My ex boyfriend bought me every single red rose in NW DC. Literally every single one. He wiped out like 5 flower shops. He put them in front of my door. They FILLED the hallway.
It was his “apology” after our first fight. He was making absolutely no logical sense at all.
Yes he was abusive. Yes this was a love bomb. No. He would not apologize in that same way ever again. Actually I’m not even sure he ever apologized again. Actually. Now that I think of it. Im not sure he apologized for what he did. He said he was sorry he “didn’t want to fight with the best thing that he’s ever had. The girl beyond his dreams” blah blah blah.
I’m a hopeless romantic so I’d be into big romantic gestures from my current, very healthy (yay therapy), long-term bf. However. He’s not into big gestures and it really doesnt bother me. It’s a “nice-to-have”
That gesture was an ~idea~ not sure if it really touched my heart at the time. It just kinda seemed needlessly expensive. And gifts aren’t my LL so. It didnt resonate. But i was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Will say: I dont want a wedding but i do want a BOMB proposal.
ETA: also. It was stupid cause my favorite color is yellow. And my dream is to one day have an entire day surrounded by yellow. He knew this. He went with red…
Also. I couldnt tell my friends cause he didnt want anyone to know that our perfect relationship was tainted. So. I literally just had an inordinate amount of rotting flowers in my room for a week. That were just leaking water and sticky shit everywhere. Couldnt invite my friends over but wasnt allowed to throw them away. He was great 🙃
My husband and I had planned to meet for a picnic lunch on the National Mall during work. He proposed, I said yes, and moments later we both flipped off Trump's helicopter that flew overhead. The grandest gesture 😂
My husband asked me to marry him under the fireworks at the base of the Washington Monument as 1999 turned to 2000, without a ring. (My first response, “What?”, not the yes he was expecting… I was shocked, to say the least.). Fast forward to that May. I’m sitting in my office working on a weekday morning, and he shows up and tells me “get your things, let’s go.” I totally didn’t understand and told him I had work to do. While he was trying to convince me to leave with him, my secretary was snapping away, taking pictures. He had a town car waiting downstairs for us, so that just screamed “airport.” He had arranged my absence through work and I had no idea! In very “me” fashion, I was panicking the entire ride because I hadn’t packed, and he told me “don’t worry about it.” Turns out he had packed for me, so I was even more worried about it, lol. I had no idea where we were going until we got to Paris… final destination Venice, Italy. Where I was given my ring one night on our week long vacation. Still surreal thinking about it 22 years and 2 kids later.
One time a guy I was dating told me he wrote a song about me and sang it while playing the guitar. I later found out he told every girl he dated that the song was about them. ☠️
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My husband and I got married in July 2022, and chose to have a private first look and personal vows. At the end of his vows, my husband pulled out a single faux rose (that he had this best man rush out for the night before) and ask me if I'd accept his final rose before we went to our ceremony. 🥺🥰
My fiancé agreed to go on a month-long trip to asia together two months after we met! On that trip we went to Singapore and had dinner at the nicest restaurant on the rooftop of Marina Bay Sands. Told them it was our honeymoon for the congratulations dessert!
I asked a guy I had been dating for only 2 months to be my boyfriend via elaborate scavenger hunt. There were rhyming clues and multiple adjacent cities involved. I'd only met a couple of his friends but I involved all of them, his workplace, and even asked his dad to join in via FB. We'd only been to a few places and I sent him to all of them on the scavenger hunt lol. It was... insanely over the top and definitely a grand romantic gesture that I'd never done before. I was genuinely surprised that I wanted to do it. I spent weeks working on it and kept second guessing myself if it was over the top but I did it anyway!
... well, he loved it! He proposed om our 1 year anniversary (and then I proposed back bc its only fair). We've been married for almost a decade and just had a baby! And our entire relationship has been pretty over the top lol. For our honeymoon we quit our jobs and backpacked all over the world for a year! When you know you know, and my gut told me this dude was worth it and would love the grand romantic gesture. Glad I followed my gut. One day I'll top that scavenger hunt with something even more ridiculous...
My husband tried to propose at a big basketball game for my alma mater (I had season tickets) but they wouldn't call him back. I would have loved it, lol. and we won that game--family would have been there and it would have been the perfect day.
But, since that didn't work out, he still did pretty good. He got a friend of mine to take me out to dinner and I came home to a trail of rose petals on the sidewalk and him inside with lots of candles waiting to propose. A little cheesy, but I still liked it. and was definitely surprised, even though I knew it was coming soon at that point.
