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How did you guys propose/pop the question???

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My wife proposed to me. :biggrin:

We had only been dating for 3 months, but I knew she was the one. I had planned on waiting a few months to pop the question, but she was on a strict timetable and couldn't wait for me. So, after receiving her father's blessing, we went and picked out the engagement ring, but I didn't give her the ring right away. I waited until she wouldn't be expecting it and "proposed" to her with the ring at a high school football game.
 
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Buddy of mine proposed by putting the ring in a Cracker Jack Box.

Gave the Cracker Jack Box to his prospective bride... and she responded, "You know I don't like Cracker Jacks"

Ooops.


Anyway... they aren't married anymore... I believe that one lasted....oohh.... 15 months.
 
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I took her down to campus (on the excuse that some friends wanted to play with their dogs on the oval) and we walked up to the oval. I took her over to Hayes hall and we were whispering to each other on opposite sides of the arch. I mumbled something to her, turned toward her, and got down on one knee. When she asked what I said, I repeated "Will you marry me?" and pulled out the ring.
 
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I'm not going to lie...it's good to see some true gentlemen on this site. YOU sassy boys you! Actually, I'm not any different...in fact, I'm probably hands down the most romantic guy I know. The machismo on here usually runs pretty thick, so I thought this thread would be a funny one to get the priss out of all of us :)

The blessing...yes, this is HUGE. I would never propose without it...or at least having asked...lol. Good advice here so far though!
 
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MolGenBuckeye said:
I took her down to campus (on the excuse that some friends wanted to play with their dogs on the oval) and we walked up to the oval. I took her over to Hayes hall and we were whispering to each other on opposite sides of the arch. I mumbled something to her, turned toward her, and got down on one knee. When she asked what I said, I repeated "Will you marry me?" and pulled out the ring.
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Did you do the "Long Walk"?

I had a friend who did this right before he proposed to his current wife down at Mirror Lake. I've always wondered what he would have done if they didn't complete the "Walk"?
 
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buckeyegrad said:
This is good advice. There is no reason to ask for permission, but you should try to get the blessing as this means a lot to most women (at least those who do not hate their parents).
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Yeah, be careful with this one. If you know the girl well enough to marry her you should know whether to ask her parents. My wife does not get along with her parents and she told me afterwards she would have been pissed had I asked her parents.
 
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My wife and I were dating long distance (me in Delaware, her in Akron), and we would frequently fly to visit each other on the weekends. This made buying the ring without her knowing it very easy. I flew to Akron one weekend, and after we cooked a very nice dinner and had a great bottle of wine, I surprised her.

She was kind of expecting it to happen sometime soon. Funny thing is, she wasn't expecting it at all that day, because it was a Saturday in October, and the Buckeyes had lost to Wisconsin that afternoon. She figured I'd be way to bummed out and cranky for a proposal.
 
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BuckinMichigan said:
Yeah, be careful with this one. If you know the girl well enough to marry her you should know whether to ask her parents. My wife does not get along with her parents and she told me afterwards she would have been pissed had I asked her parents.
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I got an "out" on the blessing/permission thing... My (now) in laws did the old, "Are you going to ask our daughter to marry you , or what?" thing to me... I was like, yes, one of these days... thanks for asking. Thing is, you have to be unspecific with her mom because if you want to do anything stealthy... your cover was blown... she can't keep a secret, I knew when two of my wife siblings were popping/getting teh question popped before they did... I didn't want that to happen to me... as my "plan" relied on secrecy--- and was as follows:

Also- and it really doesn't come into the story- but today is the 5th anniversary of our engagement... yes it is April Fools day.... that was an accident... and I never played it out real well... though I could have.

Anyway... obviously this happened in April... so in January or eary February I was trying to formulate a grand scheme to pull off the "question." (I was trying to make it a storybook thing so my wife would have a reasonbly romantic story to tell).

At some point around there, my wife had mentioned that she'd like to go somewhere in the spring to get out of Ohio... and I mentioned that ahe had talked about going a number of places including Asheville NC, to check out Biltmore Estate.... She thought that sounded like a nice long weekend, so I asked her to book us a hotel room, etc.

Mission 1 was accomplished... take a trip that she thinks was her idea... and Mission 2, ready made fairy tale setting as Biltmore is as close to a european castle as you're going to find...

So... at this point I think I'm doing pretty well.... but on the other hand... its not like I can just go and scout the location and formulate well thought out plan... so i just had to trust that I could have eveything fall into place.

Mission 3 was to find a ring. That went smoothly, and I bought one that I had to have (obviously) sized and set into white gold. No Problem... bought the thing about 3 weeks before I was going to leave... Unfortunately Saturday (before the Thursday I was leaving) the jewerly store called me to say that the ring had been stolen in the mail on its way back from the shop.... Now... they were very nice about it and would replace it and all that stuff... BUT... I needed it by Wednesday afternoon... not fun. (And it took me 3 full days of shopping to find this one in the first place).... Anyway... they made it happen.. and I got a little nicer diamond, actually, and got it back on Wednesday at about 4pm....

Now-- the improvisation. Problem about getting engaged and fighting through the anticipation is that you want to get it out of the way... but who wants to get engaged at 10am? Nobody... and that's too bad, sometimes... because at 10 am I was with my wife in a secluded area of Biltmore estate by a lake, next to a nice little bridge surrounded by beautiful gardens... but it was 10am... so I held off.

