Just Engaged and Proposals
how long did you date before he popped the question?
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Re: how long did you date before he popped the question?
"I want to warn you that I am not going to propose tonight. I know it would be a logical time and I'm usually pretty logical, but I'm just not ready."
"Oh. Okay. ...Not ready how?"
"I haven't bought a ring yet."
"OH. Okay."
So we went out for a very nice dinner, then ring-shopped on our phones during dessert.
A month shy of 3 years! We have been talking about getting married and him proposing a lot in the past couple of years, but I am in nursing school and we wanted to wait until after I graduate (Dec 2015) since I am not working it would be easier for him to save money for a ring when I do start working. We looked at rings online, just messing around, in March and he got some ideas of what I liked and didn't like. He saved some screen shots and never mentioned it again... well in May he went out and bought me a ring and proposed the night that he picked it up from the Jeweler! I couldn't have been more surprised! I was so in denial that I ruined the whole thing for him
but it was still very memorable!
We wanted to get married in between our birthdays, but the date wouldn't work (peak season if we did six months between one way and too cold to enjoy it if we did six months the other way).
Neither of us was looking for a relationship but it was so effortless and natural. Still is. We knew about four months in that we wanted to eventually get married, but we were in no hurry. We've lived together for just over two years now.
This past April, we were both quite suddenly but by the marriage bug. On the same weekend we both wanted to bring up officially getting engaged. It was kind of weird lol. We went ring shopping that weekend. The plan was for me to give him ideas, but the third or fourth ring I tried on took even his breath away and we knew. Four months later, he was still making comments about hoping we could afford my ring soon, only to surprise me with his proposal (he bought the ring Two Weeks after we picked it out!).