Your Marriage Proposal

[Jen414]

My husband slipped a diamond on my finger during the second act of Beauty and the Beast on Broadway when Belle walks down the staircase in her yellow dress. It was very romantic and very unexpected. Of course, I said yes! He had already asked my father, so my parents were waiting for the phone call.

 

[livie1205]

my dh asked me on the beach at the poly while watching the fireworks! It was sooo sweet.We took our kids his ds,my ds (5 and 6 at time) for a vacation and we went to ohana to eat then to the beach for the fireworks, the kids were so happy!When we go (today) his best friend and gf are going also and he is planning on asking her while at magic kingdom! I cant wait!

 

[monorailsilver]

Short & to the point.

It was Saturday, March 27, 1999.

We were waiting for the fireworks to start on the last hammock in front of Tahiti/closest to the TTC/ferry (we were obviously in Disney at the Poly-like I'd need to explain more on these boards!).

We were laying there & he unzipped his back pack. That same back pack he carried on the plane & around DtD earlier that day & out came a rose.

But not any rose. He told me to open it & there was my ring. I knew it was coming since I knew he had a ring.

He asked, I said, yes, shed a tear as did he & then we watched the fireworks.

 

[ecuagoddess]

DH had planned a fun "touristy" day out- going to Pearl Harbor, then to the Pali Outlook, then to Kailua beach.
Because he was so nervous, he missed the turn to Pearl Harbor and went to the USS Arizona instead. We had a nice time there. After we left, we had lunch. He hardly ate anything, but I just thought it was because the food was really bad.
After the gross lunch, we drove over the Pali and stopped at the Overlook. It is extremely windy up there and we were dressed for the beach, so DD wanted to leave because she was cold. I wanted to stay a little longer so I started arguing with her. DH said, "Please stop arguing, you'll ruin it!" I said, "Ruin what?" and he got down on his knee in front of a busload of Japanese tourists and asked me to marry him. It was great, and we had a very nice day at the beach after thaa.

 

[Disneychix]

I had tried to ask DH to marry me while strolling along the BW one year. I kept trying to pry this ring he always wore off his finger and he was getting mad and telling me I was ruining it for when the engagement really happened.

Fast forward a few months and another of my many engaged friends had gotten engaged for Christmas. I proceeded to pout and whine and tell DH he was being a 'loser' by not asking me to marry him. (I know why did he even bother after that??)

Fast forward to Valentine's Day and Dh and I went to a nice dinner. I wasn't particularly expecting a ring that night. We finished dinner and went home. I was standing in our kitchen reading mail I think and he went to change his clothes. He walked back in the kitchen and handed me a box. I don't remember him even asking me. I was just shaking. I know he didn't get down on one knee cause I still bother him about that (I just can't leave him alone!). He had that ring all throughout dinner but said he didn't feel like it was the right time to ask until we got home. Apparently being in your pjs in my kitchen is very romantic!

My mom still makes fun of me for nagging the poor guy. I guess I didn't realize how annoying I must've been!

 

[Sneezie]

My proposal was not romantic at all.

I'd basically told my now soon-to-be-ex-husband to decide if we were dating or get out of my house. Up until that point he was still in the we're just friends who are living together phase. So when I threatened to put him out and he realized he wouldn't have anywhere else to go he asked me to marry him. I was wrapping my hair in the bathroom when he walked in and said "you wanna get married?" I said "yeah" and he said "OK" and turned around and walked out of the bathroom. I yelled after him "Did we just get engaged?" and he shouted back "Yeah".

It was the perfect beginning to the perfect ending. I filed for divorced two days ago.

My brother however had a very romantic proposal story. His now-DW called me and said that they had been talking about getting married at a JOP where they lived in Ft. Worth, but she knew that my brother wanted us to be there. So together we started planning a wedding/reception to surprise him. A few weeks into the planning, he calls me and says that he wants to surprise her with a wedding/reception and asks me to help him plan it. So I'm planning a real one with her and a fake one with my brother. Two weeks before the wedding, my DSIL and my brother go out to dinner, at the end of the meal she sends him to the car to get something (I forget what) and when he comes back she has the invitation sitting where his plate was. She said when he picked it up and read it, he started to cry.

 

[Praying Colonel]

I was a poor, struggling student. I had completed my initial officer training a few months before and used that money to buy the ring.

I saved it until her birthday in October. I took her out to the fanciest restaurant in Lexington, KY, which is kind of like saying I scaled the tallest mountain in Kansas. I had arranged for a horse-drawn carriage to be at the restaurant at a certain time.

