Engagement

[ARLO1]

To this day I still tease my husband that he actually never proposed to me...

At that time we were doing trade shows and happened to being doing one in our area. After the show he said wanted to go to our local mall to get something to eat and walk around. I was really tired and finally agreed. As we were walking around and window shopping he said lets look at the jewelry store and look at rings. Well I thought he was joking and agreed. We saw a ring I liked at one store but they didnt have the diamond he wanted to use so we went to another store and they went back with us to the first store and said they could make up the same ring. That is how I was asked to marry him. The amusing(?) thing is that I actually put the deposit on my charge card since he didnt have one. Yes he did pay me back. 13 years later I had to buy a new car and was in a joking mood and said teasingly 'I'm broke now and have never been proposed to" and he got down on 1 knee and proposed to me......

 

[Outlaws#5]

Ok, so this would be my second time proposing, the first time..well seems i was an unromantic ******* and she left me, but her loss.

So my friends and i were planning a new york christmas shopping trip, so i had the ring for two months prior to this trip. Well it was a 5 hour bus ride up there, very cold. So we walk around new york for a while shopping, trump towers, the big jewelry stores all that jazz. Well it gets to be 6pm and the sun starts going down, so we head over to the christmas tree and start taking pictures while it is being lighted up, at that moment she was standing on a bench, she was short, so i tugged on her jacket, first she yelled at me cause i was interrupting her taking a picture then i was like..umm, will you marry me, i almost had to catch her. My friends all knew i was gonna do it so they were ready with the camera's and everyone around me was whispering. Maybe my second one will be just as romantic.

 

[smchan]

Ok, so this would be my second time proposing, the first time..well seems i was an unromantic ******* and she left me, but her loss.

Better not re-use the ring. If you try, you'll probably get caught while talking in your sleep or something like that. So take my advise... pawn it and buy another.

Sam

 

[jlowejd5]

The DCL "Perfect Proposal" week from this spring had some good ideas.

1. As soon as they boarded, so she could wear the ring the whole time (and the guy didn't have his guts in a knot all week).

2. On a tour of the bridge with Mickey there.

3. After a screening of a special film the guy had made in the Buena Vista Theater.

4. On stage in the Walt Disney Theater, where the woman (and the guy's daughter) were doing a Princess For A Day thing, and he comes up out of the bowels of the stage and fights off the 'evil' pirate and then proposes.

5. On Castaway Cay.

I actually managed to surprise DW when I proposed. She's an OB/Gyn, so I called one of her partners and got some inside help. She snuck me into an empty patient room while DW had been sent to the other end of the hospital on some fool's errand. Then they paged her to that room for a stat C-section on a trauma patient. So she had to run all the way back, up a flight of stairs, down a hallway, and she bursts into the room, and there's me, flowers, ring, etc. It didn't register why everybody on the entire floor was at the nurse's station, just standing around (they all knew) and not responding to the trauma.

I rule.

 

[jfis1020]

Met DH at a football game while tailgating (we were cheering for different teams!!). That was Labor Day weekend. My son was 10 months at the time. We lived 150 miles apart. We got engaged in January and married in July. It will be 10 years next month when we take our DCL cruise with our THREE children. My DS is now 11 and we have DS8 and DD6 who will cruise with us!

 

[logan1_2000]

Fools for love, that is. And I thought I was the only fool. Met DW at the gate at Logan airport (ah ha! so that's where the screen name came from!), was flying Boston to New Orleans, where I was a law student, connecting in Atlanta. Turned out the girl with the gorgeous eyes I noticed checking in was on the same flight, but only as far as Atlanta. I made a funny gesture when an announcement was made, heard a giggle. The girl with the beautiful eyes. Started chatting. Time to get on the plane, I didn't know anyone else for the next 2 hrs 15 mins, so I swapped seats to go sit next to her, knowing my aisle seat 10 rows farther up would be an easy trade for the middle seat I was taking over. And I thought to myself at 31,000 feet, as her eyes just gleamed as she told me about the pets with the funny names at her parents house, "what a wonderful happy life this girl has, i want her to raise my children and share that happy life." Got her number as she showed me to my connecting gate, called her, saw her again 7 weeks later after finals, then did the serious long distance thing in the summer since I'd already accepted a summer job in San Francisco. Lemme tell ya, living in cities like New Orleans and San Francisco make romantic dating dinners ridiculously easy. Jazzfest for a first date. And got engaged on 9th date.

