would love to hear how you were proposed to . .

[MissM]

So. . Dp and i have been discussing marriage for the past few months. Only recently have we spoken about how he would propose. He is so NOT romantic and it doesnt really bother me, but he has started to stress in a way thinking how he'll do it lol

I dont expect anything elaborate and he knows that. I did say to him that something like breakfast in bed would be nice or something as simple as flowers sent to with with something sweet on the card would do me. As long as its from the heart :-)

So . . . How was THE question sprung on u?

[Poppetty]

Nothing fancy here, at home after work on our birthday he was giving me my presents then got down on one knee and proposed with a gorgeous antique ring!

[human bean]

Nothing too fancy here but it always makes me laugh....

DH left for "work" (but I didn't know he raced and picked up the ring we'd had made) and my normal routine would be to leave about 1.5hrs later. I got a call 5 mins after he left with a work emergency, so I showered dressed and was out the door within 15mins. Poor DH in the meantime had picked up the ring, some flowers, and driven back home to suprise me, parking the car around the corner and sneaking in to the unit complex, into the unit then into the bedroom to suprise me with a proposal. All he found was an empty bedroom ha ha

I got home earlier than him that afternoon and when he walked in he gave me the flowers and I was so nervous I kept walking around pottering and he was following me and then he said really sternly "just sit down in one place will you". I dropped into a chair, he dropped down on one knee and asked if I would be his wife. He got a little teary, I said yes, we kissed, and then he told me the story of trying to suprise me that morning. The poor guy had been a nervous wreck all day waiting to propose and reckons he was devestated when he'd walked in to find me gone to work. He reckons he ninja'd so quietly into the unit it took ages to get through the front door and to the bedroom

We went out to dinner that night and I spent the evening pointing to everything in an exaggerated manner to show off my ring

[Miss.September]

DH booked us into a hotel in the city because it was my birthday and took me out to my favourite restaurant. I had convinced myself earlier that it was going to happen, and then spent the evening convincing myself it wasn't going to happen because I didn't want it to spoil the evening I did it so well that when DH started to tell me how much I meant to him, I kept interrupting him and agreeing with things he said until he finally reached into his pocket and pulled out a ring that he had chosen himself, got down on one knee and proposed. Was so so beautiful and I wouldn't change a thing.

Corelly x

[helle]

We went out to dinner that night and I spent the evening pointing to everything in an exaggerated manner to show off my ring

bahahah! CUte!

DH called me... while he was in the house.

He had duced out to get some supplies because we were getting our concrete painted out the front patio, and picked up the ring on his way. When he got home I had JUST sat down after doing a few chores when my mobile rang out in the kitchen. I asked him if he'd grab it for me, seeing as he was in the room at the time and was coming into the lounge. He told me no, to get it myself, and I do believe that I called him the "w" word XD
When I went to "answer" it my ring was sitting on top of my phone. When I walked into the lounge room (totally gobsmacked because I had NO idea it was coming) he just said "so, will ya?" with a big stupid grin on his face.

I love how he proposed, it's just so DH. Spur of the moment, quirky and slightly immature ^^;

[PumpkinZulu]

These are gorgeous!

DF and I had had a tough day; it was about 1 month after we had lost our first baby, and we had gone to the park to release a balloon. We were lying in bed that night talking when I burst into tears. It was the first big cry I had had since the m/c. We just held each other and cried and cried over everything we had lost. I was lying with my head on DF's chest and he was stroking my hair with one hand and his other was placed on my tummy. I said something along the lines of how I wanted out little family back (because when I was preg DF would put his hand on my tummy and talk to Baby about how we were a little family ) and DF said to me, "Well I know it will never bring our baby back, but we can get working on being a little family by ourselves, if you'll have me." I just burst into (more lol) tears nand said ofcorse, over and over Was a beautiflu night, I have never had a more peaceful sleep

[Purple Penguin]

Mine was anything but romantic (well to me anyways...lol) Basically he told me he was going shopping for a ring, so i went for a walk to get some lunch... and when i got back he asked "do you want to do this now?" (ever the romantic... NOT!!) so i said "can i finish my lunch first?" after lunch he got down on one knee and asked if Bump (i was 8 months preg) and I would do him the honour... we of course said yes! lol...

