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Post by KikiPea on Jul 1, 2016 19:36:21 GMT
Well...the day started out with DH at home, cleaning out glass from the trunk of his car after a mammoth hail storm the night before. I had just picked up my car from the shop, and was in a bad mood because it was still doing the same dadgummed thing I had just spent $1,000 to be fixed. We spent all day cleaning out his car together. Late that evening, he grabbed a beach chair, and told me to sit in front of him on the ground so he could rub my neck and shoulders, so I had my back to him. Part way through the conversation, he said, "Look! I found a piece of flass in my pocket!" I turned around, and he was holding the ring. As I hyperventalated, he asked if I would marry him. I said yes. Nothing super romantic, but it was memorable. Celebrating 20 years in October.
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Post by janeinbama on Jul 1, 2016 19:36:21 GMT
He never did ask! He came to my apartment, said "what would you say if I told you I told my parents we were getting married?" I said "Are you going to ask me?" He replied "no". It still kind of bugs me after 37 years of marriage. He is a fabulous guy and I adore him, but he does not have a romantic bone in his body. Same here.....he never asked. We had talked about marriage and had decided we would get married when we bought a house. We bought the house - and we went to pick out a ring, when it was ready for pick up after being sized I went and picked it up!! We will be married 36 years on July 11. It did bug me, but for our 25th anniversary, we renewed our vows at church, had a small dinner which we prepared, a 2 layer cake we cut and went a 7 day trip to Rivera Maya! DH insisted that it all be in the "right" order (which I thought was adorable).
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Post by tlcr31 on Jul 1, 2016 20:03:09 GMT
It was the day he graduated from Navy boot camp. I had flown out from college to see the graduation. We had gone back to the visitor's center after the graduation and he was introducing me to several people. He then told me to have a seat while he got some more of his friends to come over. I didn't understand why I couldn't just walk with him, but there I sat by myself watching everyone else reunite with their families. A few minutes later he and a bunch of other guys from his company came over and stood there in front of me. They then started singing "All I Have to Do is Dream" by the Everly Brothers. At the end of the song, he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him in Spanish (I had been taking classes in college, but we never covered that). I replied, "what?" He then asked again in English...that I understood! I of course said yes! I was completely embarrassed since I hate being the center of attention, but it was so sweet! We just celebrated our 19th anniversary on the 21st.
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Post by evnimom on Jul 1, 2016 20:40:16 GMT
It was on New Year's Eve at a party. I was 18 and he was drunk. I must have looked like a deer in headlights because he saw that I was scared and dropped it. I never said yes or no. Years later, I gave him a choice between two dates: the next year or in two years. He had choosen the next year. We just celebrated 28 years.
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Post by myboysnme on Jul 1, 2016 21:35:22 GMT
My DH had a print by an artist we both liked . He had been part of a group that the artist used for inspiration for the piece and while you could not really see him much, I knew he was there so I wanted the print. He would not give it to me (of course). One day he handed me a tube with the print rolled up inside. When I unrolled the print it had a piece of paper rolled up in it that fell out on which he had written, "Will you marry me?" with some hearts and such drawn on it.
We never even had the print framed after all these years, either.
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Post by mom on Jul 1, 2016 21:57:39 GMT
We hiked Palo Duro Canyon and there is a peak called the Lighthouse. He proposed on top of that. I had no clue it was coming.
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Post by scrappyesq on Jul 1, 2016 23:37:07 GMT
We dated for two months before we got engaged. I was still in law school and he lived almost two hours away on Long Island. I would spend weekends with him, leaving work on Fridays to drive to his place. This particular Friday I wanted to cancel because the weather was going to be bad, but he insisted. That two hour drive turned in to four because it was a monsoon that flooded out the major highway going his way so I actually had to take local streets to get there. By the time I did I was hot and annoyed, but he didn't care. He asked me if I wanted to go for a walk by the water. I was like um, no. Lightning. Then he asked if I wanted ice cream (which I could eat every day and twice on Sunday). I said ok, and he pulled out my favorite from the freezer. I knew something was up because then he got fidgety. I started reading a magazine and when I looked up there he was down on one knee. Gosh I loved that moment.
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Post by scrappinspidey2 on Jul 1, 2016 23:46:56 GMT
We were at his parents house hanging out with them and the baby and he turns to me and says..."my parents said they will rent their second house to us pretty cheap...wanna get married?" Yep...thats my romantic man. At least he was keeping our finances as a priority His mom just shook her head. I said yes...6 weeks later we were married lol. We were married just short of 18 years when he was killed.
