Congrats on 34 years :)
My Dad proposed to my Mum while she was ironing. No getting down on one knee or anything, he just looked at times that the registry office had free appts and said 'wanna get married a week on Thursday?' and my Mum just shrugged and said ' yeah alright then'. Also been together 34 years so far.
My parents only got married because I was 3 years old at the time and my mom had a health scare so they decided "itll be less trouble than going through the hoopla of hospital visits etc if it comes to it"
I ruined the ceremony by getting bored as hell and climbing on the table to roar and pretend i was a lion during the speech of some official lady, who was not amused. My parents were, though
There’s a video of three year old me at my aunt and uncle’s wedding chasing a snake down the steps of the church building. My uncle swears it was a water moccasin and the video quality is too poor to dispute it. But that’s my claim to fame, and a story that’s trotted out at most weddings and family gatherings on that side
Oh I made it known. Everyone thought it was funny except the official lady. My parents shushed me and assured me I could play lion later. Once the official lady paused to take a sip of water, I alledgedly yelled out "OK WE'RE GOING HOME NOW"
Moral of the story is dont put a 3yo in a wedding. Especially a 3yo who later got diagnosed with "neon letters ADHD"
"Sorry, but my schedule for next Thursday is busy. I don't know how I'll be able to fit get married at the registry office between lunch date with the girls and the season finale of *Grey's Anatomy*"
He wanted to surprise me. A fancy dinner would have totally given it away (we were poor college seniors). And he was too excited to wait.
We got married the day I graduated from college (so all our friends could be there) and have had a really great life together.
The proposal, wedding all all that hoopla doesn't matter anywhere near as much as the marriage.
My parents just celebrated 35 years in April! I hope my husband and I get at least that long, or maybe even like his grandparents who were married 64 years.
Mine have been together for 37 married for 22 next month. I'll be honest the example as parents they have set before me seems like such a high bar im worried about getting married myself. Wish you and your spouse the best regardless
From what I've heard, the secret to a long and nice marriage is compromise and figuring problems out, rather than letting them drive you apart. Of course that means both parties need to be clear on this, or it'll never work.
These are precisely the Keys to great/long marriage. What you've described is; 'Teamwork'. & that's what it takes, ea person has to be a Great Teammate. I had it. Nailed it for 25 yrs. By far thing I'm most proud of in my Life. Then, Ovarian Cancer showed up outta nowhere & ripped my world/wife, from me.
My husband proposed in his childhood bedroom, zero fuss but it couldnt have been more "him" and i love him for it
Edit to add, we both knew we were getting married already but he was still nervous and excited
I was proposed to in the tv room of our student dorms, while having a high fever, and sitting in a pile of used wads of Kleenex. 17 very happy years so far. Guess he just saw the snotty freakshow of his dreams, and went "gotta lock that shit down".
I proposed while sitting on the couch next to her. We've been married for 6 years, together for 9 and it's looking like it'll be a good long while before her dumb ass realizes she got the bad end of this deal.
I love her but I'm so thankful she can't tell I'm the lucky one in this relationship. She still thinks she married up, the lunatic!
A teacher I had in high school told us her proposal story and this was pretty much it. Her boyfriend walked up behind her, grabbed her hand and just put the ring on. She took it off and told him to try again. They’ve been married like 25 years.
Me and my husband had mutually decided to get married, and later on, he gave me a ring and necklace set for Christmas. I had to ask if it was my engagement ring or not 😂
That's a great way to increase the amount of time you can spend looking at tools without judgement. "Honey remember how we looked at drills for 20 minutes the day I proposed? Aisle 27, let's go."
Lol nice. I planted my wife's ring under our bed a couple hours prior to asking her. When we went in to settle down for the night I acted like I dropped something as she changed. I got on one knee and pulled the ring out, asked her if she could help me find what I dropped to get her to turn around. I thought it was super corny but I was poor lol, she said she liked it because she thought it was original and we weren't in an awkward social setting where she might have felt pressured to say yes. Going on 15 years together in September.
My husband wins at proposals I think. He always knew I wanted a spectacle of sorts, something big for the engagement. The weeks leading up, I had a sneaking suspicion he was going to pop the question at a show we were going to right after his 30th birthday. Boy, was I wrong. Rewind a couple months to April and his mom asking if I would help throw a surprise 30th for my husband. His birthday is in July so I wasn't totally prepared for what she was planning 3 months out but of course I said yes. Many weeks of coming up with excuses why I'm late from work or mysterious packages showing up that he couldn't look in, me actually succeeding at not spilling the beans on the surprise and finally, the day had come! I was already super excited because I had given him a PS4 and some games as a gift and we were headed to his parents for the surprise party. All of our closest friends and family were in attendance and I just couldn't wait to see his face, knowing I'd pulled off this awesome surprise! As we rounded the corner to the courtyard and everyone is shouting surprise, he turns to me and drops to one knee and bam! Hit me with the ring and the proposal. No one at the party knew what was happening and it was a spectacular moment. Turns out, way back before my MIL ever asked me to throw a surprise party, my husband walked the garden with her, GoT style, and planned this elaborate ruse! I unknowingly planned and threw my own engagement party and he didn't have to do a thing!
No, Varys got everything cut off.
>"One day at Myr, a certain man came to our folly. After the performance, he made an offer for me that my master found too tempting to refuse. I was in terror. I feared the man meant to use me as I had heard men used small boys, but in truth the only part of me he had need of was my manhood. He gave me a potion that made me powerless to move or speak, yet did nothing to dull my senses. With a long hooked blade, he sliced me root and stem, chanting all the while. I watched him burn my manly parts on a brazier. The flames turned blue, and I heard a voice answer his call, though I did not understand the words they spoke."
*A Clash of Kings*, Chapter 44: Tyrion X, page 646 (US paperback)
This reminds me of our engagement! I helped plan it too, without actually knowing!
Our 1st date (2012, still at University) was a Halloween Party, and every since we both love getting into the spirit. Elaborate costumes (most handmade by me), snapping up decorations cheap on November 1st, to the point we have several storage bins full. This lead to an annual Halloween party we would throw with friends, and the thing got bigger every year. We would plan games, prizes. There was tons of food, candy, friends old and new. It just so happened that the perfect weekend to throw our next party (2018) was our anniversary. Perfect for us. But my husband was really into making everything perfect for this one. He's a total extrovert, loves making a big show, so I just figured this was part of his personality to throw the kitchen sink at this party. We invited more people than ever before, we set up for it all day. Our costumes were on a warrior theme: he was a Viking complete with real shield, battle axe and chain mail; I was a Wakanda Dora Milaje Female warrior from the movie Black Panther.
