PW: how'd he ask?

blueeyedblossom

So now that we know how you met, how'd he ask? Or did you ask him? ;-)

R asked me on my birthday last year, we were both home and in PJ's. He have me a card saying that there was a present in the dining room closet. I grabbed the bag and walked back to the living room, when I turned the corner he was down on one knee and asked. Totally us, and totally perfect.

blueeyedblossom

And the ring, I picked it out. But he suggested it. We swapped the diamonds on each side for sapphires.

candj428

The day we asked we had gone to church and we were meeting my parents for lunch.  We had time to spare between church and lunch, so we went to the park.  I got out of the truck to go to look at the water and I look back to see where he was and he was down on one knee!  I was so surprised and shocked!!  He asked, I said yes! We went to meet my parents, but I told H that I needed to see what their mood was before I told them!!!  ha!  They were super supportive though!!  It was perfect for us!

mrsvedo

He got my great-grandma's ring from my mom. It was in REALLY bad shape, so he had the diamond taken out of it and put into a new setting, then he had the original setting restored and had a sapphire put in so I got 2 rings out of my great-grandma's 1.

He knows fireworks are my favorite thing ever and that I was expecting a proposal on my birthday in August so he threw me for a loop and proposed on the 4th of July under the fireworks.

The irresponsible part of this story is that he had the plans all laid out and the day he was going to go to pick up and pay for my rings, he got laid off unexpectedly from work (2008). He went home, played video games, decided he wasn't going to let a layoff prevent him from buying the rings, and went to the jewelry store. As he was signing the paperwork, the song "Sarah" by Jefferson Starship came on. My name is Sarah. He said the saleslady teared up.

LooneyLife

He proposed at a Phillies game.  He went to get food and came back with a bag from the store and told me he bought me something.  I pulled a shirt out of the bag and on the back it said "WILLUMARRYME".  Then he pulled out the ring.  Another surprise was that both of our families were at the game too.  Some were in the stands and came over immediately after (they were watching from their seats).  Others were in one of the suites where we spent the rest of the game celebrating.

While DH was gone "getting food", I was standing up and one of the people that walks around the stadium taking pictures, stopped and took a picture of me.  One of DH's family members ran and grabbed the guy and told him the girl he just took a picture of was about to be proposed to.  So I had no idea but he had come back and was standing behind me waiting.  He took pictures of the whole thing.  DH also had a shirt made for himself that said "SHESAIDYES".

Aimothy

He hid the ring in a purse that I had ordered online.  I got home from a long day at work and visiting friends at bowling league and sat right down on the couch. Didn't even look at the box. 

Finally, got up to go to bed, made it up 5 stairs and he asked if I was going to open the purse. I said, "No, I'll just do it in the morning." (Ha! He was panicking!)  He said, "Yeah, but then you'll be running late because you'll have to switch everything over to use it." I decided he'd made a good point, so I came back down to open it. 

I was so confused when there was a ring box inside. I seriously was trying to figure out how he got a ring to the company in California. Ha! When I turned to ask him how he did that, he was down on one knee (maybe both knees) and asked me to marry him. 

I always thought I'd cry, but I just jumped up and down and squeed!

BruinsBabe33

On a boat

nfp147

We're old and boring and discussed getting married.  He then designed my ring and when it came in he gave it to me in the car and said "do you still want to marry me?"

It was actually much cuter than it sounds.  My H is usually serious and quiet (except around me).  He was absolutely giddy when he got the ring, which is weird/cute for him.

mrsvedo

Aimothy said:

I always thought I'd cry, but I just jumped up and down and squeed!

