How did your significant other propose to you?

I didn't want a ring. Now-husband felt really strongly about it though: he wanted me to have one. Arguments that I never wear rings and don't like things on my fingers, etc went nowhere.

So we got a ring. And I never wear it. If we did this all over again, I'm certain husband would listen to me now and get me an engagement laptop instead.

On his bended knee at the restaurant where we had our first date.  It was lovely!

It was my 24th birthday this April and being ever the tourist I wanted to go see Stonehenge for my birthday. We drove down to a lovely bed and breakfast the night before in Salisbury and spent a night out on the town drinking and me being pretty tanked enjoying my time in England. That morning still in a haze he allowed me to open my birthday presents while I was still laying in bed. I thought the highlight was getting the football jersey of his home team until low and behold he handed me the last gift. I didnt really think much of it even opening the box but there it was in all its glory. There really wasnt a "will you marry me" question but I think the box spelled it out and of course I said yes. I later told him I had a feeling it was coming as a few days prior his mum was making me try on some rings of hers randomly which got my hamster wheel spinning. It was perfect though I hope we go back to that place again for our anniversary sometime.

I was here on a work permit and said to him, 'I'm sick of teaching and I am going to quit when this school year's up. If I'm going to stay, we have to get married.' So we did. That was 7 years ago. Still happy as clams. (Though we'd probably still just be living together if not for the visa issue...who knows)

So we got a ring. And I never wear it. If we did this all over again, I'm certain husband would listen to me now and get me an engagement laptop instead.

I was reading these posts to DH and we're both sitting here having a giggle at a few. Mainly because much like chary or Mindy...no whirlwind, down-on-one-knee proposal...no spankin rock on that left hand...and I'm glad I'm not the only one.

After a year and a half of doing the LDR between the UK and Ohio/North Carolina, I was visiting for the summer in 2007 and mentioned how flights were getting too expensive and I couldn't wait until we could just start making plans. His response was simple, "if you want us to start making plans, then we'll start making plans...as far as I'm concerned, we're already engaged."

I returned to the US on the 19th of August 2007, and 18 days shy of being apart (no visits) for a year, I returned to the UK with my shiny fiance visa and we were married that November.

I can't believe I have been living here now a year and now it's just one month until our first wedding anniversary, we're expecting in December, and I couldn't be more in love with this wonderful man who didn't propose to me.

I feel the same LoveMyBrit.  I didn't have a big fany pants proposal either and I was just joking with DH about this last night at the pub. We were staying in NYC because he wanted to see the city and we talked and decided we wanted to get married, went out and got me a ring (actually a pretty big one, thats what he gets for letting me pick it out!.. hah) and then announced we were engaged to my family the next day when we saw them.

When people ask 'how did he propose?' i say 'in Times Square' because we were staying in a hotel in times square when we decided to get married and bought my ring... but its really not the grand proposal they envision.   

I had a proposal of sorts, but it was really a formality since we had already decided to get married about 2 months earlier   That discussion took place over the phone when I was studying in Manchester and he was studying in Sheffield- I was stressed about not knowing what the future was going to hold and the prospect of being apart after I finished my degree.  I said something like "This would be so much easier if we got married" and my husband was quiet and then said "In my mind, it's not a question of if we get married, but when we get married."  My mind was pretty blown since while I was pretty sure we were heading in that direction, I didn't realise that he had already made his own mind up!  So I said "Do you realise what you just said?" and he said "Oh crap!  Okay, this is not a proposal...I want to do it properly."  (I could have cared less about whether he actually proposed or not, but he wanted to do it.)

So we spent the next 2 months talking about being married and how that would work, I picked out a ring, and then when I went to visit him one weekend he did the on-bended knee thing...but by that point it certainly wasn't a surprise ;-) It was only then that we announced that we were engaged...it was really nice having that "secret" for a couple of months.

We went ring shopping while we were visiting relatives in Dublin in Feb 08, and found the PERFECT emerald ring at a tiny shop. But I told him I wanted to be surprised, not just be handed it in some random shop with a "well, here you go then", so we agreed to keep the ring a secret until he properly proposed.

And it was certainly a surprise... he waited until JUNE(!), when we were just out at our favourite curry restaurant round the corner from where I used to live, having a grand night out with Sal, "East Ham's leading Asian Elvis", performing in the restaurant that night. James waited til I went to the toilet, explained it all to Sal (we've become good friends with him over the years). When I came back, the next song was "Love Me Tender", a capella, and Sal handed James the mic and he went down on one knee... ha, I was so surprised!! And then we danced in the aisle to the rest of the song and the whole restaurant congratulated us as they danced by us for the rest of the night. Sal said it was his first proposal and he was so happy that it was us!

In bed....LOL

My mom was being horrible on our visit to Tim and I was really upset by her attitude so Tim was comforting me in bed (cuddling) and he said "see? just what the doctor ordered". So I, in my half-asleep daze said "Dr Tim, will you marry me?" and he said "I think so"

...so then we had to have a proper proposal of him asking me about 5 minutes later and he used the butterfly ring he gave me for Christmas.  We still haven't really decided if we want a different ring or not.

My mom was being horrible on our visit to Tim and I was really upset by her attitude

what was she doing? Let's hear about the horribleness!

(eta:  oops... that's probably for another thread!  )

what was she doing? Let's hear about the horribleness!

(eta:  oops... that's probably for another thread!  )

Posting to the parent rant thread just for you :p

In bed....LOL

My mom was being horrible on our visit to Tim and I was really upset by her attitude so Tim was comforting me in bed (cuddling) and he said "see? just what the doctor ordered". So I, in my half-asleep daze said "Dr Tim, will you marry me?" and he said "I think so"

...so then we had to have a proper proposal of him asking me about 5 minutes later and he used the butterfly ring he gave me for Christmas.  We still haven't really decided if we want a different ring or not.

If I were you, i'd make him pay for the "I think so" comment for a lonnnnggg time!   You probably should've waited for him to propose 

If I were you, i'd make him pay for the "I think so" comment for a lonnnnggg time!   You probably should've waited for him to propose 

LOL

I kind of thought it was coming though. The first day we were together we went on the Welsh Highland Railway, it's a 4 hour RT trip, and partway through my butt started to hurt from the hard seat, so I sat on his lap and he said it "felt right" and he missed the smell of my hair.

My SO proposed on a trip to the States. We went to Colorado in May and on my birthday we were hiking in the Rockies. We were above the tree line, about 1-2 feet of snow underfoot with more coming down. We stopped for a break and to look at the view of Long's Peak and when I turned around he was down on one knee. I was taken completely by surprise. He'd even carried two bottles of Fat Tire beer all the way up to celebrate with, and signed the trail register when we got back to the trailhead  "a great hike... and I proposed!"

It was perfect.

My fiance decided we needed to take a trip which of course I was excited for. He decided we should go down to Italy as a sort of, celebration before I started med school so we went down to New Zealand because I've always wanted to go and we both adore hiking and outdoor adventurous activities. So here we are, pretty much middle of nowhere, camping after a very fun night, and he asks if I love him. So I said 'John, I've been with you for five years, of course I love you' which probably wasn't a very romantic response but he laughed and kissed me anyways. He then pulled me up so we could walk down to the little lake and he stops and says "Oh, forgot something" and gets down on one knee, pulls out a beautiful ring and proposes.
What a sweetheart right?