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My FH & I had been dating for 7+ years & had talked marriage a lot. The only thing I ever told him was that I wanted a round stone (not big, I'm just not into flashy).

Well on 12/19 (the day before my B-day) he wanted to go out to dinner to celebrate. I feel asleep and when he woke me up I told him I didn't feel like going to eat. He got kind of aggravated and told me he was hungry so let's go. So we went to a local italian place for dinner and the food was great. Just as we finished dessert he got a call from a friend. He had locked his keys in the car or something. FH was like we have to go drop off the extra set. It was snowing so we drove over there. The friend had just moved there so when we got by the boardwalk FH called and was like I don't remember what street your on. Friend told him he would walk and meet us. I wanted to wait in the car but FH wanted to meet him at the Boardwalk. For some reason the heat wasn't working so I groaned but went. We walk up to the board walk and he's looking around and the friend calls and says he's coming. Anyway, we are looking at the water and FH says 'Remember the time you said it only take one idiot to go in the water @ night and everyone else would follow?' I'm like 'Okay' so I turn to see if the friend is coming and he's down on one knee in the snow with the box open and says 'Will you?' I was SHOCKED becaue I was not expecting it. Anyway I said yes and told him to get up before he freezes. We get back to the car and said that he had went to the bathroom during dinner to call the friend to let him know to call and tell him about locking the keys in the car. It was especially romantic because it was at the beach that he asked me to be his GF.
So now I'm gonna be a

Backround- We got stuck in the diamond district on Valentines day- not the best thing to do. FH kept asking me a million questions about what I wanted. I was hysterical crying because we had been together for 6 1/2 years and still no ring so I thought it was never going to happen. He promised it would be sooner the later....and he was right.


I was out shopping with my sister and FH called me to see where I was- he was waiting for me at home and hungry- I stopped to get him some Lunch and went straight home. After he had lunch he disappeared (into the bathroom) for a while.... so I started to do Laundry. I was in my room folding cloths I had on my bed when he finally made am appearance. He came out and started bugging me about what I was going to wear to dinner. (W-T-F- who cares I'm thinking). So I asked where we were going and he told me to a place in the city I really like--So I’m thinking to myself- I think he forgot my birthday is next week not this week--so when I asked why we were going he told me we were celebrating. At this point I kind of had an idea of what was happening.

He told me we were going to go celebrate me saying yes- Naturally I am a smart @ss so I asked him what was the question. He spun me around and was on one knee with the box in his hand. I remember him asking me if i would be his partner in crime for life....I don’t remember saying yes, or screaming.... I only remember crying and kissing him uncontrollably.

We went to dinner that night to celebrate and had a great time....I

He didn’t want to take me anywhere different because he know I would think something was up- so he did it on a typical Saturday when I looked like a train ran me over!!!

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Posted by depoc1011

Engagement story...all the details and post pics if you want too!!!

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And where is your story???

Instead of me retyping it (cuz it's pretty long) here is link to my website where I have the story posted.

Go to 'Popping the Question' link

Jessie & Chris

My FH proposed to me on June 25th on our cruise vacation!!

Background: FH and I have been together for over 5 years so we would talk about getting married all the time and had looked at rings together. I knew that it was going to be happening soon, and had a *feeling* that it might be on our vacation. After FH proposed he said that he wanted to surprise me when I was least expecting it since he kinda knew I had an idea.

The Story: On the first day of our cruise we were in our room and my FH started saying that he was going to do a somersault/flip on the bed (for some reason whenever we're on vacation this is something he usually does in the beginning of vacation..haha). Since we were on a cruise and our room was smaller than a typical hotel room, I was telling him that he shouldn't do it because he may get hurt. So..he did a couple of somersaults and then with one of them he did he landed on his knees on the ground right in front of me. He was saying that he hurt himself a little..and I asked him not to do it again because I was afraid he was going to get really hurt! I turned away from him for a few seconds and when I turned back towards him he was on one knee with the ring box open!!! I was so surprised! He was saying how much he loves me and some other things as well (honestly I was so surprised that I don't remember what he even said!!) and then he asked me to marry him!!!!!

To try and make a very long drama filled story short...

I was working at Target from age 16 to 19. When I was 18 I had this really good girlfriend that worked with me - we were like 'partners in crime'. She was dating this guy Jason.. I know this next part is going to sound awful but Jason & I started seeing each other. The first time anything happened between us - I told my friend. Cheating is one thing but lying is another and she already knew we were spending time together so she was almost expecting it to go to the next step.