[Cassius2]

ohhh these stories are FUN!

My DH totally suprised me on the 'romance' stakes. he was always rather adamant that he wasnt into romantic stuff like weddings etc. so when we went to italy for a few months to catch up with family and friends i had NO IDEA that there was a plan-a-brewing...

we were staying at his mum's place which sits in the foothills of this mountain that has an abandoned 12th century castle that no one ever visits (apart from spotty boy scouts and well, us lol). DH and LOVE that place and would go up everytime we were in italy. so again, when he mentions that we could go up for a picnic on the weekend i was none the wiser. we get to the top and i do notice that he is really quiet and i start to worry (thinking another family 'italian style drama' is about to unfold lol)...anyway we are sitting on this rockface on top the mountain looking over Pisa and across the ocean when he turns around with this small box in his hand and says: 'so will you? will you marry me?' LOL! he was SOOOO NERVOUS!!!! i immediately said yes and we kissed and cuddled for ages then i put the ring on and almost fell off the mountain as i kept looking at it as we walked home lol.

(oh, and apparently he had tried to ask me a few nights before...apparently he had this plan of driving me up to an even bigger mountain that has a big lookout, but he forgot that i am TERRIFIED of mountain roads (and italian drivers...including him lol)...so had a *minor* panic attack and we had to turn around!!)

[sconeonamission]

My birthday is the day after valentines day. 2 wks before it, we picked up the ring we picked out, so I knew it was coming. I was not allowed to read his emails...

Anyway. I was at work, the week before my birthday. My dh and boss at the time had the same name. The phone rang and (I'm still working while I'm the phone) and the person on the other end introduces himself, and where he's from, says "Andrew has something he'd like to ask you". I didn't think much of it, because to be honest, I was more focused on what I was entering into the data base than listening the the caller. I thought it was odd though that Andy was down the hall way and just coulda shouted for me.

The person, who I've now worked out where he said he was from - which puzzles me even more - puts Andrew on the phone. Once Andrew starts speaking I stop typing and focus. It clicks and I work out what's going on. Finally he asks me and, even though I'm normally a smart ar$e, just say "yes!" omg, you have no idea how much I was shaking! I could hear how much Andrew was shaking too! The guy comes back on the phone, thanks us and gives us 2 tickets to see "Walk The Line", and announces it'll be on the air in the next half hour.

Yep. I wasn't allowed to read the emails because he was organizing with the radio station to propose on air! I hung up from the announcer and rang him. Then I rang mum, in tears, and she's wondering whats wrong and I thought, hang-on I wont spoil the surprise, so I told her that Andrew dedicated a song for me and it'll be on air soon. She rang HIM first when she heard it My aunts and grandparents heard it too, even though we didn't tell them. They were already listening to the station!

I got sent home early coz I couldn't "work in my condition", and waited and waited and waited for Andrew to come home. Finally he did and I ran down the front stairs to see him. He gave me a dozen red roses. Then said, they're not enough and I got another 12!! He told me the ring wasn't ready to be picked up from the jewelers yet, but I didn't care!

His parents live the closest so we went to their place for dinner. He had organized with his mothers friend to get a cake. She came over the his parents place too and we all had dinner and then when cake came out all I could see was CAKE!! CHOCOLATE CAKE! The friend said "Andrew had a hand in it." about 3 times before I really kind of heard her and had a look and there smack bang in the middle of the cake, was my engagement ring!

Reading back on this, I think he's used up all his romantic on the proposal!

