How did your fiancé propose?

We went to Universal studios and he was pretending we were going to take a pic in front of the Universal ball and got on one knee....

My current fiancé had multiple plans until COVID got in the way. We were suppose to go to Key West for our 8 year anniversary to see the Hemmingway house and spend the weekend. He was going to rent it out for the day, prepare everything, and then propose infront of the house (Hemmingway is my favorite author- nerdy I know haha but that's me). Then we didn't want to travel there amidst everything. So about 2 weeks later, he was going to take me to the beach (we live in Florida) and propose during sunset, but then I got sick and couldn't go. I felt so bad with how much he did to make it romantic, and he asked my friend stents back before Valentine's day so he was really preparing. Eventually, he proposed on 4.06.20 during sunset in our backyard, relaxing in the hammock, with our string lights light up and hanging from our trees. It was sweet, and intimate, and romantic. We were so excited.

View Quoted Comment I love it!!

View Quoted Comment I’m sorry that his proposal didn’t go as planned but how he did it sounds perfect and so romantic! Congratulations!

View Quoted Comment Oh thank you! Yes, he's a trooper for sure. I feel like he was really bummed at first it didn't go the way he wanted, but the most important part is how we spend the rest of our lives together. It may not be romantic to some, but we were over-the-moon, and it was completely unexpected for me.

My fiancé does triathlons and he did an Ironman Triathlon in November. He told me he wanted to take a picture during his run. I thought he meant a quick picture as he was running by so I gave my phone to someone next to me and was posing with him coming by. But he stopped and I was really confused, I actually thought he was hurt! So I kept trying to get my phone back and asking if he was okay, and he kept telling the person to keep taking pictures. Then he took out the ring from his pocket and got down on one knee.
It was totally unexpected and I loved the surprise!

Such a beautiful photo!


My proposal story: it’s a Friday night at home and I take a shower and I come out of the shower, I start painting my nails and then my husband tells me to come look out the window. Huh? Can it wait... he just keeps saying no come on come on please come look at the window. And so I come look and he has laid out in the yard rose petals and candles spelling out “I love you, marry me?” And I turn around and he’s on his knee and I start crying and say “yes. But I wish you would have proposed when I had pants on” we laugh and he puts the ring on me and then hands me a pair of pants. I didn’t have any pants on 😅😅😅😅 but it’s something we look back on and just laugh about cause it just heightens that memory for us

We went to see Ed Sheehan with my adult niece and nephew and spouses my niece says let’s take a picture on the hill so I head up and she’s says I’m ready when I turn around he got on one knee and asked I didn’t see it coming they knee for months I’d been waiting almost a year as I knew it was coming just not that day now we get to wait longer to get married he’s the love of my life

Oh, that is so beautiful!

DH and I had been talking about it forever, and then he started getting squirrelly in December '18. I thought maybe he'd ask at Christmas, and he didn't... and my gift was late, and I was like, is the gift for my hand, or for my ears (there were earrings I wanted), and he said ears. This made me very frustrated, and I was venting to a mutual friend. Well... he was also venting to her, because he'd been *plotting* with her. The ring was supposed to go to her apartment, but it was late (DH is infamous about ordering things late... my birthday's in less than 2 weeks and I figure I'll get my gift by the beginning of June...), and he wanted to back out of the plan. Thankfully, she convinced him not to.

So, we go to our NYE party. I'm demanding WHY he is so squirrelly (he was REALLY squirrelly by then), I walk into the party demanding to know if our friends and he are up to something, like, say, proposing to me tonight (....I got in *trouble* for that one!), but... people are being taken out and spoken to outside of my hearing, friend's wife snuck in that I shouldn't go into the fridge, another friend keeps blinking at me because she can't keep a secret...

This party includes a German holiday game, where everyone brings a little toy wrapped up as a gift. During the game, one person is put in the middle of the room and blindfolded. A gift is hidden under a pot, they are spun around, dropped to the ground, and given a wooden spoon. They then have to find the pot with the wooden spoon and "hot" or "cold" hints from the rest of the party. USUALLY, significant others tend to go one after the other, but DH got picked early... and then didn't pick me. (And people who hadn't been spoken to earlier were getting *whispers*.) So, I"m looking at the friend who can't keep a secret, and I'm saying, "I'm being set up." She blinked at me harder. (...Apparently I'm a jerk for asking her constantly, but she sat next to me!!!)

