i don't have a real "proposal story"...

How did he propose?

"He didn't! We just decided we wanted to get married and started planning!"

I love your ring!

"Thank you!"

My fiancé wanted to do a big proposal but didn’t follow through. He proposed while I was sitting at the computer in my pajamas with no make up (so no just said yes pic either). I love him, I love my ring, I’m glad we’re getting married. But he didn’t say anything romantic like I love you or I want to spend my life with you or anything. I could have used a little more.

This is my just said yes pic. We were supposed to get up early to take in a job app then we were going to go for a hoke at the nature center well we over slept and it was raining lol so i go to let the dogs out and come through the curtain and there he is down on 1 knee my heart stopped! Lol i think i said yes before he even asked. Excuse the shirtless fh

Haha, our “story” is a wild ride. We kinda talked about it for a few weeks and then long story short ended up in a huge fight in the middle of the day... like so big that I drove to his office so we could talk. Ended the conversation in an even bigger fight. I seriously thought we were going to break up and was crushed. But then after work he came right over and was completely torn up and in tears, saying he couldn’t believe how dumb this was and that he didn’t want to break up, ever, actually, will you marry me? I burst out crying too but I actually said no, because I didn’t want our engagement to come out of a fight? It didn’t feel right. But after that even though we weren’t officially engaged we were really talking about the future as if we were.

We got actually engaged about a month later but again, it was pretty underwhelming because we had been talking about it for a while by then :p he was waiting for the “right moment” but we got impatient, and he ended up proposing with a CZ ring in the living room one night at 12:30am 😂 we picked out my diamond ring a little while later once he saved up more

I also hated the “how did he propose” question because, as you can see, our story is kinda long winded and also doesn’t start out in the most pleasant way? Lol. But after you’re married people stop asking to hear your proposal story :p also over time you’ll probably come up with a TLDR way to tell it that makes it more listener-friendly than it actually is haha.

Also first pic is our actual “just said yes” photo which I cannot stand my face in that picture like jeez i couldn’t believe how bad I looked 😂🙈 second photo we took a few days later and used THAT one to announce our engagement :p

View Quoted Comment I get this! My FH did plan out a proposal but had no speech. Later when we were alone he went sappy on me and told me the moment he knew he was going to marry me and how he couldn’t picture himself with anyone else. In the moment I don’t think he was on his knee for more than 10 seconds and said “will you marry me, bae?” 🤦🏼‍♀️

It had been over a year since FH's father passed, and we were walking our dog around the neighborhood earlier this summer. He randomly asked me about my plans cause he knows I have a 1 year, 3 year, and 10 year plan. I said that my 3 yr plan was to have kids cause I'm creeping into that "geriatric" age, maybe marry if that was important to him. And then he asked me where I would want to marry, and I said that our trip to Hawaii was perfect and I'd like to have our families there. I also told him that to me, after what had happened with his sudden father's passing, I'd rather have our immediate family there and see if we could pay for their accommodations and airfare instead of having friends and extended family.

I had to go to work in Canada so I was gone for 4 months this summer, and during that time I had booked our venue, booked time in 2 wedding shops for when I returned home, bought my sister's plane ticket so she could come look at dresses in the fall, and was budgeting my expenses to have enough to pay for my portion of the wedding. It did make it awkward when people would ask me for the ring which I did not have, and then continue to ask me if he "knew" we were getting married. I didn't need one because we were already planning the wedding, a ring pop would have been sufficient.

A few weeks after I came back home from my work trip at the end of this summer, he asked me to go hiking so we could get back into shape and he proposed at the top of the mountain with a beautiful ring he designed! He apparently had it made while I was out of the country and even had my sister help out.

When I told my mom of the proposal, all she said was "I'm glad he finally made it official..."

Same here!

Last year we were on vacation in November and we started talking about having babies. From there we kind of agreed that we would get married. We said we would tell our families around Christmas time.

Well Christmas eve came and went and I thought he had forgotten. On Christmas morning we went to his parents for breakfast. Well there he announced our engagement to his parents. I was so shocked even thought it could happen. We didn't have a ring and I honestly didn't care. That night he asked my dad for his blessing and my dad wanted a guest list right away lol. My FH asking my dad for his blessing meant to much to me.

I didn't get my engagement ring until 6 months later. He picked out the stone and I picked the setting.

