Hey all! Just curious as to how everyone got proposed to or proposed to their OH? My fiancee got down on one knee on the top of mount timanfaya in Lanzarote (burning his knee in the process), I of course said yes. We were on holiday with my dad and stepmum, sister n her partner. Was simply perfect! That was on 16th October 2010. We got together on 27th October 2007. Only seemed right we get married in October too. Would love to hear all your stories! xx
CommentAuthorMrs Cartwright
I proposed to my H2b opposite the London Eye after we were out a few days after our second year anniversary :) x
CommentAuthorsuzky123
dave wanted to do it in malta but was petrified I would find the ring first. He tried to get me to go away to the lake district instead but I was being a pain about it saying that he had told me we needed to save money for the malta holiday so I didnt see the need to go! Therefore he was reduced to making me climb the LONG way up the great orme in llandudno and did it overlooking the water. He booked my fave rest too for the evening so if he didnt manage, he would do it then. And when we got to his mums, there was a huuuuuge bouquet of red roses waiting for me... he thought of everything.
cant wait to be Mrs Evans less than 3 weeks woooo
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weight now 8st 4.5 lbs
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CommentAuthorlinzmum
my oh was begging me one morning to phone in sick at work (something I would NEVER do as I believe in work not skiving), he ended up saying I couldn't go into work because he wanted to marry me, then he put a ring on my finger. I still went to work but not before saying yes lol
Soon to be joined together as the Wheeler family, can't wait
Doing thing our way xxxx
CommentAuthormrsV2013
my oh suprised me :) he got me believing i was going on a christmas shopping trip with my mum. instead she drove me to the train station where he took me to the theater and then suprised me by taking me to a really nice returant where he proposed. everything was perfect except for the horrid woman on next table who was complaing about everything so her bill whould get lowered :/ my oh is not one for suprises so it was lovely :)
My H2B was deployed to Oman on November 18th. We went home the week before (11/11/11) to celebrate Christmas with his family and we were having a big Christmas dinner on the 12th. As is customary in the van der Lee household, we all got PJs on "Christmas Eve". I was sat in my PJs and decided to go to bed having travelled from Worcester to Lancaster that day. On my way upstairs my now H2B launched past me and nearly knocked me flying. H ekicked me out of our room and I just thought he'd forgotten to hide a Christmas present.
Anyways, he comes out and invites me in. He holds out a cracker for me to pull with him which I do (after much confusion). He won the cracker pull & a red ring box came flying out. The lights go down and the door closes. On the back of our door he'd put "Marry Me" in glow-in-the-dark letters. When the lights came back on, he was down on one knee with the ring that I had chosen when we were on holiday in Turkey in the August - I had no idea he'd bought it.
I was in tears. I said yes and jumped into his arms, hands down best night of my life. He's a military boy and he proposed on 11/11/11 and at 11pm (although completely by accident)
Writing it down I feel so corny!
Sam & Adele
Mr and Mrs van der Lee
10-08-2013
CommentAuthorsuzky123
Lanzarote is amazing. We really enjoyed that hol.... best hol we have been on. I bet you had even more of an amazing time after being proposed to. We said we would always go different places each year but have already contemplated going back to Lanzarote but next time we would do the bbq on the volcano as the chicken smelt amazing.
cant wait to be Mrs Evans less than 3 weeks woooo
start weight 10st 1.5 lbs
weight now 8st 4.5 lbs
total loss to date: 24.5 lbs now need to maintain!
CommentAuthorWifey2be
Well mine was a bit weird and a bit of a long story (as you may or not know my hubby to be is in the navy) and we had spoken about marriage but that was it! Then he got sent to Libya in march with no home coming date ;( I was so so worried and it made me realise how much I couldt live my life without him and same with him with me!
