Worst proposals

jalyndani · August 2014

So I came very close to seriously messing up DH's proposal plans...

We had been discussing marriage for several months last year, seeing as we'd been together almost 11 years. I just figured that we would simply choose a day/month in the near future that wouldn't conflict with work & vet school, and start planning. I mean, 11 years people. We knew we were getting married. I figured that a formal proposal was not going to happen because 1) we aren't overly romantic people, and 2) why ASK me a question that you already know answer to?

When I get home for my Christmas break from school, I was more than slightly irritated that we hadn't set any plans in stone yet because my two-week break would be the only time we had to make decisions and plan. And I would bitch bitch bitch."Why are we not talking about this? Are we not getting married then? Do you not want to marry me? Maybe we shouldn't do this. Whatever. I don't even care." His response was always, "we'll talk about it when I get off work for Christmas".

Well, the first day of his Christmas vacation was already busy for us- his parents and sister were coming to town so we could take "Christmas pictures" on our college campus that we could give his parents as gifts. I wasn't thrilled about this idea because I had gained a ton of weight during the school year and hated the way I looked in pictures. Then, the weather forecast said that day was going to be cold, windy, and raining. I asked him repeatedly to pleeeeease change the day because I was going to look AWFUL in all these pictures with that kind of weather. Nope. Not a chance. We're doing it this day. We would just take pictures inside one of the really pretty historical buildings on campus instead.

The morning of this "photoshoot", we had a damned tornado watch issued. I was soooooo pissed and grumpy and irritable that this idea was even taking place in this kind of weather. WHO PLANS TO TAKE PICTURES IN THE RAIN WITH THE THREAT OF TORNADOES??!! I almost threatened to not even get ready and go through with it. Thankfully, I did go and the rain was almost stopped by the time we started walking around campus. After a few hasty, ill-positioned shots, I had an idea that something else was going on. Sure enough, DH started steering the group towards this really picturesque, significant spot on campus that's popular for engagements. He sat me down on a bench, got on one knee, and officially proposed with a beautiful ring that he picked out all by himself. His parents, my parents, our sisters,and my grandma were all present (my family had been hiding nearby).

My oh-so-romantic response after I stopped laughing? "You ass." Lol. I did finally say yes through the giggles.

He had planned the entire thing with both of our families since October, and I nearly botched it all by being super grumpy. Been married two months and a day now!

abbyj700 · August 2014

I hate the idea of calling people's proposals bad - outside of agreeing with you shouldn't terrify your SO before asking them to marry you. :-)

My FI asked when we were drunk, in our garage, no ring, in the middle of the night. And ya know what? It was just us. As he popped down on one knee I got super nervous, made him stop, and changed the radio station to find the perfect song - all the while he is laughing at me and saying "baby, will you please just let me do this." And he had this big speech planned out...which I interupted and screamed "yes, baby, yes, yes time a million!"

And ya know what? It wasn't perfect...but it was. We're 67 days away from getting married. And I can tell you...my parents have been married 43 years - I've never once heard their proposal story - so I'm assuming it was nothing elaborate and that that doesn't much matter.

Red.Zinnias · October 2014

Longtime lurker, but I just had to add this horrible proposal story that I use as a warning to everyone I know who mentions even thinking of proposing to their SO.

My good friend from high school decided that he was going to propose to his girlfriend after 2+ years together. Great! All those of us "in the circle" knew was that he was taking her out to an expensive restaurant and the proposal would take place there. What we found out later was that he pretended to go to the restroom just after they were seated, and gave the ring to their server to have it placed on a dessert plate and brought out at the end of the meal. I'm sure he saw it on television or the internet. lol

Well, the end of the meal comes, the dessert is brought out and...no ring. Friend is confused, making awkward conversation, and then pretends to go to the bathroom again. He is on the hunt for the server when everyone hears a happy screech and a woman shouting "YES!" from across the restaurant. Yep, they'd taken the ring out to the WRONG DAMN TABLE. Friend and the server both went over, where the guy was awkwardly trying to explain to his girlfriend (of something like 2 weeks) that he didn't propose. They explain what happened, guy looks at them, then to the ring that's now on the confused girlfriend's finger. Then, he basically tells friend, "finders, keepers!" The restaurant called the police, but they tell friend it is a civil matter.

The friend and his fiancee (he ended up proposing later without a ring) ended up getting the name of the guy who kept the ring from the restaurant (I think from his credit card information?) and sued. The server showed up for them as a witness on the agreement that they did not sue the restaurant. They requested the return of the ring, but by the time the court date came the guy and his girlfriend had broken up and he had SOLD THE RING. The ruling came down in friend's favor, but it was for the jurisdictional maximum -- $5,000. The ring cost him just under $20,000.