Getting asked how he proposed all the time. It's was very weird at first. But I tell our story like this when someone ask's.

p.s My picture shows huge on here

Same here. My FH was never a romantic guy, flowers on occasion but nothing truly nothing really romantic. He never got down on one knee and did the whole will you marry me. He knew I was the one and so did I so there was no question about it.

We both have been married before. Neither one of us wanted the spectacle of a proposal charade because like rational adult partners, we discussed the concept of marriage and approached the decision as we do anything together - as a partnership. Agreeing that yes we want to be married and yes we want to spend XXXX on a ring.

It would have felt like a juvenile farce if there was a whole proposal attached to this process. And I would have been pissed if he went out and made the unilateral decision to spend thousands of our dollars on a ring without consulting me first.

I had just gotten my acceptance into grad school, which is a full-time 5 year program, so I was going to be quitting my job. We've lived together for several years. We were talking about the next 5 years of our lives together and decided that marriage should be a part of that. The next day we went to his parents and my parents houses and told them we decided we are getting married. Then we started telling other close family and friends. The ring came about a week later. My sister in law's reaction was the best, in that she was like "that is exactly how I would expect it from the two of you," as it was a very egalitarian decision. I love our engagement story because of that reason: it was an informed, mutual decision between two people who love each other. To me, that is romantic.

I didn't get the proposal I always wanted. We just kind of decided to get married. I was wearing a $9 CZ ring from Walmart but it's too big and I lost it xD so now I'm back to wearing a silver harry potter themed band I've had for a decade lol. We plan to get me a nice moissanite ring when we have the extra funds, and he promised me a sweet, genuine proposal when we're able to do that. We shall see.

I completely understand where you're coming from, I think it stems from social media. People see these elaborate and staged proposals and assume that everyone's is like that I guess. We'd known for months that we were going to get engaged soon, I just didn't know when. We were about to leave for vacation for the beach and FH decided he had to do it then and that he couldn't wait, so he rush ordered the ring he wanted for me online.

FH had my ring in his bag the entire time we were on vacation at the beach just waiting for the right moment. He ended up abandoning me at the putt putt place for a "work call" when in reality he was calling my dad to ask for his blessing since he wasn't able to ask him in person. That afternoon we went to a vineyard for a wine tasting and we took a selfie out in the greenery and he said "hold on one sec" and went towards the car to get something. Then he turned around and said "never mind". After the proposal I asked him if he almost proposed then and he said yes but I'm a bit of a light weight and the wine had REALLY gone to my head so he didn't think it was the best time The next day we were on the beach in our beach chairs and he said "I know this isn't the flashiest way to do this, but that's just not us." Then a few sentences about how much he loves me and "will you marry me" and he pulled the ring out of his bag. I didn't stop crying for hours, I was so happy and so overwhelmed with emotion lol

That being said, FH did go all out with my ring. I thought I was going to have a stroke when I found out the price. I am a little bit bummed that he wasn't down on one knee for the proposal just because that's "how it always happens", but I wouldn't trade our story for anything!

Your ring is beautiful! FH and I mostly just did the same thing and agreed to get married. That doesn't make it less special! Never let anyone downplay your engagement/proposal!

Honestly I like that. Aha I feel like it sounds like you guys knew you're meant for each other and had built that life together so there weren't any bell and whistles and showmanship in the proposal but that's because you guys didn't need it. It was simple and straight to the point.

I get it. My boyfriend had actually asked me before and I just blew him off not really thinking we were ready and we weren't. But just one day I called him n said do you still wanna get married? He said yes and later that month on Easter we announced it to our family's.

My FH and I have looked at rings for quite some time ( I worked in a mall and waited about an hour after every shift for him to pick me up so I would walk around). We had talked about what we would do for a wedding and just go back and fourth on ideas for months but didn’t make it official. This last Saturday we just decided to go buy a ring. It was so sudden. We were eating breakfast and it was like our thoughts were on the same wavelength. So we go into Zales and officially by the ring I had been trying to replace with cheaper rings in my head for months. It was the first ring I saw and I never could get it out of my head. Boom! Engaged haha! It had to immediately be resized from a 7 to an 8.5 so it won’t be here for about 2 weeks. We were gonna make an official announcement after we got the ring back, but it wasn’t a traditional big proposal at all lol. I have a small feeling he might do the get down on one knee thing after he picks up the ring but it would just to be funny.