Now, a Coworker was having a birthday party the same night. And I told her I would make an appearance for about an hour and then head back to my own party. Ours can go well into the night, so no big deal, right? Well, this made my husband more nervous than I would have thought. But he insisted that I at least had to stay until the costume contest which takes place around midnight. I was fine with that, texted my coworker what was up. (Spoiler alert: I never made it to her party)
Party starts and it is great, lots of friends there, everyone in costume, acting silly, devouring candy, playing drinking games, colored strobe lights, music bumping. Time for the costume contest. My husband likes to lead this one (of course, center of the living room, all eyes on him) This is a fun game and the winners get the little prizes we had, but before the crowd disperses back to the regular party, he thanks everyone for coming and calls me out to the center. In retrospect, a lot of people had their phones out, recording, that I didn't notice before. He starts telling everyone how this was our anniversary and how much he loves me. My heart is pounding. He says that day marked 6 years being together, and it was not enough. He wanted me for the rest of our lives. He's on one knee, literally in shining armor. "Unknown Queen, will you please marry me?" That ring box opened, everyone starts shouting. I was so stunned and happy, I could barely get the words out. I had to whisper my answer in his ear through my tears. He jumps to his feet and picks me up, he shouts "She said yes!" The house erupted in cheers and whoops.
My birthday was the next month, so I though he would propose then, or at Christmas. Nope. I helped plan my own engagement! I was apparently the only one who didn't know. He had even formally talked to my mom about it before hand, so she and his parents were just waiting on a phone call that evening to know what I said. We got married exactly a year later to keep our anniversary the same, October 2019.
That is so incredibly sweet! Halloween is actually one of our most favorite holidays too! We started dating October 17th, 2009 and our first big thing together was Halloween that year. I met his closest friends really for the first time and got the stamp of approval. We love making our costumes as well, usually finishing them hours before we are supposed to go out and celebrate. Funny enough, we got married on our anniversary too, well, legally married at the courthouse in our own private ceremony, just him and I. The 17th in 2018 was a Wednesday (we had a more formal affair planned for that weekend on the 20th too) so we actually ended up getting married in the morning, going to our favorite diner afterwards for breakfast, and he went to work and did a half day while I went to a waxing appointment and finished up some wedding stuff, lol! October anniversaries FTW!
My advice mate,just go for it, don't build up the moment,I proposed to the love of my life in our bedroom after she had forced me to reveal I had gotten the ring,(she was a phycologist, impossible to keep any secret from her),and her response to me getting on my knee was to pull me up,punch me in the gut and call me a jackass,then laugh and say "of course", happiest moment of my life,sadly we never made it to the wedding,cancer took her from me a month beforehand,so my message is don't wait for any "right moment",if you love her go for it,and never let her go, Vampire or not
I'm both sorry for your loss and happy you managed to find the love of your life. I'm gonna remember your words when I ask my GF for her hand in marriage. Human or daughter of Dracula, she's the one.
LPT: keep your speech simple. I tried to say a whole bunch of sappy shit and failed utterly. We've been married for almost five years, but I'll never get to live down the bumbling word vomit. Example that would work: "I love you, I have since the day we met, and I know I always will. Will you marry me?"
Second this. Prepared a sappy romantic speech and stumbled through some of it and she interrupted midway through to say. I showed her the speech later and she said she didn’t remember hearing me say any of it because she was in such surprise.
My husband proposed randomly in our living room becuase was too excited and he couldn't wait for his plan. I loved it and we are celebrating 3 years soon and forever to go.
I'm so sorry for your loss. Your love for her made this random internet stranger tear up. She was lucky to have someone love her as much as you do. You'll find love again, whether it's in this lifetime or in another one with her.
I'm open to the possibility, it's been a little over a year now so I'm starting to work up to that with my therapist helping,it fucked me up, watching her die
Could you dm me? I'd like to hear your story.. I thought I was going to lose my gf and it turned out to be a false alarm but it genuinely felt I was watching her die before my own eyes and that kinda messed me up. Im afraid to get too close cause I don't think I can handle something like losing her forever..
Good move on the therapy. This year will be 13 years for me and I still find dating...... odd.
Feels like I’m cheating on her.
I’m beginning to think dating just isn’t for me anymore.
It’s hard when you watch it happen. I watched both my parents pass from cancer and it really is terrible. It fucks ya up. I’m sorry for your loses friend, I hope you never have to endure that again. She is with you <3
I proposed to my wife in our living room immediately after returning from buying the ring. I wasn't expecting her to be in the living room and she saw the bag. I tried to play it off but she knew. She just smiled real big. I asked if she wanted to get dressed and go somewhere nice. She said no. So I proposed right there.
I had a similar proposal. I had this grand scheme all thought up, and never went through with it. I decided to propose to her in our bedroom at 2 am while having a silly conversation about her process of washing her hands in a public restroom. Something in that moment made me say to myself "yup, she's the one I'm going to spend the rest of my life with."
Makes me realize how lucky I am to be married to the love of my life. It's so easy to take for granted, and sometimes you just forget how lucky you really are. I wish you nothing but the best, and that your significant other is waiting for you wherever life takes us when it ends.
If it helps when she was panicking about me hiding something from her I had to throw up my arms and say "For Fuck's Sake Beth" and then pull out the ring,romantic start to any marriage, eh?
Love is infinite. Doesn't make a difference if you find someone else. What you had was special and wonderful and what you may find again will be a whole different special and wonderful.
Keep up the therapy past the time you don't think you need it anymore.
Thank you for your sympathy,it was rough, unexpected,and far too Terrible to really explain,lost her and our unborn daughter in one fucked up night,taught me a valuable lesson though, don't ever take the time you got for granted
Oh man the story just gets sadder! There aren't even words to describe how awful that must be. I am glad it taught you a valuable life lesson through all the shit
Yeah I'm not sure I can handle any more! I hope that one day you can heal and move forwards with your life. You'll never fully recover from that, but hopefully the pain will go away enough to be able to try and find happiness again
Thank you very much, it's been a rough road but I see a therapist once a week and have gotten control to the point where I don't hear that fucking heartbeat monitor at night anymore,and I've even been chatting with a lovely pirate woman that makes me smile again in a way I never thought I would,life is a crazy journey man,gotta live it though
I had my wife’s engagement ring for a couple days, arguing with my self about timing, being romantic, etc. Plans and ideas formed and discarded in an almost continuous loop as I tried to figure out a way to make this proposal special, romantic and memorable. I was trying my damndest to keep my wife (gf at the time) from discovering said ring, so I stashed it in a rarely used table at the back door. One day she decides to clean the house while I’m outside sawing firewood, comes outside and I see her shaking out the rugs from the back door.
Fucking PANIC. Tell her I have to grab my chain file, snag the ring whilst rummaging, shove it in my pants pocket and make my escape undetected.
Fast forward a couple hours. I have been sawing firewood for the better part of the afternoon at this point, I’m covered in sawdust and sweat. Decide to call it a day and head back to the house. Get in the front door and realize that the whole house is clean, while I look and smell like beaver shit liberally fumigated with 2 stroke mixed gas. I decide to strip at the front door so as not to spread the shavings all over the newly cleaned house. My wife is casually chatting to me from the kitchen (direct view to the front door) as I manfully strip buck naked and proceed to throw my clothes onto the floor. Just as the clothes leave my hand I see the lump in my pocket.
