How did your dh

[Diane]

propose to you?? Did he just come right out and ask... or did he do it in "special" way? I heard of someone who's (then) boyfriend asked her to marry him through a restaurant menu. He was a personal friend of the owner and he somehow had a "special" menu made up just for her. One of the "Specials" on the menu was, "Julie, will you marry me?... Chris" I thought that was SUCH of a cute and romantic way of proposing. LOL

MY dh was driving me home from work one night and when he pulled up in front of my house, I turned to get out of the car. He reached over and grabbed my arm, took my hand and asked me if I would marry him. LOL Not REAL romantic... but I'll never forget it!!! Four months later we were married. LOL
What's your story? :)

[Mickey]

Dh and I were both on vacation (he's from England and I'm from PA) and we met in a dive bar! Three days after we met, he started a sentence with, "When we get married..." and then he stopped himself, looked at me, smiled and finished his sentence, but I have no idea what he said after that! LOL! We were married 38 days later.

[lindaM]

dh proposed on my graduation day from high school. He hid my ring in his camera case. He asked me to go get his case out of the car, it was raining!!!! So I go get it then he asks me to get the camera out!!!! I was getting a little annoyed. then I found the box and he asked me. We eloped 1 1/2 years latter.

[Leigh]

Dh proposed to me on Valentine's Day. We were married in Dec. of that year. He handed me the box, and said you know what this means don't you? Not very romantic, but then when he was in basic he sent me a letter that read, I know that I never said the words, but WILL YOU MARRY ME? I sent him back a letter that said YES!!!!

[RCT]

we had been diving that morning, and he was cutting his toenails....LOL...don't ask, I was cleaning our wetsuits, and he said "where would we get married? Outside?" I said something like what are you talking about? are you asking me to marry you?" He said "Yes, would you?" LOL of course I said yes, and thats that....we have been married 10 years this June....not the most romantic, but its working for us...LOL....

[KarlaB]

Fun thread, Diane! :)

Dh proposed to me at my mom's house on Christmas Eve. After we all opened presents we went to put ours away and he told me he needed to talk to me. He had made a tape of "romantic" songs and I remember that he said some really special things about us, our relationship, our future....however, I don't remember what he said! LOL! It was fun to be able to share it with my family right after he proposed! :) We've been married 6 1/2 years.

[AnnW]

We had been dating for about 3 years and had talked about marriage many times (in fact we decided to get married about 2 weeks after our first date, but we just didn't want to live together!!! LOL). He had been offered a job in New Orleans. I was over at his house doing laundry one night and we were eating pizza. I had just told him not worry about us and decide what he wanted to do job-wise first and then we would work out all the other stuff. He leaves the room, I don't really think anything about it and go back to eating my pizza and watching tv. He comes back and throws a ring box down on the table. I look at him, open the box and there is a saphire ring in there. He says "well, you know what that means?" I had always said I didn't want an engagement ring but I didn't want to make a fool of myself ;) so I said no. He said "well, do you want to get married or what?" I said yes. He said good. I said, "shouldn't we kiss or something? We did. Then I said "shouldn't we call my parents?" And he said "well, let's wait till we finish eating so the pizza doesn't get cold"!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL That was in late October, we got married March 10 and just celebrated our 17th anniversary!

[angie r]

Mickey - 38 days!!!!! 8o


Brichard proposed to me in a karoke bar. He sang "If I Fell," got down on one knee, opened a ring box, and proposed to me over the microphone. That's my dh, always the extrovert! My family and friends were all there as they knew what was going to happen.

[stasee]

Well!
My parents were moving and since they both work I was manning the sale for them. On the last night of the sale my mom comes home and we was all just talking about our day nothing important, My mom up and says "so when are you two going to get married?"
I said "we aren't" at the same time he says "Yeah when are we getting married?" I just laughed at him and repeated "we aren't". That night he keep asking me over and over till I finally threw a calendar at him and said "pick a date and leave me alone"!
Why I did this is a very long story but boils down to me telling him I never wanted to get married. Good thing he didn't give up that night! We have been married for 7 years will be 8 June 18th this year.

