Wedding proposals...How did you do it?

[PHXLavaVibe]

My wife and I met at my brother's apartment July 3rd 2004. I was visiting my brother for a pre 4th of July beer fest. I had seen my wife there a few times before because she liked to babysit his kids while we went out to party. My so called girlfriend was there too. For some unknown reason i was paying more attention to the baby sitter than my girlfriend at the time. My girlfriend was one of those crazy psycotic types that just couldn't get it through her head that we through. Anyway me and the babysitter ended up together that night and my brother let us spend the night due to us all being drunk. A couple days later I called my soon to be wife and invited her over to my place for a full body massage...no strings attached! We ended up attaching a whole ball of string and our "friends with benefits" relationship started. We saw each other a few times throughout the week and then one day we went to my parents house for dinner.Keep in mind that she and I lived nearly 30 miles apart. She was living with her best friend and her family. She doesn't drive, so everytime we got together it was up to me to drive the whole way.This whole "short" time that we were seeing each other we both began to fall in love, but neither of us had the courage to admit it. Then as I mentioned above we went to my parents house for dinner one night and on the trip to take her back home a country song came on the radio. I belive it was called "3 little words" but I can't remember it off the top of my head. It described the exact situation we were in where we were both afraid to say those 3 little words. As the song played she reached over and turned up the volume. After a couple seconds I turned it up even louder. It was our way of letting the other person know what we were feeling without us having to say a word. That night after I got home I couldn't stop thinking about her and that trip back to her place. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat. I couldn't do anything other than think about her. The next day I called her on the phone and explained what I went through the night before. That's when she admitted having the same problems and we were eventually able to share our true feelings over the 6 hour phone call.We bagan our serious relationship thereafter and we were able to talk about anything and everything including future plans we each had for getting married and having kids. These were the kind of conversations many other people would run away from after only dating for a short time. For some reason we were completely comfortable talking about it. About a week or two later she moved in with me and we shared a tiny studio appartment. She transfered her job to within a couple miles of my place and the long trips were offically over! It was then that I started saving to buy her a special ring. She had given me a general idea as to what she wanted for her wedding ring in previous conversations. Once I had the money together I put in the order and waited. I had also written her a very romantic poem. I took the poem (she had no Idea existed) to a frame shop and had it put in a very nice frame. Damn those places are expensive!!! The ring and the poem were ready around the same time and I had to keep them both hidden from her in our studio apartment for a few days until the time was perfect.I chose to pop the question on a day she was working. I left work early that day and stopped by the florist and bought 3 dozen long stem roses and a bag of hershey's kisses. I wish I had decent pictures I could post so everyone could see what I did, but you'll just have to imagine it. I set up a trail of roses and kisses leading from the front door to the back of the studio where there was another door that led to the dressing/vanity area and our bathroom. Inside the vanity area there was a nice sink with white marble countertops and a wall mounted mirror directly above the sink. The trail ended at this sink, where I took the equivalant of 4 roses and spread the pettals throughout the area. The remaining roses were aranged in a beautiful vase and set attop the counter. I placed about 2 dozen Hershey's Kisses throughout as well. It was a beautiful arangement of red and silver magnified by the mirror. Above the sink between the knobs and the mirror I weged the poem which in itself was a sight to see. the Edges of the paper it was on had been artistically burned and was laid on a black felt backing garnished by a mirror finished black frame. To the right of the sink I placed the jewlery box that contained her wedding ring which consisted of a beautiful emerald cut ruby center stone and a small diamond on each side. The band itself was white gold (Silver). Once I had everything in place it was time to pick her up from work.I had butterflies in my stomach the whole trip and the nerves were unbarible. Amazingly I was able to pull the whole thing off without her catching on. I mentioned to her on the way home that the place was a mess and she would have to watch her step. Ofcourse after a long day's work that was the last thing she wanted to hear. hehehe! I unlocked the door and allowed her to open it. As soon as she saw the roses and kisses on the floor she started to glow! She followed the trail and slowly opened the vanity door. She put her hands up to her face and started to softly cry. It took her a moment to realize what was happening. She stepped infront of the poem and started to read it. I don't have the poem memorized but I do know the last line was the words "Will you marry me?" Before she got to the end of the poem I snuck by her and grabbed the ring. I nealed on one knee behind her and waited for her to finish the poem. As she finished the poem she turned around and saw me. I opened the box, asked her my self, and after she caught her breath she said yes. We were then married a couple months later on October 9th 2004. As of today we are aproaching our third year of a perfect unity!Can you top it?

