How did he propose??

My FH always told me he would never propose on my b-day or christmas so when my b-day came around and I wake up to rose petals on the floor and banners all over the bedroom I thought he was being really sweet and that he felt bad that he had to work that night.

So I get up and head to work and throughout the day I get about 5 huge flower and balloon deliveries with the cards reading I'm so sorry I can't be with you today, I miss you, etc.

Finally I finish work and was going to my parents house for dinner when I'm walking to the train I feel someone next to me and hear 'Hey Birthday Girl' I turn and its my finacee all dressed up. I was so surprised I didnt know what to say so he told me he got the night off and we're going for dinner so he tells me his car is parked a few blocks away so we're walking and then we reach the St. Regis hotel and he takes me inside saying he needs to use the bathroom. We enter the hotel and he takes me straight to the elevator and points me in the direction of the room he rented. I walk inside and he has a dress and a pair of shoes (open toe mind you...and its Novemeber!) laid out for me to change into.

He took me to The View atop the Marriott Marquis in Times Square and we have a nice dinner until he tells me he has to go to the bathroom and leaves me at the table alone for 30 min. Needless to say I was fuming when he came back to the table and was rushing us out of there. So we're now in Times Square on our way back to the hotel when he goes 'Oh, I want to run to the Virgin Megastore really quick' so we're crossing over and we reach the little island in Times Square (where Usher and Alicia Keys shot the video for my boo) and he turns to me and says 'I cant even begin to explain how much I love you' so I am in the freezing cold with open toe shoes and am saying oh i love you too but come one lets walk cause I'm freezing then he drops to one knee and I go oh my god what are you doing. Then he pulls out my ring and goes would you make me the happiest man alive and marry me and of course I'm in total shock and go 'oh my god is that thing real' and then I look up and I see my parents, sisters, and 2 best friends dodging traffic to get over to us. He had it all planned out for them to meet us there!

I woke up to Rob cooking me a wonderful breakfast. He told me to pack up a day or two worth of clothes. He took me on a beautiful car ride to the poconos. We were driving and up the road there was a sign that said ' THe land of love' I looked at him and he smiled. He told me to take a look at the place to see if I liked it, while he talked to the girl at the reception desk. We drove down and from the outside the room looked like a normal room. I walked in and there was our own private heart shaped swimming pool, our own 12 foot champagne jaccuzzi, a fire place our own private sauna!! After freaking out about the gorgeous room, he took me to a wonderful Romantic resturaunt. We went back to our room around midnite, he lit the fireplace and candles all over. We had champagne and chocolate covered strawberries, The room just looked like something out of a movie. He got down on one knee in front of the fire place and told me ' I love you, im so happy and I would die with out you, You are my best friend and I want to spend my life with you, will you marry me?' I cried as he opened the box and put it on my finger. Everything was just perfect, we jumped into the jaccuzzi and just talked about our future together!! I tear up every time I look at my hand at this beautiful token of his love. He worked so hard to make everyting so perfect! IT WAS!!!

Keep it going girls....these stories are just so beautiful!!

wow all these stories definitely brought a tear or two- just say at least noone is here with me!!

This how he proposed: He wanted to have dinner with me - i was working in the city that day & he met me in the city. we went shopping b4 we had dinner so he was holding my purse while i tried on a few things so he put the ring in my bag ( he has a habbit of doing that b/c i never look in my purse) so during dinner he asked if he can used my phone, i opened the bag & there was a jewelry box- i was like no way- he said one way to find out- i opened it- i yelled out oh my god & there was this photographer there taking pictures like i was a celeberity - thats when he got on his knee- of course i said YES!

Wow! I loved everyones stories!

I got proposed at a lighthouse at Cape Cod. He is a cop, so he gave me a wallet with his shield and on it, it said Officer's Wife. I looked at it and was like is he nuts. I turned around and there he was with the ring. I was so in shock that I just kept on saying, 'No'. lol Then I called everyone I ever met since kindergarten.