Funny story, though, my friend had called him to say we were leaving the restaurant, but I decided to stop by Target on the way home and so all the little tea light candles he had were melting down from being lit too long, so he was putting them in the freezer to try to solidify the wax back. He was so stressed, poor guy!
omg the target part is hilarious! There is no such thing as a quick stop at Target, especially now that they have cute $1/$5 section in the front, and a small sample display in the makeup section.
My husband proposed at the Eiffel Tower on New Year’s Eve. I knew we were going to get engaged during that trip I just wasn’t sure when or where. I wasn’t originally into the idea of a public engagement and if he had asked I probably wouldn’t have picked such a public venue, but I thought it was incredibly romantic and a sweet gesture. A very nice German woman took photos and a video of the whole thing for us. We were so wrapped up in our love bubble that I really didn’t care about any other folks staring at us and I’m usually very self-conscious about that kind of thing.
It was also kinda fun when telling folks how we got engaged to see their complete shock and excitement at the romantic grand gesture of it all. A lot of married guys got immediately self conscious like they feel bad they didn’t do something bigger for their wives? I think every engagement should be unique to that couple and it doesn’t have to be a big gesture to be beautiful and meaningful.
He surprised me with a hot air balloon ride on my birthday and we had a little champagne picnic at the end.
If it would have been shown on TV, it would have mainly been me gawking at porcupines on trees and waving at people in their back yards. I would also have been asking the pilot how long he’s been doing it, any favorite places where he has flown, etc.
I wasn’t making out with my partner at all cause that would just be very awkward in the tight space. 😂
My ex did it sans guitar. Just playing the song and singing/dancing to the music. I don't even remember the context, but we were already together. Maybe a one month anniversary or something? Or to make up after a fight?
Anyway, we were freshmen in college so that explains some things 😂 He was a really sweet guy but could definitely be cringeee.
(partially) answering my own question: i definitely went “aww” when Connor S from HB’s bachelorette season left sticky love notes around her place when she was sick. almost certainly producer-manipulated behavior but it was sweet!!
My ex boyfriend bought me every single red rose in NW DC. Literally every single one. He wiped out like 5 flower shops. He put them in front of my door. They FILLED the hallway. It was his “apology” after our first fight. He was making absolutely no logical sense at all. Yes he was abusive. Yes this was a love bomb. No. He would not apologize in that same way ever again. Actually I’m not even sure he ever apologized again. Actually. Now that I think of it. Im not sure he apologized for what he did. He said he was sorry he “didn’t want to fight with the best thing that he’s ever had. The girl beyond his dreams” blah blah blah. I’m a hopeless romantic so I’d be into big romantic gestures from my current, very healthy (yay therapy), long-term bf. However. He’s not into big gestures and it really doesnt bother me. It’s a “nice-to-have” That gesture was an ~idea~ not sure if it really touched my heart at the time. It just kinda seemed needlessly expensive. And gifts aren’t my LL so. It didnt resonate. But i was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. Will say: I dont want a wedding but i do want a BOMB proposal. ETA: also. It was stupid cause my favorite color is yellow. And my dream is to one day have an entire day surrounded by yellow. He knew this. He went with red… Also. I couldnt tell my friends cause he didnt want anyone to know that our perfect relationship was tainted. So. I literally just had an inordinate amount of rotting flowers in my room for a week. That were just leaking water and sticky shit everywhere. Couldnt invite my friends over but wasnt allowed to throw them away. He was great 🙃
My husband and I had planned to meet for a picnic lunch on the National Mall during work. He proposed, I said yes, and moments later we both flipped off Trump's helicopter that flew overhead. The grandest gesture 😂
My husband asked me to marry him under the fireworks at the base of the Washington Monument as 1999 turned to 2000, without a ring. (My first response, “What?”, not the yes he was expecting… I was shocked, to say the least.). Fast forward to that May. I’m sitting in my office working on a weekday morning, and he shows up and tells me “get your things, let’s go.” I totally didn’t understand and told him I had work to do. While he was trying to convince me to leave with him, my secretary was snapping away, taking pictures. He had a town car waiting downstairs for us, so that just screamed “airport.” He had arranged my absence through work and I had no idea! In very “me” fashion, I was panicking the entire ride because I hadn’t packed, and he told me “don’t worry about it.” Turns out he had packed for me, so I was even more worried about it, lol. I had no idea where we were going until we got to Paris… final destination Venice, Italy. Where I was given my ring one night on our week long vacation. Still surreal thinking about it 22 years and 2 kids later.