This is me too! I always thought I'd cry at my proposal and at my wedding and I didn't cry either time. I pretty much just had a perma-smile.

iwalktheline

When DH proposed, we had already been living together for a few months. I had been away visiting one of my college friends in Maine the weekend he proposed. I got back Sunday and was cranky from lack of sleep, so he asked if I wanted to go out to dinner to "our place". We used to go to the same restaurant all the time. We got there and ate, and he seemed a little weird, but I let it go. I was tired! After dinner, we got the check, and DH said something like "Well, I guess it's time to pay". I replied with something like: "uhh, yeah. i guess so!". He reached into his pocket, and instead of his wallet, he pulled out a ring. Of course I said yes.

blueeyedblossom

@looneylife, I love it!!

simsk3887

We met at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh; I was doing a clinical rotation there and he was a football player.  We dated for his 4 years of college (I graduated 2 years before him) and it was his senior recognition game.  RMU also had to win to win their division's championship.  After they won, he jumped a retaining wall and pulled me out of the stands to propose in front of his team, and 2,000 fans.  I was so excited, shaking, and crying, I didn't even hear a word he said.  He still makes fun of me for it.  I make fun of him for dropping the ring as he was trying to put it on my finger.

P.S. I'm not sure how to include pictures so if this doesn't work, I'll try again.

mrshall1027

We went to dinner at the restaurant we had our first date at.  We finished dinner and ordered dessert and while we were waiting for it to come out, he started acting all weird and squirmy.  He pulled the ring box out of his pocket and proposed.  I knew it was coming but I was still surprised and started crying a little (thank God I kept it under control and didn't ugly cry!).  People in the restaurant congratulated us and our waitress brought us champagne with our dessert.  It was super sweet and low key, which is exactly what I wanted it to be.

brij2006

We had an end of the year pool party with all our friends. We were all around the campfire at the end of the night and our dog Sadie kept trying to get on my lap. She finally made it halfway up and I said to H "daddy look what I'm doing" then looked the other way to laugh with our friends about it. Everyone's eyes got big, I looked toward h and he was down on one knee with the ring.
He said nothing. I started crying and asked if he's supposed to ask me something. He said some long sweet thing all of our friends remember but I don't.
Later I found out that he had planned in proposing to me a few days later when we were in Vegas, but he couldn't figure out how to hide the ring in our shared luggage. And let's face it, he knew I would search it.

sgautschi

In a parking lot.

Okay to expand on this, most of our first date was in the parking lot, we lost track of time talking to each other instead of getting home to our parents house. My dad called, furious that I was past curfew. Oops!

So anyways, DH wanted to propose in a parking lot because that was where everything started. I gotta admire the sentiment, he can be really sweet and sentimental when he wants to be.

aggiebug

We were on campus just before his graduation with the pretense of taking pictures when we came upon the century tree, it is said you will be with whomever you walk under the tree with for the test of your life, and proposed underneath it. Both our families and my bff were there. He desigrned the ring he gave me and it is perfect.

nightmare_of_beauty

It was a year after we started dating, been living together for about 8 months (yeah we moved fast, then were engaged for 3 years). I had to work on my birthday, but had the Saturday after off so we made plans. 

We went to lunch at his favorite restaurant and I just had an appetizer because we were going to a movie than my favorite restaurant. After the movie he drove me around for 2 hours saying that every place was too busy, he didn't want to wait. I finally tell him I want to go pick up my cake and go to my friends (her apartment was next to ours). I go in and get the cake (his feet hurt) so by this point I am beyond mad at him. We had a fight on the way home and I wanted NOTHING to do with him by that point. Get back to our apartment and I walk right past our door and say "I'm going to P's apartment, you can just go to ours, I don't care!" Open the door and a bunch of my friends are there and yell "surprise!" 

DH and P had put together a huge surprise party for my birthday. He was worried each restaurant would take too long, but each time he called P her sister wasn't there yet and he had to stall for more time. By the cake he called her and said "we're heading back, she is ticked at me!" P's sister never showed.

I am standing in there complete shock, when DH comes up behind me, wraps his arms around me, holds up the ring and says "marry me?" I turn to him and say "God I hate you, yes!"  