Funny. I always thought I would cry and I didn't. He thought I would cry too.

In the most romantic, sweetest way...

It was VERY romantic.

Hope you have a few minutes to spare...

Last summer, FH said we should do something (didn't say what). Then a few weeks later, we were at his softball game, drinking beers afterward, and he slipped and said 'Oh we never went on our picnic.' He blew his own surprise.

So last week, he suggested we do something on Saturday because it will be nice. So I said, 'we can go on our picnic.' He was bummed that I brought it up but we're doing it anyway. So he picks me up at my house around 3 on Saturday and says that it's free parking after 4 at the park we're going to and since the picnic is not a surprise, he's taking me somewhere else first and either I can be surprised and keep my eyes closed or keep my eyes open and see where we're going. I opted to be surprised. So we're driving for a while and I can feel the sun beat through my eyelids so I think we're going to the beach to take a romantic walk. Instead, when I open my eyes, we're at the place where we worked and met (the company moved off LI). Then we go to where we first 'flirted', then to where we had our second date, then to where we danced at a lot of happy hours, then to where we had our first date. I'm thinking we're just killing time for free parking... I'm completely clueless.

So now we arrive at the park, there's no free parking after 4 (which he knew, it was just a ploy). So we find a spot by the lake, and he sets everything up. He unpacks a sterno for spaghetti and meatballs (my favorite), whips out a single rose in a bud vase, lights a candle, then as he goes to sit down, he jumps back up and brings out a box of rose petals that he sprinkles all over our blanket. How sweet is he? I'm such a lucky girl. I'm still clueless because I think we're just having a romantic picnic because we don't get to see each other a lot. So we're relaxing, eating chips, drinking soda, talking, laughing, relaxing, we take a nap while spaghetti's warming. He brings out a bottle of my favorite wine and we eat the spaghetti. All very romantic. Still clueless, just thinking we're being romantic (it's not out of the ordinary for FH). So afterwards, we play some volleyball, then eat dessert - strawberries. My favorite! FH doesn't even like them - I should have known then. So when we're finished, we pack up and are about to bring everything to the car when he whips out a bottle of champagne and two huge plastic margherita glasses (he got them on sale at Target and thought they were 'fancy'- how sweet/cute/adorable is that?!?!?!?!) So we pack the car and take the champagne and glasses with us - we're going to take a walk around the lake. So we're walking around the lake and come to a secluded spot, there are two guys fishing about 50 yards away. So he pours the champagne and says, 'before we drink it I have a poem I want to read to you'. I still have NO idea, it's not the first time FH has written me a poem. It's titled 'When Two Become One, You and Me'. Again, I should have known then, but I didn't think we'd be engaged until the end of the summer. So he starts reading and gets about halfway, then the two guys fishing come to like 10 feet from where we are. FH gets mad, and says, 'come behind this tree', so we go behind the tree and he starts over. The two guys then start walking to where we are AGAIN. FH is like 'SON OF A...., these guys are KILLING me.' So now I have a teeny, tiny idea but still thinking, 'no, it's too soon.' So he starts over again and by the time he gets to the last paragraph, I know. It says I love you forever, I want to spend the rest of my life with you, we're soul mates.... So I start hysterical crying, he starts crying, then he finishes the poem, gets down on one knee and says, 'I love you so much and want to spend the rest of my life with you, will you marry me?' I am crying so hard and smiling and I said 'Oh my god, yes, I love you'.

So I still cry when I think about it, I'm so incredibly lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world.

This is the best thread ever.... I just went back and RE-READ all the posts. I can't stop crying!

BuMp! For all the new '08ers

Good call Jeanine!

Wow! I never got to tell mine!

