There was a thread on the E board that mentioned a girl knowing her BF had the ring and she'd done like 90% of the planning for the wedding while he still hadn't proposed. IMO that is craycray, and kind of takes the fun out of it. FI and I knew we were the person each other wanted to marry, but before he actually proposed to me I refused to do ANY wedding planning or talk, no matter how much my FMIL or mother tried to get me to do it. When the time finally came, I had NO idea it was happening. In fact, I said this in another thread but the day it happened before-hand, I was bitching to my best friend about how I was tired of waiting on him to do it when I was ready and obviously he wasn't ready because he hadn't even started trying to save money to buy a ring. Ha. Joke was on me, he'd had the ring for over a month.
On the other hand, I once knew a girl who "went away to get engaged." They seriously went on vacation over the weekend TO get engaged. Weird.
Did you guys know your proposal was coming or were you taken by surprise?