So we finished dinner, the carriage was there and we climbed aboard. I popped the question during the ride, and to my eternal gratitude, she looked past my many faults and said yes.

 

[thewesterberg]

DH and I met while working at a camp. After our second summer of working together, we went back to visit friends who lived there in December. We went for a walk on the snowy trails and found ourselves at the top of the path to the cabin I had lived in, which happened to be where we had our first kiss. He proposed right there (and didn't get down on one knee because he didn't want to get his knee all snowy!) The ring he gave me had been his Grandma's. We then went to visit our friends (we didn't say anything) and while we were having dinner, she noticed the ring on my finger and she asked me if it had been my Grandma's. I told her "No, it was his grandma's ring." "His grandma's... wait a minute! Are you guys engaged?! The light bulb went off in her head and much hugging and excitement occurred as we shared with them our exciting news.

I bring kids from my church to this camp now and it's fun to tell them this story!

On a side note, my sister got engaged this past 4th of July. My dad's clever comment... "Independence Day? Yeah, right...."

 

[TheZue]

I inadvertantly proposed so I never got the super romantic proposal We were watching TV at his parents while house sitting and I was reading some magazine that had a cheezy advertisement for a mass wedding in Vegas on New Years for the millenium. And I casually said "We should totally get married in Vegas" and he said okay. The next day we went ring shopping and got married at the Flamingo in May of 1999

 

[cristit14]

I really don't remember what he said because I was crying so much, I am not even sure I said yes....but we were married on June 6, 2008!

And it was a beautiful wedding, Heidi!



Mine was kind of funny. I hadn't seen him for a couple of weeks because I had been busy studying for my registry exam. The day of the test a few I went to Elitch's with friends from class and then I went to his apartment when he got off work. He was acting really weird, not talking or anything. I finally got fed up and said I was leaving and I would talk to him later. He suddenly reaches in his pocket, pulls out a jewelry box, hands it to me and says "here". I opened it and kissed him. Then I told him he could do better than that and made him get down on one knee. We have been married for 16 years now.

 

[scrump]

We didn't really have one, we just sort of gravitated towards marriage very comfortably.

 

[Handbag Lady]

We were at Epcot during our first vacation together. We never spoke of marriage at all.

It was the anniversary of our first date, I wanted to spend it in the MK. He said, no, Epcot.

He was a nervous guy all day and I was at my wit's end. Was this not working out, am I not fun to vacation with...have I been doing all things I wanted and not what he wanted, on and on all day. I gave up and got a half-yard of ale at the Rose and Crown and just tagged along with him as he freaked out looking for the "PERFECT SPOT TO WATCH ILLUMINATIONS."

I just thought, wow, this fireworks must be important to him. Okay.

Right between Japan and Morocco, he found a front row, exclusive place. Right before the grand finale, he got on one knee and proposed!!!

I said yes, please! And it all made sense as to why he was freaky and why I couldn't go to the MK. The MK closed early that night and they would NOT be having a fireworks show.


We got married at Disneyland, too!

 

[FINFAN]

Short....2 words.

We were riding BTMRR at WDW...and at the time I was not a an of rollercoasters, just started getting brave enough for them. Anyway, we were riding, I was hanging on for dear life, but laughing too. DH simply said, "Ya wanna?" My answer, 'Do I wanna what? Get off this crazy ride, yeah, I wanna!" he starts laughing and says you wanna get MARRIED, kinda right as the ride was doing it's last drop. I looked at him like he was crazy..said, 'SURE" ....and then he asked again when we were in the Swiss Tree House...it ws a little more serene, tamer. I said yes there too! No ring at the time, but we did go to Sea World 2 days later and had the pearl diving done, my pesrl was a decent size, almost too big for a ring, so we set it in a pendant, and that was my engagement "ring" for a few months..till DH picked out a more traditonal ring. Funny thing is, our life has been more parallel to BTMRR than the Swiss family Tree house...never a dull moment, fulls of ups and downs , laughs, surprises and learned to take chances.
Nice thread!

 

[hniki234]

I want to share, too! Our engagement is pretty new. He proposed on Oct. 29th at Disney World in front of the castle. He got down on one knee and everything. I was so shocked. We've been dating for 3 and a half years, but I just hadn't thought we'd get engaged yet.

The fun part was hearing about all of the things he went through before he proposed. He had been ring shopping for a long time before he found "the one," and he bought it 2 months before our trip. We were at Disney World with his family, so he had a hard time finding some alone time to propose.

