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

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Definitely got to avoid doing the mulching after that :) It was tricky getting ready for asking her, cuz I wanted to get cleaned up but not have any clean odors (soap, deodorant, cologne, etc) on me to give away that I wasn't in need of going to the lake.

Also managed to keep the balloons hidden under a blanket in the back of the CR-V.
 
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buckeyegrad said:
Now this next part may sound weird, but if you're a devote Christian, you'll understand it. I took out a bowl of water and towel and began to wash her feet. As I did this, I told her how much I loved her and how much she meant to me. I then quoted Ephesians 5:25 (Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her). And then I said, as you know, the night before Christ gave himself up for his church, he washed the feet of his disciples. Likewise, I wanted to wash your feet to show you that I am ready to make such a commitment. And then I popped the question.

(At our wedding, when we were exchanging our personal vows, I reminded her of our engagement night and once again promised to always love her as Christ loves His church.)

Again, many might think this is kind of weird to do it this way, but I have yet to meet a devote Christian woman who doesn't get teared up when my wife tells the story.
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Not "weird" at all - I've been to a wedding where part of the ceremony was the bride and groom washing each other's feet and ahve heard of others as well.
"The Power of the Towel" is very powerful, indeed.


Mine was the farthest you can get from a surprise - we went together to buy the rings, then made reservations at the Wildwood Inn in Florence, KY.
Had dinner at the rotating restaurant in Cincinnati. Nothing spectacular, but it was a memorable night.

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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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NO FREAKIN' WAY!!!
MY 9th anniv is on April 13th!!
This should go into the "small world" thread!
 
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I definately second the 'parental blessing' thing. I think her parents appreciated the 'old fashioned-ness' and respect of it more anything.

As for the proposal, we were on vacation on Cape Cod, Mass. I had been planning it for a while and it was about the most romantic setting I could imagine. My family had been taking vacations there since I was a wee lad, so I have many special memories there and wanted her to share some of that with me. One night we took a long walk on the beach under a full moon. She couild tell I was a little figety and I think she knew it was coming, Anyway we paused in our walk and scrambled out on a jetty and with the sound of the waves all around us, I pulled out the ring. We both got pretty emotional and happily, she said yes. :)
 
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Botched...

We'd been dating for a while (several years)... I told her to give me a year after we graduated undergrad... two years after undergrad she was really pushing for a ring. We talked about it often. She had made up her mind that she wanted to design her ring... since she was the one wearing it I agreed.

We went shopping for a rock (so I knew what she wanted... didn't buy one in front of her). We shopped designers and found the one we were going to use. She talked to the designer and they drew the ring. things were changed and we had a good working idea of what she wanted. A wax was created, she inspected the wax mold and a few minor changes were made. After that she didn't see it until I gave it to her.

She knew it was coming (she afterall designed the ring), I asked her dad a month later if I had his permision. He said yes, and proceeded to tell her mom, who ran up to her and got all excited that I asked her dad (which should have been kept on the down low), so now she knows a ring had been designed, and her dad had given his blessing.

As I was preparing a romantic evening she noticed the ring box in my stuff when I was unpacking (we lived in different cities at the time)... again the surprise was spoiled... she asked what was in the bag, and kept teasing me.

I got ticked that this wasn't going to be a surprise, so I just got on a knee and asked her to marry me... not romatic at all and to this day she gives me crap about it. If she wasn't so nosy, and if her mom hadn't spilled the beans about my conversation with her father she might have been "woo'd"... I did wait well over six months after she had seen the wax... so she knew it was bound to come sooner or later, but didn't know exactly when...

She doesn't get to share a romantic story with her friends, but she does get to wear exactly what she wanted (and designed), so I tell her to call it even and move along.


I have buddies who picked out rings their ladies didn't care for, and they actually exchanged it for a different ring... Guess I'm too practical, and nonromantic... it is a unique story though :tongue2:
 
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gbearbuck said:
I have buddies who picked out rings their ladies didn't care for, and they actually exchanged it for a different ring... Guess I'm too practical, and nonromantic... it is a unique story though :tongue2:
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The key is to go shopping a lot and find out which ones they like, get a general idea so you know what will be good and what will be bad. Once you know that its hard to purchase a bad ring... the key is to find out what is bad.
 
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Our sixth anniversary is tomorrow.

I didn't propose, really. We flew to barcelona spain and married there. We flew out of Boston and ended up staying there for a few years. New marriage, no jobs, no idea what to do, crazy times.

