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What would be the ultimate marriage proposal you'd like to get,or did get?
Hexteacher:
Mine had no romance what-so-ever. I had met this Irish lass who was running a guest house in Dublin when I went for a holiday. I can clearly remember thinking "she's nice I wonder if she's taken" when she answered the door. Well one thing lead to another and instead of heading down the west coast of Ireland as planned, I stayed for two weeks with her. Fast forward 4 weeks and said Irish lass comes over to visit.
So there we were in a pretty rough car park around the back of a pub one lunch time and I asked her to marry me.
We were married almost exactly a year to the day after I first met her on the doorstep of that guest house, and we celebrate our 15th Wedding Anniversary this year. I think you could say we don't do frills and window dressing, but what mattered to us was that we were, and still are, sincere, and love each other.
Missy2U:
Captain Romance (my husband) struck like this.
Short background - we really ARE each other's best friends. On weekends, we can sit up until three in the morning just talking - after sixteen years together. Back in 2002, we were doing just that. And out of nowhere he says, 'You know that marriage thing we talked about? Set it up."
Yup - that was it. "Set it up." And it was SO perfect for me!
He also picked our wedding date. The day before Thanksgiving of that year. He said it was so he'd always remember the date. Which worked fine for him until I asked him, "You do realize, don't you, that the actual date of Thanksgiving CHANGES every year?" ;D
He's now talking about RENEWING our vows. I'll surprise HIM one late night and tell him to "set it up". ;D
Thipu1:
Mr. Thipu set the date for our Wedding. He chose March 19 because it was half-way between St. Patrick's Day and the vernal equinox. That way, he'd be sure to remember the date.
Of course, for the first few years my anniversary flowers were heavy on green carnations. Did I ever mention that I married an engineer?
SoCalVal:
--- Quote from: snowflake on April 26, 2012, 01:08:13 PM ---I still remember the very plain moment I got engaged with lots of fondness.
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My proposal was also very plain, and I'm perfectly fine with it. DF was trying to plan a proposal at a special place...for him. Unfortunately for him, since I didn't know that's why he wanted to go there, I had no interest in going there (he wanted to take me to some church he loves, and I wasn't that into our faith yet so I really wasn't that interested in visiting some church because he ALWAYS wants to visit some special church). Anyway, after I dashed his plans, I (kind of meanly, now that I think about it) explained to him that if he wants to pick some place special that has meaning, he really should pick a place special to the BOTH of us so I'm not sitting there protesting at the idea of being forced to go there (I'd never been at that point; now that I have, it's actually a beautiful church -- however, people are usually in there praying so I don't think proposing to me in the church would've gone over so well).
Anyway, I'm happy with my plain proposal and, actually, never have had a dream proposal (but don't fault anyone for having one); I fantasized about finally having someone love me enough who would propose (DF is really my only serious relationship -- the others were flings and stuff of my imagination that meant nothing to the guys). I don't have a dream wedding either (can't stand being the focus of attention so, actually, my "dream wedding" is me, DF, priest and two witnesses). I fantasize about my pending marriage, though, and really look forward to the whole wedding process being over so DF and I may focus on being married.
IslandMama:
--- Quote from: Thipu1 on April 30, 2012, 08:28:43 PM ---Mr. Thipu set the date for our Wedding. He chose March 19 because it was half-way between St. Patrick's Day and the vernal equinox. That way, he'd be sure to remember the date.
Of course, for the first few years my anniversary flowers were heavy on green carnations. Did I ever mention that I married an engineer?
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We share a wedding anniversary. :)
I mentioned seeing a ring I liked in the window of our local jewellers, he said I don't buy much so I should go buy it. I said it was an engagement ring so he said we'd go look at it... we bought it. Had it resized and he picked it up while I was at work. Then he said "I'd probably just put it on your hand while you're asleep so if we want a better story to tell the world you'd better do it." ::) Our anniversary was coming up and I'd bought him his dream BBQ (we're Australian, we have to have a BBQ... it's on our birth certificates, I think) which was a gas 6 burner with a hood, wok on the side, rotisserie attachment... all the bells and whistles. He came home from work to find me sitting at our outside table with it next to me... no hiding that thing. He circled it for a while and then opened it and discovered that I'd "seasoned" the flat plate with salt and written "Will you marry me?" and the ring was sitting there. He said yes, I put the ring on, we rang our families and then had a BBQ for dinner. ;D
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