Looking back now I know how immature and hurtful what we did was - My girlfriend was initially mad at me (rightfully so) but she got over it in time and we were friends for a while.. she then moved on and found a girlfriend (another long story, but it starts to sound like a daytime drama if I continue) and has been with this girl for years. She now jokes that Jason turned her into a lesbian since that was her last boyfriend ever. But she's happy.

Jason & I have now been together over 5 years. After 4 years he bought me a really beautiful solitaire diamond promise ring (looks like most engagement rings). Everyone thought we were engaged!

A year after that (right after our 4 year mark) we got engaged! Now a year later we are very excited to be planning our wedding!

He proposed in Port Jefferson down by the water (we both live down there and it was very sweet, special, romantic, everything I hoped for). He got down on one knee and everything!

My FI and I have been together for a little over 2 1/2 years. We met through a mutual freind at a birthday party. When we started dating he was living in Jersey and I was living on long Island, and then he moved to Westchester, so for about two years we did the long distance thing which was kind of hard. We saw each other basically every weekend, but with my work and school schedule, and his work schedule we never saw eachother during the week. So finally in January I moved up to westchester to move in with him.

At the end of August we went on a vacation to Florida, which was our first vacation that we took alone because we usually vacationed with other couples. We got there on Monday and on Tuesday he told me he was going down to the concierge to ask them about room service or something. He was gone for about 20 minutes so I finally texted him to find out where he was, he said he'd be right up. I was out on the balcany when he came in and he told me to come inside. I walked in and I knew something was up because he seemed so nervous!! It was kind of funny. He had his hands behind his back and took out one rose and said this is for our past, then he took out another rose and said this is for our present and then he took out the last rose and said this is for our future and the ring was on the rose stem. It was really romantic, and it was special because he usually isn't that romantic of a person, so I really appreciated it.

He had actually set up his camera to video tape the whole thing, so we do have it on video but he left the tv on and all you can really hear is Everybody Loved Raymond in the background.

Frankie proposed to me on Christmas Day with all our family around us. He had his niece give me a 'special gift' & when the top just fell off there was an ornament that said our names, the date - 12/25/08 and from this day forward MARRY ME!!!..I looked and he was on his knee! I was speechless for a few seconds before blurting out an ecstatic YES!!!


here's the video too! I get teary everytime I watch it..it's kind of only the end..my sis is had a delayed reaction..haha


http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=49010723


P.S. he made sure I not only get pics but a video of it too! I'm the picturw queen! haha aka GINARAZZI! (we have the whole one on an actual video)..sorry for the huge pics btw??..

LaBellaVita622,

that is so cute that you have a video!! I wish I did.
haha I got teary eyed just watching your video.
too cute!

Hey girls,

My FH and I had been dating for 4 1/2 years. We've been talking about engagement and marriage for a while and I knew the ring would come this year, but we've been talking about it so much that I started to wonder if it would ever actually happen. He knew what type of ring I wanted (gold band, princess cut stone with some kind of accent diamonds... not a 3 stone! lol) and we'd talked about where and when in relation to school and work and blah blah blah. It felt like we were already unofficially engaged but I couldn't wait for it to be official alreay because I was sick of calling him my boyfriend. We were past that point, we were family and I wanted to be taken seriously already!

So anyway, we usually go on vacation every summer, at least for a weekend if nothing else, but I finished school in May and started a full time summer internship right away that I coldn't take time away from. He was so disappointed, but he told me early in June, make sure you keep the weekend of Aug 7-9 completely free. He said he wanted to take me away for the weekend since we couldn't go on vacay all summer. School was starting 8/10 for me and I was taking a big national exam on Friday the 7th, so I wasn't sure it was a good idea to do that, but he insisted to I told him I'd block the weekend out for him.

All summer, he wouldn't tell me anything. Everyone kept telling me, oh, he's ging to propose, but I didn't think he was going to. I'd been waiting so long, I culdn't imagine it being real, you know? So I took my exam on Friday and he was so sweet, he drove me to the city because my testing center got changed last minute from LI to Manhattan and he knew I was upset. Then he told me get dressed up, heels, cocktail dress, we'regoing out for a super fancy dinner to celebrate the end of summer. He wouldn't tell me where. He had also told me to pack a bag for the weekend, that we were staying somewhere for the weekend.
We drive out to Suffolk from where I live in Queens and we pull up to Oheka Castle!! I was so excited when I saw the sign! We had seen it on TV and it was so beautiful.

