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Just Engaged and Proposals
SarahSmile23
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Embarrassing or Funny Proposal Stories?
Does anybody have an embarrassing or funny proposal story? Let's hear them!
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Well after dinner, we came home. I took a bath and got ready for bed while he played video games. His mom (yes we live with her for now) came home with groceries. I was helping her bring them in when my phone went off, saying I had something set on my calendar. I usually only set TV shows on it, so I checked to see what was coming on, and it said WILL YOU MARRY ME!!!!!!! And then right there in his kitched in my pajamas, he proposed.
Not too embarassing, but try having your picture taken by his mom with a red (crying) face and pajamas, with your hair piled up in a mess.
It's not embarassing, but it is a little funny what happened next... We had to drive five hours home after the proposal so off we went. An hour later, we were in the middle of the worst thunderstorm ever. Hail was rushing down the highway in huge rivers of water. Thunder was shaking the car. My fiance looked at me and said "I think God dissapproves of the engagement." I laughed it off, but the next day I ended up really sick and in the hospital. Two weeks later, we finally got celebrate. Maybe God really was pissed...
EDIT: I'm totally healthy now - it's okay to laugh about it
So cut to me sitting on my computer after working 11 hrs at a retail job. I'm not a drinker and he brings me out a glass of wine and says, "I think your gonna need this." I'm thinking what could possibly be going wrong that I would need alcohol! I looked at him like he has 2 heads and I put the glass down & refuse to touch it. So he tells me to close my eyes and I hear him going through things behind me. Now I'm starting to get a clue, but can't believe it. I hear him walk around me to the front ( I had turned my chair to look at him when he brought the wine.) He tells me to open my eyes and is on one knee with the ring. He says all the sweet romantic things and puts the ring on my finger and all I can say is, "Are you joking!" I mean it's been 12 yrs and he's anti-marriage! I'm saying it over and over, not as in no, but as in I really never thought it was coming and can't get it into my head!
Instead of waiting for a real response he then proceeds to tell me about his shopping trip for the ring and goes on for 5-10 minutes! Not because he is selfish or anything, just because he is as excited as a little kid (it was so cute!) Then we're hugging and he's still talking. It finally dawned on him that I hadn't (didn't really have a chance to) answered! So he says, "Is that a yes?" I say Yes and he then continues talking! LOL He didn't even really absorb it though because a few weeks later he says, "You know you never did say yes." I just had to laugh and remind him!
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So we ate and he left the room and came back and proposed and I said yes... but the funny part is about 2 hours afterward he broke out in hives! They were all over his body and kept him up all night (I had to go to the convenience store at 3 am to get him Benadryl and then they progressively got worse throughout the next day and made their way to his face, so I took him to the ER, because I was afraid they would close up his throat. SO then he had to get a shot in his butt! The doctor said it was most likely stress induced since he hadn't eaten or drank anything out of the ordinary.
Keep in mind that he has never broke out in hives before and is a real "man's man." Definitely something we all laugh about and I'm sure it'll come up in the best man's speech!
This is my first "unofficial" propose but its funny. This is going to sound odd though. My FI and I always had a joke about it not being love until you pick each other's nose. (yeah dont ask!) So one night we were at our favorite spot by the water overlooking the beautiful city skyline. We just like to sit there, watch boats go by and talk on his nights off so it wasnt anything out of the ordinary. So he brings me up right near the water and is holding me and kissing them then gets down on one knee, takes my hand, and asks "will you pick my nose?" I started cracking up and said "yes baby of course". He didnt have the ring but it was his funny way of asking me to marry him before he "officially" asked me to marry him.
Before a friend of mine and I left for vacation, he called and left me a voicemail but my phone never recieved it. The next voicemail said, "Well I guess you didn't like that idea... Have a good vacation." This left me perplexed. I had no clue what the hell he was talking about. He got ahold of me again after vacation and we were chatting on the phone. He was telling me all about how he screwed up and he finally realized that I was the one for him. That we weren't getting any younger and we should eventually be having children. I was curious as all get out wondering where this was going. Finally he said "If I knock you up, I gotta marry you. So what do you think?" I know, real romantic.
Basically 2 years later, we have a son and we're planning our wedding. Not exactly the order I was hoping for but I wouldn't change it one bit. I ask him all the time if he's sure about this and he just reminds me of our little "deal" I have no doubt we're made for each other. I couldn't see anyone else putting up with his or my bs!! ♥
My (now husband) and I were planning our wedding before the proposal. We had even booked our venue so I needed a ring so we could announce it. He loves to surprise, and is very good at it, so I knew he would get me good. Question was when... So the story unfolds.
