Proposal stories...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Not that kind, you pervs!!

I proposed to my GF today, and she said YES!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY!!! HUZZAH!!

Thing is: we were both a bit lit, and she didn’t believe me… thought it was a joke, with a fake ring! Took me about an hour to convince her I was serious, and that the ring was real (diamond certificates are handy sometimes!)…
Anyways, I was telling my buds about it, and they had a few amusing stories about their proposals: One friend was in Thailand with his babe, got up at like 6 AM to walk on the beach, and it was just so romantic that he decided to do it then and there! He went back to the beach house, hassled his SO out of bed, took her to the beach, got down on one knee and took the plunge! Her reply: (paraphrased) “Yeah, OK… can I go back to bed?”

Another friend was with his SO when his beeper went off (the jewelry shop informing him that the ring was ready)… when he wouldn’t tell her who had beeped him, SO got suspicious, thinking that it was another woman! Later that day, after he had gone to get the ring, and he and SO were out to dinner, SO was so worked up (sure that he was cheating on her) that when he got down on one knee and offered the ring, she said NO!!! Took him quite a while to talk her out of being mad…
Anyone got any amusing proposal stories??

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This thread asked GQ to marry it. GQ said no. It was sad.

Off to MPSIMS.

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First off, congratulations on your engagement. :smiley: I wish you much happiness.

My story isn’t so much funny as typical of our relationship. My (now) husband and I had only been together about 5 weeks, but it was obviously right to both of us. The night of the “proposal” we had been out all evening, and got back to my flat very much the worse for wear. We stumbled about the place for a while as I made some tea, then he turned to me and said “you know what it is I want to ask you”. My reply: “yeah, ok then”. We made the tea, we drank the tea; he then phoned his cousin to tell him the news. As this was now 3 a.m. his cousin was delighted, but in a very restrained way, I think.

Sometimes when I’m really angry with him I point out that as he never officially proposed to me, technically I’m not committed to being his wife… think it would work in court as a reason for annulment?

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My husband got up the nerve to ask one day while he was driving to work. He decided he was going to propose on the beach that evening when I got home.
By the time 6:00 rolled around, the day had turned into this swirly, windy, pouring-down-rain day. I walked in the door, disheveled and tired, and told him what an awful day I had had. He said, “Do you want to go for a walk?” I said “Sure!” and we got all rugged up and ventured into the downpour. He got down on one knee in the wet sand. We were both completely drenched, it was freezing out, but it was very romantic…lightning & thunder and everything.
He said he was really sure I was the right one because I didn’t bat an eye about taking a stroll in bad weather. Whatever that means. He’s a sweet guy, though, so I’ll take it as a compliment.

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My husband and I were on our second date - by that time we’d known each other all of 2 weeks. As we were talking, he said: “You’re going to marry me. It may take a year. It may take 10 years, but you’re going to marry me.”

We eloped not quite 4 weeks later.

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When I proposed to my now ex-wife, I had all her friends invite her over for a party. I also told them to make sure that they ordered a pizza from a particular pizza place where I knew the manager. So, they order the pizza and they all get themselves busy really quick. I dress up in the pizzaman outfit that I borrowed from the aforementioned manager. Pull the cap down over my face and pull my then long hair down out of it’s usual ponytail. So I had a good disguise.

I deliver the pizza and my ex-wife’s friends make sure that she answers the door. She does and thanks to my excellent disguise tactic and the fact that she was a little tipsy at the time and not paying attention to the silly pizza boy, she didn’t recognize me. I handed her the pizza, then whipped off my hat, reached down in my pocket and got out the ring, dropped to one knee, and proposed right there. It took her a minute to realize what was going on. She now thought I was just a crazy pizza man. Couple seconds passed and she figured it out. She said “Yes…” and was crying and very excited. Everyone applauded and I hugged and kissed her, put the ring on her finger, and the rest, as they say, “Is history”.

She ran out on me with another guy and his bi-sexual girlfriend about a year ago taking all my money and my favorite guitar with her. She’s living with them now as far as I know, and I hope she’s happy. Apparently I don’t have a big enough dick or a vagina, (her words exactly), and that’s what she wanted. The divorce is final in one month, though we are legally seperated. Sorry for the depressing epilouge. I can’t help it. I’m still upset about it.

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My proposal was pretty standard (we were living together, she’d been hinting for some time) but as soon as she accepted, we called our friends and families with the news, we got some weird reactions. For example:

Me: Dad, we’re getting married!

My Dad: What?!

Me: We’re getting married!

Dad: To who?!

Me: To each other!

Dad: Oh. That’s great!

My Dad’s usually a pretty unfazeable guy, but at that moment, he seemed to lose the power of rational thought.

