spin-off to BF getting engaged

now that you have been propsed to - would you have changed anything about it?? is it what you thought it would be?? did you react the way you imagined you would??

just wanted to know if i were the only one who thught about irrelevant stuff like this...

I would not change a thing!
I always thought I would cry but I didn't

Not at all how I imagined it. Mainly because it wasn't a surprise. No special dinner, no romantic setting, none of that. We had talked about getting married and our future so much, that we picked the ring out together. And then when we got back to the house, he got down on one knee and proposed.

Would I change any of it? No. Because the most important thing to me is he asked me to be his wife, it doesn't matter to me how he did it.

hmmm in retrospect,
i would not have been wearing old sweatpants with a hole in them and an oversized gray t-shirt

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Posted by LaurenluvsTJ

I would not change a thing!
I always thought I would cry but I didn't

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Same here......I cried eventually when I told me family but not initially!!

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Posted by Suzannebride

I suppose I wouldn't have said 'are you f-ing joking?' but it makes for a funnier story, especially since HE says I said it but I don't remember that part!

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I love it!!!

i laughed and laughed like a fool!!! i guess it was just nerves - and i am sooo not a cryer - so i guess that is the emotion i came up with.

If I could go back, I would remember to say yes. I was just so dazzled by the ring.

No matter how he didnt it would have been perfect but it was -

i didnt think that i would act so shocked but he really got me good! i had no idea - and i cried so much i made him cry

let me change that a little i was so shocked that i never gave him my hand his knee started to kill him and i ended up putting the ring on my hand my self

well FH wanted to take me out to dinner that night but he was not feeling well -- I wish he would have it would have been more romantic-- but other wise I wouildnt change anything-- I was wating for the day :):)and new it was comming soon

I wouldn't say that I'm unhappy with FH's proposal, but there were two things that tainted it. FH proposed in front of both of our families during a Mother's Day brunch at his mom's house. It was incredibly sweet and I love that we got to share our special moment with our families, but right after FH proposed, his mother basically forced him to go play with his 7 year old cousins instead of spending time with his brand-new fiancee (me!!). So for an hour after the proposal, I sat there like a jack@ss while FH played with his cousins. No wonder there's a little tension between me and my FMIL...

I also found out that FH had planned to propose four months earlier at our favorite restaurant with our families there, but once FH's grandmother found out about the plan, she insisted that he invite his aunt and uncle who he's not even that close with. (In fact, they are the parents of the cousins that FH was forced to play with!!) The aunt and uncle couldn't make it on the planned day and FH's grandmother was really being a pest, so FH gave up in frustration and waited until May to finally ask me.

I'm thrilled that we are engaged and that we are spending our lives together. FH's proposal was very sweet and I will remember it forever. BUT...the fact that his family meddled so much in our special moment still pisses me off to this day!!!

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Posted by mrsgtobe

I wouldn't say that I'm unhappy with FH's proposal, but there were two things that tainted it. FH proposed in front of both of our families during a Mother's Day brunch at his mom's house. It was incredibly sweet and I love that we got to share our special moment with our families, but right after FH proposed, his mother basically forced him to go play with his 7 year old cousins instead of spending time with his brand-new fiancee (me!!). So for an hour after the proposal, I sat there like a jack@ss while FH played with his cousins. No wonder there's a little tension between me and my FMIL...

I also found out that FH had planned to propose four months earlier at our favorite restaurant with our families there, but once FH's grandmother found out about the plan, she insisted that he invite his aunt and uncle who he's not even that close with. (In fact, they are the parents of the cousins that FH was forced to play with!!) The aunt and uncle couldn't make it on the planned day and FH's grandmother was really being a pest, so FH gave up in frustration and waited until May to finally ask me.

I'm thrilled that we are engaged and that we are spending our lives together. FH's proposal was very sweet and I will remember it forever. BUT...the fact that his family meddled so much in our special moment still pisses me off to this day!!!

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fh proposed in front of family as well - did you feel overwhelmed? or did you love that everyone was there to make a HuGE deal?? i felt like i had no one to tell after....