Well, it was a Sunday, and I was cranky. But my FH wanted to take me out to a nice dinner, and insisted that I get dressed for it. So I got dressed, and FH asked me to help him clean up around the apartment a little because we had company coming over. !?!??! So I asked what was going on, and he told me to relax and have a glass of champagne. Sitting on our coffee table is a bottle of champagne and two glasses. He took our dog and left (to drop him off at our neighbors, I found out later!). So he comes back, and I have an idea that somethings up. We're drinking some champagne, and we're talking about us and how we've become best friends, and soulmates when the doorbell rings. FH answers it, and in walk 7 men, all in tuxedos.

At this point I'm in shock. So they stand in front of me and begin singing songs acapella (I am a HUGE acapella fan, and FH knows how much I love people who can sing acapella!!). All of the songs they sing are amazing love songs. It was UNBELIEVEABLE. FInally during the last song he told me he loved me with all of his heart and asked me to marry him. Yes! I was crying. When I looked up, the 7 acapella guys each had a single rose for me. They all came ove to me, kissed my hand, and handed me the rose. I was blown away.

After that, he whisked me off to Taven on the Green, and then we finished the night off with chocolate dipped strawberries and champagne at the Mandarin Oriental hotel bar that overlooks all of Central Park.

I'm just so happy and so thankful to find someone so loving and thoughtful. It was perfect.

oh yay this is a fun thread! My FH had been vigorously working on a project for 'work'. The Friday before our anniversary he said he made me an anniversary present, so I looked at his laptop and it says 'An anniversary gift for Jessica' and it was a power point slide presentation (can you tell I'm dating an accountant?) Anyway, slide by slide it went through pictures of our relationship together, he even devoted a page to puppies (I keep sending him pictures of puppies to his e-mail because I want one so badly) and a page to all the tv shows i watch (and there are A LOT). The last few slides said We've been through so much together and even though we don't know where this train called life is headed (and it showed a picture of me and him on the LIRR), one thing is certain, i want to spend the rest of my life with you, and the next slide said Jessica, will you marry me and he had a picture of the ring on the slide. Then he had gotten down on one knee with the real ring and of course I said yes. It was so original and so sweet.
After all that he said he was very close to buying me a puppy and tying the ring around the puppies neck, I'm glad he didn't I definitely would have had some sort of aneurism.

Bonnie, your FH sounds like he's right out of a movie! A Tom Hanks / Meg Ryan movie! That story was incredible.

Lushciao, I loved your story too. It's great when the proposal really 'fits' the couple, and your FH being an accountant and making you a Power Point presentation is awesome.

After purchasing a classic Corvette that weekend (2/26/2006) Rich mentiond that he needed to go shopping but with out me. I got annoyed becuase I love to go shopping. He said that he wanted to buy me something. After a bit of an argument I let him go and I stayed at my parents house. Later that afternoon my aunt and uncle came by for a visit. They asked where Rich was and I told them that he wanted to buy me a present and that I couldn't go shopping with him. My uncle told me that I should clean the floor b/c he might be getting down on one knee. I giggled and said NOOOOO. We already discussed that nothing like that would happen until after Law School.

Finally Rich arrived and looked very sick. I didn't think anything of it b/c that week he wasn't feeling very well so I told him to take his medication. He said that he wanted to eat. So as we headed out the door he turned back and said that he needed to use the bathroom. Little did I know he was asking my parents permission to marry me.

We arrived at one of our favorit restaurants Majors and sat to eat. Normally Rich will eat all of his food including what is left of mine, so when we got our food and he didn't eat any of his I knew he must have been really sick. After him telling be how sick he did feel he said do you want your gift now. I was a bit supprised b/c he didn't walk in with any bags. He put the box on the table and slid it over to me. I opened it and was in shock. I was so surprised. I said are you asking me something and he said yes. I put the cover back on the box and slid it back over to him and said 'OK Ask' lol
He got all blushy and said ok will you marry me?
You know what my aswer was.

My FH's proposal was really sweet and creative.