[AKLGT]

well, it was pretty simple:we looked up how to move Mav here and the choices were as follows:1. Engagement: Required a K Visa and could take up to 2 yrs2. Marriage: Required another Visa, but was expedited to about 1 year3. Smuggle over the boarder: not really a viable optionMav asked how long it'd take if we got married and according to the UCIS website, about 6 months to get him here and then 5-6 months for his work authorization. That was the shortest amt of time, so he asked when we wanted to do it and we looked at the calendar. I was gonna be there over Labor Day weekend for the Ontario meet and visit, so we decided to get married then, about a month away. the rest is history.

[Raivis]

i proposed to my wife at sunset on a pier at my friends house. i had two friends there with us. but the second time i asked her dad first then asked her in her bedroom. (the reason i had to ask twice was that she dumped me while pregnant with our daughter)

[joholste]

well...actually there's a little to my story.. I first started talking to my wife one night while i apparently was "drunk beyond all means" and talking to her room mate, one of my friends from high school. I don't recall being drunk at the time, but then again I think that's what all people who were drunk say. And it was highly probable as I was in that time of my life in the 82nd Airborne. I went home on leave and we went on a date to ice skating, dinner and then a movie. When I returned from leave I went to special forces selection and blew out my knee...for some reason after that we just kinda stopped talking until that October when I went to New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina relief. Once again I went home on leave that December and I met her again. I took her up to my hometown for the Holiday tournament my high school was participating in. When I got off leave we were officially dating, but I had to move to DC. She came out over her springbreak and we talked about her moving out to live with me for the summer. Then in May she went to my cousins wedding with me in San Diego. and she told me that she'd applied to college in DC and was going to be coming out to live with me(to which i was very happy) She moved out in July, and we moved into a one bedroom apartment. In october I was on 24 hour duty at my battalion head quarters when I was told that single e-5s were going to be moved back on post at the end of the year. So she and i sat down and talked about it and decided to get married at the courthouse that week. I gave her the ring on the National mall with the capitol building in the background. we were planning on having a wedding ceremony the next summer at our church for our family to share in. However 3 weeks after we got married my company recieved information that we were slated to deploy for a year. so we moved the wedding back a year. Now that year long deployment has been extended 3 months to a 15 month deployment. so now i have less than a month when i get home that i have to learn how to dance before the wedding.

[psiu]

In the middle of an argument over nagging my housemates for money for the AT&T bill.Went out and bought a ring before that weekend--which she was going to be out of town for with some of her siblings--they caught on pretty quick as she was loopy AND had a ring on Been married for almost 4 years now, proposed after about 2 years of dating and were engaged about 2 years.

[keithvibe]

My wife and I did things backwards, a bit.We met online in a chat room of all places... Neither one of us were looking for anyone. We started chatting, chatting online turned in to chatting on the phone. All this time she only lived about 20mins south of my apartment. Months went by.We both decided just after 9/11/2001 that waiting wasn't worth it. We started dating very shortly after that.Fell in love, bought our first house.... un wed I might add.LOLA year later on christmas eve I poped the question. She started to cry, I had to ask... well, is that a Yes? LOLShe then said.. (removed).. YES... We visited some close family members that night because of an impending snow storm.That was an unforgetable christmas only because that night our area was blanketed in a fresh snowfall that prevented us from doing our normal rounds.... we got to spend Christmas day together enjoying each other.A nice white christmas.We then got married in Vegas. LOL Now, five years later we are selling our first home for a bigger one

[scott_h]

Mine was pretty simple this past Christmas Eve:Neither one of us are big 'romantics', and keep in mind we have a 7 year old son . (well, he was a month shy of his 7th birthday at the time) So most of our time together also includes him.We bought a couple big items before Christmas, and said that would be our Christmas presents to each other. So, I had no presents for her under the tree. But for several years, the company I work for puts out a teddy bear every year, and I always get it for her for Christmas. So after our son was done with our presents, I had him go get her present. I had the bear wrapped in a box, strategically face down. So she opened the box, and smiled to see her traditional bear (it sounds goofy, but she really does look forward to her bear every year!). And when she took the bear out of the box and turned it over, the ring box was tied to the bear between it's arms like it was holding it.

[Jahntassa]

If you want to know the full story, just let me know, but the actual wedding proposal went like this:Had the ring while down on Christmas Vacation. Was leaving a in a few days. Had the 'parent' talk while painting their master bedroom on Saturday.Sunday morning, getting ready to go to Church with everyone. She's about to get in the car, I stop her.Right behind the passenger door on my Ford Probe, I literally jam the ring box into her chest and go "So..Do you wanna?"We got to church on time, too.