Proposal stories

[shan]

Them are really great stories!! I was really tooken by surprise.

Benny proposed without my ring. (He had bought it but they kept messing up the size.) We had drove down to Kentucky to visit his family the weekend of my birthday. Saturday night after we went to bed we were sitting there talking in bed. (a normal for us) So he starts talking about family, and us starting one. Then we talked for about twenty minutes about other stuff. He asked me "If I was to ask you to marry me would you say yes." He was scared to propose to me. I told him that I would say yes then he asked me "How does it feel to know that your beside the person your going to spend the rest of your life with" LOL I never actually got any other kind of proposal. But it was sweet the way he did it. We were married six months later and I am loving every minute of our marriage, even though we have had some rough patches.

[rdy2rac with]

Our story isn't some big romantic gushy lovefest like most, but then again thats not how we are.

We had beent alking about getting a place together for a couple months (this was after we had been dating for 5 years). We were out shopping at Meijer before going to see his mom in the hospital. We were walking through the store just chatting & he said to me well since we're going to move in together what do you think about getting married? I was like yeah sure we could do that and we went on shopping. In the truck on the way to the hospital we decided when (the month & year), what our colors would be, which church we would use & a few other things. I learned from others' experiences and wanted to have as many of the important decisions made before anyone elae could attempt to put their 2 cents in.

When we got to the hospital he asked his mom & dad what they were doing in the following April & then explained why. He had already told them he was going to propse (they didn't care but thought some of the southern family would think better of us if we were engaged when we moved in together).
He didn't want to buy a ring without me since he knew I have different tastes than most women (I had told him that didn't like plain diamond solitaires).

[Margarita]

Everyone is different. Did your planning and wedding end up as relaxed as the proposal? I hope so!

Originally Posted by rdy2rac with

He didn't want to buy a ring without me since he knew I have different tastes than most women (I had told him that didn't like plain diamond solitaires).

B knew what I wanted because we'd dated long enough that the topic had come up. I didn't want a solitaire either. He knew I wanted yellow gold, diamonds, and a set so the engagement ring and wedding band would fit together once we were married. And he done good!

[Csara]

My story is similar to rdy2rac with in that we had been dating already for 4 years and living together for almost 3 when we made it official. We knew we were getting married for all those years, but we were young and still in school for some of them. My DH is very traditional in that he wanted to have a good job and enough money saved up to support me before we even got officially engaged. We had talked about marriage and kids for years (probably after a year of dating) so it was not a surprise. He designed an engagement ring for me and asked my opinion. We then went to a jeweler together and looked through books and figured it all out. We even picked it up when it was all finished together but he made me wait until we got in the car so he could say his piece and put it on my finger. It was really sweet. He has always been mushy and lovey dovey, but not terribly romantic. I have to say, though, that over the years (we have been together over 12 years now), my husband has gotten way more romantic.

[Margarita]

Originally Posted by Csara

...(we have been together over 12 years now)

Wow, C, this part took me aback a little. I always remember that our dating/marriage timelines have similarities, so I had to stop and add in my head. Over 12 years sounds so long, but that's how long we've been together, too. It just doesn't seem like that long.

[rdy2rac with]

Originally Posted by Margarita

Everyone is different. Did your planning and wedding end up as relaxed as the proposal? I hope so!

Yeah, it pretty much was. Again, I learned from my sister's wedding & wanted all the planning done so we could relax during thye summer. So we set a date long enough away as to not worry about it (year & 1/2).

The only stressor was that my sister went to go get fitted for her dress & someone told her that she orded the wrong size & they couldn't make it bigger. Well she came home crying & my mom called me at work all huffy. I called the gal at the bridal shop (they were wonderful every time I went in there). The gal told me there must ahve been a miscommunication, the same seamstress was doing all the alterations so she was going to take the extra fabric from the 3 other dresses and make side panels for the 4th. I called my mom back & told her to take a Zanax & give one to Min, then send Min back up to the shop so she could get fitted.

BTW, that was a week before the wedding.