I still owe her a ring (next year. . .)
 
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buckeyegrad said:
Now this next part may sound weird, but if you're a devote Christian, you'll understand it. I took out a bowl of water and towel and began to wash her feet. As I did this, I told her how much I loved her and how much she meant to me. I then quoted Ephesians 5:25 (Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her). And then I said, as you know, the night before Christ gave himself up for his church, he washed the feet of his disciples. Likewise, I wanted to wash your feet to show you that I am ready to make such a commitment. And then I popped the question.

(At our wedding, when we were exchanging our personal vows, I reminded her of our engagement night and once again promised to always love her as Christ loves His church.)

Again, many might think this is kind of weird to do it this way, but I have yet to meet a devote Christian woman who doesn't get teared up when my wife tells the story.
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That might be the best proposal I've heard.

This sounds totally off the wall, but in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (a book about Vietnam) there is a great story about a fallen companion and his friend's correspondence with the fallen man's sister back home. Anyway, the writer spoke of how some women would say that they like this particular war story, though they don't usually like war stories. Angry, the story teller would have to explain that it wasn't a war story, it was a love story.

That may have made no sense, but my point is that someone doesn't have to be Christian to think that this proposal was a beautiful thing. It needn't be a Christian story, it can be a love story. . .
 
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Manfred formally proposed to me over the holidays (and he did ask for my mother's blessing, which she was thrilled about). He took me to Barley's Smokehouse in Grandview, where we had our first date. We had been ring shopping together for a few months, and when I finally found the ring that I wanted, Manfred told me that it wouldn't be ready until after the first of the year (when we sould be back in Boston). Naturally, I was disappointed because I knew that my family would want to see it. When he asked me to marry him at Barley's and pulled out the ring, I was really surprised (and then I realized how stupid I was to think that it would really take a few weeks to set a ring!). I really liked the fact that he turned the entire engagement process into a surprise in the end, even though we've known for over a year that it would happen eventually.
 
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Thought about it once....

Then she told me my schedule was getting annoying and I was going to have to give something up...baseball or football but this year-round coaching thing was going to end.

So I thought and thought and thought....

She asked me again, what are you giving up?

I told her we were returning the whole offensive line and the 3rd leading rusher in the state...we were struggling in baseball, but the JV team was loaded and the future looked great.

I did help her pack though.
 
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Never understood the women who drag their boyfriends - or first dates :roll2: - into jewelry stores to look at rings when it obviously wasn’t the guy’s idea. Saw a ton of this the summers I sold jewelry, and I always felt sorry for the men and embarrassed for the women. Either it’s much too soon, or they have really failed to catch the hint that it just ain’t gonna happen, or they are ruining a wonderful surprise.

One young woman spent at least an hour looking at rings and mercilessly berating her bored, annoyed boyfriend as he became increasingly agitated. Eventually, he said, “Look, I’m not going to propose, at least not anytime soon. Got it?” and they left, both upset. The next day, the guy walks up to me, grins and says, “She sure is hard to surprise, isn’t she? I wasn’t sure I could pull that off.” He had a big, elaborate proposal planned and was so excited about it that everyone in the store ended up crowding around to hear the plans and cheer him on. He stopped by every day that week, purportedly to get ideas from us, but really because he just had to talk about it and we were the only ones who knew. He even brought in tickets for all of us to attend a play they were in so we could celebrate with them after the proposal.

Soon after, the guy came in all red-eyed and barely able to speak. Apparently, his girlfriend had never actually bothered to consider whether or not she wanted to marry him; she just felt it was her right to be asked. Bitch. I darn near proposed to him myself.
 
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I know a guy who gave the ring back to his fiancee and told her to leave the apartment because she was talking too much during an OSU-Michigan State game....I'm sure it would have happened anyway, but he upped his Buckeye street cred big time w/ that move!
 
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stxbuck said:
I know a guy who gave the ring back to his fiancee and told her to leave the apartment because she was talking too much during an OSU-Michigan State game....I'm sure it would have happened anyway, but he upped his Buckeye street cred big time w/ that move!
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Yes, insane Buckeye street cred, but let's just hope for the poor guy's sake that she doesn't have a lot of friends. I've been spoiled over by an ex before. She had friends upon friends upon friends and it haunted me for about two years. She had a big mouth too, and in a very small town, it was bad.
 
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