We were at the mall after work. Middle of the week, literally a Wednesday. We had dinner in the food court and he mentions the photo booth close by. I wasn't up for a picture this time (it wasn't unusual for us to take one) but he insisted. In we went.
Out we came. I'm waiting for the strip to print. He's tying his shoe. He tells me the photo is done and to take it out, still tying his shoe. I tell him it hasn't been three minutes yet. Sure enough, there was the strip. I pull it out and it's a set of photos of him holding signs saying "Kristina" "Will You" "Marry Me?" and then the ring. (A friend had inserted it while we were in the booth)
Stunned, I'm looking at him holding a ring, down on one knee. I kept asking "Seriously, right now?" It's slowly sinking in. Then came a giant cheer from the level above us. Friends and family crowded around the railing staring down on us.
Startled, I ran back in the booth. Seriously. And it's all on tape.
I finally told him yes sometime later that night. I loved my proposal, but now we're married and it's still sinking in! lol I wouldn't have it any other way
I've told it to friends and they laughed its funny to me.
To make matters worse, when we got back to his place, he had the reciept sitting right on the dresser. So I saw it.. (of course he didn't know that!)
Then I kept expecting it.. and finally two days later he put the ring on his little puppy's (pug) collar and sent her to me. I pet her for a few minutes and didnt notice the ring! Eventually he just held her up to me and i saw it!
(Secretly I always wanted the knee proposal, but he didn't). It was still special though!
Also.. Josh's hands were shaking so much when he handed me the ring, I thought it was really cute that he was so nervous!
Around Christmas time, he asked me if I wanted to know what I was getting for Christmas. I said no, because I love surprises. We went Christmas shopping that night and got drinks after, where he told me.
He send me a picture message of the ring a day or so later because he couldn't keep the secret.
On December 23, my folks had him over for dinner (I'm in college so I was on break and staying at their place) and I took my fiance and I's dog out to go potty.
WHILE OUR DOG WAS TAKING A DUMP, he gave me the ring. It was a picturesque family moment and will always crack me up
My Fiance and I have know each other since 6th grade...we dated briefly in high school and he was best friends with my male cousin......after high school he went off to the Marines and we have not seen each other for 10 years....one day we met each other at a stop light.....both coming home from work and since he has lost track of my cousin he asked me to take his number so I can give it to my cousin. 2 weeks later on Memorial Day I'm hanging out with my coworker who happend to have dated a Marine when she realized where I grew up she asked me if I knew Mike. I said yeah...and we dated in HS, and I just randomly saw him 2 weeks ago and have his number...let me see if he wants to come by (I was throwing a Memorial Day BBQ that afternoon)....he came by, never left and 5 months later he proposed by making me think he was going to break up with me! He told me to come by his house right after work, which he never did because he always come over my house....so I went over there and he looked all nervous and I was worried something was wrong and that I did something...and then he asked me to marry him...I sat down on the bed and laughed and said "are you serious" and then said yes....I always thought I would cry when the one asked me to marry him...instead I laughed......6 months to go!!!!!!
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My fiance proposed last October. He wanted to go window shopping at the shopping center where we met (right outside a movie theater by a bench) and said "I want to stop by our spot" on the way there so I was suspicious. Well, we went into a store that was beside it but when we walked out he walked right past it so I thought that I was wrong. Then when we walked out of the next store I thought we were leaving but he grabbed my hand and led me to that spot. Here is the cute but embarrassing part: he asked me to recreate the moment we met because he said it was love at first sight: I walked around the corner and up to the bench. Then he asked me to do it again! Then he got down on one knee and asked me if I would spend the rest of my life with him as his wife.
Funny part: Even though I didn't know for sure when the proposal was going to happen, I actually knew the day he bought the ring because I had to stay home on his day off, the day he picked to go buy it, because I had the worst case of pink eye! He had to make up some excuse about "christmas shopping" (in the beginning of October people!) so he could leave the house. I was miserable and kept thinking that I didn't want him to propose that day and not be able to see my ring. He told me after we got engaged that he put the ring on the table just to see if I was faking my pink eye and that if I noticed it he was going to propose!
So DH and I bought a condo together. At some point when we were in escrow, we started talking about getting engaged. The conversation ended with DH saying "Well, let's live together, and in another year or 2 if we've got a decent savings, I'll propose then and we can immediately start planning the wedding from there". To me, that meant "Ring's coming in 2 years" and I put the thought of engagement out of my mind-it didn't bother me, because to me it made sense.
We go through with our closing and then we go to our place to see it and open the door, and the living room is filled with flowers. There's even a giant heart made our of roses in the middle of the living room. So I'm squee-ing over how sweet he is for doing this for me, and how I've got the "best boyfriend ever" and blah, blah, blah, when he stops me short and says "Just listen for a second". And then he gets on one knee.