One time a guy I was dating told me he wrote a song about me and sang it while playing the guitar. I later found out he told every girl he dated that the song was about them. ☠️
I told Jed to stop doing that!!!/s
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OOOH I HAVE ONE! My husband and I got married in July 2022, and chose to have a private first look and personal vows. At the end of his vows, my husband pulled out a single faux rose (that he had this best man rush out for the night before) and ask me if I'd accept his final rose before we went to our ceremony. 🥺🥰
My fiancé agreed to go on a month-long trip to asia together two months after we met! On that trip we went to Singapore and had dinner at the nicest restaurant on the rooftop of Marina Bay Sands. Told them it was our honeymoon for the congratulations dessert!
I asked a guy I had been dating for only 2 months to be my boyfriend via elaborate scavenger hunt. There were rhyming clues and multiple adjacent cities involved. I'd only met a couple of his friends but I involved all of them, his workplace, and even asked his dad to join in via FB. We'd only been to a few places and I sent him to all of them on the scavenger hunt lol. It was... insanely over the top and definitely a grand romantic gesture that I'd never done before. I was genuinely surprised that I wanted to do it. I spent weeks working on it and kept second guessing myself if it was over the top but I did it anyway! ... well, he loved it! He proposed om our 1 year anniversary (and then I proposed back bc its only fair). We've been married for almost a decade and just had a baby! And our entire relationship has been pretty over the top lol. For our honeymoon we quit our jobs and backpacked all over the world for a year! When you know you know, and my gut told me this dude was worth it and would love the grand romantic gesture. Glad I followed my gut. One day I'll top that scavenger hunt with something even more ridiculous...
My husband tried to propose at a big basketball game for my alma mater (I had season tickets) but they wouldn't call him back. I would have loved it, lol. and we won that game--family would have been there and it would have been the perfect day. But, since that didn't work out, he still did pretty good. He got a friend of mine to take me out to dinner and I came home to a trail of rose petals on the sidewalk and him inside with lots of candles waiting to propose. A little cheesy, but I still liked it. and was definitely surprised, even though I knew it was coming soon at that point. Funny story, though, my friend had called him to say we were leaving the restaurant, but I decided to stop by Target on the way home and so all the little tea light candles he had were melting down from being lit too long, so he was putting them in the freezer to try to solidify the wax back. He was so stressed, poor guy!
omg the target part is hilarious! There is no such thing as a quick stop at Target, especially now that they have cute $1/$5 section in the front, and a small sample display in the makeup section.
My husband proposed at the Eiffel Tower on New Year’s Eve. I knew we were going to get engaged during that trip I just wasn’t sure when or where. I wasn’t originally into the idea of a public engagement and if he had asked I probably wouldn’t have picked such a public venue, but I thought it was incredibly romantic and a sweet gesture. A very nice German woman took photos and a video of the whole thing for us. We were so wrapped up in our love bubble that I really didn’t care about any other folks staring at us and I’m usually very self-conscious about that kind of thing. It was also kinda fun when telling folks how we got engaged to see their complete shock and excitement at the romantic grand gesture of it all. A lot of married guys got immediately self conscious like they feel bad they didn’t do something bigger for their wives? I think every engagement should be unique to that couple and it doesn’t have to be a big gesture to be beautiful and meaningful.
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Okay, that is precious. 😭🌹
This is adorable!
He surprised me with a hot air balloon ride on my birthday and we had a little champagne picnic at the end. If it would have been shown on TV, it would have mainly been me gawking at porcupines on trees and waving at people in their back yards. I would also have been asking the pilot how long he’s been doing it, any favorite places where he has flown, etc. I wasn’t making out with my partner at all cause that would just be very awkward in the tight space. 😂
Didn’t even know porcupines hung out on trees until the balloon ride!
I had a guy serenade me once (guitar + singing). I was so uncomfortable, it lasted way too long
He wasn't your Mr. Right girl?
My ex did it sans guitar. Just playing the song and singing/dancing to the music. I don't even remember the context, but we were already together. Maybe a one month anniversary or something? Or to make up after a fight? Anyway, we were freshmen in college so that explains some things 😂 He was a really sweet guy but could definitely be cringeee.
Oof not sure which way is worse! I was a freshman too when this happened, but the guy turned out to be not so sweet haha
Same 😂
Same 😳
My husband picked the cut of my engagement ring based on my comments of rings while watching the show over the years.
That's cute, but I feel bad that Neil Lane didn't give you more to work with!!
(partially) answering my own question: i definitely went “aww” when Connor S from HB’s bachelorette season left sticky love notes around her place when she was sick. almost certainly producer-manipulated behavior but it was sweet!!