[Amy]

Fun question Diane! I remember it well, but here is the essay he did for an English college course about our propal. I hope you can bear with it, its going to take me forever to type it! LOL

In the fall of last year, I made the decision of a lifetime. I would ask the woman of my dreams if she would marry me. My love, Amy, was flying into Monterey for the weekend for a short break from college. I wanted this to be memorable.

My first priority was to find the perfect ring to express my deepest feelings for her. I chose a heart shaped diamond-one that said it all. I bought a bottle of her favorite wine and two long stem glasses. I wanted to be totally alone with her when I proposed, so I chose a spot on Asilimar Beach on the rocks. I called the Airfield and asked what the forecast would be-beautiful skies expected.

Setting the mood was very important to me. I met Amy at the airport with a dozen roses. We went to the hotel to freshen up prior to dinner. I told her that we were going to watch the sunset before we make our way to the General Store Restaurant in Carmel. This has become her favorite place to be together. My planning had paid off, it ws going to be a glorious sunset. I got the wine and blankets out and we started to talk about the future as we snuggled together. When the sun dipped close to the water, I turned to her and said "Amy, my love, I am going to be a little selfish. I want you for my own, forever. Will you marry me?" I pulled out the ring and handed it to her. By looking at her surprised look, I knew this was a success. Tears started to show, but she did not cry. She looked up and said "yes, of course I will".

Wow-I haven't read this in about 5 years!! I forgot those little details and how extremely romantic he was!! This has brought up a lot of beautiful memories. Thanks for asking this Diane!

[AnnW]

snif sob.....why in the world did I get the impression that your dh wasn't romantic?????

[Amy]

He is still romantic, if I let him be. ROFl!! I hate wasting hard earned money on things that will die (roses) too soon or jewelry that I don't need.

My idea of romantic is him cleaning up after dinner and giving the kids a bath while I get to relax!!

[AnnW]

I can definitely tell you're NOT southern!!!!!!!!! LOL

[BevJ]

Well, mine story sounds even less romantic than AnnW's, LOL.

We'd been together since I was 17 and dh was 20, moved in together at 21 and 23 and at 25 and 27, decided to have a child. Still no marriage plans were in sight. However, at about 14 weeks into the pregnancy we were driving to a favourite campground for a long weekend in May and a song on the cassette we were listening to had the words, "when will we be married, Sally? When will we be wed? When will we be bedded in the same bed?" Well, I'm singing along and I changed "Sally" for "Billy", (if you haven't guessed already, Bill is dh's name, LOL). He said, well you'd better pick a date soon, if you want to get married before the baby comes. I looked at a calendar and we decided on July 7, only about six weeks away, but it was also to be my parents 35th anniversary. We were meeting family at the campground so we broke the news and planned and celebrated all weekend (minus alcohol for me, of course).

[MaryL]

We got engaged on the day of my graduation from college. (Dh had graduated the year before..and I was going to be moving to the same town where he was working.) I really don't remember what he said...but it still gives me a warm feeling just thinking about it. We had talked about getting married...and I was anticipating a "ring"...but he picked it out all by himself. I was surprised. We'll be married for 12 years this July. I'd marry him all over again! I made a good choice.

[angie r]

Originally posted by Amy/CO
Fun question Diane! I remember it well, but here is the essay he did for an English college course about our propal. I hope you can bear with it, its going to take me forever to type it! LOL

In the fall of last year, I made the decision of a lifetime. I would ask the woman of my dreams if she would marry me. My love, Amy, was flying into Monterey for the weekend for a short break from college. I wanted this to be memorable.

My first priority was to find the perfect ring to express my deepest feelings for her. I chose a heart shaped diamond-one that said it all. I bought a bottle of her favorite wine and two long stem glasses. I wanted to be totally alone with her when I proposed, so I chose a spot on Asilimar Beach on the rocks. I called the Airfield and asked what the forecast would be-beautiful skies expected.