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Post by leeny on Jul 1, 2016 23:55:44 GMT
We were in bed and just found out I was pregnant at 17. "They all" said it wouldn't last, but three kids, one grandkid and 37 years later, we've made it last.
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Post by scrapmaven on Jul 2, 2016 0:03:52 GMT
Dh and I had been together for 15 years. Granted we broke up in high school and got back together during his senior year of college. During that hiatus we still saw eachother every now and then. Anyway, after living together for basically 10 years I was ready to get married. We had our careers, our first house and it was time. So, we set an appointment and got engaged. Both of us will tell you that it couldn't be less romantic. However, our wedding was a dream and we've been happily together for almost 40 years, married over half of that time.
I loved my wedding and dearly love my husband, but once I had my first baby that trumped my wedding by miles. Though getting married wasn't nearly as painful. My favorite dh moment was watching his expression when the baby was on his way out. It was priceless.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2016 13:04:17 GMT
Thanks for sharing all your stories!!
Mine was not picture perfect but still sweet. We had been dating for 2 years when I was asked to be in a friend's wedding. After seeing me in that wedding, he felt the time was right so days later we started looking at rings. Later that summer, we went to a large family reunion/beach vacation and I knew it was coming because he has no ability to lie or keep secrets. He took me on a walk out this beautiful pier at sunset...no ring. Then he took me on a long walk along the ocean...no ring.....no ring..... then after who knows how many blocks away from the condo, he finally asked. Looking back, we were WAY too young and I wonder why our parents did not discourage it (only 20 and 21).
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Post by txdancermom on Jul 2, 2016 14:13:35 GMT
Nothing romantic either - we were on a road trip when I was visiting over my last college spring break, and in the car discussed our future. I guess we too did it right, this January was 35 years. No ring at the time, we bought that together several months later (using my credit!) because he was a grad student and I just graduated, neither of us had any money and we lived in different states at the time
we told our parents, mine didn't accept the idea that we were engaged until we came home with a ring on my finger one day. Them my mom got on board about planning a wedding!
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Post by gorgeouskid on Jul 2, 2016 15:02:55 GMT
I think one of my favorite proposals on TV was Jim and Pam from The Office... I love that one!! I just had to go and watch this on youtube again. I was the BIGGEST Office fan and fell into a hole of watching scenes from The Office. After visiting the set, I actually never watched it again. I didn't watch the last season and a half, because I knew it wasn't going to continue, and if I watched it, then The Office would truly be over. So it's still out there. Oh, proposal story- on January 1, 2000, when we woke up, DH said, "I have a question for you," (and I knew what was coming...), "Would you be willing to spend the next 1000 years with me? But you'll have to agree to marry me." And pulled out the ring. Of course! 16 years in September.
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Post by malibou on Jul 2, 2016 16:07:45 GMT
So many romantic stories, and funny ones, and ones that remind us that love is grand. Thanx for sharing.
We talked about getting married the day we met as we both knew it was meant to be. Nearly 2 years go by. It's 29 Feb - Sadie Hawkins Day. We had just come back from a bike ride and were getting ready to shower when I suggested we get naked and lay in a pile. He agreed and said there was no one he liked lying in a pile with more than me. So I said, cool, will you marry me? He said absolutely. We went and got him a nipple ring as an engagement ring. Lol. July 4th will be 22 years.
J
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Post by Country Ham on Jul 2, 2016 16:51:22 GMT
We were in Memphis on visiting friends of his. He had this whole thing planned out that fell apart on him. We were at a gas station filling up his blue beast (truck) and he went inside to pay. Came out and around to my side of the truck, leaned in through the window, showed me the ring and said "will you marry me".
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Post by corinne11 on Jul 3, 2016 0:52:50 GMT
I was getting married at 21 but we cancelled 3 weeks out. (still have that dress hanging in the cupboard!) Met my current partner at 29 and over the years he would ask me to marry him but I never took him seriously as he knew I wasn't fussed about getting married. Christmas Day 2009, I knew something was up as he put a small present under the Christmas tree. I'm really picky so we didn't ever buy each other presents, just buy what we want. I opened the "little box" which turned out to be some nice diamond earrings. We were watching our grandson open his presents and my daughter had just put her new Beyoncé CD on. "All the Single Ladies" was playing when he suddenly dashed out to the car in his dressing gown, came in with another "little box"and got down on one knee and proposed. And no, my daughter wasn't in on it, just a coincidence she was playing the song!! We went down to my Mum's for Christmas lunch and he "re-did" the proposal at the table so my family could be part of it. We started planning a wedding at a local winery but cancelled it after we decided we would rather spend the money on a trip to Hawaii! So....... we are going to Fiji next week and about 8 weeks ago decided to get married there. Just the two of us. It's a secret, only my immediate family and a few close friends know. We will have a reception in our back yard once summer arrives to celebrate. We are now aged 52 and 56 and have been together for over 24 years. Corinne
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Post by TankTop on Jul 3, 2016 1:09:03 GMT
Dh never really asked. It was just known.