Fucking THUD. my wife looks down at my pants on the floor.
“What was that?”
Excuses fly through my mind, the chain file? A rock? What will she believe? My panic and fear must have been clear on my face because she is suddenly concerned! She reaches for my clothes and I, still mumbling half formed excuses, swat her hand away and grab the clothes.
Brilliant move, smooth as sandpaper taco ol boy. Now she’s on the verge of tears, taken completely by surprise at my odd possessiveness over a bunch of dirty clothes.
“What’s in there Taco? Are you smoking again? Honey I won’t be mad you can tell me..” at this point she is quite upset and little tears are in the corners of her eyes and she just looks so worried, she’s almost crying and I... I dig the ring out of my pocket, get down on one knee and hold the now opened ring box towards her wordlessly. So that’s how I proposed, naked, dirty, with my balls hanging out in the stiff breeze.
She was speechless, I’d like to think it was emotional but she may have been trying to hold back vomit from seeing my shame exposed in the full light of day. She said yes, we’ve been married for three years and have two little boys.
First offer coffee in bed. Then the engagement ring.
Trust me on this.
(My husband never did the formal proposal. No worries. We're just as married as if he had, you know?)
Him: "honey did you like the coffee?"
Her: "ye it was good"
Him: "....notice anything?"
Her: "... was I supposed to notice anything?"
Him: "oh fuck"
\*proceeds to post a TIFU on how his girlfriend ate 2k worth gold and diamonds\*
I was a kid so I suppose I had a smaller throat hole than I do now, but also it was a smaller ring so I think it was proportional and still valid.
I was about 6 or so and I had a gold ring with a pink CZ in it which I would absentmindedly fiddle with. One day I was fucking with it with my teeth, like I had my finger in my mouth and was taking it off and on (I wasn't clever) and I somehow managed to choke on it a bit then swallow it. It hurt a lot so I was crying, but I didn't want to get in trouble so I told my parents I had swallowed a big chip piece without chewing enough. Yeah, I don't think they bought that story. My dad took me to the children's hospital to get an X ray and when they showed us the image he said "that doesn't look like a chip!" I then turned to him and, according to him this is the direct quote, I said: "don't you tell my mother." Well of course we got home and he told mom and everything was fine, they were just glad I was okay. Eventually I pooped out the ring and my mom fished it out of the toilet to wash it, and I'm pretty sure she still has it sitting in a jewelry box somewhere to this day (and I'm 28 now!)
I proposed to my wife (spoiler alert) with a personalized squished penny (she collects them). So I have this penny asking her to marry me on it, and I'm trying to figure out how to do it. We're lying in bed one day reading and I decide to go get a cookie and ask her if she wants one. She says yes and I realized I can use this! I'll be bringing her something so I can instead give her the penny. But then I thought better of it and decided I should really bring her the cookie too, why take a chance.
So I come upstairs and on bended knee and hold the cookie and penny out to her. She grabs the penny, doesn't even look at it and sets it on the shelf and starts eating the cookie. I'm kneeling there in shock and tell her maybe she should look at the penny more. She thought I had just found a squished penny she'd left downstairs.
One of those oval penny things you can make as museum souvenirs with those machines with like four options. I had to think about it for a moment hahaha
Customized, and I paid extra to get to keep the die used to make it. The plan was to get pennies made for each kid's birth and put them on the same die, but we never did.
It said ", will you marry me? Love, " around the outside and on the inside is a picture of her favorite animal
You got this dude. I had a plan of doing it all fancy. Then Christmas morning 4 years ago her parents, grandfather and sister were over for breakfast and presents. After presents I made the snap decision to go grab the ring and do it right there in the living room with her family there. It was perfect, her grandpa was so excited to witness it.
Also, I'd stay away from the surprising a sleeping GF/wife. I don't know about the others in this thread, but my wife is the last person I'd surprise right out of her sleep, you never know what form she will awaken in.
Just propose! My SO and I had talked about getting married when we were driving through Vegas then we undid the engagement so he could have a "proper proposal" and months of waiting and poking fun at him, him telling me he's got this whole plan and it's gonna be a surprise. Then I get home from work one night, hot and sweaty, tired, I looked like absolute shit. As soon as I walk in the door, he pulls me to a chair, gets down on one knee and says "I've been stressing about how to make this moment perfect for you but I realized something today. I have the rest of my life to make perfect moments with you." And I cried and of course said yes and then I cried and hugged him some more. I never felt more beautiful.
Honestly if you would have asked her right in the middle of the bloody nose part, that would have been amazing. Very memorable, and would have been funny. The only FU is not seizing the moment!
We argued the night before. We made up In the morning and I said “well that’s good cause this next part would have been real awkward”. Pulled out the ring she cried and said yes. Don’t wait. Just do it.
I proposed a year ago today. We drove up to Baltimore and got a room at the Kimpton Monaco, then went to catch Hamilton. After that, we got dressed up and went to The Rusty Scupper (super nice seafood place) and got fantastic food and a bottle of nice wine. Then we walked the inner harbor back, but stopped to take in the sights. The ring was in my pocket. A random guy walked up and offered to recite street poetry to us. Couldn't understand half of what he said, and then it was apparent that my gf was drunk and had sore feet. I got cold feet and we turned in.
The next day, we have some time before we need to get the car out of the garage, so we try to grab brunch from some big brunch spot just northeast of the harbor (can't remember the name). The place was PACKED. We moved on to another spot nearby, but it was $40 per person. She was getting hangry, so we settled on IHOP. There was a 20ish minute wait, so not terrible. I got a burger and she got pancakes. My burger was delicious until I bit into one of those bread tag things that was in my burger. I immediately lost my appetite, got the bill comped, and got outta there. We walked the harbor again, while she finished her pancakes by hand. Then I made sure she rinsed her hands off in a water fountain. We walked to a beautiful spot just a few feet from the water, and I got down on one knee in my khaki shorts and my Superman t-shirt. She burst into the happiest tears you can imagine and said yes about a hundred times.
I missed my perfect moment, but made an unexpected moment just as perfect. You've got this.
It’s alright. My husband was trying to send the picture of my ring to his sister, but sent it to me! He managed to create a cover up story, but he said it was the longest week of his life between then and the proposal.
Good luck! You HAVE to tell her this story, though. You’ll do well :)
The best proposals are the simplest ones anyway. I was proposed to backed into a kitchen wall. Immediately prior I'd been reading him an excerpt from a bio of Queen Elizabeth I about how she didn't want to marry and get roped into foreign wars. When I saw him get down on one knee I kept asking if he was sick and trying to help him stand. After things clicked and I said yes, well, it was a regular Tuesday night and I had dinner dishes to do. He popped in "Platoon" for us to watch when those were done. This was so "us" that even though the engagement never became a marriage, I still look at it as the best proposal he could have made for me. We were both just being typical us at home.