I always tell people to let it be a lesson to make sure the ring goes directly from their hands to SO's.

flutteringinfl · October 2014

My favorite proposal story happened to the twin sister of one of my best friends. I don't know her sister very well, but since they're identical and have very similar mannerisms it's not hard for me to imagine how it went.

The sister's now-husband wanted to propose on the beach where they had their first date, at sunset. They get to the beach but it's still too early for him to propose, so they find a bench and she starts talking. And if she's anything like my friend, once she gets started, you can't stop her. "And then he said this and she said that and can you believe it and..." The sun's starting to go down, he's getting super nervous, doesn't want to miss the moment but doesn't know how to get her to stop talking. Finally he just blurts out, "Do you ever SHUT UP?"

Well of course she's sitting there all insulted, and as she's trying to come up with a good comeback, he kneels down and proposes.

larrygaga · October 2014

Wegl13 said:

I've got a good one for ya. Turns out this is the suggestion FI gave to his friend when he proposed to his (now) wife. Thank goodness this happened long before we were a couple and I could make sure he was super aware of what a terrible idea it was (the actual proposal was also FI's idea and it was superb). So basically the idea is this: you get some friends, and you rent a panel van. And you get the friends to all do the ski mask thing, tie you up in the back, and then go and "kidnap" your intended, and chuck her in the back with you being there, all tied up, and drive off. She's scared, you look scared, so you look at her and go "if we get out of this alive, will you marry me?" When she says yes, you alert the friends to pull the van over and release you, and make sure your intended is aware that "verbal contracts are legally binding." He's such a romantic, you know. ^_^. Actually I think the idea was to ensure success of your proposal, lol.

Yeah, I would go back on that "legally binding verbal contract" and maybe go find myself a guy who isn't a huge asshole.

thisismynickname2 · October 2014

Red.Zinnias said:

Longtime lurker, but I just had to add this horrible proposal story that I use as a warning to everyone I know who mentions even thinking of proposing to their SO.

My good friend from high school decided that he was going to propose to his girlfriend after 2+ years together. Great! All those of us "in the circle" knew was that he was taking her out to an expensive restaurant and the proposal would take place there. What we found out later was that he pretended to go to the restroom just after they were seated, and gave the ring to their server to have it placed on a dessert plate and brought out at the end of the meal. I'm sure he saw it on television or the internet. lol

Well, the end of the meal comes, the dessert is brought out and...no ring. Friend is confused, making awkward conversation, and then pretends to go to the bathroom again. He is on the hunt for the server when everyone hears a happy screech and a woman shouting "YES!" from across the restaurant. Yep, they'd taken the ring out to the WRONG DAMN TABLE. Friend and the server both went over, where the guy was awkwardly trying to explain to his girlfriend (of something like 2 weeks) that he didn't propose. They explain what happened, guy looks at them, then to the ring that's now on the confused girlfriend's finger. Then, he basically tells friend, "finders, keepers!" The restaurant called the police, but they tell friend it is a civil matter.

The friend and his fiancee (he ended up proposing later without a ring) ended up getting the name of the guy who kept the ring from the restaurant (I think from his credit card information?) and sued. The server showed up for them as a witness on the agreement that they did not sue the restaurant. They requested the return of the ring, but by the time the court date came the guy and his girlfriend had broken up and he had SOLD THE RING. The ruling came down in friend's favor, but it was for the jurisdictional maximum -- $5,000. The ring cost him just under $20,000.

I always tell people to let it be a lesson to make sure the ring goes directly from their hands to SO's.

Are you effing kidding me!?!?!??! Finders keepers!?!?!?!?!?!?

vegasbride2015 · October 2014

Wtf. Are you serious????

pinkcow13 · October 2014

Holy crap!

Red.Zinnias · November 2014

I WISH I was kidding!

It has become such a legendary story among our graduating class, they made him and his wife tell it at our 10-year high school reunion a couple years ago!

flyingfoxes · November 2014

LOL, FI fumbled on his words a bit and said, "I hope that you can make me as happy as I've made you over the last year" instead of the other way around. We got some laughs through the happy tears at that.

