hello thread from a newbie

Congrats on getting engaged and welcome.

Congratulations and welcome to Hitched, don't be afraid to ask questions which you feel are silly, we were all newbies at one point

Whoooo Hoooo. CONGRATULATIONS. Got a proposal story to share? I love hearing proposal stories!

Everyone is so helpful here and so friendly. You'll become addicted in no time.

Goot luck with the planning. Fun times ahead.

Looking forward to hearing how your planning is coming along.

Nat

Congratulations and welcome!!

Don't worry about asking stupid questions, i ask them all the time!

Hi, Congrats and welcome to hitched ?

Congratulations!!! Welcome to the highly addictive hitched!!! lol

So, rule number 1 is always flash new things so let's have a picture of the ring please ?

Hope you enjoy your planning xx

Congratulations and welcome

Thank you all for the very kind welcome! Need to flash the shiny you say? Hee-hee, no problem! (Ok, possibly a problem as I'm not stunningly computer literate, but here goes!) Eep, the picture went huge - my fingers look like sausages. Oh well... You get the idea!

The proposal was pretty romantic, I thought. We went to the beach during the day, and had wine and strawberries as a picnic on the beach at Scarborough, then went for a walk round the castle. Then he took me for dinner at a really nice restaurant, after getting changed from the beach into a suit - overkill for the restaurant I thought, but it turned out he had plans. Then after the meal we went for a walk along the seafront at Filey, in the moonlight, with the waves coming in, and he got me up on a rock, told me lots of lovely things about loving me lots and wanting to spend the rest of his life with me, then got down on one knee, got out a ring and asked me to marry him. He got a bit choked up, so I did too, and instead of my usually gushy self I just squeaked yes, to which he replied "don't you want to think about it for a bit?" Lol. No!!! Apparantly the proposal was supposed to be at sunset, but was unfortunatley raining at the time, so he stalled in the restaurant for a bit, and did it in the moonlight and under a streetlamp - I couldn't wait to get home to get a proper look at the ring!

I still haven't stopped smiling!

What a lovely proposal it dicks all over mine lol congratulations.xx

What a beautiful proposal. Congratulations on your engagement and welcome to Hitched xx p.s. loving the ring

Welcome and Congratulations! Your proposal sounds lovely and your ring is gorgeous! I hope you find this forum as helpful as I did with my planning

Congrats on the engagement. Welcome to Hitched. Prepare to become addicted!

Welcome to Hitched! ?

Congratulations and welcome to hitched

What a lovely story and welcome. It's funny how a lot of proposals don't go to plan, I totally ruined it for my OH but that's a whole different story! There's no such thing as a stupid question!

lol!! O how did you know the proposal was coming!!??!! ?

Well congratulations and welcome to hitched!! You have loads of time!! Yes theres things you needa sort sharpish, but then you have all that time in between, when you can chill a bit!! This is the place for advice and all tho!! You have your hitched planner thing on here so you can see the timescales and all on there! (I think if you click on you uisername up in the top you can find it there) Take a wee ehile fishing about here and you'll get loads of ideas!

Congratulations and welcome to hitched xx

Welcome, spikeygoodness - and Congrats!

And no, you are not a fraud - I had been lurking on the forum for weeks too before I registered as with us was a case of a common decision rather than a proposal as such. And although we've been "engaged" for months, I still don't have the "shiny finger bling" LOL. Current economic climate really would have made that impossible but I will have one before the wedding. Cutely, he gives me a Haribo ring every day!! LOL

Enjoy the planning - yes, there's mucho to do!!!