How many of you KNEW he was going to propose?

I Knew when he asked my dad but had no idea when he was going to ask me. He actually send me the text when he bought the ring ( he meant to send it to his dad) he lied and said it was something else I was pretty oblivious and believe him. The weekend he proposed was a split weekend for us. He lives in PA i live in NJ so that weekend we were in both PA and NJ. He took me back to where we first met and we walked around and he asked me. I was so shocked. At first i thought he was just tying his shoe but then he asked me to marry him. Looking back on the day I could have figured it out bc he seemed very nervous and kept messing with his pocket but at the time I had no idea. Right after he asked me

That is such a sweet story Kristen...

I love how everyone's proposal is soo differnet, yet so meaningful!!!

I knew it was comming...we had discussed marriage and knew it was something both of us wanted and were ready for. Plus he had to get my ring size (yes, I had no idea...his sister and mother took me to a jewelry store to get sized). And I figured he had a plan becuase his sister stopped constantly asking when he was going to propose (which she had been doing for awhile...so the change was noticable). But I had no idea about the ring and didn't know when. It was enough of a suprise that it was good...but i feel like "will you marry me" is a question that should only be asked if you are positive about the answer!

I had an idea that he'd propose, I just didn't know when. We'd actually talked about it for over a year before he finally asked. Come to find out he'd had the ring AND asked for my parents' blessing seven months before he ever asked me! He proposed on the fourth of July. We were watching the fireworks at the lake, like we do every year, so I really didn't see it coming! I actually thought that if he was going to do it, he would've done it at the baseball game we were at the week before, but I was wrong! I loved the way he did it though... It's amazing that there's only 116 days left!!!

I had NO idea he was proposing! We had briefly discussed getting married, but had never ring shopped. My fiance always had said that when it came to the ring he thought it was an unneccessary expense (found out after the proposal that he had actually been setting money aside the entire 3 years we had been dating ). He had planned on proposing on our anniversary, but received the ring 4 days prior and couldn't wait - he had the ring a total of 13 hours before he asked. I was so shocked that through the entire proposal all I could say was "are you serious?!" I don't think it really sank in for a couple days that we were engaged!

We talked about getting married but I had no idea he was proposing. He always said he would never propose around a holiday or my birthday. This past year my birthday fell on a Sunday so he took me out to dinner on Saturday night. We were on our way to the restaurant and I actually told him that my left hand would look really good with a diamond ring. He just laughed. He took me to dinner at the restaurant we had our first nice dinner at 9 years ago. I didn't think anything of it. After dinner we ordered dessert and he ordered a small bottle of champagne. I asked him why he ordered it and he said to toast my birthday. I am like a little kid when it comes to birthdays so I didn't question it. While we were waiting for dessert he told me how much this restaurant has special to him and has special meaning for us...then he took out the ring and asked me to marry him.

I knew...I knew he had the ring even though he didn't know I knew that. And I knew the day he was going to do it because I noticed when we were going out to eat that his pocket had an odd shape in it...shaped like a box. He transferred it to his jacket, but still when he first came downstairs I noticed it. I just didn't know how he was going to do it.

We picked out the ring together & also had purchased it. We went on vacation to HHI and I knew he had the ring, but he didn't pop the question ALL week, so I figured he'd do it at a rest stop or something ridiculous, but he did it on the last night during family pictures.

I didn't know for sure when and how he was going to do it, but I did know that he was going to do it because I went with him to pick out the ring. It was on layaway for several months... I had picked out a couple rings that I liked and left it up to him to decide--and he picked the one that I loved the most, of course

However, I didn't know how he was going to do it. We had planned a vacation to Chicago where we both went to undergrad colleges and I really wanted it to happen there but before we left, he told me that he couldn't get the ring because they were closed before we left and he works sometimes a 12-hour work day. Anyway, it ended up happening in Chicago!! He's usually not very good at lying to me or hiding things from me, but he did it. On the way up to Chicago in order to prevent me from finding the ring he hid it in the spare tire compartment. lol.

Anyway, I'm glad that I got to pick out my ring because it's the one I absolutely fell in love with.

I knew he was going to propose (although I didn't let him know--I wanted to let him think it was a surpsie). We had been together for several years and living together for a year of that and had already talked together about getting married (and had already chosen a date!) and I was literally just waiting on "the proposal." In fact, I reminded him several times that he needed to ask me soon so we could give our friends/family enough time to plan a trip (we're getting married out of the country). Every month or two we plan a 'date night' for just us and we had one planned for the coming Friday, and he made a big deal of wanting to plan it out himself. Then that Monday beforehand he came home late from work, and immediately went in through the back door and upstairs where I heard him hiding something (my ring, of course--which he didn't want me to pick out) and then I definitely knew he would ask me on that Friday (May 15, 2009--exactly a year ago!).

My FH accidentally "spilled the beans" a few days prior. At that point, i was pretty convinced that he was going to come up with a new plan, but he actually stuck with his original proposal plan, which was super sweet. He proposed to me after one of my performances (I'm a professional dancer), with my family and his mother around. He proposed with his beloved grandmother's engagement ring, which had to be written out of his sister's will. The ring was handmade for his grandmother and is well-known in his family. I've heard stories about the ring while we were dating, but I didn't think that it would one day be mine. He even asked for my mom and grandfather's blessing days beforehand. i'm so glad that family was a big part in this. While it wasn't a complete "shock", there were still surprise elements to it and it was really really special. The only thing going through my mind at the time was "I can't believe this is really happening!" Everyone proposal is different, just like every couple.

I knew about it. He had told me that he asked my family if he could marry me. He's not always the brightest thinker, so he didn't realize how telling me would give away the surprise and that now I was in a situation of knowing it was going to happen but not knowing when. From then, it slowly came out what he was planning and I feel like I hijacked the proposal because he was going to have it in front of people I didn't know with my reaction videotaped... he had completely ignored me when I had requested it to be private, not public. Being that it wasn't a surprise, I didn't want to feel pressure or worry about my reaction being sufficient enough. I think it is because people put so much emphasis on the excitement or shock as an indication of how much love exists for the guy.


But I did not know what the ring looked like and he did get a beautiful ring that I absolutely adore. He wanted to get my birthstone but thought the orange was ugly and got the blue one instead. Although I don't think my birthstone is ugly, blue is my favorite color. In it's own weird little way, the quirky proposal was special. I said yes really quickly and he was going to stay on his knee until the ring was on my finger... I had to tell him he could stand up and didn't have to wait for me to get the ring off the rope that kept it secure. He would've had a cramp if he had.

View Quoted Comment Wow, I am so glad somebody else gets it. I feel like other people would scorn me because I pretty much took over the proposal. I don't think it is fair for either party. If done traditionally, the only say the girl gets is "yes" or "no," and the guy had to find this crazy romantic gesture to woo her off her feet? Why doesn't the girl get to propose? I also felt the ordeal should be private. I felt like making a video of it or doing it publicly would put too much pressure to perform. I didn't like that.


But I think if I hadn't known and he did it as a surprise, I probably would not have thought so much about it.

Well my husband and I didn't date in the traditional way. We had a courtship where we knew the end goal was marriage if things worked out. We knew very early on in knowing each other things were going to work out. I knew he was going to propose. I even knew which ring he had bought because somehow the email that he ordered ended up coming to my email. I'm fine with that, I'm not a "surprise" kind of person. Surprises make me anxious.