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Posted by LaurenluvsTJ

I would not change a thing!
I always thought I would cry but I didn't

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me too! maybe i would have, but my family was hiding and suddenly popped out from their hiding spots. I was too shocked to do much of anything

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Posted by mtdr1106

fh proposed in front of family as well - did you feel overwhelmed? or did you love that everyone was there to make a HuGE deal?? i felt like i had no one to tell after....

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It's funny that you ask that, b/c knowing what I know now, I think I would rather the proposal have been a private moment. Although being in front of our families was nice, the proposal lacked an element of 'romance' that I was hoping for.

In FH's defense, though, he thought that I wanted the proposal to be in front of our families, and he was trying to make me happy. Sometimes I wish we could go back in time and do it over...I think FH would have done something amazing if he didn't feel like we had to have family there!

I also felt like you did about having no one to tell. Most of our family was there, so we just told a few friends and that was it!! I wish we had some time where we were the only ones who knew we were engaged. I think it would have been fun to announce our engagement to everyone.

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Posted by tara51799

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Posted by LaurenluvsTJ

I would not change a thing!
I always thought I would cry but I didn't

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Same here......I cried eventually when I told me family but not initially!!

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Same here, I always thought I would be crying my eyes out. I think I was too much in shock, I really thought he was joking. I couldn't believe it was actually happening.

***The only thing that I would have changed was, as he was down on 1 knee in the middle of proposing the limo driving called to tell us that he was there waiting for us outside Central Park. It kind of ruined the moment and he rushed through the proposal and we couldn't even sit there for a minute to soak it all in. I didn't even think to ask someone to take a picture of us or anything.***
So, I wish the limo driver didn't interrupt the proposal. But other than that it was amazing and I couldn't have asked for anything better.

His orginal plan was to propose to me on our carriage ride through the park, but changed his mind in the middle of the ride, b/c he was afraid that he would fall out of carriage.

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Posted by mrsgtobe

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Posted by mtdr1106

fh proposed in front of family as well - did you feel overwhelmed? or did you love that everyone was there to make a HuGE deal?? i felt like i had no one to tell after....

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It's funny that you ask that, b/c knowing what I know now, I think I would rather the proposal have been a private moment. Although being in front of our families was nice, the proposal lacked an element of 'romance' that I was hoping for.

In FH's defense, though, he thought that I wanted the proposal to be in front of our families, and he was trying to make me happy. Sometimes I wish we could go back in time and do it over...I think FH would have done something amazing if he didn't feel like we had to have family there!

I also felt like you did about having no one to tell. Most of our family was there, so we just told a few friends and that was it!! I wish we had some time where we were the only ones who knew we were engaged. I think it would have been fun to announce our engagement to everyone.

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yes - i know what you mean!! i heard some girls talking about what their FI's were saying - mine barely was able to blurt out 'marry me' before i had 3 screaming aunts a jumping cousin!! LOL

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Posted by mtdr1106

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Posted by mrsgtobe

I wouldn't say that I'm unhappy with FH's proposal, but there were two things that tainted it. FH proposed in front of both of our families during a Mother's Day brunch at his mom's house. It was incredibly sweet and I love that we got to share our special moment with our families, but right after FH proposed, his mother basically forced him to go play with his 7 year old cousins instead of spending time with his brand-new fiancee (me!!). So for an hour after the proposal, I sat there like a jack@ss while FH played with his cousins. No wonder there's a little tension between me and my FMIL...

I also found out that FH had planned to propose four months earlier at our favorite restaurant with our families there, but once FH's grandmother found out about the plan, she insisted that he invite his aunt and uncle who he's not even that close with. (In fact, they are the parents of the cousins that FH was forced to play with!!) The aunt and uncle couldn't make it on the planned day and FH's grandmother was really being a pest, so FH gave up in frustration and waited until May to finally ask me.

I'm thrilled that we are engaged and that we are spending our lives together. FH's proposal was very sweet and I will remember it forever. BUT...the fact that his family meddled so much in our special moment still pisses me off to this day!!!

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fh proposed in front of family as well - did you feel overwhelmed? or did you love that everyone was there to make a HuGE deal?? i felt like i had no one to tell after....

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ME TOO