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I proposed to my GF on her birthday. First I gave her a bunch of presents – nothing too fancy, just a Discman and a game she wanted and a couple other things, but told her that there was one more thing coming later on.

Then we went out to dinner at this fondue place here in Chicago. It was very romantic and I had the ring in my pocket (I had been carrying the damn thing around all day.) I was nervous as hell through the whole meal because I planned to do it right after dessert. Of course, she sort of noticed and kept asking me what was the matter with me. “Nothing, nothing,” I kept saying, but she didn’t really believe me.

We carried on with dinner, and another couple was seated at the table next to us. It was actually a little too close. I could hear every word they were saying – I could hear them chewing their food, for crying out loud, and I’ll be damned if I was going to do it in front of an audience that can’t chew with their mouths closed.

So I ended up waiting and waiting, but they never went away, and you can only sit there at a table after dinner for so long. Eventually we ended up back at home and I sat her down on the sofa and pulled out the ring.

Again, for some reason, her first reaction was, “Are you serious?” I wonder why they don’t believe you sometimes. Who’s going to joke about that?

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It was exactly three months after our first date. I had spent the previous several weeks talking myself into proposing, because I just knew it was right, and was pretty sure Jen thought the same.

I asked Jen if she wanted to go to the same restaurant where we’d gone on our first (blind) date. She thought that sounded nice. I asked her to meet me there at a particular time, since I had to run an errand first. I was sure she’d catch on, but I couldn’t think of another way to get a ring, since I hadn’t had any time to shop before then.

I found a really nice ring at the mall where the restaurant is–not a diamond, but Jen doesn’t like diamonds, so that was OK. I bought it, and put it in my pocket, where it remained throughout dinner.

After dinner, I suggested we drive down to the beach nearby, which we had also done on our first date. We walked along the beach for a while. It was dark, the sky was full of stars, and we were out of earshot of all other humans around us. It was time.

I hugged her, kissed her, and said “I was wondering…”

“What?” she asked. I reached my hand into my pocket, pulled out the ring.

“I was wondering if you would marry me.”

And then she burst out laughing. She laughed for probably ten seconds.

“That wasn’t the response I was hoping for,” I said.

And then she stopped laughing, and said, loudly, “Oh my god, YES!” And I put the ring on her finger.

She claims (and I believe her) that she was laughing out of nervousness, because she hadn’t expected me to propose–despite my “errand.”

But I can still tease her every now and then by reminding her that her first response to my proposal was to laugh at me.

-astraeus

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My one marriage proposal so far was from someone I was in the midst of breaking up with.

It was over the phone, because he was 400 miles away (we were in college). I called him up, we chatted a bit about how our relationship was pretty much going down the tubes, and I said “I don’t want to go out with you anymore.”

When he asked why, I stated my various reasons, then he burst out “Will you marry me?!?!”

I laughed and said “Are you aware what is going on here? I’m breaking up with you.”

He sort of laughed too, then that was the end of our converstation.

12 years later I still get occasional emails from him.

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I may have told this on the board before. If so, stop me before I finish.

My wife and I had dated for about 5 years (since we were both in high school.) We had known for a long time that it was meant to be, but we wanted to finish college. It was about 9 months before graduation (January 9th to be exact) when I planned to ask the question. I had this great idea of asking while on top of Stone Mountain at sunset because it had great views, nice weather, relative peace and quiet, and would have meant a lot. However, she decided to have absolutely nothing to do with climbing the mountain that day. So, I had to scramble to come up with an alternate plan. That is when I decided to do it in the parking lot of an IHOP.

Trust me, IHOP is kind of our place. Late night meals, hanging out and chatting, it’s just sort of our special little place. It may not be the most romantic place to an outsider, but I knew she would like it. Much like Reservoir Dog, I was acting preoccupied and my wife kept asking me what was wrong. I hemmed and hawed, made it through the meal. As we started walking to the car, I turned her around dropped to one knee and before I said anything she said “No way.” I took this to mean “unbelievable” and not “get away from me you cretin” and plunged onward. She got all giddy and we have just passed our 2 year anniversary.

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http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=20048

Note: That thread is from when we could post images. The image that was originally in the OP is right here.

Yer pal,
Satan

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We went out one warm fall evening to Engagment Rock, which is a stone seat-in-the-wall at our college. Seemed so romantic. Moonlight, some music somewhere in the background.
Simple but effective!

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No story (I can’t even get my bitch* not to pee on the carpet, to say nothing of finding a woman fool enough to marry me), but I did want to congratulate you! :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

(I do have a really hokey idea of how I’d like to propose to Miss Right, but the world will never hear it, because I expect to die single and unwanted.)

*[sub]female dog[/sub]

Congratulations again!