Proposal Stories

[SoccerDogWithEars]

Okay, for those of you who research, I always start threads with really random subjects, in hope that one of them will keep going for more than just 2 weeks. So here's another: what are some funny/romantic/or just special stories of proposals you know. They can be yours, your parents, your friends, or anybody else's you heard. Here's mine.

My dad proposed with an empty box. He lived in Winston-Salem and my mom lived in Raleigh, and he had driven down to see here. With some of their friends around, my dad got down on his knee, asked my mom to marry him, and handed her a box. When she opened it, she thought "this is either a cruel joke or he doesn't know it's empty". What Dad hadn't known was that his paranoid mother and taken the ring out of the box in case the house was robbed and just left the box where she found it. So my unsuspecting Dad just grabbed the box without looking in it. Yeah, so my mom leaned over and whispered "Bill, there's nothing in here." His reply? "Mom."

 

[SDFgirl]

My fiance and I were fast asleep one June morning. His phone rang at 5am, and he takes the phone into the living room. He comes back to bed and said, "That was my dad. He was on his way to a tee time and his car broke down. He needs a ride."

Then he asked me to go along - it was still dark out and he didn't want to drive alone. We get out to where the parking lot was, but couldn't find his dad...so all of a sudden a hot air balloon truck pulls up. Surprise! He took me on a balloon ride!!

2500 feet up, he popped the question...and I still haven't come down from !! We set a date for December 10th...

 

[kerrynic78]

My DH told me he had to travel to Philly on business. I got home from work, there was a note on the table from him that he left me a surprise in my closet. I open my closet and there he is on 1 knee with the ring........scared the heck out of me!!!!! I honestly don't think I ever said yes because I was so scared that it was a burglar in my closet!

 

[It's A Happy Day]

I was with my now dh when we picked out "the ring" together, had it sized and was with him when he picked it up...only to be told I couldn't have it yet and he wouldn't let me know when I could. I would go into his drawer and put on my ring only to be told to put it back it will be a surprise when you get it. We started dating on October 8th (7 years prior to purchasing the ring) and that had just passed so I knew it wouldn't be for our anniversary. We are huge Halloween fans and that halloween I just knew it would be the night. Well I passed out candy for my dad at his house and afterwards we went back to his house/his parents house and he asked if I wanted to go for a walk. By this time it was about 10:00 at night and I was fuming...no ring! I was now convinced it wouldn't be tonight as it had gotten too late. Well we were walking across a field near his house and he seemed to fall behind. When I turned around he was in the middle of the field on bended knee. He looked up at me and asked me to marry him. The ever so romantic that I am I asked him "Don't you need the ring!!!" Then I saw the diamond sparkling in the moonlight and started crying. We got married a year later and honeymooned in WDW. And now we will be celebrating our 6/14 years married/together in WDW with our 2 children this October.

 

[Shugardrawers]

Mine may be only romantic to me but what the heck. DH and I had met in Sept of '00 and by Dec of '00 we were living together. My birthday came around in March of '01. The night of my birthday he came home from work at the shipyard. He took off his boots and filthy pants and plopped down in the chair in the computer room wearing his sweaty filthy shirt and underpants. He asked what I wanted for my birthday and I said he knew what I really wanted (a ring but he'd been saying for weeks it wasn't time yet) but I'd take a stereo for my car. He sat for a minute then got down on one knee in filthy shirt and underpants and said let's get you what you really want but you'll have to agree to marry me to get it. I knew I had to say yes when I looked at him all dirty and sweaty and 1/2 dressed and all I could think was how much I loved him.

 

[TinkerBess_SnowTori]

The story of my husband's proposal isn't as "romantic" as the ring he gave me and what he said when he gave it to me. My ring is an emerald cut diamond with a trilion cut emerald on either side.

I had always told him I liked emerald cut diamonds but that is all we discussed. It seems when he was trying to figure out the design of my ring he talked to an older jeweler who told him about how each gem stone used to represent different things in victorian times. Such as love, innocence, friendship etc...

So when he proposed he explained this saying he chose the diamond because it stood for love and the emerald because it stood for friendship.

Quoting DH here:
"Because, you are my best friend and I will always love you. Woud you please marry me?"

Awww what a sweet guy - and when he is acting like a jerk - I look at my hand and remember that somewhere inside that man that is making me so mad - is that sweet guy.

 

[SoccerDogWithEars]

Thanks y'all these are great, keep 'em coming.

 

[jennyl772003]

My DH had been telling me that he had a surprise for me and that it started with an H. He told me not to get my hopes up, it wasn't a ring, we couldn't afford that right now. He led me to believe we were going on a trip.

Then he plans a fancy dinner out. I had a feeling in my gut that no matter what he said, he was going to propose.

Then the weather report for that day calls for snow. A ton. At the time my DH plowed for extra money. We had to cancel our dinner.

My soon to be ILs watched my DS for me while I worked the 4-12 shift, so I picked him up and went home. The snow has started. My DS is awake and yapping. My Dh tells me we need to go back to his parents and put away there patio furniture, so we load up and head back.

My DH goes in the back yard. Is back there a while. Then he comes to the car telling me to grab DS, there are deer in the back yard! (Ds is legally blind, they would have to be pretty dumb deer to let us close enough for DS to see, but I go anyway.)

Get in the back yard and DH drops to his knee. Tells me that when he saw DS was awake tonight, he knew it was the time. That he HAD to propose to both of us.