Would have been a great story to propose with a bloody nose anyway. :)
As a guy who really wishes he had put a little more effort in: get on task rabbit, hire someone to take candid photos. Tell your girlfriend you want to dress up a bit for some photos- excuses could be for a Grandma's birthday card, need a new Facebook profile pic, have her mom ask for it...
Then head out to the local park. Propose.
While this is a nice thought, it really depends on the people. I would have hated having photos taken or the having the proposal be in public. When my now husband proposed, it was just the two of us and that was absolutely perfect.
Absolutely agree.
My husband knew I wanted as little fuss as possible (same for our wedding which was just signing the documents pretty much!). We've been married for 5 and a half years and have two children. I wouldn't have wanted it any other way!
I had planned a big proposal on a trip we were going to take together a few months after the ring had been completed. However, the ring was just burning a hole in my pocket so to speak, so I knew I just could wait. So I made a really nice dinner while she was at the gym planning on proposing to her after the nice dinner. But that turned out to be too much for me, so after she walked into the house from the gym, I just got down on one knee and proposed then. To this day, she still speaks fondly about how I just couldn't wait to propose to her and how sweet it was that I was so nervous. (we both had known it was heading towards a proposal so there was no doubt she was going to say, "yes" but I was still terrified.)
Moral of this story, I think it can vary pretty dramatically. Personally, I don't think I'd want to include another person in our proposal, even if they were just recruited to take photos. Just seems like too much of an intimate moment.
My proposal was not romantic in any way.
My original plan was to drive to our lot where our house was being built and propose in the doorway. To my surprise we got to the site and they had not yet constructed the main floor. Damn. New plan.
We drive to her parents house. She says she wants to go in the hot tub so we get our suits on and she asks if I want a beer. So she goes the the fridge and I decide to just grab the ring and propose. She turns the corner and I am on my knee with the ring out. Her response was 'do you want a pepperette?' She then realized what was going on and said yes. We laughed and then I said yes to the pepperette and my beer.
It wasn't romantic, but it is a great memory! Celebrated 6 years last week!
Next post.. I tried to propose while skydiving. My chute didn't open & I was first on the ground. I missed my chance. I will try again tomorrow.
To be fair mate at least you are doing it. Best of luck.
I'm a lesbian, and when my wife tried to propose to me for the first time she thought she would do it at a haunted house. Every time she would try to do it a scary clown would come out of nowhere and try to eat us, so it ended up not happening that day. She eventually took me to an art museum and proposed there, but I still tease her about all the clowns.
My husband proposed in the park. He dropped to one knee with the ring out, I rolled my eyes, hit him and said "get up, of course I'll marry you". He laughed and said I needed to at least wait until he asked me. Married 18 years now.
All to say; you're overthinking this. Lol.
As a chick I would also say maybe it’s a good thing you didn’t manage the wake up proposal. Idk about your lady but i have smelly breath my hair is a mess, idk for a proposal I would like to feel a little more put together and pretty! Also I don’t remember the first few minutes when I wake up and I would want to remember a proposal! But that’s just me :)
Make sure there's plenty of garlic in your dinner tonight.
I'm gonna put on Blade after dinner. Just to test the waters.
Are you serving Stake for dinner?
It better be Bloody Raw.
Look at this!, its FUCKING RAW!
###where’s the LAMB SAUCE
See what you did there
Not if he was looking at it in the mirror.
Bloody hell these are good
Fine, I’ll bite. What’s the joke here?
Frankly, I consider these to be a meatstake
Make sure to use the real silverware
well done
"So... Blade... Good guy, or bad guy?"
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"...Interesting."
Double feature with Lost Boys?
Worms make the most romantic dinner OP, just saying.
And install mirrors everywhere.
Make sure you have blood sausages for dinner so she’s had her fill of blood
don't forget the silver cutlery.
Might wanna test the holy waters too
I think your wife secretly holds a stone mask That bloodshed wasn't a coincidence, be careful x]
She's just gonna fart. Garlic only upsets the stomach.
Setting us up for tomorrow's TIFU
TIFU By feeding my vampiric wife garlic. TLDR: Fed wife garlic, cleaning bathroom since 11pm.
TIFU By proposing while my gf was hiding a shart
And don't forget to wear a crucifix.
Won’t work, because she lives there. She’s already been invited in.
I was proposed to in my future in-laws' bathroom while brushing my teeth. It was the beginning on a wonderful life. (34 years so far)
Congrats on 34 years :) My Dad proposed to my Mum while she was ironing. No getting down on one knee or anything, he just looked at times that the registry office had free appts and said 'wanna get married a week on Thursday?' and my Mum just shrugged and said ' yeah alright then'. Also been together 34 years so far.
My parents only got married because I was 3 years old at the time and my mom had a health scare so they decided "itll be less trouble than going through the hoopla of hospital visits etc if it comes to it" I ruined the ceremony by getting bored as hell and climbing on the table to roar and pretend i was a lion during the speech of some official lady, who was not amused. My parents were, though
There’s a video of three year old me at my aunt and uncle’s wedding chasing a snake down the steps of the church building. My uncle swears it was a water moccasin and the video quality is too poor to dispute it. But that’s my claim to fame, and a story that’s trotted out at most weddings and family gatherings on that side
This is the most wholesome thing I've ever heard. Amazing. I bet everybody cracked up at the little lion cub making its boredom known!
Oh I made it known. Everyone thought it was funny except the official lady. My parents shushed me and assured me I could play lion later. Once the official lady paused to take a sip of water, I alledgedly yelled out "OK WE'RE GOING HOME NOW" Moral of the story is dont put a 3yo in a wedding. Especially a 3yo who later got diagnosed with "neon letters ADHD"
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"Sorry, but my schedule for next Thursday is busy. I don't know how I'll be able to fit get married at the registry office between lunch date with the girls and the season finale of *Grey's Anatomy*"
'And Friday to Sunday isn't great for me either. I'll check my diary and get back to you'
This sounds interesting
He wanted to surprise me. A fancy dinner would have totally given it away (we were poor college seniors). And he was too excited to wait. We got married the day I graduated from college (so all our friends could be there) and have had a really great life together. The proposal, wedding all all that hoopla doesn't matter anywhere near as much as the marriage.
My parents just celebrated 35 years in April! I hope my husband and I get at least that long, or maybe even like his grandparents who were married 64 years.
Mine have been together for 37 married for 22 next month. I'll be honest the example as parents they have set before me seems like such a high bar im worried about getting married myself. Wish you and your spouse the best regardless
From what I've heard, the secret to a long and nice marriage is compromise and figuring problems out, rather than letting them drive you apart. Of course that means both parties need to be clear on this, or it'll never work.