Now... so at about noon, we decide to tour the house... and we did that in abour and hour and a half... well... we hadn't eaten anything, and my wife was getting bitchy because she was hungry... real bitchy... and it didn't help because I'm stressing over this proposal... and I'm trying to decide at this point whether to propose or punch her in the face.

So.. they have a winery on the estate with a restaurant and all that jazz.... and a long fucking wait. But.. its either that or food from a vendor. So we go drive over to the winery and on the way, I notice that there are people having picnics next to these little ponds on the grounds (they are old irrigation reservoirs from when the whole ting was a farm)... and I think to myself... that's going to come in handy.

Finally, we eat. (And very thankfully) drink a botttle of wine... then a quick tour of the winery-- more free wine-- and then I suggest that we buy another bottle of wine and have a little picnic by one of the ponds we passed coming to the winery... and so there... by a little pond with Biltmore Castle looming on the hill in the distance..... drinking very iffy Cab... I asked her to be my wife...

Ahh...


Until 5 minutes later we were interrupted by tourists in their 70's asking us to take their picture with the house in the background... one of the guys went to Ohio State... that didn't help when I was trying to get rid of them... ahh the buckeye nation spreads even further than you want it to.
 
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I never asked permission.. her dad is a deadbeat and her mom is a nut job. We had only dated for 3 or 4 months and I decided to buy a ring. I really didn't know a good way I wanted to do so I just left the Jewelry store and went to her job and did it there. I guess I just for for the suprise proposal... the look on her face was priceless. I took her into their conference room and got down on one knee.... we'll be married 9 years on April 13th.
 
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warning... very long and sappy...

The place where we first kissed was out on the grand mere park dunes, which was also when we say our first date was (even tho we had casually dated beforehand). Anyway, I went back and got some sand, dune grass, pebbles, shells, and driftwood and made a little decorative bottle filled with all the stuff from that spot. I also wrote out a romantic poem, burnt the edges, and rolled it up and put it on top of the bottle. The message written there was the reason we ended up dating (we had planned on going back to school single, since she was going to be a freshman).

Anyway...

Last summer I had been working outside all day, and was gonna go down to her house and mulch for her parents as well (for pay). So I told her I wanted to run down to the lake and jump in to clean up. She put on her bikini to join me and we drove over a few blocks to the beach entrance. Once we got to the sand she started to walk in the wrong direction so I had to kind of lightly keep her from missing what was up ahead in the sand.

I had gone there beforehand and sunk an empty bottle into the sand with a similar rolled up mini-scroll sticking out of the top. The note was pretty romantic if I do say so myself :), and the last line of it was I love you. I told her two years before then that I would not say that to her until I could ask her to marry me. We were both hunched over reading the poem, so I had to get her to stand up with me, so I could get back down again on my knee and ask her to marry me (I had the ring with me the whole time, many worry I had stored it at the beach). She said yes :) Then we filled up teh bottle together with a bunch of stuff from that spot so we could have a great keepsake of that moment.

Picture of the ring:
http://www.jwinslow.com/images/personal/ring/ringclose2.jpg

And since its appropriate, my fiancee:
http://www.jwinslow.com/images/personal/karrin/panoramic.jpg
 
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For me, I had the ring and knew about when I wanted to do it but hadn't settled on how. I had tickets for the Buckeyes/Illini game in 2001 and thought, how cool would it be to ask her in The Shoe? Well, we all know what happened the Thursday night before that game. Steve-O had put together a few nice games so I was feeling pretty confident that the Bucks wouldn't ruin a perfect day. Now we're throwing in a QB with not much experience and had not prepared for the start so I had to come up with an alternate plan.

So, I now had to come up with something else. I remembered this stuff moose that had a backpack that she liked from Abercrombie the week before. I go to get the damn thing and you have to spend like $25 in order to pay $10 for it. She was coming over to my apartment later that evening. I had fixed a nice dinner and when we were through, I gave her the moose which had the ring in its backpack. She was joking around and made a comment like, "anything else in here?" That's when she opened up the backpack and saw the brown box.

Needless to say, I made a smart decision by deciding not to wait until the ballgame.
 
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Dang, we should have set this up as a competition and polled the winner. My vote would naturally go to the guy who went to the courthouse in jeans & a tshirt, and spent the $9.00 or whatever to get "hitched" and then got Rally's on the way home and fell asleep on the couch to his favorite episode of Baywatch. But then again, we haven't had this story yet, so I'll wait patiently for something as good.

Solid romance BuckfromScum....I'm sure she's a happy girl.
 
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but today is the 5th anniversary of our engagement... yes it is April Fools day
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I wasn't going to post mine, but today is actually the 5th anniversary of the day I first got together with my fiancee, so I felt inclined to post when I read that today is somebody else's 5th, also. In fact, my fiance & I are meeting with the pastor tonight to work on getting everything set up for the wedding.

The proposal was not too exciting. We picked out a ring together, so the element of surprise was pretty much shot from the get-go.

She was working on a play for the high school where she works and was at a rehearsal for the show the day I went to pick up the ring at the jeweler's. I picked up the ring and a bouquet of flowers, took it to the theatre, walked into the rehearsal, and dropepd to a knee and proposed. We got a standing ovation from the high school kids.
 
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