The sentiment behind that thought, well, it meant everything to me. Now, 2 years and one step-parent adoption later we are still blissfully happy.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

My husband wrote a little computer program that contained the proposal with multiple choice selection of responses. However, by default--only one answer worked.

He was to propose on Valentine's Day--but there was issue if I could get off work from the tv station I worked at. We were going to go to the Melting Pot.

So he did this other proposal instead. I did end up getting Valentine's Day off after all.

 

[Tigger_Magic]

Since my wife-to-be and I met in the "gutter", it was only appropriate that I propose in the "gutter." When we met, I was waiting for a ride to come by and was sitting on the curb with my feet in the gutter. My wife-to-be sat down next to me and we started chatting.

About 2 years later she came to visit my family during the Christmas holidays. I wanted to propose, but family and friends kept interrupting me once I "screwed up" my courage to pop the question. So I grabbed her hand and ran out the door walking toward the elementary school I attended as a child. As we approached the school, I dropped to one knee -- in the "gutter" again -- and finally popped the question.

And no, we didn't get married in the "gutter."

 

[scarlett873]

DH and I searched high and low for THE ring. We finally find it and they say it'll be 6-8 weeks because they have to basically build it from scratch due to my finger size (tiny fingers) and the style of the ring. I was devastated...I wanted my ring but didn't want to wait 6-8 weeks. We had waited long enough...

Fast forward a few days later...

DH and I worked for the same company at the time. Very small office...he was out throughout most of the day on sales calls. I thought nothing of it...he finally makes it back and we head home. I want to stop and look at other jewelry stores to see if we can find something similar. He says that he wants to go home and change first. On the way home, he asked me what I thought about having an "engagement dinner". He wanted to go to "our" restaurant, have a nice dinner, and propose to me there without the ring. I told him that I had waited long enough to become his wife...I wanted it done right...lol...no ring...no engagement dinner. So we get home and he darts up the stairs. We lived in an apartment on the 3rd floor at the time. I get upstairs and he's in the bathroom. He hollers something about fixing something for a quick dinner so I go into the kitchen. I happen to glance at the computer that was sitting on the table and it says "Click me! Click me!" I am so computer paranoid, I wanted him to see it to make sure it wasn't going to blow up the computer when I clicked. A few minutes later, he comes out...and I point out the Click Me! message. He says, well, click it. So I walk over and click it...up comes this powerpoint presentation that I had to click my way through...basically said things about being worth the wait...and after I get through it, I turn to him and he's standing there with MY ring! I started bawling immediately and kept asking how did you get it? He kept telling me it didn't matter...and asked me if I would marry him. Of course, I said yes! We then went to dinner at "our" restaurant...lol

Turns out that he had called everyone up the chain with the jewelry chain store until he got to a vice president and they found the ring in my size in a warehouse or something...they fed ex'd the ring to the gals in our apartment complex office that day and after the actual sales calls, he ran home to get it and to set up the proposal! We had to go into the office to show everyone my ring after that...

A little background info on DH and I...we dated in high school for 2 years, broke up, went our separate ways knowing that we were letting our soulmate go, and he found me 10 years later. We e-mailed and had daily IM chat sessions for about 1 1/2 years before confessing our feelings and finally seeing each other. We spent a weekend at Disneyland reconnecting and I knew it was meant to be when he held me in his arms there in front of Sleeping Beauty's Castle during Believe...There's Magic in the Stars! We've been inseparable ever since!

 

[RadioFanatic]

my dh and I met in law school. We dated 2 and a 1/2 years, took the bar exam in August, moved in together in September and were awaiting our bar results. On November 22, we had to wait until midnight to find out if we passed - to say that we were nervous would be an understatement - whether we passed or not meant not only the culmination of all of our years of studying but whether we could keep our jobs. So at about 11 pm, my then fiance says to me, "I was going to wait until after we found out if we passed; but I want you to know I love you with all of my heart whether or not both, none or only one of us passes. Will you marry me?" and what did I do? I laughed! I honestly didn't believe him and I think with the stress of finding out whether we passed the bar or not just got to me. I finally did believe him, we then found out we both passed the bar exam, and we got to call our families at 1 am with the good news of not only passing the bar but that we were getting married too!

 

[Ava83]

Corey is from Elkhart, IN (important to know) I am from Chicago. We met and started dating, long distance, back and forth every weekend. When I would go east I would take the train there and Corey would drive me back (4 hrs RT just to spend extra time together) So the auto is important to our relationship. Corey was driving me home one weekend and asked me to pick up the face to his car radio so we could put on some music, I reach over in the back and see a bag with flowers on it...Core, what is this flower bag? I really wasn't thinking to ask that...and then I handed him the radio face. Corey starts to freak out and pulls over to use a phone (to call his Mom)...tells me not to look at the bag and gets out (now we were going to Las Vegas in Nov, he had wanted to propose there) So after 5 min he comes back in...and says I did't want it to be in the car and this way but...(you know what he asks) and then pulls out the PICTURE of the ring. I say yes and am laughing..Corey tells me the ring is at his apt....do you want to go back (we are about 25 miles away)I say yes we get our ring and the rest is history. I have always felt that it was perfect that Corey asked me in the car.

 

[SoccerDogWithEars]

Ok, sorry, I hav to post to keep it recent. These are so sweet.