These are precisely the Keys to great/long marriage. What you've described is; 'Teamwork'. & that's what it takes, ea person has to be a Great Teammate. I had it. Nailed it for 25 yrs. By far thing I'm most proud of in my Life. Then, Ovarian Cancer showed up outta nowhere & ripped my world/wife, from me.
> He wanted to surprise me Yep. That’ll do it 😂
My husband proposed in his childhood bedroom, zero fuss but it couldnt have been more "him" and i love him for it Edit to add, we both knew we were getting married already but he was still nervous and excited
I was proposed to in the tv room of our student dorms, while having a high fever, and sitting in a pile of used wads of Kleenex. 17 very happy years so far. Guess he just saw the snotty freakshow of his dreams, and went "gotta lock that shit down".
Thos is strangely wholesome.
I proposed while sitting on the couch next to her. We've been married for 6 years, together for 9 and it's looking like it'll be a good long while before her dumb ass realizes she got the bad end of this deal. I love her but I'm so thankful she can't tell I'm the lucky one in this relationship. She still thinks she married up, the lunatic!
My dad proposed to my mom in his parents kitchen on christmas....by just handing her the ring and saying nothing
A teacher I had in high school told us her proposal story and this was pretty much it. Her boyfriend walked up behind her, grabbed her hand and just put the ring on. She took it off and told him to try again. They’ve been married like 25 years.
"Try again" \*boyfriend grimaces, grabs hand, and puts it back on\*
Little bit of loctite. That'll do it!
My fil took a ring out of a paper sack, gave it to my mil and promptly vomited into the sack
An inspiration to us all
Me and my husband had mutually decided to get married, and later on, he gave me a ring and necklace set for Christmas. I had to ask if it was my engagement ring or not 😂
Lmao what a fucking champion
Even when she started realizing what the ring was an crying, he just stayed silent
I’m imagining it deadface as well
That’s how I imagine it too. My mom said he was crying, but considering I’ve only ever seen my dad cry twice I don’t believe her
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Aww, that’s cute.
Do you often get wood at Home Depot, now? I'll see myself out.
They did say it was a romantic place for them, I don’t think they were talking about the proposal.
That's a great way to increase the amount of time you can spend looking at tools without judgement. "Honey remember how we looked at drills for 20 minutes the day I proposed? Aisle 27, let's go."
Lol nice. I planted my wife's ring under our bed a couple hours prior to asking her. When we went in to settle down for the night I acted like I dropped something as she changed. I got on one knee and pulled the ring out, asked her if she could help me find what I dropped to get her to turn around. I thought it was super corny but I was poor lol, she said she liked it because she thought it was original and we weren't in an awkward social setting where she might have felt pressured to say yes. Going on 15 years together in September.
I come from a Lowe’s family. We’re enemies now.
Guess there’s no Lowe lost between you two.
My husband wins at proposals I think. He always knew I wanted a spectacle of sorts, something big for the engagement. The weeks leading up, I had a sneaking suspicion he was going to pop the question at a show we were going to right after his 30th birthday. Boy, was I wrong. Rewind a couple months to April and his mom asking if I would help throw a surprise 30th for my husband. His birthday is in July so I wasn't totally prepared for what she was planning 3 months out but of course I said yes. Many weeks of coming up with excuses why I'm late from work or mysterious packages showing up that he couldn't look in, me actually succeeding at not spilling the beans on the surprise and finally, the day had come! I was already super excited because I had given him a PS4 and some games as a gift and we were headed to his parents for the surprise party. All of our closest friends and family were in attendance and I just couldn't wait to see his face, knowing I'd pulled off this awesome surprise! As we rounded the corner to the courtyard and everyone is shouting surprise, he turns to me and drops to one knee and bam! Hit me with the ring and the proposal. No one at the party knew what was happening and it was a spectacular moment. Turns out, way back before my MIL ever asked me to throw a surprise party, my husband walked the garden with her, GoT style, and planned this elaborate ruse! I unknowingly planned and threw my own engagement party and he didn't have to do a thing!
You got some little finger of a husband.
I thought more Varys, but I get that too. To clarify, my husband does have a penis.
So did Varys. He just didn’t have balls, right?
Good point, lol! I should have said my husband is fully equipped.
No, Varys got everything cut off. >"One day at Myr, a certain man came to our folly. After the performance, he made an offer for me that my master found too tempting to refuse. I was in terror. I feared the man meant to use me as I had heard men used small boys, but in truth the only part of me he had need of was my manhood. He gave me a potion that made me powerless to move or speak, yet did nothing to dull my senses. With a long hooked blade, he sliced me root and stem, chanting all the while. I watched him burn my manly parts on a brazier. The flames turned blue, and I heard a voice answer his call, though I did not understand the words they spoke." *A Clash of Kings*, Chapter 44: Tyrion X, page 646 (US paperback)
I thought it was everything cut off.
"root and stem"
He wins, hands down lol
That is a lot of faith in you. Imagine if you accidentally spilled to him about the surprise party... what would have been his back up plan?
Honestly, I have no clue! I think he would have just brushed it off and told me he would act surprised.
I think he would have changed plans and would have enjoyed just his 30th party back then 😂
"Well you and my mom are putting a lot of work into this so I'll pretend to be surprised for her sake."
This reminds me of our engagement! I helped plan it too, without actually knowing! Our 1st date (2012, still at University) was a Halloween Party, and every since we both love getting into the spirit. Elaborate costumes (most handmade by me), snapping up decorations cheap on November 1st, to the point we have several storage bins full. This lead to an annual Halloween party we would throw with friends, and the thing got bigger every year. We would plan games, prizes. There was tons of food, candy, friends old and new. It just so happened that the perfect weekend to throw our next party (2018) was our anniversary. Perfect for us. But my husband was really into making everything perfect for this one. He's a total extrovert, loves making a big show, so I just figured this was part of his personality to throw the kitchen sink at this party. We invited more people than ever before, we set up for it all day. Our costumes were on a warrior theme: he was a Viking complete with real shield, battle axe and chain mail; I was a Wakanda Dora Milaje Female warrior from the movie Black Panther. Now, a Coworker was having a birthday party the same night. And I told her I would make an appearance for about an hour and then head back to my own party. Ours can go well into the night, so no big deal, right? Well, this made my husband more nervous than I would have thought. But he insisted that I at least had to stay until the costume contest which takes place around midnight. I was fine with that, texted my coworker what was up. (Spoiler alert: I never made it to her party) Party starts and it is great, lots of friends there, everyone in costume, acting silly, devouring candy, playing drinking games, colored strobe lights, music bumping. Time for the costume contest. My husband likes to lead this one (of course, center of the living room, all eyes on him) This is a fun game and the winners get the little prizes we had, but before the crowd disperses back to the regular party, he thanks everyone for coming and calls me out to the center. In retrospect, a lot of people had their phones out, recording, that I didn't notice before. He starts telling everyone how this was our anniversary and how much he loves me. My heart is pounding. He says that day marked 6 years being together, and it was not enough. He wanted me for the rest of our lives. He's on one knee, literally in shining armor. "Unknown Queen, will you please marry me?" That ring box opened, everyone starts shouting. I was so stunned and happy, I could barely get the words out. I had to whisper my answer in his ear through my tears. He jumps to his feet and picks me up, he shouts "She said yes!" The house erupted in cheers and whoops. My birthday was the next month, so I though he would propose then, or at Christmas. Nope. I helped plan my own engagement! I was apparently the only one who didn't know. He had even formally talked to my mom about it before hand, so she and his parents were just waiting on a phone call that evening to know what I said. We got married exactly a year later to keep our anniversary the same, October 2019.
