Did anyone eles NOT get proposed to?? Am I the only one? :( **my rebuttal pg 5** lol)

That’s when I got pregnant for my oldest daughter and forced in to a marriage I didn’t want. I had to break up with my HS Sweetheart over the phone while he was in another country fighting in Dessert Storm. He spent the next 18 yrs looking for me.

A few years ago he found me. He said he never stopped loving me and never gave up hope that we’d be together again. After being back together for 8 or 9 months we started talking about marriage. (I wasn’t letting him go again!) We talked about it so much we just ended up picking a date. No proposal, no ring (I told him I didn’t need an e-ring, just him. And that we could put that money toward the wedding.)

So here I am very happily married. Never gave much thought to the lack of proposal or ring, until reading these stories. My husband is an amazing person. He’s done so many sweet, wonderful and romantic things for me and I am so grateful for every single one of them but I realized I’ll never get THAT special moment. **big sigh**

Anyone else skip the proposal and just get married??

OHMIGOD!! That's a story in of itself!

I didn't have a proposal the way others have. We had talked about it and it was the natural next step for us. He basically just said that he wanted us to go find a ring for me together cause I am super super picky. And then we started planning together.

It was us... Anything different wouldn't have felt right

Skipped proposal here! We were going to elope on vacation, but that fell through. We decided that we would just get married a year later and I started wearing my ring on Christmas Eve. Sometimes I regret not having the proposal, but most of the time, I'm okay with it.

Mine was at a bar celebrating my birthday and a bar full of random people knew before my parents haha So romantic haha not!

HisMrs... I think your story tops all proposals hun!

This is funny because we were sitting at the table before we got married and my now husband says well we need to be at the church by 6. I said for? He said the wedding. I said oh we are invited to a wedding? Who's getting married? He says you and me. I said oh you never asked me. He said yes I did on the phone. We were long distance too. I said oh have fun at that wedding. Then he asked. We both laughed.

I didnt get the typical proposal either. We talked about marriage we said we would marry and had the plan set out. He then said he needed to propose because it was the right thing to do. I went with him to pick out my ring. What did catch me by surprise was when he did it. Because I did not know he had the ring yet. We were having breakfast with my kids, I was feeding my daughter and turned around to find him on one knee. Yes it was beautiful and sweet but it was not a "shocking" moment.

That’s a lovely story… Regardless if you did or didn’t, actually hear the words “will you marry me”, you are still engaged! You have a wonderful love story to tell!

My mom was guilted into marrying my dad. My grandma (dad's mom) said he was majorly depressed and was worried for his life if my mom didn't marry him. Your story trumps this **** times!

I agree with #1Wife! I had always dreamed that my happily ever after would be with my high school sweetheart. It didnt happen that way and of course I am happy and very much in love with my husband. But yes HisMrs your story is like a fairytale come true! Shit now I wanna go home and watch the Notebook!

Ditto Sarah D. We just talked about it more and more frequently, till one day he said let's go ring shopping this week. Went out and had a nice dinner afterwards, but no, he never actually said the words, "Will you marry me?" It was just an agreed upon next step.

But yes, His Mrs., that is a GREAT story!

And now that I think about it, my first husband never actually asked me, either, though he did ask my Dad for permission...after he already screamed at me, "...and I was gonna ask you to marry me!" in the middle of a huge fight a few days before. Yeah, should have been my first clue. In fact, he never even went shopping for the ring...pushed that task off to me and my Mom (WTF?).

We went for a weekend get away and we went to get my ring. FH didn't want to suprise me bcz he was afraid I'd hate any ring he chose. Well, I picked my e-ring myself. he went on his knee and proposed when we went back to the hotel. It was beautiful.

Sometimes I wish it was a surprise . I wonder how different it might have been.

Oh, well *shrugs*

Your whole story is romantic! Proposals don't make the marriage. My proposal sucked. There wete so many romantic situations DH coukd have chosen: when he returned from Afganistan mid December, during our planned trip to Atlantic City the first week of January, but no. He proposed at a new years house party after we had been arguing and surrounded by drunk people I didn't know. He id it right at midnight while others were screaming and I couldnt even hear him say "Will you marry me" i didn't get service on my phone so I had to run around immediately trying to find a phone with service to call my mom before someone put it on facebook. Tl;dr not everyone gets a fairytale proposal. Reading those stories kind of bummed me out too

Your story is better than a proposal!!!

Not I. People always ask my story.... We were planning a vacation (that never happened since he got laid off after) and he asked me to go to Vegas I thought jokingly and I was teasing and told him he never even said he loved me, there's no way I'll marry A man that's never said he loved me and I want to do it the right way not in Vegas ( I told him I run at the first sign of commitment or attachment so he was afraid to lol) the following week he took me to go pick out a ring... It never sunk in he was serious until he took me to a jewelry store in the mall... After weeks of shopping the lady at the store asked when we got engaged and he said when she finally picks her ring.... Hahaha

This is kind of how we are... Spontaneous and laid back so it was kind of perfect for us... Most people wouldn't understand!! Lol. He's not a mushy person anyways. In wedding pics you only see emotion in his eyes (the marines took all his emotions lol) he can keep a straight face but his eyes always tell the story

Hehe Thank you Marlina and #1wife! I DO love our story. (even the parts that hurt) I know how amazing it was for us to even find each other again. I don't regret a thing. Just cant help but feel a *teeny* twinge of jealousy for those thought out, planned out proposals

@MJ that's too funny! Was he serious??

@Amy V I remember hearing about how you kinda fudged up that poor guys chance at a decent proposal! lol

OTW...That's so sad! (and very sneaky of your grandma lol) Are they still married?

My hubby and i. difnt either . i picked the ring and i wore it for a few months till we made it "Official " on new years eve . my story

Make him propose now! Its never too late. Just tell him he never propose to you and you would like him. It doesn't have to be right this second. He can plan someting or just drop to one knee right there. Maybe even have a little vow renewal... at a chapel. It doesn't have to be expense.