we were there, we decided to attend the Falcons/Saints Monday Night game. We were one of the first people inside the stadium after they opened the doors, so we walked around and took pictures. We were down by the field, taking pictures when he asked me if I was having a good time. I told him yes. As I started to walk away, he grabbed my hand and said, "I have one more question to ask you," then got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. It was amazing!

    ETA: A picture for your viewing pleasure! Thankfully my SIL caught it on camera. My brother almost ruined it because after he finished taking the picture, he was walking down to where we were standing. When my SIL noticed what was going on, she grabbed his arm and stopped him. :)

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  • jessa1228jessa1228 member
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    edited February 2012
    Well I guess I just answered this in the thread above. I should probably start reading threads in the correct order, ha.

    ETA: I love everyone's stories!
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  • I copied from our website =)

    May 21, 2011
    We had planned a little weekend getaway to Atlanta for a couple of months. I knew he had a ring with no diamond already, but it was still a mystery as to exactly when he would propose. I suspected that maybe it would happen that weekend, but didn't get my hopes up because I just wanted to enjoy the weekend away with him. 

    Our first day down there, we went to the Aquarium. He thought he might like to propose there, so he brought the ring along with him. Little did we know, we had to go through a metal detector to get in! The surprise wasn't ruined, though, and we had a great time there. But he didn't propose. While we were walking through the giant tunnel inside, I was secretly hoping that he would propose there, but there were a tin of loud children running around and it was packed. It was actually a good thing that he didn't. Right after that, we went to the Coca-Cola Factory and had to go through another metal detector! I didn't see anything, though, and he didn't propose there either. 

    That night, we went to an amazing and authentic Japanese restaurant for dinner. We had our own private room with tatami mats and the food was incredible! Towards the end of the meal I asked him how much he was tipping the waitress and he acted offended. "I don't think that's something my girlfriend should be asking me." He said. I was offended that he would say that since we had been together so long. There wasn't anything we couldn't ask each other. And right as I was starting to speak my mind, I looked back at him and he was holding the ring and said "But my wife could." I was shocked. I wasn't expecting it all! I'm sure the waitress thought I was weirdo because I was all smiles and giggles when she came back. I was definitely a wonderful moment.
  • edited February 2012
    Sweet stories!

    We'd been dating about a year and a half, and lived separately. After a weekend out of town together, I'd head back to my place and he'd always be sad, wanting me to stay at his place that night (which I did at times, but after 2-3 nights away from home, I always wanted to sleep in my own bed and hang out with my cat a bit). He asked several times why I didn't just bring clothes over, even the cat, and stay a few days at a time. I had had a very long live-in relationship (9 yrs) that did not end in marriage, and I just said that I wasn't going to do that again. I was going to maintain my own space until and if we decided to marry. He didn't bug me so much after I explained it but he would still get sad when we'd go out of town for the weekend and then I'd go back to my place.

    One morning in the summer, after I'd stayed over at his place (MEGA bachelor pad, btw), he woke up and said he wanted to go look for a new couch at Ikea, and he wanted my help & input. So we went and looked and sat on couches, and suddenly we were saying how we could rearrange the living room, and how my couch would go with the one he was about to buy. And the day just kind of went from there- looked at kitchen ideas at Ikea, then to Home Depot and talking about painting various rooms and picking out paint chips, just for fun. We went to dinner, and we went to my place to hang out. I said, "It kind of sounds like I'm moving in." And he said, "It kind of seems that way, doesn't it?" I said, "Well, you know my stance on that. I'll move in, but you really only have a finite period to make it official." And he was like, "Official? Huh?" And I said, "Um, to decide to get married. To propose. I'm not giving you an ultimatum, but if I'm moving in, that's what we're doing, so if that's what you want..." And he was all, "Married?! You want to?!! Seriously??!" And was just grinning ear to ear. He started talking about "making a plan" to propose and was just so happy!  A few days later he said he had a plan, and he was so excited, and wanted to tell me, but he wanted it to be a surprise too. He could hardly stand it.

    A week later, he said he was almost ready with the plan but he felt like he had to check with me first- how would I feel about his grandmother's ring? I was already bawling by the time he finished the sentence- family jewelry is something I'm really sentimental about, and to get a family ring like that, I was a blubbering mess at the idea. So, obviously, yes, that was fine. I was a little hesitant later, realizing the ring might be totally not my style, so I asked if re-setting it might be an option, in case, and he said yes. I knew the ring was being shipped from his dad's house, and I suspected it would arrive that Wednesday or Thursday, and those were nights I worked. I was off on Friday, though. He said he wanted to "kidnap" me on Friday afternoon, which he did. We drove off into the Gorge, where we spend a lot of weekends hiking, not too surprising but I wasn't sure where we were headed. He drove us to a mountaintop where you can see all the major peaks in the area, and the afternoon view was so amazing & clear! And we were sharing it with roughly 2 dozen other people...so we wandered off down a trail and found a sunny clearing, and he asked! :) So sweet & very "us." We went for dinner and drinks at a nice little romantic place near what is now Our home, not just his. <3
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  • Short and sweet: 
     We went to Las Vegas in September. We were getting ready to go out to dinner and my fiance said from across the hotel room "I have a question to ask you!" And like a goober, I said "Shoot!". He walked over to me and pulled me to stand up and got down on one knee. I blurted out "Here?!" Looking back, it probably wasnt the nicest thing to say. But I am glad he did it when we were alone and not in front of a crowd of people. He told me he had wanted to propose on the gondolas at the Venetian, but I didnt want to go. Then he wanted to do it at the top of the Eiffel Tower ride, but it was closed because it was raining. It was our 2nd to last night there and so he was afraid he wouldnt have another opportunity to do it.