carrie0924 · November 2014

I don't consider ours to be a bad proposal, but people who don't know us well always seem a little put off by it for a moment. After 4.5 years of dating & me telling him several times over the past year & a half that it was time to shit or get off the pot, FI wakes up one day & thinks to himself "Why not? What am I waiting for?" He sends his sister a cryptic text about needing to talk to her after work, which made her worry a bit that something was wrong. He sends me a vague text about meeting his sister after work to help her with something. I asked if I could meet up with them for dinner, and he got weird and said no. He comes home and I'm ironing, and he is acting weird and antsy (he is suuuuuuper laid back, never ever antsy). He asks when I will be finished ironing, which is just really out of character. I ask what he helped his sister with and he gave a vague "Just some stuff" answer, also out of character. I finish ironing, and go to hang up my shirts. I turn around from the closet, and he's sitting on the bed, in kind of an odd manner, with his fists closed and on his knees. Then he says "So we should get married." I thought there was going to be a punchline, so I didn't react at all, afraid of getting my hopes up and then crying or something. But then he opened up one of his hands, and there were 5 family rings in his hand. He told me who each belonged to and then asked me to choose one. He had gone to his sister's house to get a family ring with which to propose, but they couldn't decide which would be best, so she told him to take all 5. He told me I could keep the ring or we could pick out and buy one together. I kept the family ring. I think it's a great story - it was way more of a surprise than anything else he could have come up with and it's totally his style. "Yup. Time to do this. Let's do it now."

mrsk616 · November 2014

my fi and find ours more funny than anything. We drove around looking for the most beautiful Christmas light display. First place was in the worse neightbor hood and we were afraid to get out of our car to walk around to see the lights. So we drove to another spot downtown which was gorgeous with lights but to many people at the time. So its Christmas eve and we are looking for somewhere to eat, im talking about a friends proposal and what not while we are eating. But we went back down town and decided to walk around and look at the lights in the square. We walk by a small stair way and look over and saw some drunk guy pissing. We still laugh about it to this day.

lovemyrunner · December 2014

Wegl13 said:

I've got a good one for ya. Turns out this is the suggestion FI gave to his friend when he proposed to his (now) wife. Thank goodness this happened long before we were a couple and I could make sure he was super aware of what a terrible idea it was (the actual proposal was also FI's idea and it was superb). So basically the idea is this: you get some friends, and you rent a panel van. And you get the friends to all do the ski mask thing, tie you up in the back, and then go and "kidnap" your intended, and chuck her in the back with you being there, all tied up, and drive off. She's scared, you look scared, so you look at her and go "if we get out of this alive, will you marry me?" When she says yes, you alert the friends to pull the van over and release you, and make sure your intended is aware that "verbal contracts are legally binding." He's such a romantic, you know. ^_^. Actually I think the idea was to ensure success of your proposal, lol.

My FI was apparently planning something similar, but I think in his scenario, he was supposed to be killed and I was kidnapped. Kidnappers would take me to another location where my blindfold would be removed to reveal him down on one knee surrounded by friends and family. His thinking was that it would take me through a roller coaster of emotions and end on a happy note. Thankfully, our friends talked him out of that, because what really would have happened is the volunteer kidnappers would have gotten the crap kicked out of them and IF they had gotten me to a second location, I would've been standing there blindfolded, cussing a blue streak and trying to injure more people. All while everyone we know looked on in shock.

SarahWins · December 2014

And then there's this that a friend of mine shared on Facebook earlier: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=772011572838715&pnref=story

larrygaga · December 2014

SarahWins said:

And then there's this that a friend of mine shared on Facebook earlier: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=772011572838715&pnref=story

That's probably fake.

sarahonlife · December 2014

Aside from my own proposal, which included the phrase "Yeah, I was taking a dump," I think my favorite story comes from a guy a work. They had been dating about a year and a half and it was her birthday. He wanted to buy her something really nice, and somehow didn't know/realize that you shouldn't buy a ring for your girlfriend unless you're proposing. When she assumed it was a proposal, he didn't know how to set her straight, so he just went along with it. They've been married 30 years at this point and he claims she still doesn't know.

short+sassy · December 2014

Back a few years ago, I remember seeing footage of some guys who played a prank on their friend. They knew the friend and the friend's GF were going to some baseball game together, so they arranged for the big board to say, "(GF name), will you marry me?", with the camera then highlighting the couple in the stands.

You couldn't hear what was said, but you could see the guy with a horrified face turned to his g/f saying no, he didn't do that, no and motioning both his hands back and forth in a "no" gesture. Yikers!

tpwkalyn · January 2015

So, down here in Alabama we like college football. ESPECIALLY in AL, you have to choose: Alabama or Auburn. They are HUGE and I mean HUGEEEEEE rivals. My best friend doesn't really care about football that much. She watches the games but she's not like mad or anything if she misses a game - she just doesn't really care that much. With that being said, her FI (now husband) proposed at an ALABAMA football game. First of all, she doesn't even like football that much, second of all he proposed at a game that wasn't even HER team's game. I was so confused but she said yes nonetheless, and now they have a precious 4 month old

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