And I'm thinking "His shoe is untied?". Yeah. I really thought that.
Then he pulls a ring box out of his pocket.
And I think "Aw, he's being cute, he must have made the new keys already". Yeah ... I'm dumb.
And then he asked me to marry him.
Then it finally clicks "Idiot, he's proposing". So I started crying and nodding and I managed to squeak out a "Uh-huh" before completely forgetting how to speak English for a good 20 minutes.
Apparently, he had the whole thing planned since we started house hunting ... and everybody and their mother knew it was coming except for me.
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The short (and only funny version) is:
We were on a ranch in Arizona, and there was this dog which we were playing fetch with. FI got down on one knee and gave the whole spiel. I was totally over-taken with what was happening, rationality left me, and instead of saying "yes" I grabbed the ring and put it on myself!!! (oops...FI looked sad when he realized what I did...so I gave it back to him and let him put it on)
Well, we were hugging and kissing afterwards, and hadn't thought about that dog. He was our only observer, and was whining and crying the entire time. I had to take time out of our joy just to throw the stupid stick again. FI took a video of it, just to show people how funny this dog was. He would NOT leave us alone!
1 week later I finally confront him about it, since he very well knew I was joking, and tell him that his lack of response hurt my feelings. In my head, I'm thinking about how evasive he's been with me lately and how he fights me at every turn about finally getting our finances combined since we were living together for over a year at that point. I'm thinking he doesn't really see a future with me
At some point, I ask him if I'm really what he wants, if he has a plan in place already or if it's more of an "eventually" type of idea in his head. He responds with a shoulder shrug and "I don't know, eventually?"
Tears. Sobbing. I couldn't form words.
As I'm crying, face buried in my hands, I can hear him yelling frantically
"NO BABY! NO! Stop crying!" and fumbling to get across the room to me. He was on his knees in front of me begging me to stop crying saying "Here, LOOK!" as he's opening a small purple ring box. I refused to look. I didn't want our moment to happen that way and neither did he. I made him put it away and he began explaining himself:
Yes, he'd been evasive with me, hiding money, lying about where he'd been and getting defensive about it, all because he was driving to a jewelry store and hour away to make payments on my ring. And his blank stare when I jokingly proposed was because the ring was in his pocket at that very moment because he had tried to propose to me a few hours earlier as we were driving across the Mackinac Bridge ... but I was on the phone with my dad.
After talking for an hour we finally decided the next morning would be more appropriate since the cat was now out of the bag. That idea lasted 10 minutes. Out came the ring again and this time I looked.
Our engagement story is just funny because I didn't realize what was going on. We're a pretty laid-back couple, and my FH always told me that he would propose when I least expected it. I came home early on a Friday from work and he had a tight agenda planned - washer/dryer shopping, dinner, and finally going to see Avitar. I noticed that he had given our dog a bath, but she wasn't wearing her collar. He told me to grab her collar and put it on her. I did that and he kept staring at me. He then told me to go back to the island in the kitchen and that there was something else over there. I went back and didn't see anything out of the ordinary, so I blew off his comment and sat back down. He told me to go back over and look again. So, I got up again and look and finally saw the ring box hiding. I asked it it was what I thought it was, and he told me to open it to find out. Sure enough, it was my ring
It was a perfect engagement for us - definitely caught me off guard and surprised me!!
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So 4th of July comes around & he had to work at the firestation, so he tells me to wear exactly/just bout the same thing as I was wearing the night we met at the firestation(i had to do a paper on firefightin & i knew him thru a friend...he had also pursued me with no avail for months & had finally givin up when i needed this favor) so I put on the same thing & headed to the firestation, ate dinner with the guys, & had plans for us to go up in the ladder truck (bucket) & watch the fireworks from around the area like we did the year before, but the sky looked really wicked & the radar showed a huge storm commin & my FI was like uhmm ill be right back come on guys & i sit & wait & hear the truck bein set up & im like uhmm why are we doin this?its not dark...theres not fireworks...& hes like jus come on (i knew & that confirmed it...but played dumb) so we go up in the bucket 110 feet up in the air & we look around & he was so nervous & hes like well this isnt how i imagined or planned it but i cant wait any longer to do this...& he told me to look at the lightening so i did & i turn around & hes on one knee & i see the ring & hes like "i had planned to say alot more, but i dont want us to get struck so....casey would you do me the pleasure of bein my wife?
its jus funny cause he had planned a really romantic proposal with fireworks up in the air & sweet nothings, but we had one of the worse storms ever but he still made it happen & still made it special.