Sewilson33

DH asked when we were vacationing on Cape Cod, MA. He took me down to the river to fish and when I wasn't paying attention he attached the big fake diamond ring to the fishing line and had me reel it in. When I finally reeled in the line he was on one knee.

RockABye

He came along with my family on a vacay to the beach after only 6 months of dating. We went out to dinner one night, just the two of us, walked down by the bay and at sunset, he proposed. It was perfect and in the perfect spot since that island holds SO many memories for me!

Apollo11235

I knew a proposal was coming at some point; we had discussed marriage and I knew he was saving up for a ring.

So, when we had been dating for a little over a year and a half, DH and I had gotten some coupon for a free dance lesson at Arthur Murray (ballroom studio) and had been talking about how we'd like to try it for a while. He told me not to worry about anything, he would plan a nice date night for us. I told myself it was just a date night, but he must have done something to give it away because I couldn't shake the feeling he was going to propose.

He took me to a nice restaurant we had been looking for an excuse to try, insisted I order ALL the wine, and after our food came, he asked me to point out where the restroom was, since I had just come back. He acted like he couldn't see it as an excuse to stand up, and got down on one knee, said something sweet that I'm glad we wrote down or I'd never remember it, and I cried and said yes, then forgot how to eat for at least half an hour.

I'm not supposed to tell people the part about him "looking for the restroom." Shhh!

transponster

On my 21st birthday. I had gotten out of class, and started getting ready to go out for the night. My roommates kept stalling me, telling me to curl my hair and paint my nails, mostly because they knew what was going to happen. I had no clue, but didn't think anything of it.

Also, my friend had a camcorder with her, under the guise that she was just making sure it worked for a class project she was going to do later. I probably should have known then that something was going to happen, but I didn't. Instead, my roommates kept helping me get ready, and eventually there was nothing left to do, so I opened my gifts from them. Little did I know that my H was driving as fast as he could from his hometown where he had bought the ring.

When he finally got back, he raced into my room to give me my present, even though he had originally said that he wouldn't have a gift for me. I opened box after box, and finally got to a small one that had a piece of paper inside that said "Just kidding." I threw the paper away and started talking to my friend, and when I looked back at him, he was on one knee. It caught me off guard and I just said "Sure, whatever" until it hit me. Then I started crying. And my friend got it all on tape.

rccola1981

We had been talking about but I thought DH would wait until after New years to officially propose. Then on Dec 3 he had a concert just up the street from his apartment. Afterwards he was in a big hurry to get to my house and it was irritating me. We got to my house and I was working on painting an ornament or something and he started to ask me about presents under the tree being unwrapped. I had just had my housewarming so there were some gifts from that undert he tree and they were unwrapped so I was arguing that those were the on,y unwrapped gifts but he wouldn't give it up, so I huffed over to show him that everything that needed wrapped was wrapped and then I saw the ring box. He got down on one knee, said something sweet and I said yes, put the ring on and then said "but it's gold." Hended up calling the store just before closing and arranged to get a silver ring for me. In the time it took to reset a ring I wore the gold one.

FutureMrsWright2012

On the beach in La Jolla, CA... Most beautiful day ever! I was completely shocked and loved the ring he picked all on his own.

BreMae

Opening Day of D-back Spring Training. He said he was originally going to do it on regular season opening day but his parents knew and his mom sucks at keeping secrets. The game we went to was with a bunch of my Co workers and we went super early to save lawn seats. I was looking around and when I turned back to talk to him he had the ring out and asked.

He had been teasing me for awhile because I found the ring I wanted in a store up north that was closing, so he said I wouldn't be able to get that ring. He had his mom go up the next day to buy it. He had the ring for 4 months before asking.

He still gives me a hard time cause I was on so much shock that I never really said yes. I just took the ring!

PandPMeant2B

Anyone remember the 80's hair band Trixter? They're kind of the reason we're together. I'm friends with a few of the members and he's best friends with their tour manager (yes, they still tour lol), who through the party we met at.  