The one night he thought would be perfect he didn't have the ring. He had kept the ring in the backpack he always carries, but that morning he decided to move it out of fear that I would go through the backpack. Smart move on his part because I went into the backpack to put cash in the zipper part that same morning!

He finally had to force the issue by insisting on just us going to MK for a picture in front of the castle before meeting up with the rest of his family at EPCOT. I thought he just wanted some alone time from his family! Then when we got to MK we walked all around the castle and to the Christmas store because he was trying to find the right place and moment to propose. As we were heading out, he stopped us in front of the castle and got down on one knee. I don't feel like I can describe it properly. It was such a happy moment!

 

[zalansky]

I'm not married, but my parents proposal was rather interesting, apparently. They were at a bar celebrating their birthday's (which are 10 days apart), and some guy comes up to them and says "Let me buy you and your lovely wife a drink". My dad says "she's not my wife." My mom says "I should be. Lets get married". So my dad agreed, and 6 months later they were married. This was after they've been dating for 3 months.

And those are the marriages that make the 50 year mark. We should take some cues from those times and stop over analyzing stuff.

 

[ReneeA]

I met my DH on the job. I worked as the receptionist, and he was in Accounting. I am chatty and friendly, and he's pretty shy. I went right up to him on my first day and said, "Hi, I'm Aimee." He said "I'm Joe" and ran away from me.

A few months later, he won tickets to a concert happening that night. He called everyone he knew, and nobody could go on such short notice, so he asked me. I called my sister who was living with me at the time and asked her opinion. Told her he wasn't my type at all, but I was thinking about going because I wanted to see that concert. She told me that my type of guy sucked, and that I should go.

We hit it off, I asked him if he wanted to go to dinner later that week, and we were inseparable after that. He handed me an engagement ring 5 weeksafter our first date. We got married shortly after that and have been married almost 11 years.

Funny thing was - nobody at work knew we were dating for obvious reasons. After I got my ring, people we worked with started asking me why I had a ring on and where I got it from. I just grinned and said, "Oh, Joe in Accounting gave it to me."

 

[inaminute]

My DH isn't really very romantic. He tries, but doesn't really have a clue and something always seems to go wrong. So, I guess his "proposal" worked out for the best.

We had gone to a Christmas party. OMG, it was actually right around this time of year!!! I dont' remember the exact day--maybe December 7? He'd been drinking. He laid down on the bed, looked at me and said, "You know, I love you so much I could marry you." I was like, "Really?" He said, "Yup," and fell asleep.

I slept on the couch. The next morning I asked if he remembered the night before. He looked blank until I reminded him what he said. He laughed and said that he did remember. Yeah. Right. He remembered, all right. Didn't matter. It was out there. I made him ask me again--properly, this time.

That was December 1974. The really bad part is that we'd only known each other for six weeks. We were married in April 1975. We've been together ever since. I can't imagine my life without him. Sometimes, though, I do wish he were a little more romantic. But he has so many other great qualities, that I can overlook it most of the time (and Lord knows, he has tried ).

 

[Disney Ontario]

This is not mine but our DD 20 and got engaged this last summer.
They were out in a canoe on a lake which she spent many summers(18 years) at her grandparent's cottage and just been sold.They paddled back this creek and her boyfriend stopped paddleing and started rocking the canoe.She said "what the F are you doing" and soaked him with the paddle.
"Well I can't get down on one knee in a canoe"

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

And it was a beautiful wedding, Heidi!.

Awe, thanks Cristi. I am so happy you got to come.

He suddenly reaches in his pocket, pulls out a jewelry box, hands it to me and says "here". I opened it and kissed him. Then I told him he could do better than that and made him get down on one knee.

I can so picture that. You guys are too cute!

 

[Katieinwonderland]

Mine was so funny, and so typical of DH!!!

He had planned to propose in Paris, under the Eiffel Tower. He booked the tickets and everything, told me about a week before we left that we were going, and I was so excited. We had been talking about getting married, so I kind of suspected. I told a mutual friend I was suspicious, and that friend told DH "she knows you're going to propose in Paris!"

He SO wanted it to be a surprise, so cancelled the whole Paris idea...instead, he proposed the night before we left!!! I was wearing Hello Kitty pjamas, in the middle of brushing my teeth and I turn round and he's down on one knee! I was so surprised, I didn't even say yes, just cried and hugged him and then smacked him and said "I thought it was going to be in Paris!!!"

It's so typical of him to plan a big surprise, but when I find out about it (I think maybe I'm too nosey!!!) cancel it and totally surprise me by doing something else!!!