Page 1 of Marriage Proposal - HELP

I`am going to ask my girlfriend to marry me in the next week or so, I`ve booked a nice hotel and was going to ask her over diner.
Does anybody have any good ideas on how I should do it - you know get the chefs to put it in her desert or somthing like that.

Ta.

Do what a mate of mine just did the other night and make sure to head to Argos and pick up a five-quid cheapy ring and place that in the box first......pop the question and then give her the ring.

Watch her face as she realises that she`s facing a life with a cheapo with bad jewellery taste and that she can`t say anything about it to you!!!


He actually tied this in with "I`ve been thinking.......I don`t think that I want to get married" - and just as she was about to blub..."I don`t think....I KNOW that I definitely want to get married!"

Then he presented her with "the ring".........

She is happy and did say yes - `specially when she saw the REAL ring - it`s a beauty.


Rob

I proposed in a restaurant too. Here`s my thoughts:

1. Book a room for the night in a nice hotel with a nice restaurant attached. Eat there - it`s only a few mintues then up to the room. ;)

2. Only dead romantic will do. So that`s no "come on love, you`re nowt special. Might as well marry me, you`ll do no better". I had a ring and a single red rose.

3. No cake, no joke ring, no flaming dessert from the kitchen. Nothing tacky. It is serious after all.

4. This is how I did it - get down on one knee, give her the rose, recite something prepared earlier (true feelings, short to the point and not schmoltsy enough to make her spew) about life together, what she means to you - important stuff to you etc., then give her the ring. EVERYONE in the restaurant will stop to watch you including staff and it`s electrifying, though incredibly frightening too. Be prepared for the claps and `arrrrhs` when she says yes. Job done.

5. Don`t get drunk and forget your words/fall over/be lavishly sick on her. ;)

6. Incidently - the room and the meal were free when the management found out what had happened the night before.

Matt

This man blows goats. I have proof....

Well, when my husband proposed to me it was none of the above, but I was still very happy. We had discussed getting married from very soon after getting together (we had known each other as work colleagues and mates for years), had chosen the ring together, and decided when we would get engaged (at the works Christmas do - maximum `show off the ring` occasion). We even hinted to a special friend/work colleague that she really needed to go to the Christmas do, so she guessed what was going to happen and brought a card and bottle of chanpagne for us with her!. Anyway, we had booked a room at the hotel for the night (save driving home after drinking, how practical!), but my husband-to-be had organised with the hotel for flowers and a bottle of champagne to be in the room. After we had got ready to go down for the do, I can`t really remember what he said (he didn`t go down on one knee though), but it was something along the lines of "there`s something else you need to put on......" produced the ring and asked me to marry him.
Not the most romantic, but I love him to bits and was just soooo happy to have that ring on my finger. So don`t worry cheapshot, whatever you do will be fine, but every romantic bit you do add will be greatly appreciated I`m sure.
(Oh, and the hotel didn`t give us anything for free - gits!)

katiekins
(because it makes me sound nice and cute)

"oh my god it`s huge"`s idea sounds pretty much perfect to me.

I agree it would take some balls to make a fool of yourself in the restaurant - there will always be that lingering (however small) doubt that she`ll say no and you`ll look like a right idiot.

Personally, I would have to propose in a place that was special to both of us. A restauraunt could be good if we had a history of going there for nice meals, but I prefer somewhere that has a bit of history for us. Maybe a nice spot on the coast where you used to sit and watch the sunset or something.

Alternatively, spring the ring on her just as she`s about to be brought to orgasm - that`ll make it special for the both of you. ;)

we just talked about it for a while, and one day we just decided to do it. No getting down on one knee or anything.

Then I suggested getting married in Disney - see the results for yourself: http://www.nealanddonna.fotopic.net/c64871.html

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He actually tied this in with "I`ve been thinking.......I don`t think that I want to get married"

What if she`d said "That`s all right, pet, neither do I"? :D

Nah, ignore me, I`m just cynical and single. Good luck cheapshot - I hope everything goes as planned!

Mike

whats wrong with her proposing? it happened to me...

`I plan to live forever, or die trying` ;)

Never mind aw o` this namby pamby scheitte just pump her, pup her and then see whether she still wants you :D

Choagy :)

good lad Choagy! pleased to see romance aint dead!
:p

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