[tommysgirl18]

Originally Posted by rdy2rac with

Yeah, it pretty much was. Again, I learned from my sister's wedding & wanted all the planning done so we could relax during thye summer. So we set a date long enough away as to not worry about it (year & 1/2).

The only stressor was that my sister went to go get fitted for her dress & someone told her that she orded the wrong size & they couldn't make it bigger. Well she came home crying & my mom called me at work all huffy. I called the gal at the bridal shop (they were wonderful every time I went in there). The gal told me there must ahve been a miscommunication, the same seamstress was doing all the alterations so she was going to take the extra fabric from the 3 other dresses and make side panels for the 4th. I called my mom back & told her to take a Zanax & give one to Min, then send Min back up to the shop so she could get fitted.

BTW, that was a week before the wedding.

Way to call me out like that!

[tommysgirl18]

as for our wedding and planning going smoothly......it did!

we had gotten engaged at the right time of year......it was wedding season, so we just jumped on the chance of going to as many local wedding shows/bridal fairs as possible!

we got our hall booked right off the bat, we already had the church picked out, and some other odds and ends. But the time we hit the one year mark until we got married, which was roughly two weeks after getting engaged, we had I good 1/2 of the planning done.

People always asked why we weren't running around like chickens with our heads cut off! I remember Tommy telling me after going to a bridal fair (yes he went with me to them) that another guy that had gotten suckered into going by his fiancee asked Tommy if I was a Bridezilla, and the guy was shocked when Tommy told him that I wasn't!

We had a funeral to do the Wednesday before we got married, and we were as calm as could be. We didn't have anything else to do as far as the wedding/reception was concerned, so we just took the week prior to our wedding as a reflection on my grandpa's life, and gave him a proper funeral. We even ended up with some unexpected guests in town for the wedding, that hadn't originally thought that they would be in town. But it made every thing seem more like a family affair.

[wishing_star]

Mine was a surprise.

Matt proposed for my 17th birthday which was obviously a shock. We'd been together for just over 2 years. The thought of marrying him had crossed my mind but it wasn't something I'd thought would happen so quickly (or young). Anyway I had a bunch of white and pink lillies (my favs) delivered to my house. I spent the day with friends and family, bit of shopping, bit of lunch. He picked me up from my house and we went out to my favourite restaurant and while at the dinner he gave me all my birthday presents (he must have spent an absolute fortune that birthday!). He then informed me that we were going away for the weekend. It was only a nearby place by the beach but it was lovely anyway. He'd planned it all so well, already spoken to my mum who had packed a bag ready for me so I didn't have to rush home and do it all. She'd sneakily given it to Matt to put in his trunk while I was still getting ready!
Anyway it only took an hour to drive there but it went so much quicker. Luckily the weather was kind to us that night and we did the whole romantic stroll on the beach thing. I seriously had no clue even at this point, I just thought it was all just for my birthday. But then he ended up proposing on the beach! It was so lovely, I was just so stunned at first I couldn't say a word but he eventually got it out of me and I just burst into tears (happy ones of course! lol). The next day we went to choose an engagement ring together.
We got married 5 months later, it wasn't an extravagant wedding but was still so gorgeous.

[mrstorcz]

I was throwing my husband a party to celebrate his birthday and he kept asking me if I wanted to invite any of my friends..that should have tipped me off. I insisted that it was his party and so it should just be his friends.

The night of the party, my husband couldn't eat he was so nervous. I was so busy running around replenishing food and drinks that I didn't even notice. He asked me if he could make a speech thanking his friends for coming and I said sure but to also let people know when he spoke that I was going to be serving dessert after.

He got up to speak and he thanked everyone for coming. He talked about his past year and said it had been filled with a lot of challenges, a lot of good things and one great thing -- meeting me. Then he turned to me and said " My friends like you, my parent adore you and I love you, will you marry me?"

He got down on one knee and handed me a gold ring with a pink stone. He explained that when he was 13 he saw the ring and thought "I'm gonna buy that for the girl I am going to marry." He was at his parents cleaning out his old room a couple of weeks before and found it and decided that he was going to use that ring to propose to me.

Later, we picked out my "official" engagement ring together but I still wear the original ring on a chain around my neck