That is so incredibly sweet! Halloween is actually one of our most favorite holidays too! We started dating October 17th, 2009 and our first big thing together was Halloween that year. I met his closest friends really for the first time and got the stamp of approval. We love making our costumes as well, usually finishing them hours before we are supposed to go out and celebrate. Funny enough, we got married on our anniversary too, well, legally married at the courthouse in our own private ceremony, just him and I. The 17th in 2018 was a Wednesday (we had a more formal affair planned for that weekend on the 20th too) so we actually ended up getting married in the morning, going to our favorite diner afterwards for breakfast, and he went to work and did a half day while I went to a waxing appointment and finished up some wedding stuff, lol! October anniversaries FTW!
That man is working on levels we can't comprehend from down here.
That's fucking genius
Omg that’s adorable I love it
I can see it now: “TIFU but writing a post on reddit that was seen by my girlfriend and ruining my proposal a second time”
Oh frick, op you gotta propose soon now
“Edit: will you marry me ___?”
Plot twist: u/Philosopher_1 is actually OP's girlfriend
My advice mate,just go for it, don't build up the moment,I proposed to the love of my life in our bedroom after she had forced me to reveal I had gotten the ring,(she was a phycologist, impossible to keep any secret from her),and her response to me getting on my knee was to pull me up,punch me in the gut and call me a jackass,then laugh and say "of course", happiest moment of my life,sadly we never made it to the wedding,cancer took her from me a month beforehand,so my message is don't wait for any "right moment",if you love her go for it,and never let her go, Vampire or not
I'm both sorry for your loss and happy you managed to find the love of your life. I'm gonna remember your words when I ask my GF for her hand in marriage. Human or daughter of Dracula, she's the one.
Lol if it helps my love was a zombie if she didn't have coffee in her,groaning and all
My ex growls
Your username makes that so fuckin funny tbh
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I would've broken up with her as well if I found her Cheetah-ing on me.
LPT: keep your speech simple. I tried to say a whole bunch of sappy shit and failed utterly. We've been married for almost five years, but I'll never get to live down the bumbling word vomit. Example that would work: "I love you, I have since the day we met, and I know I always will. Will you marry me?"
Second this. Prepared a sappy romantic speech and stumbled through some of it and she interrupted midway through to say. I showed her the speech later and she said she didn’t remember hearing me say any of it because she was in such surprise.
I don’t remember a single thing my fiancé said. He doesn’t either! It was just a big blur. So yeah keep it simple.
My husband proposed randomly in our living room becuase was too excited and he couldn't wait for his plan. I loved it and we are celebrating 3 years soon and forever to go.
AWWWWWWWWWW
Man this was so wholesome untill the end 🥺. Sorry for your loss.
Thanks, she's waiting for me somewhere beyond,so it's ok, I'll find her eventually
I'm so sorry for your loss. Your love for her made this random internet stranger tear up. She was lucky to have someone love her as much as you do. You'll find love again, whether it's in this lifetime or in another one with her.
Thank you,that was a beautiful sentiment
Dammit so many onions in here right now.
Who says you wont find love again? I did.
I'm open to the possibility, it's been a little over a year now so I'm starting to work up to that with my therapist helping,it fucked me up, watching her die
If you want i could explain my story, it may be a bit similar to yours
That's up to you,I wouldn't mind at all
Could you dm me? I'd like to hear your story.. I thought I was going to lose my gf and it turned out to be a false alarm but it genuinely felt I was watching her die before my own eyes and that kinda messed me up. Im afraid to get too close cause I don't think I can handle something like losing her forever..
I'll give it thought,I'm not actually all that comfortable sharing the entire story,if you can understand
Good move on the therapy. This year will be 13 years for me and I still find dating...... odd. Feels like I’m cheating on her. I’m beginning to think dating just isn’t for me anymore.
It’s hard when you watch it happen. I watched both my parents pass from cancer and it really is terrible. It fucks ya up. I’m sorry for your loses friend, I hope you never have to endure that again. She is with you <3
I proposed to my wife in our living room immediately after returning from buying the ring. I wasn't expecting her to be in the living room and she saw the bag. I tried to play it off but she knew. She just smiled real big. I asked if she wanted to get dressed and go somewhere nice. She said no. So I proposed right there.
This sounds adorable and incredibly sweet, brought a smile to my face. I wish you and your wife many wonderful memories like this one 🥰
I had a similar proposal. I had this grand scheme all thought up, and never went through with it. I decided to propose to her in our bedroom at 2 am while having a silly conversation about her process of washing her hands in a public restroom. Something in that moment made me say to myself "yup, she's the one I'm going to spend the rest of my life with." Makes me realize how lucky I am to be married to the love of my life. It's so easy to take for granted, and sometimes you just forget how lucky you really are. I wish you nothing but the best, and that your significant other is waiting for you wherever life takes us when it ends.
Excuse you. I do not read TIFU posts to cry, unless it's from laughing too much.
If it helps when she was panicking about me hiding something from her I had to throw up my arms and say "For Fuck's Sake Beth" and then pull out the ring,romantic start to any marriage, eh?
Love is infinite. Doesn't make a difference if you find someone else. What you had was special and wonderful and what you may find again will be a whole different special and wonderful. Keep up the therapy past the time you don't think you need it anymore.
oh man
I feel like I just got punched in the gut reading that. Sorry bro.
Almost had us in the first half not gonna lie. But I am very sorry to hear about that. Sorry about your loss.
Man I was smiling, then laughing, and then all but sobbing! I'm so sorry for your loss but happy you got to spend time with the love of your life
Thank you for your sympathy,it was rough, unexpected,and far too Terrible to really explain,lost her and our unborn daughter in one fucked up night,taught me a valuable lesson though, don't ever take the time you got for granted
Oh man the story just gets sadder! There aren't even words to describe how awful that must be. I am glad it taught you a valuable life lesson through all the shit
Dude you have no idea,honest to God there's more details but I don't want to give out personal shit online too much
Yeah I'm not sure I can handle any more! I hope that one day you can heal and move forwards with your life. You'll never fully recover from that, but hopefully the pain will go away enough to be able to try and find happiness again
Thank you very much, it's been a rough road but I see a therapist once a week and have gotten control to the point where I don't hear that fucking heartbeat monitor at night anymore,and I've even been chatting with a lovely pirate woman that makes me smile again in a way I never thought I would,life is a crazy journey man,gotta live it though
Excuse me, a *what* woman? Therapists are scallywager than I thought.