So. At last I'm picked. I'm blindfolded, and DH *doesn't* spin me (usually he would, since he knows I can get motion sick). He also moves from where he was sitting, so I'm ... on high alert. I get spun around, I take a minute or two to find the pot, and then I take off the blindfold. Somehow, I'm directly in front of DH. I turn over the pot, and there's a ring box. I say, "I knew it!" and get a little verklempt. DH *BEFORE HE PROPOSES* starts apologizing, because it's a loaner ring! (Like I cared.)

He then does a little speech, references his favorite movie (Moonstruck), and finally asks me to marry him, as he sits in a chair and *I* am kneeling before him.

Oh, and after I said yes, and after we had a long kiss, friend who can't keep a secret: "You can't just ask people if you're getting proposed to, Rebecca!"

Our friends filmed the whole thing, but it won't upload here no matter what I do.

(The real ring arrived a few days later, and we rushed over to pick it up.)

My FH and I are hikers. We live in the Adirondack area so we have been trying to complete the 46 high peaks together. Our first hike was Mount Marcy which is the highest place you can be in the state of NY. My FH said that after we did this hike he knew he wanted to propose at the top of a mountain.. 2 years later we decided to not hike a peak and instead do a cliff which leads to one of the most beautiful places in the Adirondacks. It was supposed to be 30 degrees on this day and raining but we braved it anyways. It ended up being 50 degrees and sunny!

I love reading proposal stories. Such a special moment in time for all of us.
I love Christmas, and every year on the weekend after Thanksgiving we go cut down our tree and it’s my absolute *favorite* day of the entire year probably. I just have so much fun doing it. Well this past year I had a really terrible Thanksgiving because of one of my family members, I mean like sobbing and then going to his sister’s house to scream and yell to someone who would let me get it all out and listen. FH was acting kind of weird, he just sat back and let me be upset which he usually doesn’t do but I didn’t think much of it at the time. The next day, he was actually looking forward to getting the tree (he usually does not look forward to it at all) and I was still upset from the night before but knew once we got to the tree farm I’d cheer up. We took our dog and the three of us were in matching plaid. We walk around the farm and I find the tree I want and I’m looking at it and he says, “are you sure?” And I say yes of course, then I ask to take a picture with him and the dog. We kneel down to take the picture then I stand up but he stays kneeling and pulls out the ring and asks. It was perfect because I had secretly wanted him to do it at the tree farm and where our tree was there was nobody else around. Definitely a day I’ll remember forever!

View Quoted Comment That is the best surprise, I love it! I’m sure the person taking the photos got some good pictures! Congratulations!

View Quoted Comment I love your proposal!! I laughed out loud when I read it, it’s amazing and something you will never forget. 😂

View Quoted Comment So cute and I love the photo! You both look so happy! Congratulations!

View Quoted Comment The anticipation!! and so great they filmed it! Too bad the video won’t upload. Your friends comment at the end is amazing. 😂

View Quoted Comment Your pictures are so beautiful!!! I love how he incorporated something you both love to do! Congratulations!!

He proposed during our vacation in April 2019 at a beach on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. I was in complete shock— didn’t see it coming at all. I was looking for seashells when he called me over telling me he had to show me something. Next thing I know he’s on his knee with a ring in his hand. For a split second I thought he found the ring in the sand. Such a great day!

I love all of these!!! Proposal stories are my favorite!
We took a trip to visit his sister, her husband, and their daughter in Hawaii right before COVID really hit here. We island hopped to Kauai and were headed to a trailhead, but he needed to use the bathroom. He hopped over an embankment and found a gorgeous private view of Tunnels Beach with an overarching tree and waves crashing in the background. So he called us up for pics and then asked while his sis took an amazing video. He finally got to use an actual bathroom like 45 min later 😂

I thought he was kidding; I thought it was a joke and that the ring was part of an elaborate prank. Then we played a board game and I was so distracted I have never lost so badly...

If you want to see a funnier, more famous version version of our proposal, it went pretty much the same way as Aidy Bryant's proposal.

I had decided to summit Mt. Saint Helens to release some of my Dad's ashes. He had been part of the fire crew that went in to look for people/deal with the fires after the eruption. My boyfriend wanted to join me. After I released my father's ashes, my boyfriend took me over to another spot to get some photos of us. He asked me to turn around and get a back shot, then asked me to turn back around. I did, and saw he was on his knee with the ring. I collapsed and was sobbing, nearly fell off the edge actually.