As a recently engaged woman, I’d like to know how you all got engaged.
Was it hopelessly romantic? Was it spur of the moment? Had you been together long? Did he or she do it?
I got engaged yesterday after a 4 1/2 year long relationship. We’ve been living together 4 years.
I can’t stop 
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Krista
We’d only been together for a year, but I knew right from the beginning that he was THE ONE ™. It was our anniversary and I was going to take him hiking in a really beautiful area roundabouts where we used to live (that big vista hill right before Lake Barryessa and around Coldwater Creek southwest [sorta] of Davis, CA). I was going to pull the ring out at the top of this mini mountain where you have a 360 degree beautiful view, as the sun was going down, and tell him exactly how I felt.
But when we woke up that morning, our little dog’s jaw was swollen up like he’d been stung by a bee and had a reaction. We hustled him off to the vet and had to leave him there, not knowing what was wrong. It was a long stressful day, and we got our baby back right before the vet closed (it ended up being a tooth/teething problem, no big deal but very expensive). Because he was totally doped from the anesthesia we chose to stay home and watch him. Since my scheme had been to totally surprise him, I didn’t push it. Plus, we were tired and still a little worried about our little man.
So I did the cliché thing (like proposing on a mountaintop isn’t a cliche;) ) and stuck it in a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia. When he opened it up and saw it, he looked at me like a little kid whose parents just whipped a blanket of a brand new bike by the Christmas tree. I kept it pretty simple and just said that I loved him and wanted to be with him for the rest of my life.
At least that’s what I think I said, the memory’s actually a little fuzzy…I may have joked about the need to make an honest man of him, since we had a dog together…
We’re getting married on our second anniversary, in San Diego, and going to Mexico for our honeymoon.
Congratulations!
Firstly, congratulations!!! That is great news! As a recently married individual I can tell you that you should be looking very forward to your wedding and enjoying your engagement period.
I got engaged about 2 years ago on August 25th 2000. It was my wife’s birthday and I had arranged a trip to Graceland being that she is a huge Elvis fan. At that point, she had been my best friend for about 4 years and we had been romantically involved for 3 years . This was her first trip to Graceland, a pilgrimage of sorts. What she did not know was that I had purchased a ring a few weeks earlier in anticipation of our trip.
We arrived in Memphis by way of Biloxi Mississippi where we stayed at the Beau Rivage. We saw Cirque De Soleil and gambled all night. We got to Memphis, checked into the Heartbreak Hotel and prepared for a day of Elvis. I secretly tucked the ring box into my pants pocket and we were off. The end of the Graceland tour puts you at the Elvis’s gravesite in his meditation garden. There, in the presence of the king and about 100 tourists I proposed to my wife. She laughed at me. She laughed at me some more. Then after that she cried, laughed at me more and said yes.
We were married in November and had an Elvis impersonator present to sing during our first dance.
Enjoy your engagement and good luck!!!
UncleBill and I had been dating for about 4 months and we knew by that point we were perfect for each other. We had started talking about marriage but only in very general terms, when we went out to Colorado for a weekend to ski and visit with my two brothers.
Monday morning, we had to get up early to get ready to head to the airport. While I was in the bedroom getting dressed, I could hear bits of the conversation between Bill and my brother --I had told Bill that since my father isn’t around any more, he’d have to ask my big brother for my hand, and it sounded like they were having that conversation. When I came out, my brother said, “So, Bill tells me he’d like to be related to us. I couldn’t be more delighted.” He went to wake his wife up so she could come down and say goodbye, and we exchanged hugs all around.
At the airport, we got to go through security together for the first time; each trip before had been one of us going to visit the other. It was nice to be able to at least wait at the gate together even if we weren’t on the same flight. While we were waiting for the plane to begin boarding, Bill dropped to one knee, took my hand in his and said, “Lise, I love you very much. Will you marry me?” I was so stunned, all I could do was whisper, “Yes,” and he pulled the ring out of his sleeve and slipped it on my finger. I burst into tears. We had been talking marriage for several weeks now, but I was absolutely not expecting it right then. I kept looking at the ring and saying, “Oh my God, we’re engaged now!”
Jim and I got engaged on the first anniversary of the day we met. We had a really nice day together; he bought me a complete collection of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (what attracted him to my ad in Love@AOL was my tagline - Female: Mostly Harmless) and then, as we were lying in bed about to go to sleep, he said, “Oh, by the way, I have one more present for you” and pulled out a ring box and asked me to marry him. I can’t say I was honestly surprised; he had seemed a little preoccupied all day, and I kinda suspected what was on his mind.
If I could add a question to your OP, Lady Venom, I’m curious if other people experienced what I did; that it didn’t really seem real until later, when I went out and bought Jim a Robert Bateman limited edition print for his engagement present, and I found myself kinda shaking and realizing it was real when I went to pay for it. Did anyone else experience this delayed reaction, that something else sort of brought it home to you, what you were about to embark on?