If I'd flown USAir, which I remember considering, I might be married to some girl in Pittsburgh today (is big hair still popular in that town?). Glad I flew Delta.

And now I'm a divorce lawyer, representing people who just can't stop fighting, sometimes years or decades after the divorce! I tell my clients who only get to see their kids for limited amounts of time, "wanna really have quality time? go on a Disney cruise. " And then we go through the aggravation of notarized permission--

But yes--when you have always lived in separate time zones, even while engaged, RUDE awakening when you two settle in next to the snoring and rearranging the refrigerator the way she likes it and the rest of y'all's mutual foibles. Been suffering through for 13 years this August. Best wishes for happy endings. DCL is a great beginning.

 

[jlowejd5]

Ah, yes. The long-distance relationship. I know it well. Okay, I can't claim as much distance as San Fran to Nawlins, but I'll take pride in nurturing this relationship through a whole lot of miles and a lot of years. See, we went to high school together, but we were just friends. She went to school back home in SE Ohio, I went to Cleveland (three hours difference). We officially got together senior year. After undergrad, I started law school in Columbus, and she took a year off and lived at home (2 hours difference). Then she started med school in Athens (1:30 difference). That lasted for two years, and then she did 3d and 4th in Columbus, but on the opposite side of town (40 minutes), and she worked about 90-110 hours a week. Then a year in Massillon (2:30 away) for internship. Finally back in Columbus, and even then it took a year to find a place to move in together.

So that's almost 9 years of dating, thousands upon thousands of miles of Ohio freeway down, and even though we've been living together two years (and married almost 18 months) we're still learning new things.

Like, f'rinstance, there's a CLEAN side of the sink and a DIRTY side of the sink, and woe be unto me if I screw it up. But ya know what? I wouldn't trade a minute of it. She's cool, smart, funny, digs me, loves baseball, is six kinds of purty, and in a year, will be pulling down serious coin birthing babies. Plus she's got a Disney itch that yearly trips can scratch, so I'm'a be a'ight.

 

[musicgirl]

jlowejds

Our situations sound soooooo similiar. We met in college, I lived in Cleveland (well Painesville) and he lived in Columbus. The year before we got married, we saw each other 2 times. Once in the summer before for our engagement picture (this was also when I brought the ring to him to have him place it on my hand. We had it made in my town.) The 2nd time was at Christmas. Until June it was 1 phone call a week, Sat. at 11 pm for cheaper rates!!!

We are in Columbus now after 18 years!!!!!

Hey, true love is meant to be!!!! When you know it's right.

I was also a $5 bet when we met at college!!!!! Now that is what I call romance!!!!

MommyMouse, I love your idea!!! That would be so awesome!!!!!!

 

[jfis1020]

Ohio must be the state of long distance romance. As I mentioned in a previous post, I met DH at a football game. It was U. of Cincinnati and Indiana Univ. We had a Cincinnati to Bloomington romance for less than a year!! We now live in Bloomington, but spend darn near as much time in Cincy because we love it as well!!! It's a ten year marriage that is still as wonderful as day one!!

 

[Outlaws#5]

Well i am sure all long distance relationships aren't as exciting. I gotta say though, it does make you stronger. And the trips when you do see each other make you appreciate each other more. I have only been to see her once so far and that trip didn't go so well saying that we both drank too much and ended up getting sick the next day. But these stories sound awesome, i hope mine goes over as well. Maybe in november i will have an awesome story to tell everyone.

 

[RonnieJo66]

Hey Outlaw....

So is she going on our cruise this year with you??? I was kinda confused about that...I am making a master list, should she be on it? Let me know

Hugs,

RonnieJo