Well, it’s probably the only deployment where everybody hopes not to get out alive. 
Congratulations! There’s been a lot of crappy news on the Dope lately - it’s great to see some happy stuff.
Did you ad lib your proposal or did you have it all mapped out?
Very warmest congratulations. You have quite an adventure ahead of you… may you both find the love, companionship and fulfillment you desire.
What a lovely, personal, creative, thoughtful way to propose!
Congrats – best wishes for a long and happy life together.
Congrats! How sweet!
I recorded it onto the iPod so I had it rehearsed like you wouldn’t believe.
The date we have planned right now is in 2012 and that still doesn’t seem like enough time to plan everything.
Good luck! My recommendations: first select the site for the service and for the reception. When you’re happy with those, then see what dates they both have open, book them as soon as you can, and work everything else around it. Congrats and best wishes.
Congratulations! That was thoroughly charming!
(wait… what date in 2012?)
Congratulations! Great story! And don’t ever worry about the ring…I remember my grandmother told me once that they called the rings back in her day “depression diamonds,” (basically, that meant so small you could hardly see them). She also said that she had never taken it off since the day it was placed on her finger. That’s what an engagement ring is all about…what it symbolizes, not how big the rock is. And it sounds lovely! I love the princess cut.
That’s so sweet! Congrats dude!
Awww! Congrats. Love. luck and Rainbows to you both.
Yay! Good luck! 
Congratulations, dude! I went the whole down-on-my-knees-before-her bit for my almost-second wife. When I was done she just grinned at me and asked me to do it over again. She said she had never been proposed to in such a classic traditional way and wanted to really savor it.
So I did it over again, this time more dramatically and with extravagant words of praise and so forth, and this time she said yes.
That was as far as it got, thank God.
Congratulations! Nicely done proposal.
Don’t worry about the ring. I didn’t even have a ring for Mama Zappa when I proposed to her. We’ve been married for over 25 years.
Marriage is great, but like anything else in life it can be tough going at times. I think weddings are among the hardest part of marriage - and we do that to ourselves. I’d advise you to keep your wedding as small as possible. (Mama Zappa’s and my wedding was basically a large elopement, with a nice luncheon - about 20 people total. We’re just as married as anyone else. More than some of our friends who had big weddings and are now, for unrelated reasons, divorced. 
) Failing that, try to keep it under your and your bride’s control. Failing that, just go along for the ride. As a groom you have just one line - just two words! - and you’re prompted for that line during the ceremony.
Listen, if a coward like me can get and stay married, you - who have done tours in Iraq! - can do it too. Congrats, and relax!
Congratulations to both of you, and best wishes for a long, happy life together.
I’d been with my then-girlfriend for 6 years when I proposed. We had her engagement ring custom made out of both of our mothers’ engagement ring diamonds. There was no possible way that she was going to say no to me… but I still found myself totally nervous the whole day leading up to the proposal.
Congratulations and best of luck to you both.
Congrats mate.And good luck! From what I hear, the Geneva convention don’t apply where you going.
RandMcnally–long life & great happiness to you both!
Aw, what a sweet proposal! Am grinning away here and don’t even know you. Many congrats!
It’s really amazing when I think about just how much I have shared with this board.
I joined when I was 16, talked about going to Basic, Iraq, getting back, being a student and now getting married.
Interesting.