He always helps his sister decorate her house with huge Chritmas displays every year. They go all out. This year he actually took a week off of work to put up lights and put everything together. Which I though was a little crazy but it's their favorite holiday and they enjoy it so I didn't say anything. 2 days before christmas we were going to his sisters house for dinner and when we pulled up a couple of the lights were out and he got out and started acting like hewas fiddling with the lights. Then he went up by the stoop and called me over to him. Once I got closer, the lights flicked on and I looked down and on one long step in xhristmas lights it said WILL U MARRY ME! He was bent on one knee with the ring in his hand. I was shocked and didn't even say anything. Then after I gave him a kiss, both my family and his famly came outside to congratualte us. It was the cutest thing. That is why he was over there for so long. Him and his sister were making the lights that said will you marry me. It was such a creative idea.

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He put the box on the table and slid it over to me. I opened it and was in shock. I was so surprised. I said are you asking me something and he said yes. I put the cover back on the box and slid it back over to him and said 'OK Ask' lol
He got all blushy and said ok will you marry me?
You know what my aswer was.

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Boys are so silly! Mine did the same thing - he had the ring but was too nervous to get the words out. We were out on a boat in the middle of a lake, just the two of us, and when we got to a spot where we were totally alone, he stood up in the boat. It was a tiny boat, and I was like, 'sit down! we're going to tip over!' but he didn't move. Then I noticed a little box on the seat where he had been sitting. I pointed it out to him, and he was like, 'open it!' and I did, and stared the ring inside in disbelief, and waited for him to ask me to marry him. But he was too nervous! He was waiting for me to say 'yes,' and I was waiting for the question, so we sat there in silence for a full minute. What a dork. I was finally like, 'I want you to ask me!!' so he did, and here we are.

These are too cute!!

FH wanted to do something for Valentines, but we couldn't go out on the actual day because we both had school. On Valentine's Day he gave me a promise ring with a note about how he'd love me forever.
The next day we went to the city to celebrate our V-day. He took me to see Wicked (huge surprise). Before the show started, he leaned over and whispered to me 'How would you feel if I asked you to marry me right now?' And I just looked at him like he was nuts. Then he pulled out the ring and said 'Will you marry me?' I was so shocked that at first I said 'No, You're kidding.' Then he got down on one knee and said 'will you take this ring and be my wife?' And then I started to cry and said Yes! Everyone around us started clapping and the person next to us took our picture (the one I have on my profile).

Five seconds later the show started so I had to wait til intermission to tell anyone. Needless to say, I couldn't focus on the first half of the play at all, but after I called everyone under the sun during intermission, I was able to focus on the show (btw-I highly reccomend going to see it. It was so awesome).

I called him after work and told him I was coming over. When I go there he said “I know you've been wanting to go by the beach, why don't we go.” I was excited and said sure. I thought it would be a good break from stress of work.

So after that, we get to long beach and he says “why don't we walk on the sand”.. which I thought was strange since we never do. But I said yes (of course a little suspicious). Walking we are talking about how much we love each other and how great our relationship is, we are very cutesy with each other and started our routine of asking 'how much do you love me' or 'Do you love me', etc ..

So finally he stops and turns to me and says ' I have something for you' so now of course I know (FH isn't very good with this stuff hehe)

So my reply is (and I don’t know why) 'NO YOU DON'T!' I guess it was the excitement. I kept repeating that... then he gets down on one knee and asks me to marry him.. I was so happy that my hands are flying all over the place (I blame that on being Italian), so much so that he had to tell me to give him my hand ha-ha. I just started hugging him. I didn't even look at the ring... he had to remind me to do that too.

He was so nervous about having the ring in his possession that when I called that I was coming over he checked the paper and saw that it was a full moon and thought it would be really nice to take me to the beach (plus the weather was so nice) It was… perfect!

Later, he told me that the ring was now my responsibility… and I better not lose it hahaha