June 2009 Weddings
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Poll: Proposing at a Wedding
First - my aunt has been in induced labor since noon yesterday. Around 1:00 p.m. today, they finally broke her water for her. Now we're just waiting. The kid has apparently inhereted my family's stubborn streaks 
Now...about this poll...
I've seen it done. I've heard about it being done. I'd like to think I would have been happy if it had been done at mine. But there's something about it that just seems strange to me...so, when that happens, I come ask all of you! Please expand on your answers 
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Re: Poll: Proposing at a Wedding
Total thunderjack.
I always hated that scene in The Hangover when Alan tells the groom he's going to propose at his wedding, and the groom is all "cool!" Maybe I'm an AW (okay I am) but I would have hated that.
Lucy Elizabeth 10.27.12
I am not a fan of this. I think it would be better to propose at an outing that is all about you (as a couple), not at an event celebrating someone else's love. It is not only stealing the thunder of the bride & groom, but come on, be more original than that!
I suppose if it was somehow the perfect moment came up and it was done privately, that would be ok. But I think making a big spectacle of yourself at someone else's wedding would be tacky.
Okay, see, here's my thing:
I read it about in a book once, and the scene was written so well. (It's in Shopaholic Ties the Knot). Basically, the bride pulled her best friend aside and said "I want to throw the bouquet now. I want to make sure you catch it." She tosses her the bouquet, the friend catches it, and then the friend's boyfriend comes out with the ring. But it's a totally private moment with just those three characters.
When I read that, I thought "AWWWWW. How romantic!"
But, a girl I knew in high school just posted wedding pics online, and there's a pic of a groomsman proposing to a bridesmaid during the reception. The bride & groom look all happy and are smiling and stuff, but I saw the picture and thought "What? How f-ing lame is that?!?!"
Lucy Elizabeth 10.27.12
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I would NOT have been happy if someone had done that at my wedding.
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I can see how it would be romantic even though the ambiance was staged for someone else. If the couple can do it quietly and keep it a secret for a few weeks....then I think that's ok.
We got engaged about a week after my cousin's wedding and I was really worried she'd think I was stealing her thunder of being a newlywed. We waited a couple of weeks to tell the family, and that was only because we saw everyone at a baby shower. That might be just me though.