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Post by genny on Jul 3, 2016 1:21:42 GMT
DH and I danced at a bar the Friday after I turned 21(it was Nov 21, 1994). We'd met before through work, but had barely spoken, just traded glances. We went our separate ways later that night (morning) and then talked on the phone until about 6am. In that phone call he said 'how is it I am not married to you yet?' He asked me officially on Feb 17 1995. his plan was to ask on the 14th, but his buddy's car broke down and he had to go and help him as we was stranded and he called me to cancel our plans. It was a Tuesday if I remember correctly, we weren't able to get together again until the weekend. We were in the car on the way to his house for dinner, drinks and a movie with his roommates. he was acting really strange and I seriously thought he was about to break up with me. I was scared to death because I knew he was the one....so he actually pulled over the car and stopped. My heart was breaking, I just knew it was over. He said " I can't wait one more second. I have to ask you a question." (Still thought it was ending) He pulled a ring from a bubble gum machine out of his pocket and asked me to marry him. Yes, I still have the ring he spent $7 in quarters trying to get (he later gave me all the other toys he got out of the machine too LOL) We bought a real ring a couple weeks later and asked me to marry him again, officially, in front of my mom. Then she realized the camcorder wasn't running after all, so she made him do it again LOL. So I officially got asked 3 times, 4 if you include the statement on the first night .
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Post by lisacharlotte on Jul 3, 2016 1:24:58 GMT
I can't even recall how we decided we were getting married on NYE after dating 6 weeks. I'm definitely not the romantic one. He gave me an engagement ring on Valentines day. We didn't get married until I left the Air Force that August. Again, no romance from me, I was all over doing the 10 minutes at the justice of the peace. We've been married coming up on 26 years this August.
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Post by sweetpeasmom on Jul 3, 2016 3:04:05 GMT
Ours was sort of backwards. We were dating going on 4.5 years when he told me he wanted to move to Columbia, SC (where I'm from) to open a store for the company he was with. I told him I wasn't moving until he married me. I wasn't uprooting my life here on the off chance he was going to marry me. So we started planning. That was around August 2000. We found a place and set a date around October. Then in November (just before Thanksgiving), he was able to get my ring (long story). I came home from work one day and he said he had something for me. He had a nice fire going and all. He got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. We got married April 7, 2001. 5 years and a few weeks after we started dating.
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Post by catmom on Jul 3, 2016 3:04:21 GMT
We first talked of getting married on New Years Eve when we'd been dating a year. DH took me to St. Martin, New Brunswick to visit his childhood haunts. It was January 20th. We drove to a lighthouse and waded through the snow to a cliff overlooking the Bay of Fundy. I was freezing and just wanted to get back to the car. J got down on one knee in the snow and proposed. I started crying but through the tears I managed to tell him he was putting the ring on the wrong finger. Then I asked if we could go back to the car. To this day DH tells me I have an amazing ability to ruin a romantic moment. We'll be married 22 years in August.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2016 3:06:37 GMT
We had gone to dinner that night..we came home and I guess he was struggling to get the nerve up. I went back into the bedroom to get in my pjs and as soon as I dropped my pants, he came in and dropped on one knee. I turned and he literally proposed to my crotch I hiked my pants back up and said yes!
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Post by Gillyflower on Jul 3, 2016 7:37:48 GMT
He was here for a planned holiday from the USA and we had talked about getting married a few times. It was more a matter of "when" for us. I had planned a few days away with him for Valentine's Day - we went hot air ballooning. The next night he proposed while we were on the couch. He didn't want to do it on V Day as he thought it was cheesy. I just remember him trying (unsuccessfully) to fish something out of the pocket of his shorts while he asked the question. Apparently he asked my dad before we went away. Gilly.
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Post by ladycamaro on Jul 3, 2016 7:58:07 GMT
After a fancy dinner downtown, we took a long carriage ride. He asked me while we were on the carriage. It was a very cold night requiring gloves and scarves so I was a bit afraid the ring would be dropped. It is a sweet memory.
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