Not only were we having dinner, but he brught his overnight bag inside... and we checked in to Oheka! While we were settling into our beautiful room, he told me dinner was at 7:30. Should he wear a jacket? I had already looked at his pockets for a (additional, lol) bulge, but there was nothing. So if he wasn't going to wear a jacket, I figured where would he have the ring? This isn't happening tonight, I resigned myself to that. So I told him to wear whatever he wanted, that I had no idea what was going on so how would I know what he should wear?
I told him everyone said we were getting engaged and he said no, you now I have to wait, I'm still saving and I want to do it right, but it'll happen soon, I promise. OK. SO we go downstairs for dinner and they take us into the private sitting room.. he arranged private dinner! The room was beautful with frnch dors that look ut onto the gardens and fountains behinmd the mansion. The sun was setting, it was so perfect. I kept thinking how will he ever top this when he decides to propse?
We we waiting for appetizers to come, he had pre selected the menu, so I dodn't have to do anything. He asked me to get up and stand by the dors so he could take a photo. I turned around to ask if I was ok where I was standing and there he was on one knee!! He faked me out so well and I had psychedmyself out so much that I was frozen in shock when I turned around. He had tears in his eyes and he was so nervous, he didn't say much. Just that he loved me and would I marry him! He had the ring hidden in his camera bag, the genius! I didn't think twice about him asking to take a photo of me.
Of course I said yes and he gave me the ring of my dreams and I cried for a while. WE called our parents, had dinner and had a beautful rest of the weekend at Oheka. After dinner we went bacdk to our room and there were the cheesy, cliche but wondeful anyway rose petals ont he bed and champagne and strawberries waiting for us.

The next day we had dinner at Meroni's in East Nothport (FABULOUS tasting menu, I recommend it highly!) and then went to visit my best friend from high school since he made me cancel plans with her and her husband and baby. It was the perfect weekend and the perfect moment and I will never forget the rush of adrenaline and sheer joy I felt in that moment knowing the man of my dreams wanted to spend the rest of his life with me. It's official!

We've been engaged for a month and everyone is so happy and excited for us. We belong together and I'm so excited.!!

Thanks for reading, ladies!

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LaBellaVita622,

that is so cute that you have a video!! I wish I did.
haha I got teary eyed just watching your video.
too cute!

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aww thanks you :) yes it is nice..he knew that I would love to have it so he made sure! haha

FH and I will be together 5 years this October. We started talking marriage 2 years ago when I moved from Brooklyn to L.I. After living here a little over a year, we moved in together. That was in March. April 3rd he proposed :)

We were in Baltimore on Business. He has to go to these Expo’s a couple times a year and I usually go with him so we can get a “Mini Vacation” out of it. We stayed at a hotel at the Inner Harbor. Beautiful views of the water from our room - we had the floor to ceiling windows that had a
window seat. Nice spot for day dreaming or to stare at your ring and think about your wedding - so I learned later :)

It was the first night we were there. He has family in Maryland so they came to the inner harbor and we went out to dinner. After dinner, Joe suggested him and I go walk by the piers. It was a beautiful night. Then he stopped and said 'Let's go to the end of that pier'. I was like Hell No! LoL I have a fear of a few things and knew it was a skinny pier and a windy night - scary! So he practically dragged me out there! But once I got out there, the view was amazing. The sky was so bright from the moon. It was perfect. He starts telling me how much he loves me and how lucky he is to have me in his life...by this point I'm kinda ignoring him because I'm trying to take in this magnificent view and he always gets mushy when he has a few drinks :) So there we are standing at the end of this pier, under the 1 lamp post that was there and as he's talking I see him take out a box. THE BOX! I start to cry immediately and can't believe this is finally it! Then he got down on one knee and told me he would love to make me happy for the rest of my life and asked if I'd marry him and opened the box! With the glare glistening off the ring from the lamp post and my tears, I saw nothing! Of course I said yes :) and when I finally saw the ring, I couldn't believe it. It was the exact ring I have always wanted. I sent him a picture of a ring years ago, when we first started talking about marriage. I sent him the pic and said, if you ever decide to ask, this is the ring I love. He saved that picture and had my ring made for me.

This picture is me sitting on the window seat gazing at my ring - I grabbed my phone and took a pic

Aw! You guys all have such wonderful stories!

My FI and I live around the block from one another and we have our whole lives. I used to be best friends with his neighbor and in elementary school he used to pick on me and her on the bus!

Anyway, when we got into middle school our groups of friends kind of merged and thus the two of us became friends. So since eighth grade I've pretty much hung out with him all the time. All of my guy friends would joke around and call me Mom because I was always cooking them food and so on.

