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I knew it was coming because we had gone ring shopping together and I picked out a ring but I didn't know when. I thought it was going to be way later than when he actually proposed so I was so shocked when he asked me to marry him!

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I picked out the ring, I knew it was coming, just not when.

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I did NOT know it was coming! FH lead me on. He said it would probably happen by the end of the year (2012) and he ended up proposing in MAY! I was shocked because I really was expecting that winter engagement. It was the most amazing surprise.

As far as rings go, FH knows I am a traditionalist and I like classic/vintage but I didn't pick the ring. FH has excellent taste when it comes to picking jewelry for me and my engagement ring is TOP NOTCH!!

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Ugh, Nothing gets by me, EVER! I always am in on EVERY surprise. We had been together like a month and a half shy of seven years this past christmas. I had been sick with the flu...I was EVIL, like seriously EVIL because his mother had not offered to take over cooking for christmas knowing how sick i was and she is the only person with enough space! So anyway we got home later that night and we exchanged like usual. He opened his gifts then hands me a box. It's an ear wax remover gun. I was like ***. He goes lemme go get your main gift. In my head I'm going, it's probably an Ipad, but he probably got the mini and I don't want the mini (b/c im a giant brat)...lo and behold I open my eyes and he's on one knee. I start yelling at him. WHAt ARE YOU DOING!? IS THIS A JOKE? THIS IS A MEAN JOKE! ARE YOU SERIOUS!? needless to say i was entirely surprised. like no joke stunned!! and it was my dream ring (thanks to my sister having it in her phone for a year or two now!!) HE even said if he hadn't of had dmy sister with me he would have had three stones, I said PHEW b/c it would have been returned (see ,, BRAT)

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I knew everything lol- he planned to propose in Central park, and had my friend try to get me to go into the city for lunch at the boathouse. I knew it was coming when she asked me to go a few weeks before, because she has never been one to just go into the city for lunch lol- The two of us were walking through Central Park to the boathouse and I saw him sitting under the gazebo by the lake. He did surprise me though by hsving a photographer hide in the bushes and take a whole bunch of photos for us. The photographer had all of these papparazzi pics of me getting out of the cab a few blocks away and everything. I also found out that my friend had gone into the city a few weeks before and had a whole breakdown of what path to take for the photographer to get the best pics. Very sneaky!

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I was surprised! I had told him by the end of 2012, and it was Oct when he proposed. I had told him it couldn't be my birthday or holiday My birthday is 10/11 my mom had thrown a small surprise party for me that night since I was 25. Something in the back of my mind made me think ok maybe he is not going to listen to me and do it with all our families there. But the night ended and nothing. We were leaving for disney on 10/13 so I thought maybe then but I didn't even think at this point he had asked my dad permission or went to my uncle about the ring (he was a diamond setter and still had a bunch of friends in the business). It was more hopeful thinking then a real suspicion it would be in Disney. Anyway the day after my birthday (friday) I was at work, excited for vacation the next day, and next thing I know its around 3pm and Michael came in to my job with his niece and popped the question! I was shocked! He even arranged an engagement dinner that night with both of our families. It was amazing! FH is not romantic AT ALL and he totally shocked me with an amazing surprise proposal!

As for the ring, I had told him the size I wanted (never thinking he would actually get it. lol I should have told him 3 carats ) that I wanted some side stones and shape of the main stone I wanted. FH designed the whole ring himself so it is custom, which I totally love & it means so much to me that he did it all on his own! There are pics in my album :)

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I found my ring before he proposed! Well it was the bag with a ring box inside So I speculated it was a ring and I was right! (I refused to open it tho!!) He sat on that ring for weeks and weeks I was absolutely dying inside. Later I found out he was going to propose the week of Sandy but thought it was in bad taste to propose when our town was in such rough shape. When he did propose I cried like a baby. I think knowing there was a ring in our house built up my tension so when he finally proposed I lost it from being so happy! hahahaha

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I totally knew it was coming, FH is so not stealthy at all. He tried to fool me, but I'm almost impossible to surprise. I told him what I liked and he picked it himself based on what I showed him. I absolutely love my ring!

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I knew we'd be getting engaged... but I honestly thought I had a full year before it was going to happen. FH was in grad school and about to start his semester student teaching (aka not making ANY money). Although I knew if he could financially do it that it could happen at any moment, but didn't think he was ready, money-wise yet. Well, he surprised me... he figured out a way to get the money together and sure enough, a year earlier than I expected, we were engaged :)

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