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    Honeymoon Location: Punta Cana, DR
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  • Oh! And the ring was seriously perfect, which is not a word I use lightly. Really & totally my style. I was a weepy mess when he showed it to me, and just looking at it reminds me of how lucky I am to have him.
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  • Great stories everyone!
    We had been talking and looking at rings, I knew it was coming, so he would always say, "be patient, it'll happen".   Finally one day we were talking and he told me that if hadn't proposed by Sept 12(the day we met), which was in two weeks.  On Friday, Sept 9 we went out to dinner at the Pickle Factory which the first place we had dinner together and one of our favorite spots for a couple reasons.  I kind of thought of the possible idea of what could happen, but I knew what he left the house with so I forgot about it.  We had to stop at his parents to get some motor parts, I talked to his dad for a bit (he already knew what was going on).   On our way to dinner, the sunset was absolutely amazing and I was being completely obsessed with getting there before the sun was down. 
    When we got there he dropped me off while he parked, so I could start taking my pictures.  I had taken about ten, so when he came up to me, he asked if I good any great pictures and I eagerly showed him.  I continued to take a few, and then he told me I should take a picture of this, as he placed the ring in front of my camera as I was taking a picture! 
    He got down on his knees, asked if I would make him the happiest guy and marry him!  It was perfect!!  We continued to walk along the marina and the pier, which is at the restaurant. I couldn't asked for anything better!!
  • Katiesue04Katiesue04 member
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    edited February 2012
    It was the first weekend in October of 2010 and I had to work that Saturday because we were oober busy at work.  I was talking to my mom on the phone on the way to work and she sounded very oddly excited about something, so I kept asking her what she was so excited about.  She made up some random stuff like she always does and I believed her :)  Little did I know my fiance had just gotten to my parents house to show them the ring, and he asked my dad if he could marry me :)  So my mom abrubtly told me she had to go and I was like what the heck?  So sunday rolls around and we were planning on going to the pumpkin patch with our really good friends, I was kind of tired and stressed from the long work week and almost canceled.  My fiance woke up that morning so excited to go to the pumpkin patch, and he is usually a very clam mellow person that doesn't get excited about anything.  So we get to our friends house and I was talking to my girlfriend while my fiance went into a different room and showed his guy friend the ring, yeah still totally oblivious to everything!  So we get to the pumpkin patch and my fiance was acting quite strange.  He kept his hands in his pockets the whole time lol!  So my fiances guy friend "decided" we should go in the corn maze first.  So we went I was leading the way and our two friends were behind us, my fiance told his guy friend to vear of course and I hit a dead end, and turned back around and it was just my fiance and I and I was so in shock I just grabbed the ring and said yes lol!  I didn't think it was going to be that soon because we talked about it and kept saying we didn't have enough money to get married, but in the end we have enough money to get married lol!  Needless to say I got a thing about corn mazes now lol!  I guess it was a true Wisconsin proposal lol!
  • bridalmommabridalmomma member
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    edited February 2012
    Taken from DD webpage.... he knows how much family means to her so he proposed in my Mom & Dad's living room!!  The picture was taken by my sister as he was actually proposing.



    How we got engagedSaturday, November 06, 2010
    Ryan and I knew we wanted to get married, so we began looking at rings. I found a ring I went crazy for, so Ryan and I put it on layaway. A few months later, after it had been paid for, we went to the jewlery store in my hometown to pick up the ring. He told me I would get to look at my ring on the way to my grandma's house, but he would put it away once we arrived. He did, and of course, needless to say, I was a little sad. Later in the day, he went to help my aunt load up her car. While this was happening, my family slowly started to pour into the room with cameras. Ryan came back in and I, oblivious to what was going on around me, looked to see Ryan begin to kneel in the middle of my grandma's living room floor. Down on one knee, he took my hand and told me he loved me. He began telling me how my family was so welcoming and heartfelt when he first met them and he couldn't imagine a better person to spend his life with. After that he looked into my eyes and told me again how much he loved me and how he couldn't live without me. Then he said the words I had been waiting to hear, "Meghan, will you marry me?" Of course, I said "Yes!!". It was one of the most amazing moments Ryan and I have ever shared.


    ETA: Realized I could also tell how my hubby had proposed!
    We went out for a fancy dinner in the city as he was leaving for a two week trip the next day. After dinner he took me on a romantic carriage ride, as we snuggled under the blanket he removed his arm from around me & said "Da#n my sinuses are killing me!". So I'm thinking WOW that was romantic! LOL He handed me a pack of sinus meds & asked me to open them. When I turned back to give them to him he was on one knee (in a moving carriage!) holding  my ring (he bought the diamond then designed the settiing) and said ... "one more thing, will you marry me?"!! Of course after that how could I say no.
    He then left the next day on his trip with instructions not to tell anyone till he got back! Like that happened LOL Tongue Out 
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