So anyway, after I broke up with my ex-boyfriend about 3 years ago I got particularly close to my FI. We would hang out all the time alone, but really nothing romantic.

So one thing lead to another and one night I kissed him! So not like me! Apparently he felt the same way so this November we will have been together for two years.

So anyway: The proposal! This past summer we went to Bermuda on a cruise. He had told me he bought the ring a few months before that so I knew that the proposal was coming and so I figured it was going to be on the vacation.

Turns out he thought I would think that! So the week before it was my birthday. I wasn't expecting anything until he got to my house to pick me up to go out to eat! He was acting so wierd and nervous that I knew he was going to ask. So after I finished getting ready and we were about to go, he got down on one knee in my room and proposed!

He had this big plan to propose on the docks in port jeff, but it was raining that night and he said he wouldn't have eatten anything if we had gone to dinner first. I was a little upset that he didn't wait since he had such a nice plan, but it was kind of cute that he was so nervous so he had to do it that second.

I'm sorry this is SO LONG. I just felt it needed all of that backround info! Haha, anyway, it's not the best story, but I still think it was pretty sweet.

I just copied and pasted it from when it was asked on the 2010 boards...

pics of the whole thing (well almost, in albums!)
A while ago (like 1.5-2 years) FH said I want to take you somewhere special...can you be at my house by 5...so i said sure...he took my to a jeweler to try on rings...we learnt ALOT about diamonds and got to try on a TON of stuff....
I felll in love with two types of rings...the type with the sapphires on the side...and the type where there is a halo of diamonds around the main diamond...

we had been talking marriage for a while and when we went to cozumel this past summer we talked about it quite seriously....( i almost thought he was proposing here lol)

So in August, im in disney with my family and when I come back FMIL slips about there being a 'ring'....im like ...wiat i thought we were exchanging gifts for the anni (we celebrate every 6 months)? So i see FH and im like babe...really? we werent supposed to be exchanging gifts?!
He turned soooooooo red (he can not lie to me), I just knew....

Then he asked me like 5x times if i would be able to take off Jan 26th (the night we met, we always go back to TGIF on this night) then i knew...thats when he was going to do it...so i had to tell him I knew bec I wanted it to be a surprise lol

So September comes around...FH comes to the house to ask the parents...and they say...not yet...the time is not right...shes tooo busy with school right now... (i find this out later of course)

we go to the xmas tree in the City...could of sworn it was happening again...it did not....

FH goes with all the men in the family to thier annual xmas dinner...him and my father talk...approval is given (again i do not know this)

NYE 2008 comes...we are at the Fox Hollow...having an amazing time...(lost of fishy stuff happens with the people at our table, but i already have gone on long enough)....so midnight comes and we are smooching away....next thing I know he is whisepering all amazing things in my ear and then he is on the kneee....i am crying and totally in shock....of course after some pictures and what not...I call my family..they ALL knew...

the ring...it so amazing...he did so good! he got it custom made...it has the sapphires on the side of it..and he even put diamonds on the side bec he knew i liked them in those halo rings...

Later that morning...hes like wanting to lounge around and im wanting to get home...so i finally get him to leave the hotel...lol...and SURPRISE eveyone is at our hous e(including his parents) whom have never met my family..and we had an engagement celebration...him and my mom had the entire thing planned for those last few weeks...


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Our engagement was pretty simple which was fine with me, and i have to say I was totally surprised! We had been discussing marriage for a while and he had been asking me what style rings I liked. Despite this I didn't think it was going to happen for another year. Until........
One Sunday morning I woke up and he had made me this huge breakfast. We were sitting side by side at the table and were eating breakfast and music videos were on TV. Keith Urban's Sweet Thing video was on and I'm watching it and there is a part where the guy went to the girl's job and he's proposing. My FH says sarcastically 'Awe look he's proposing' and than he follows that with 'And so am I'. I turned around and there was a ring in my face and he was on one knee. I think the first thing I said was Are you serious.....than followed by yes. I was so shocked i just sat there trying to absorb what happened for the whole morning.
He said he had been trying to plan something special all week like taking me somewhere fancy but I kept ruining it by going out with friends that nite or to my brothers.

Thats my story, and all your stories are amazing! See how sweet they can be sometimes...LOL

Aww- I love reading everyone's stories


FH & I have been together almost 4 years now. We had the usual 'When we're married we'll do ____' & such conversations & we both knew marriage was our next step. It was really just a matter of when (& I was starting to get antsy!)