[Party-of-five]

We went on a holiday to phuket...we just got to our room and DH drops to one knee and reads a poem he has written himself
He said he had planned to take me down to the beach and do it but he said he couldnt wait any longer

[Schmickers]

DW and I went on holiday when we finished university. We scrimped and saved and spent a week on Heron Island. We got up early one morning to watch the sea turtles come up onto the beach and lay their eggs, which they only do for a few weeks a year. I had the ring and knew I was going to propose while we were there, but hadn't been able to think of anything special to do, so decided the situation was right, got down on one knee and proposed.

Then, we had such a long engagement that we decided to do it again. We had got DW a new engagement ring because we had been working for a few years and had a chance to save up, so we went out to a cabin in the blue mountains, had dinner by a log fire, and I proposed again. We left a rubbing of the engagement ring in the guest book.

[Trillian]

have you seen the new ad for Minties? Far out it's funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSq11mZJcUs but it ****s me that it's a Nestle company

Anyway as for my proposal, it was so ordinary. It was the night after my 21st party and all the oldies were hanging around for hours later than they normally would have because everyone thought he was going to pop the question at the party, so the poor bugger really had the pressure on - made worse by the fact that we'd brought the ring a few weeks before on a whim because we walked past a jeweller's that was having a sale so it was going to happen soon, but the deal was that I didn't put the pressure on and he'd do it when he was ready. But it got the better of him and he asked me at 3am, he was drunk and we were just about to go to bed LOL. Hardly romantic but I said yes none the less

[Laranna]

We were on a holiday down south and had travelled down to the Cape Leeuwin lighthouse. I was taking photos of the most southern tip of WA and the lighthouse. I said to DH "let's take some photos of the other side of the lighthouse" and as I turned around he was holding a ring up in front of me and said "marry me first". My response was "are you serious?" and then I said yes

[allycat06]

It had been about a month since we discovered I was pg and for a few weeks had been toying with the idea of getting married. Initially we had thought no as we didn't think we could scrape together the cash and because of the whole shotgun thing but that night we were sitting on the couch at my folks after everyone else had gone to bed and had a long chat about it. Around 2 am we eventually came to the conclusion it would be the perfect way to become a proper family...so why not do it sooner rather than later.

DH got down on one knee and proposed there and then with a ring he'd given me 3 years previously for our first Christmas together (I'd taken it off and put it on the coffee table as my fingers were a little swollen, he'd spotted it and thought why not!). I hugged him and said "of course!" He replaced it a few months later with a white gold and diamond one

[Taurean]

DH proposed in Santorini, Greece. We were backpacking around the world and we spent a week in Santorini. We lashed out to stay one night in a cave house on the cliffs at Oia (where all the awesome sunset shots from Greece are taken ). We spent the afternoon chatting and drinking, it was a perfect day in a postcard location. We watched the amazing sunset over the Med on our rooftop terrace and DH got down on bended knee, told me I meant the world to him and how he didn't want to live without me and then asked me to marry him. Very romantic!!

[luna moth]

On a beach on Koh Lanta in Thailand. We were having ****tails and watching the sun set over the water. He kept taking really depp breaths and not saying anything, so I knew it was coming. He didn't even get to finish the question before I said yes - like a million times! It was Christmas Eve, and we got married on a beach the following year.

[briggsy's girl]

DH was working away and had taken me into the shops before he went and chosen a ring to layby. he came home a few weeks later and was to meet my grandarents the next day for the first time. he told me he wanted to ask me a question but couldn't cos he didn't have what he needed (and i was tired so way too vague) - i told him he couldn't do that, he had to ask me now (oops!), so he asked me if i'd like to introduce him to my nan as my fiance instead of my boyfriend! was very sweet - we were laying in bed cuddling after not seeing each other for four weeks - gorgeous!

[~Kim~]

I used to collect teapots. He isn't really romantic either but he did well.

He waited until we got to the Mad Hatters Tea Party Ride at Disneyland and then made a run for the hot pink one (my fave - beat all the 6yos too lol), and then he did it there.....

Still makes me swoon lol.