The ship had a stop in Italy while they where restocking the ship after a month and a bit at sea, and he got signal and texted me saying we have a stop in a months time in Malta I have transfered a grand in to your bank book a week holiday for the two of us I have booked leave from the ship so i did that let him know I booked flights and hotel and then he said now I have transferred 3 grand in to your bank in a separate text I was like why??? He was like you need to go to a shop and get your ring I am going to ask you to marry me in Malta but there's no ring shops in Libya!! So off I went ring shopping brought my ring (kept it in it's box) and took it to Malta with me and I gave him the box .... Then he made me work three days and then he took me for a nice meal and asked me to marry him on a jetty in malta in our hotel grounds ;)
Then four days later I had to say good bye to him while he went back with the ship to Libya with no homecoming date in mind!! Was such an amazing week but the worst thing leaving Malta engaged but not with the hubby to be! (he finally got home on the 7th November!!! X
CommentAuthorOmi
Ahh, all your stories are amazing. It just takes me right back to the top of the mountain that day! Suzky123, Lanzarote is amaze, we will def be going back, maybe on a wedding anniversary in a few years! x
CommentAuthorFuture mrs mac
Aww everyone has such lovely stories :) Mine is quite simple - meal then hotel with roses and champers :) quite romantic for my h2b xx
CommentAuthormrsV2013
aww so many romantic stories xxx
hicory vicary dock i will be mrs rachel vicary :)
CommentAuthorowlgirl2015
My h2b proposed in a weird but really cute way as i was pregnant with our daughter at the time but was always being sick and the only thing i could eat was marshmallows so he told me one day i had to go in the kitchen as the cooker wasnt working but he just sat down on the couch i got mad but he just kept saying see the cooker and ther on top of the cooker was a plate of marshmallows in a heart shape where he had written with writing icing will you marry me? on the marshmallows and the ring in the middle i cried but did say yes lol! i will always remember it as thought it was kind of quirky :) x
25th of july 2015 i marry my soulmate:) x
CommentAuthorKiki1993
All these stories are so beautiful! Linzmum you must have been smiling like a mad woman all day at work! haha! I had just gotten home from shopping after school and walked into the bedroom..as I walked in OH lowered down to his knee and stuttered.."Christine, I love you with all my heart..will you marry me?" I was like "of course i will!" He had light candles and put the ring in a beautiful box and he had gotten me my favourite energy juice ;) and had a take away ordered haha :) was great for us :)
CommentAuthorOWB
Mine set up afternoon tea in the dining room, with scones that he'd baked himself (I had to laugh afterwards because he'd bought all the baking stuff new as he didn't know what was what in the cupboards, he's not a natural in the kitchen). He iced fondant fancies with "Will u marry me" and tied my ring to the cake stand. After I'd put the ring on we celebrated with a brew.
If only life could be one long tea break
CommentAuthorMrs van der Lee
Mmmm, celebratory brews!
Sam & Adele
Mr and Mrs van der Lee
10-08-2013
CommentAuthorWifey2be
Hahah I think my hubby to be would of rather had a brew but the hotel we stayed in at was told he was proposing that night so instead we got free moet!!! Haha x
CommentAuthorJillybean
My h2b did it at my 25th birthday party infront of everyone on 19th Nov 2011 @ exactly 11pm! (not sure why he chose that time!) our rubbish dj didnt have kings of leon sex on fire (which is our song) and h2b was asking for romantic music while he proposed and he kept on wanting to play happy birthday lol (he was polilsh and english not that good!) in the end he found Bruno Mars - Marry You on the playlist and got him to play that while he proposed!
When he did it i couldnt beleive it! i screamed and was jumping all over the show! didnt even give him the chance to put the ring on my finger coz i snatched it out the box and did it myself! after that i didnt no whether to laugh, cry or scream! but i did nearly faint! it was perfect coz i like a good crowd ;-) xXx
Got together 18th December 2008
Engaged 19th November 2011
Getting married 20th June 2014
Venue is Manchester Utd Football Ground!!!
CommentAuthorJillybean
(just to clarify the DJ kept wanting to play happy birthday! lol x
Got together 18th December 2008
Engaged 19th November 2011
Getting married 20th June 2014
Venue is Manchester Utd Football Ground!!!
CommentAuthorFuture mrs mac
Lol would of been a funny story to tell if you had got proposed to happy birthday ;) xx
CommentAuthorShirleygirly
My h2b had planned to take me to New York next April and propose to me on a row boat in Central Park but at my cousins wedding in August the whole family was nagging him about when we are getting married and he kept saying he's got it all planned out. Later on we were talking about spending the rest of our lives together and he dropped to one knee and said he couldn't wait any longer as he's found his perfect woman. He only told me about the New York plan a week later but said he'll still take me anyway because I'm a good girl. x
I can't wait until 29/06/2013
The day I marry the man of my dreams!
CommentAuthorElliekitty
My other half proposed to me at Lake Garda, Italy, while we were sat watching the sun set! I never knew he could be romantic
---Winter 2013 Bride ---
CommentAuthorclairebare
Mine came home one saturday afternoon with roses and chocolates for me (this is not the norm so was a bit suprised) and told me that he was cooking tea tonight (3 courses) I kept saying what have you done with my boyfriend! After tea he lit candles and put music on, we sat chatting drinking wine, then about 10pm he said he needed to get something - he came back saying he wanted to ask me something and produced a Haribo!!!! I thought it was soooo sweet.
Engaged 25th June 2011
CommentAuthorMrs van der Lee
gorgeous!! lovely story xx
Sam & Adele
Mr and Mrs van der Lee
10-08-2013
CommentAuthorclairebare
All the stories are special ... just lovely xx
Engaged 25th June 2011
CommentAuthorJillybean
Aww i know its so nice to read other's story! Best one i heard was my friends fiance taking her and kids to camelot for the day but what she didnt know was he'd been going there regularly to have jousting lessons! so when they got there and the jousting show was about to start, he wandered off and she didnt see him then until he rode in wearing a suit of armour on the back of a horse then jumped off and proposed to her in the middle of the arena! Defo a knight in shining armour :-) they're not together now but still, cute story! lol x
Got together 18th December 2008
Engaged 19th November 2011
Getting married 20th June 2014
Venue is Manchester Utd Football Ground!!!