So in May, FH said he wanted to go to the city, just me & him, because we hadn't done that in a while. We both love the city & will just go for the day to walk around, so I didn't think it was out of the ordinary. So on May 23rd, we went into the city, bright & early. He said we would get breakfast, go up to Central Park, maybe do a little shopping, & see where the day would take us. We get into the city & we started walking, & all of a sudden he's like 'Let's get a cab!' (soooo unlike him! Now I realize why- he didn't want to be walking through Times Square with an engagement ring in his pocket!). We took the cab up to Central Park & now I'm starting to complain that I'm hungry & want to eat. So we walk for a little bit & we end up at the Loebe Boathouse & he's says 'Ready for breakfast?'... Ummm.. YES! (While I was in the bathroom, I found out later, he requested a lakeside table ). We had the BEST breakfast ever- with fresh-squeezed OJ that I talk about constantly haha.

So then we took a little walk, & ended up at the Bow Bridge. And we were just standing on the bridge, admiring the view, & the BEAUTIFUL day, & he started telling me how much he loved me, & how much he can't wait to spend the rest of his life with me.. and... down on the knee he goes... & 'Will you marry me??'... Followed by me not being able to breathe! Of course a 'yes' was in there somewhere!

Later that day we took a gondola ride in Central Park, had dinner with our families back on the island, & then out to the bar with our friends to celebrate. It was a great day

And now im a 2011

I love love love these stories...they are all so different.

FH and I have always loved the water. We find it a calming place where we can just relax. We always go to Ceder Beach in Miller Place to look for beach glass.

So- onto the engagement story haha

In Feb I had a bad car accident and since I had been going to PT and lots of doctor appointments. One was scheduled for Friday April 17th. I called in and we had decided that we would go to the doctor- then Atlantis Aquarium- then to the beach in the evening.

Once we got to the beach we walked up and down, as we normally do, looking for beach glass. We walked into the private side, where the houses are (and I hate going over there because I always think I'm not allowed) so I was trying to get him to walk back with me because I was getting pissy about being in there...lol

FH was motioning for me to walk in a particular spot with him...and then I started getting nervous.....We started walking together back toward the regular part of the beach and there...laying in the sand in front of me was a TIFFANY box AHHH! I started giggling and crying and before I knew it he was on one knee- tearing up- opening the ring up and saying soemthing about loving me- (I feel bad that I dont remember )

Now...I'm a 2011 WAHOO!

PICS IN ALBUM--too big

I love hearing all these stories too!!

background: FH and I met only 2 years ago down here in Guadalajara, Mexico at med school. We met in July and by September we were inseparable. We officially moved in together a few months after that and have been enjoying all the rough and great times of medical school and exploring a foreign country together. It can get really hard at times being together 24/7 but we still wouldn't have it any other way.

Engagement Story: I had been joking with FH about getting engaged but didnt think he really took me that seriously. However, our relationship was getting pretty serious and I took my family to puerto rico to meet his family over the xmas holidays.

Back in Mexico we went to Puerto Vallarta to celebrate Valentine's day one weekend. I dragged FH on a sailboat to see the humpback whales and do some snorkelling. We had the most amazing day ever and he loved it. Later that night while i was watching a hotel dinner show FH said he had to go 'set up' his V-day celebration in the room (I wasn't expecting anything too out of the ordinary considering every year he decorates or cooks for me and we celebrate together.) 20 min later I went up to our hotel room and it was just GORGEOUS!!! He had candles waxed standing up all over the room, a bottle of my fav wine on the table and since we were at the beach- he didnt have flowers but he had blown up balloons and covered the floor with them. It looked like a dream. Then he told me he had chosen a song for us (since i was sad we still didnt have 'a song'). Fh isnt one of many words when it comes to his feelings so when he said that he very carefully picked this song out and that this explains how he feels about me, I knew it was going to be so good. He played it, i practically cried and we danced. Then he said, 'I have one more gift for you,' and i was like 'I thought this was your valentines gift' ...this is the point where it crossed my mind he might actually propose. I closed my eyes and when I opened them he was on his knee, holding a ring!!! I was in utter shock and at first kept saying , 'omg omg are you serious??' He was getting so nervous and I had given him enough time to ask once in english and again in spanish lolol... once i figured out what was happeneing of course i said yes!! It was so surreal and took the next 2 days at the beach hotel for it to sink in. It was such a special weekend for the both of us!! :)

I have some pics of our E-weekend in my album.