Setting the mood was very important to me. I met Amy at the airport with a dozen roses. We went to the hotel to freshen up prior to dinner. I told her that we were going to watch the sunset before we make our way to the General Store Restaurant in Carmel. This has become her favorite place to be together. My planning had paid off, it ws going to be a glorious sunset. I got the wine and blankets out and we started to talk about the future as we snuggled together. When the sun dipped close to the water, I turned to her and said "Amy, my love, I am going to be a little selfish. I want you for my own, forever. Will you marry me?" I pulled out the ring and handed it to her. By looking at her surprised look, I knew this was a success. Tears started to show, but she did not cry. She looked up and said "yes, of course I will".

Wow-I haven't read this in about 5 years!! I forgot those little details and how extremely romantic he was!! This has brought up a lot of beautiful memories. Thanks for asking this Diane!


How beautiful!! :bigcry:

[Marla]

trip (in sin...but don't tell anyone). :blush: I was really confused all day because it was March 1, and still quite cold in Canada. We went to visit his grandfather, and he told me that he had booked a hotel close to the airport as we had an early flight the next day. I thought that was great. He then told me that he was going to take his winter coat to the hotel instead of leaving it at his grandfathers' house as we had decided to do, and that he would get rid of it later. ?( That was weird because we were leaving on our trip. Anyway, we went to the hotel (which was no where near the airport), and checked in. When we got to our floor, I noticed that there was a doorbell outside our room. I thought that was really weird because standard rooms don't usually have this. When the bellboy proceeded to open our door, I thought that we were definately taken to the wrong room. We went inside to this huge suite, with a separate living room, 2 bathrooms, 3 telephones, 3 televisions, separate sleeping quarters....I was running around the room saying I couldn't believe they gave us the wrong room. It wasn't until I saw that bottle of champagne and two glasses sitting on the bureau that my heart started jumping and then he proposed to me. I started to cry. :bawling: We immediately went and called everybody we knew and then our families all came down to the hotel (which was why he brought his coat with him) for champagne and appetizers.

[beth c]

These are great stories!!

Tim and I had only been dating about 6 months when he took me out to dinner in Denver. This wasn't anything out of the ordinary. We went to Lookout Mtn up above Denver, he was going to show me where his cousins had lived. He pulled the car over, got the box out and asked me to marry him. I really wasn't expecting it then.

We were married five months later and will celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary in December.

He is still a romantic too.

[Leigh]

Ann
At least my dh wasn't the only one to say you know what this means. I am glad to know that someone else's out there did too.

[Ryleigh]

We had talked of getting married several times but never anything official, just what if.... chit chat. Then, one summer evening, while visiting with family in N. Ontario. He suggested we go for a drive. look at the scenery. Take a drive by the old place where I had lived until I was about 12. and just relax. Sounded good so off we went.
By the time we got by my old home it was starting to get dark. We got out of the car and took a stroll around the neighbourhood and ended up in front of my old house. With me protesting all the way, for fear of being accused of tresspassing, he led me around to the back yard to the big tree where I use to play as a child. The tree house my friends and I had constructed, (with help of a couple of our fathers) still rested quietly above. He urged me to climb up the rope ladder into the tree house and what did I find but a candle light picnic all set up for us and a sign on the wall that said "No singles allowed" I turned to look at him and found him on one knee at the bottom of the tree holding an open ring box.
I don't remember the words he used, just the weak feeling in my knees and the overwhelming love that has only grown stronger everyday since. :heart:
We were married 11 months later.
The good old tree house has since been torn down but the memories last forever.
:heart::heart::heart::heart::heart:

[Diane]

So many good stories... :wiggle: I really had a lot of fun reading how all of your dh's popped the question. LOL Thanks for sharing all your stories! :)

bye... :wave: