Proposal

Awwww thats so lovely! i hope any other nickys didn't get the wrong idea!

Aww lovely stories!

We'd had a spa day that my parents bought us for xmas, then we went for a yummy dinner in leicester square before we went for a wander along the river! He asked me when we were half way across the millennium bridge when I stopped to look at the lights! It was so romantic and the things he said made me all soppy and I welled up!! He's worried now that he has to work out something just as good for his speech!! Hehe!!

We were snowboarding in Tignes, France. It was the first time I had been on a snowboarding holiday. On the Wednesday we went to the highest peak on a fenicular railway. It was freezing up there and I asked for my fleece from his bag so I could add another base layer, he got down on one knee and started looking in his bag (didn't think anything of it) he passed my fleece and I was in the middle of putting it on and he said 'you know I love you' and when I looked down he had the ring in his hand and then he asked the question

I came home from the dentist to find OH on one knee in the lounge, dressed in a dinner jacket and bow tie! Doing it at home was probably not the most inventive way, but I have to say that after having been to the dentist I really, really was not expecting it! So it was a fab surprise!!

Squeeeee! Loving these stories (if a little green-eyed, lol) More, more, more!

I kinda of knew my proposal was coming as my friend had taken me out ring shopping to give him an idea of what I liked. That was in March last year and just when I thought it wasn't going to happen, he asked me on Christmas day, it was so lovely and I got very teary!! Jxx

Yay stories!

Whilst we were on holiday in Cornwall three weeks ago, I was sitting on the beach reading my book and OH went off to explore the rock pools.

Later, when we were heading back to the car, he says "oh, come over here to where I was earlier so I can show you something". We head over to one end of the beach and through to a little cove, where I'm a bit baffled, thinking that there wasn't anything particularly special about the rocks! When we're quite a way from the main beach, he hands me a letter. I should mention that OH is a quiet fella and not always great with words, so he'd written me this long long letter telling me how he felt about me and recalling all his fondest memories. Gah! I was welling up when I'd read it all.

Sneaky boy had used the distraction of me reading to get down on one knee and hold out the lovely ring he had bought and behind him, scrawled on the rocks it said, will you marry me? I burst into tears, but there must have been a 'yes' in there somewhere - he says there was

Hi

It was 5.30am on my 30th birthday and my OH wanted me to open all my pressies, then gave me his, a tiny box, and said, " will you marry me" i actually asked him if he was being serious, we then booked a night away in york to celebrate both....he said he was going to ask me that night but couldnt wait.

It was a huge surprise as I never thought he would ask me for about 5 years and neither did his parents, so that made it even more special to me.

sara x

Awwww I love this!

My other half called me into the garden to look at the stars as we usually do and he was cwtching me and pointing out stars and he sed look at that star and i was like wheeerree?? he was like there!!! i was like wheeeeerrrrrrrrrreeeeeee??? and when i did finally "see it" my ring was on the end of his finger ? and he got down on one knee and gave this stunning speach and asked - i stil have the speech as he'd saved it in his phone after adding to it for weeks lol

xx

Loving all the stories! Who said romance is dead? This thread is proving that it's very much alive!

My boyfriend took me away to Gran Canaria for Xmas last year. We decided that we were going to have an unconventional Xmas and not do presents! On Xmas morning we woke up and he told me he'd got me a small gift just as a token, to have something to open on Xmas day. Which i thought was sweet, until i opened it. It was box of mint dark chocolates. I HATE MINT DARK CHOCOLATE! And at that point i just thought this is pointless because my boyfriend doesnt know me at all! Evidently i was upset but he was smiling asking me to try one as they're different to all the other i'd tasted before. I prised open the sealed box and on top of the chocolates, staring me inthe face was a small box. I didnt have to open it as i knew what it was, i just stared for what felt like an eternity! I was soooo shocked, which gave him time to get down on one knee. I looked up and saw him and the floodgates opened! I said a YES very loudly, then he opened the ring box and the tears got even worse! The ring was perfect and it was definately the best Xmas present ever!!! ?

I've just been reading these and thinking WOW!

Mine seems rubbish now but nevermind lol... Boohoo

My OH's childhood cat had been killed the day before (He was almost 18, blind for a few years and got hit by a car). We were all a mess, huge cat lovers so went over to FMIL's house for Geoff's Burial. I cried bucketloads, hugged his Mum loads, cried with her etc.. We went home a couple of hours later, still feeling like crap, massive puffy eyes and we were in our garden and he grabbed my hands and asked if I'd marry him.

He's perfect, never a day goes by without hundreds of compliments to me, he'd do anything for me and his family treat me as their own, his Mum is amazing, I wish she'd adopt me!

Anyway, he had no ring (Although he had asked my Mum if he could marry me 9 months earlier I later found out!). He wanted me to choose my ring, he knows I'm fussy so 3 days later it arrived and we announced it to everyone. His Mum is MASSIVELY excited!

Your boys have done you proud!

We went to Chamonix last year with a big group of friends. We went for a walk up a small hill mountain (sounds better) and at the top of it overlooking the chalets he got down on bended knee in the snow and asked me to marry him. I knew it was coming as he is rubbish at keeping secrets.

And now in a month we will be married - time flies!

Aaaaww lovely post.

Well we were on our first holiday together in Greece and it was also my birthday whilst there. On the day of my birthday we spent the day by the pool but oh kept making excuses to go back to the room and suggested i sit at the bar with friends we had met.

He came back to get me to get ready for the meal that night and as we turned the corner to the room he had put birthday banners on the door (sweet) and the room was filled with more banners and balloons, well i was nearly in tears with this gesture!! There was also champagne and strawberries and a huge bouquet of flowers!!! I was thrilled and was jumping around saying 'Thank you thank you!!!'

My Oh then said 'You've not noticed this then??? and pointed to a ring box in the middle if the flowers!!! He then promptly got on one knee and asked me to marry him!!

I was absolouley floored i can tell you as I had suspected nothing!!! And through tears and smiles I said YES!!!!!

Oh then told me how nearly everone in the hotel knew and were waiting for us to go down so I shouted from the balcony 'I said yes!!'

Apprently this had been weeks of planning with my sister and mum in on it, my sis is the same ring size as me (luckily) and the beautiful ring fit perfectly!!

I then rang just about everyone in my phone stating that I'd got a fiance for my birthday!!

Wow it still makes my tummy flip when I think about it.

So sorry for such a long reply!! lol didnt wanna miss any detail!! ❤️

Thanks for reminding me what a wonderful time it was!!

xx

I love these stories

Well I was sort of expecting mine because we had chosen a ring togther as OH has noo clue when it comes to that

We went to the Lake District for velentines with my sister and her hubby. I was hoping he would do it then so alllll day was waiting for this perfect moment but nothing. Anyways before our meal we were all sat in our room when we realised we only had thirty mins to get reay so we ushered out my sister and her hubby so we could get ready. I ran to get the ironing board from the wardrobe, turned around with an iron in my hand and there he was on one knee.

I started laughing as it was a bit comic and seemed surreal. H e said loads of gushy stuff and I said yes, then proceedec to rush and get ready.

Was only the next day I finally realised what had happened, was very nice though

OH and I are both motorsport marshals, so he proposed in the car in the paddock at Silverstone on our first day of the season. We'd been posted to different areas for the day and he'd hoped we'd have been put together so he could do it on post, but the paddock was kind of fitting really - it's where everything starts ?

Not exactly romantic, but very us!

Mine was very unromantic compared to some of these, I was at home cooking fish pie, he came home early from work with a bottle of champagne and a bunch of flowers and got down on one knee in the kitchen. Dinner was very late that night!

Aww I love reading these!

We had arranged to open some Christmas presents early on Christmas Eve as we had to spend lots of time with family on Christmas Day so wouldn't have much time then. OH ushered the dog and me into the same room (as he wanted the dog to be there too!) so we could open our presents. The last one that I opened was wrapped with bows and everything , I tore off the layer of paper and it said "The Ring Box Company" on the box and I started crying! OH took the box off me, opened it all up and got down on one knee and asked me ? I said yes and started crying again, the dog was completely oblivious! haha. Was so proud that he picked a gorgeous ring all by himself that was exactly the right size, and he had managed to keep it all a secret!

It was during Will & Kate's wedding! We were enjoying a picnic in the park with friends watching the wedding on the big screens. I think it was at the end of the ceremony when they were driving off in the wedding cars that OH asked me if I'd like a sip of some wine to celebrate and offered me a paper cup. I was 5 weeks pregnant, feeling very grumpy and not in the mood for drinking so declined. He asked again but I kept declining so he started to insist. Reluctantly I snatched the cup out of his hand and in the bottom of the cup was a beautiful ring. He didn't really say much, I just kissed him and slipped it on my finger before anyone noticed (I felt a bit embarrassed to be honest!). Our friends hadn't even noticed so we told them, topped up our glasses and then I had a sudden urge to use the bathroom!! On route, I rang and text a few of my friends. I was on a real high all weekend.

My OH did it just after we got back from holiday - we had bought a ring while away so I knew it was going to happen, just didn't think it would be that son!

Anyway OH had organised this huge family day out at the zoo (sister, BIL, 2 brothers and their other halves, mum and her OH, dad and his wife, nephew, FMIL, FBIL, gran), he had organised taxis to take us all there so we could have a drink, and sorted a massive picnic. There were about 14 of us in the end, we had lovely weather and a lovely day.

We sat down to enjoy the picnic and about quarter to 2 started packing away the rubbish/left over food - OH was looking a little uncomfortable but figured it was the heat! Anyway got to just before 2 o'clock and all of a sudden it went quiet, then OH asked my dad if he could ask me to marry him! My dad had no idea what was going on, and looked a little confused to say the least, so OH had to ask him again Dad said yes and then at 2 minutes past 2 (the time I turned up for my first date with OH!) he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him! Needless to say there were tears all around, bubbly was opened and we all had a toast. Turns out my whole family bar my dad and my gran knew and this had been planned for ages! How I hadn't sussed it I will never know lol, I thought it was just a family day as it was one of the few times we would all be together!

It was a fabulous end to a very weird 6 weeks, redundancy, new job and holiday - then engagement! Never knew OH could be so romantic.

Lovely stories! We were in Disney World watching the fireworks going off over the big Disney castle. I turned to say something to H but he wasn't there...I looked down and there he was on bended knee in the middle of Disney asking me to be his wife ?

On holiday celebrating our 10th anniversary. We went to the marina for drinks after dinner and he managed to keep to the left hand side of me so I couldn't see the ring box in his pocket.

We were having drinks at a very nice bar when he asked me to go and get the wi-fi password so we could email home to say we had arrived safely. I thought it strange that he hadn't gone himself as he's quite good like that. I huffed off to ask for the password and this was presumably his chance to get ready.

I sat back down and could see he looked really uncomfortable. I asked him if he was ok and he just dropped down onto one knee, produced the ring and asked me. I was in complete shock as we had never really discussed marriage properly, but cried and said yes. Then I started to panic, saying "oh god, we've got to get married now" LOL. He said that it was also a present for the past ten years and that everything would be fine as nothing would change.

I had come home early from work the friday before last christmas ( xmas is a special time for us) and he was like look at the tree so i did and said what am i suppose to be looking at in particular and he said the silver star. there on the silver star was a ring dangling. i turned around and he was on one knee crying and there was me so shocked and asking what is this??? needless to say i said yes

Awww that's lovely. Imagine being that Nicky and thinking, OMG is that for me?!

Mine was very sweet. H2B took me to our favourite park (where we always went to spend some time on our own as I lived with my sister). We were walking around and he said let's go over there. We went to where he had pointed and I was walking along chatting away when I turned round and he was down on one knee. I said "Whatta you doing?" and he said "K, you have made me so happy, I love you with all my heart and I would like you to make me the happiest man alive by agreeing to become my wife". I cried, it was very romantic. Should say before we started walking around the park he got his thick jacket out the car and it was a really warm day. I'd said what you wearing that for blah blah, don't moan when you get too hot and have to carry it! Turns out the ring was in his pocket and he obviously hadn't wanted me to see it.

He'd asked my dad over a month before he proposed but the shop had sent the wrong ring through so he'd had to wait a few weeks to get the right one. He said my dad was so excited that everytime they spoke he asked him if he'd got the ring yet. Mum and dad couldn't keep their mouthes shut which resulted in everyone (apart from me!) knowing I was going to get engaged. I said, that's it I'm off to Tesco, they said why and I said I was hoping to find someone they hadn't told yet...ha ha

When I got home my sister had put up congratulations banners! I said that was presumptious.

He'd also organised an engagement meal with my whole family and his whole family that night (I thought it would just be the 2 of us!).

He really put a lot of thought into it.

Are you a fellow Welshy then hehe?

Mine's pretty sweet, but I want Disneyland now ha ha.

OH and I were on holiday and he'd got badly burnt the day before and could barely walk so we spent a couple of days just chilling out in the villa and me sunbathing on the balcony. He felt really bad and promised he'd make it up to me. I was lying on the sofa with my head on his lap and he was playing with my hair while we were watching a DVD. After a while my hair started to get knotty and was pulling so I asked him what he was doing. He just apologised and went back to doing it properly. Not long after his phone went off, so I guessed my hair was a mess because he was texting. OH has always told me who was texting him and what they were saying, despite the fact that I never asked, so when he just put his phone down and got up I was a bit confused.

He called me out onto the balcony to look at the sunset, but we'd sat out in it every night so wasn't that bothered. He called me again and I still wouldn't move. He called me one last time and told me there was a storm coming, he knows I LOVE storms. So I got up and went outside. The sunset was amazing, really big and bright and at first I got really confused because I couldn't see the storm, but it was the other side of the villa. We went ot the side of the balcony so we could see both and he just stood there with his arms around me while I babbled on about how amazing storms were. The rain started pounding down and I was in my element. The clouds blacked out the sky and we could just see the red/orange glowof the sunset in the distance.

OH suddenly says a loud 'OW!', so I turned around and there his is on one knee (remember he could barely walk so this was dedication), apologising for ow-ing then asked me to marry him. I said 'You know I will, ooh ooh look lightning!' (Bit of background, OH had been asking me to marry him since date number one, sometimes in a conversation and sometimes just out of the blue, but always in romantic settings, so this was nothing new, hence my less than enthusiastic response) He grabbed my hand and told me he'd text my mum (I lost my dad when I was 1) just before to ask if he could propose and she'd said yes. I started to cry and said 'Can I have my ring now?'

He laughed and said 'Is that a yes then?' so I jumped up and down and said 'Of course it is, but really can I have my ring now?' He was still laughing at me, then had to explain that he hadn't planned to propose properly so soon so didn't actually have a ring, so he went inside and got me a Hula Hoop that we managed to squeeze onto the end of my finger and promised he'd get me a real one when we got home.

Sorry that got so long ?

Love the stories

I knew my OH was going to propose at some point as he burst one day & said you'll need to pick as ring. As on previous trips shopping passing Jewellers he would point out massive rocks of engagement rings & would say I didnt like them.

We went & picked the ring but due to resizing etc it wasnt going to be ready for a while. This was all in March & as we were going to Vegas in April for my 30th I just assumed he would do it then. We didnt tell anyone about picking the ring.

He quite traditional in the sense that he wanted to ask my dad, my parents live 250 miles away so when we went to visit them shortly after I assumed he would ask my dad then. We had only been in my parents house 5 minutes when my OH suggested we went down to the ferry to get a timetable (Im from the north of scotland) I couldnt really be bothered but went anyway, as we got closer there was a queue for the ferry going along the road so my OH parked up & said we'll just walk down. I did think this was a bit strange & it did cross my mind that he was up to something but I thought we'd only been home 5 mins so he hadnt had a chance to ask my dad...

Anyway we walked down to the ferry, where there is a ruined castle that i love, he stopped & said I've got something to ask you & got down on one knee ?

Turns out he'd asked my parents while i was in the loo & him & my mum came up with the timetable story! So didnt have ring that day but got it 2 days later. I was delighted he did it somewhere thats special to me & not in Vegas as i thought ?

We were on holiday in Seville, wandering round these beautiful gardens of a palace we were visiting. I saw a red rose lined path which I thought was beautiful and said "Awww look at that path, I want to walk down it, it's so lovely!" We start walking down it and he's dawdling behind me. I was saying how beautiful the roses were, he said "It's a shame I can't pick one for you......I suppose this will have to do instead" grabbed me, got down on one knee and showed me the ring and asked me to marry him!!! I was stunned!! A massive surprise and so impressed he managed to conceal the box in combat shorts all day, hehe.

I had a little weep and we got someone to take a photo, but the photo of me is awful as my face is all puffy from the crying and the heat, it was about 35 degrees! Hehe, it was amazing though.

And loving all the other stories

x

Loved reading these stories! Sounds like we all have suprisingly romantic OH's!

Mine happened on the day before my 21st birthday. OH had planned a suprise day out for my birthday, to a spa which was lovely. he even brought me a manicure and massage! All day he kept saying how there were more suprises to come later. At the time I didnt think much of this and was just enjoying the relaxing day.

When we got home OH cooked me a gorgeous 3 course meal that he prepared all himself. After we had eaten gorgeous meal, he produced a massive box! I opened it and in the middle sat the ring box, when I turned to look at OH he was on one knee, I started to cry and immediately said yes! turns out he had been saying a lovely speech he had prepared whilst I was opening the box, but I didnt hear any of it so must get him to write it down for me!

I had absolutely no idea about any of it!

He had asked my parents permission so all my siblings knew. So my 21st birthday party next day turned into an engagement party where we could announce it to all our family and friends (they were all very shocked)! BEST DAY EVER!

Gah this is making me feel all sad, I'd LOVE a big romantic gesture. I'm all about gestures and wish my engagement had been a bit more special really (course H2B doesn't know this)

We'd been ring shopping and I'd chosen one, then a few months later we were out for dinner and he said his heart was beating really fast, and I said "oh you've probably eaten too much" and he said no, it's because he's about to ask me to marry him... and he pulled a ring out of his lap, but he was so frickin' nervous he didn't even have it the right way, the diamond bit was kinda inbetween his fingers! So yeah that was it really. He didn't get down on one knee and because we were in a restaurant, and the seats were fixed - they were like these big chairs that you couldn't move - we just sat on opposite sides of the table and kinda looked at each other. It was all a bit...weird. Obviously I wanted to hug him and kiss him etc but we hadn't paid the bill or anything so he got up and kissed me then sat back down.

Why he couldn't have waited until after dinner when we were walking around I don't know (we were in Boston, USA) , it would have been a bit more, intimate!

Later he said he didn't get down on one knee because he was embaressed and didn't want anyone to see. For goodness sake! ...Yeah we're quite different!

It was at my Auntie's house celebrating my birthday, my mum had just made everyone sing Happy Birthday to me, and then spun me round to face my now finace, who was down on one knee ?

The biggest surprise for me is that he is so shy and I couldnt believe he did it in front of everyone

Plus my mum had known for the previous two weeks and she cant usually keep secrets Lol

I love reading all these. Mine was an Xmas day proposal, oh gave me my presents and told me I had to open them all in a certain order, anyway I he had got me 12 and I hadn't a clue why they had to be in a certain order, then he gave me a letter that was written as thought I had written a List for Santa listing all the presents with different letters highlighted but jumbled up, with an r? At the bottom, took me ages to unscramble it and realise it spelt out will you marry me. when I turned round her was down on one knee with the ring and asked the question, I went all weird aparently and just kept saying oh my god oh my god over and over but did eventually manage a yes! Then I cried a lot and rang everyone. It was a total suprise.