We and a bunch of our friends had plans to go to one of their shows in NH. Little did I know, DH arranged for some stage time during the show so he could propose on stage (which would literally be the perfect proposal for me).

Unfortunately, the show was cancelled the day before it was supposed to take place. I was so tired and bummed (I didn't know about the plan, but was excited for the show) when I finally got to his house all I wanted to do was put my PJs on and just bum on the couch. He cooked dinner (which is nothing out of the ordinary). I thanked him for the yummy dinner and gave him a kiss.  He hopped off the couch and got in front of me. I thought he was just trying to get a better angle to kiss me and didn't even notice he was on one knee. He started saying some really sweet stuff (again, nothing unusual) and I remember thinking to myself, "This sounds like a proposal...But there's not way he has a ring!" Next thing I know, there's a perfect ring in front of my face and the first thing out of my mouth was, "OMG, babe, are you serious?!" 

poppies717

DH asked me when we were out to dinner. It was nothing crazy and everything I wanted it to be. My BFF's brother was our waiter and walked in on it, though!

lfk2013

We had been dating all of 4 months.    We had actually been talking engagement/marriage for a few weeks, but had decided that we wanted to live together for a year before getting engaged.  I met DH at his mom's (where we spent most of our time since she was always gone and he lived with her) after a really hard day of work for him.  We were cuddling on the couch watching TV when he blurted out "I see myself marrying you."  I remember looking at him and he looked scared.  I said "I see myself marrying you, too."

Then...DH: "Did that really just happen?  Are we engaged?"  Me: "I think so."  DH: "That's not how I wanted to ask you."

Silence (for a good minute).

DH: "I have a question for you."  Me: "Ok..."  DH: "L, will you marry me?"  Me: "Yes."

It's funny what you remember.  We had to tell his mom first because she was giving us the stone from Will's grandmother's engagement ring (she had already said so a few weeks prior).  So we got the stone.  The following weekend we went and picked out the ring together at a jeweler that my parents and grandparents have gone to for ages (lots of trust there) and found it.  After I got the ring, we took my parents out to dinner and told them.  Their response: "We knew it was coming."

We were married almost a year (to the day) later.

islandmonkey8

For about a week DH had mentioned that he wanted to go out and take pictures because he hadn’t in a while. I said okay and we both agreed we would take our dog along so he could get out too.

It was 24 degrees outside. I HATE the cold. Hate it. But, we loaded up in the car anyway and I stopped at Dunkin Donuts for a coffee to keep me warm. We were going to go to my parents first and then to a local park for DH to take pictures because my parents had some place to be. On the way down though, DH asked to go to the park first since it was so cold. I said that was fine as long as it was quick since my parents were going out.

We pulled up to the park and I bundled up holding my coffee in one hand and our dog’s leash in the other. As soon as I stepped out of the car I was complaining. The wind and cold was cutting through my jeans and I was telling, not asking DH, to hurry up.

We walked to the spot in the park where we always picnic. It’s gorgeous there, even in the dead of winter when there isn’t an ounce of color around; it’s gorgeous overlooking the lake. DH started setting up his camera and our dog kept wrapping himself around the tripod. It was VERY amusing because he had to keep moving the tripod. And then I yelled at DH to hurry up because I was shivering and almost spilling my coffee I was soooooo cold.

Our dog and I were looking around and distracted by a dog for a little bit. When I turned back around to yell at DH to hurry up again, my eyes got all foggy. I thought movies were kidding about this, but I had to blink a few times from the fog.

DH was down on one knee with the ring box open in his outstretched arm and he asked me to marry him - my response “Is this really happening?” – I have never been so surprised or shocked in my entire life. I couldn’t remember if I woke up that morning, and I was telling myself “If this is a dream, I’m going to wake up VERY pissed off that this isn’t really happening!!”. DH responded with a little bit of a laugh that yes it was really happening and asked again if I would marry him. I said yes (of course!). I don’t remember being very cold after that!

We were together just over 7 years when DH proposed, we were married 10 months later in October.