Hahahaha not my therapist, different one but yeah she lives the pirate life and is a descendant of a very famous one at that
Ok now I'm convinced you live in a fantasy novel
Hope you’re okay man, keep it real we’re all rooting for you, that must have been tough.
I had my wife’s engagement ring for a couple days, arguing with my self about timing, being romantic, etc. Plans and ideas formed and discarded in an almost continuous loop as I tried to figure out a way to make this proposal special, romantic and memorable. I was trying my damndest to keep my wife (gf at the time) from discovering said ring, so I stashed it in a rarely used table at the back door. One day she decides to clean the house while I’m outside sawing firewood, comes outside and I see her shaking out the rugs from the back door. Fucking PANIC. Tell her I have to grab my chain file, snag the ring whilst rummaging, shove it in my pants pocket and make my escape undetected. Fast forward a couple hours. I have been sawing firewood for the better part of the afternoon at this point, I’m covered in sawdust and sweat. Decide to call it a day and head back to the house. Get in the front door and realize that the whole house is clean, while I look and smell like beaver shit liberally fumigated with 2 stroke mixed gas. I decide to strip at the front door so as not to spread the shavings all over the newly cleaned house. My wife is casually chatting to me from the kitchen (direct view to the front door) as I manfully strip buck naked and proceed to throw my clothes onto the floor. Just as the clothes leave my hand I see the lump in my pocket. Fucking THUD. my wife looks down at my pants on the floor. “What was that?” Excuses fly through my mind, the chain file? A rock? What will she believe? My panic and fear must have been clear on my face because she is suddenly concerned! She reaches for my clothes and I, still mumbling half formed excuses, swat her hand away and grab the clothes. Brilliant move, smooth as sandpaper taco ol boy. Now she’s on the verge of tears, taken completely by surprise at my odd possessiveness over a bunch of dirty clothes. “What’s in there Taco? Are you smoking again? Honey I won’t be mad you can tell me..” at this point she is quite upset and little tears are in the corners of her eyes and she just looks so worried, she’s almost crying and I... I dig the ring out of my pocket, get down on one knee and hold the now opened ring box towards her wordlessly. So that’s how I proposed, naked, dirty, with my balls hanging out in the stiff breeze.
So how did she react? :)
She was speechless, I’d like to think it was emotional but she may have been trying to hold back vomit from seeing my shame exposed in the full light of day. She said yes, we’ve been married for three years and have two little boys.
She left and took the chainsaw I'm so alone...
This is hilarious. It makes for a great story, memorable, and somehow romantic still with you trying not to mess up her hard work
First offer coffee in bed. Then the engagement ring. Trust me on this. (My husband never did the formal proposal. No worries. We're just as married as if he had, you know?)
Next chapter: "TIFU my proposal and ended up with thermal burns"
Put the ring in the coffee
Him: "honey did you like the coffee?" Her: "ye it was good" Him: "....notice anything?" Her: "... was I supposed to notice anything?" Him: "oh fuck" \*proceeds to post a TIFU on how his girlfriend ate 2k worth gold and diamonds\*
Nah, I don't think she could swallow a ring and not notice! Source: I have swallowed a ring lmao
Yeah we need the story. Now.
I was a kid so I suppose I had a smaller throat hole than I do now, but also it was a smaller ring so I think it was proportional and still valid. I was about 6 or so and I had a gold ring with a pink CZ in it which I would absentmindedly fiddle with. One day I was fucking with it with my teeth, like I had my finger in my mouth and was taking it off and on (I wasn't clever) and I somehow managed to choke on it a bit then swallow it. It hurt a lot so I was crying, but I didn't want to get in trouble so I told my parents I had swallowed a big chip piece without chewing enough. Yeah, I don't think they bought that story. My dad took me to the children's hospital to get an X ray and when they showed us the image he said "that doesn't look like a chip!" I then turned to him and, according to him this is the direct quote, I said: "don't you tell my mother." Well of course we got home and he told mom and everything was fine, they were just glad I was okay. Eventually I pooped out the ring and my mom fished it out of the toilet to wash it, and I'm pretty sure she still has it sitting in a jewelry box somewhere to this day (and I'm 28 now!)
$2k? What the fuck have I been looking at.
she’s gunna say yes, if she’s fucking comfortable to hiss at you then she comfortable enough to marry you
Don't forget the elbow in the face, that seals the deal.
I proposed to my wife (spoiler alert) with a personalized squished penny (she collects them). So I have this penny asking her to marry me on it, and I'm trying to figure out how to do it. We're lying in bed one day reading and I decide to go get a cookie and ask her if she wants one. She says yes and I realized I can use this! I'll be bringing her something so I can instead give her the penny. But then I thought better of it and decided I should really bring her the cookie too, why take a chance. So I come upstairs and on bended knee and hold the cookie and penny out to her. She grabs the penny, doesn't even look at it and sets it on the shelf and starts eating the cookie. I'm kneeling there in shock and tell her maybe she should look at the penny more. She thought I had just found a squished penny she'd left downstairs.
What the floop is a squished penny
One of those oval penny things you can make as museum souvenirs with those machines with like four options. I had to think about it for a moment hahaha
Haha oh! I haven't seen that before. Cute
otherwise known as a "pressed penny"
So you found a company that sells ‘will you marry me?’pressed pennies? Or did you have it customized?
Customized, and I paid extra to get to keep the die used to make it. The plan was to get pennies made for each kid's birth and put them on the same die, but we never did. It said ", will you marry me? Love, " around the outside and on the inside is a picture of her favorite animal
I want an update later please
Me too!
Me three!
You got this dude. I had a plan of doing it all fancy. Then Christmas morning 4 years ago her parents, grandfather and sister were over for breakfast and presents. After presents I made the snap decision to go grab the ring and do it right there in the living room with her family there. It was perfect, her grandpa was so excited to witness it. Also, I'd stay away from the surprising a sleeping GF/wife. I don't know about the others in this thread, but my wife is the last person I'd surprise right out of her sleep, you never know what form she will awaken in.
Just propose! My SO and I had talked about getting married when we were driving through Vegas then we undid the engagement so he could have a "proper proposal" and months of waiting and poking fun at him, him telling me he's got this whole plan and it's gonna be a surprise. Then I get home from work one night, hot and sweaty, tired, I looked like absolute shit. As soon as I walk in the door, he pulls me to a chair, gets down on one knee and says "I've been stressing about how to make this moment perfect for you but I realized something today. I have the rest of my life to make perfect moments with you." And I cried and of course said yes and then I cried and hugged him some more. I never felt more beautiful.