CommentAuthorbridalmiss
30th April 2011, on holiday in San Francisco and he asked to walk along the Golden Gate Bridge as part of the sightseeing, 2/3 of the way across he told me to look across the Bay to check out a tugboat - I looked out, couldn't see anything, realised he'd gone quiet, and heard a chuckle from a tourist about 20 yards away - turned around and he was on one knee with the open ring box, saying that 'a bridge is made of metal, designed to join two things together, kind of like an engagement ring - will you marry me?' - OMG!! We got back to the start of the bridge where my mum and brother were waiting, told them about the engagement and turns out they knew anyway, this had been planned 4 months before, even my Mum had seen the ring for her approval!
Rather impressed if I do say so myself :-)
CommentAuthorKate4
Ahhh that's sweet!
My cheeky h2b waited until i'd picked him up from the pub after a footy game, cooked him a meal, washed up, served up the drinks before he got down on one knee in the kitchen! Maroon 5 - Moves like Jagger was on the tv and we had a little dance in the kitchen. I said 'God we're so awkward, how are we ever gonna do a first dance?!' and he whipped the ring out and said 'If you marry me we'll find out'. Was such a surprise! I was jet lagged (had just got back from a work trip abroad) and looked a complete mess! Cue major make over in time for the in laws to come round and celebrate with us! x
CommentAuthorGlitterfairy
I was in the garden with the kids helping them with the bunnies and he came out and asked if I wanted a glass of wine, whilst standing with the wine glass in his hand, I said OK and went to take it from him when instead of wine inside was a ring box wth Marry me written on it!! My daughter read it and squealed!!!
Our wedding day - 6 October 2012
CommentAuthorLittleMissBossy
edited
Such lovely stories!
Mine is also a bit of a long one. Try cutting it short - we got together April 2005 and shortly after he started talking about marriage. Our very first argument actually was in front of a jewellers because I said I don't want a diamond but a cheaper unique vintage ring :-) A few days later he convinced me to try one on which I did - now that was the giddiest feeling and day of my life! He wanted to propose a few months later in Prague on a city trip but got made redundant the month before and cancelled it all. Fast forward a few years - Christmas eve 2009 back home in Austria. There Christmas is celebrated on Christmas eve, presents are opened in the evening just before a big christmas dinner. We were at my parents with our then 1 1/2 year old and my 3 siblings. Everyone was totally dressed up (because thats what you do on Christmas eve there) and our family tradition is to open presents according to age - because I am older than all my siblings and older than h2b it was my turn after 5 other people (takes a while) and h2b was strangely tense and quiet (I did wonder why) - when it was my turn and I had opened up all presents I wondered where's h2bs prezzie and he suddenly said oh dear I forgot to put it out - and even though I had suspected it (he wasn't that clever in covering his tracks the month before :-)) I was taken by surprise - h2b went to fetch the "present", my brother put on Sinatra, my mother quickly grabbed the child and my dad got all teary eyed and poured champagne (by then I had a big question mark on my face and just wondered what the hell is going on) and then h2b came in and went down on his knee - he had written a poem and asked me to marry him. And I giggled as I do when I get nervous. I giggled my head off. Also said yes. :-)))
Later they showed me the station outside the flat. My dad had put up a smoking station and shots of vodka for dutch courage :-) (as if he would need this after so many years together but he did :-))
It’s so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life....
CommentAuthorjoey86
7th December 2010 (day before my birthday & 3 days before our 5 year anniversary) I came home from work, H2B was sitting on the sofa and there was a small present on the coffee table with a note on top of it saying 'Open Me.' I was like, no it's not my birthday till tomorrow and he was like, it's okay, open it! So I did. And it was a CD, with another note attached saying 'Where does Tia (our cat) like to sleep?' She likes to sleep where we keep all the towels, so I went there and there was another present, with another note inside that said 'Where do we keep the vacuum cleaner?' which is the cupboard under the stairs, so I go there, open the door and there is a massive bouquet of flowers and behind it, a box full of all my fave chocolates. I was like, okay... this is a bit weird... And I was thinking, oh god, please don't tell me this is what I think it is... So I started rooting around in the chocolates and at the bottom was a ring box... And inside was the ring (which he picked himself & got spot on!) and a note wrapped around it which said 'will you marry me?'
I didn't say yes for half an hour though! I was in complete shock! But eventually, of course, I said yes :-) And then spent 2 hours phoning my friends and family to tell them (cue lots of crying & screaming down the phone in excitement!). Then we went out for a curry lol.
CommentAuthorSkamer
I have tears coming down my face, they are such lovely proposals.
I work a lot of nights, at the time I was working on a care of the elderly ward, Matt couldn't sleep so we texting on my break, he texted he couldn’t wait any longer and basically proposed. The only hitch was when he text I had been called out of break to see to a patient, he thought I was turning him down. Obviously I said yes, I didn't tell any of the girls in work because I though it was a joke, although we had talked about getting married but he'd been saving for the ring and, like a child, the excitement was too much for him to wait any longer.
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