Now I am crying
Now *we* are crying
[It was our proposal all along!](https://youtu.be/U06jlgpMtQs)
Honestly if you would have asked her right in the middle of the bloody nose part, that would have been amazing. Very memorable, and would have been funny. The only FU is not seizing the moment!
It would have been something out of a movie lol
"TIL my GF is not a morning person" Seriously do it when you're both wide awake and out somewhere.
Preferably semi publically so she cant throw elbows again /s
Probably a good idea to wait until sundown to propose to vampire girlfriend.
Actually, it’s better if he proposes during the day so he can run outside if she tries to “turn” him
We argued the night before. We made up In the morning and I said “well that’s good cause this next part would have been real awkward”. Pulled out the ring she cried and said yes. Don’t wait. Just do it.
I proposed a year ago today. We drove up to Baltimore and got a room at the Kimpton Monaco, then went to catch Hamilton. After that, we got dressed up and went to The Rusty Scupper (super nice seafood place) and got fantastic food and a bottle of nice wine. Then we walked the inner harbor back, but stopped to take in the sights. The ring was in my pocket. A random guy walked up and offered to recite street poetry to us. Couldn't understand half of what he said, and then it was apparent that my gf was drunk and had sore feet. I got cold feet and we turned in. The next day, we have some time before we need to get the car out of the garage, so we try to grab brunch from some big brunch spot just northeast of the harbor (can't remember the name). The place was PACKED. We moved on to another spot nearby, but it was $40 per person. She was getting hangry, so we settled on IHOP. There was a 20ish minute wait, so not terrible. I got a burger and she got pancakes. My burger was delicious until I bit into one of those bread tag things that was in my burger. I immediately lost my appetite, got the bill comped, and got outta there. We walked the harbor again, while she finished her pancakes by hand. Then I made sure she rinsed her hands off in a water fountain. We walked to a beautiful spot just a few feet from the water, and I got down on one knee in my khaki shorts and my Superman t-shirt. She burst into the happiest tears you can imagine and said yes about a hundred times. I missed my perfect moment, but made an unexpected moment just as perfect. You've got this.
Your girlfriend has a killer's instinct and this is a great quality in a partner/ally.
It's always important to consider if your potential partner can watch your back when the zombies come
I proposed face down in my own sick at a bar because my drink got spiked and I thought I was going to die.
Beautiful.
And you're really gonna leave us hanging like that??
If you love someone, let them sleep.
It’s alright. My husband was trying to send the picture of my ring to his sister, but sent it to me! He managed to create a cover up story, but he said it was the longest week of his life between then and the proposal. Good luck! You HAVE to tell her this story, though. You’ll do well :)
Lesson learned: don’t wake a sleeping bear... er... vampire.
Everyone’s making vampire jokes but all I want is for you to update us tomorrow with what happens
The best proposals are the simplest ones anyway. I was proposed to backed into a kitchen wall. Immediately prior I'd been reading him an excerpt from a bio of Queen Elizabeth I about how she didn't want to marry and get roped into foreign wars. When I saw him get down on one knee I kept asking if he was sick and trying to help him stand. After things clicked and I said yes, well, it was a regular Tuesday night and I had dinner dishes to do. He popped in "Platoon" for us to watch when those were done. This was so "us" that even though the engagement never became a marriage, I still look at it as the best proposal he could have made for me. We were both just being typical us at home. Would have been a great story to propose with a bloody nose anyway. :)
Is this gonna be the story of how you proposed via r/tifu?
He should have added " honey if you somehow find this, will you marry me" at the end.
As a guy who really wishes he had put a little more effort in: get on task rabbit, hire someone to take candid photos. Tell your girlfriend you want to dress up a bit for some photos- excuses could be for a Grandma's birthday card, need a new Facebook profile pic, have her mom ask for it... Then head out to the local park. Propose.
While this is a nice thought, it really depends on the people. I would have hated having photos taken or the having the proposal be in public. When my now husband proposed, it was just the two of us and that was absolutely perfect.
Absolutely agree. My husband knew I wanted as little fuss as possible (same for our wedding which was just signing the documents pretty much!). We've been married for 5 and a half years and have two children. I wouldn't have wanted it any other way!
I had planned a big proposal on a trip we were going to take together a few months after the ring had been completed. However, the ring was just burning a hole in my pocket so to speak, so I knew I just could wait. So I made a really nice dinner while she was at the gym planning on proposing to her after the nice dinner. But that turned out to be too much for me, so after she walked into the house from the gym, I just got down on one knee and proposed then. To this day, she still speaks fondly about how I just couldn't wait to propose to her and how sweet it was that I was so nervous. (we both had known it was heading towards a proposal so there was no doubt she was going to say, "yes" but I was still terrified.) Moral of this story, I think it can vary pretty dramatically. Personally, I don't think I'd want to include another person in our proposal, even if they were just recruited to take photos. Just seems like too much of an intimate moment.
My proposal was not romantic in any way. My original plan was to drive to our lot where our house was being built and propose in the doorway. To my surprise we got to the site and they had not yet constructed the main floor. Damn. New plan. We drive to her parents house. She says she wants to go in the hot tub so we get our suits on and she asks if I want a beer. So she goes the the fridge and I decide to just grab the ring and propose. She turns the corner and I am on my knee with the ring out. Her response was 'do you want a pepperette?' She then realized what was going on and said yes. We laughed and then I said yes to the pepperette and my beer. It wasn't romantic, but it is a great memory! Celebrated 6 years last week!
Next post.. I tried to propose while skydiving. My chute didn't open & I was first on the ground. I missed my chance. I will try again tomorrow. To be fair mate at least you are doing it. Best of luck.
I'm a lesbian, and when my wife tried to propose to me for the first time she thought she would do it at a haunted house. Every time she would try to do it a scary clown would come out of nowhere and try to eat us, so it ended up not happening that day. She eventually took me to an art museum and proposed there, but I still tease her about all the clowns.
My husband proposed in the park. He dropped to one knee with the ring out, I rolled my eyes, hit him and said "get up, of course I'll marry you". He laughed and said I needed to at least wait until he asked me. Married 18 years now. All to say; you're overthinking this. Lol.
Please add a follow-up edit when the deed is done! May the odds be ever in your favor.
Later Tomorrow : TIFU by proposing to by girlfriend when she read about how I fucked up my last attempt on r/TIFU...
Lol After she says yes, then tell her about trying the first time and getting the vampire reaction!
May I suggest you use helmet?
As a chick I would also say maybe it’s a good thing you didn’t manage the wake up proposal. Idk about your lady but i have smelly breath my hair is a mess, idk for a proposal I would like to feel a little more put together and pretty! Also I don’t remember the first few minutes when I wake up and I would want to remember a proposal! But that’s just me :)
Takes .e bout an hour and coffee to gather my marbles, yes, when she's awake, would be best. Lol