Where did he propose to you

thanks Anne!

See Liz, it was meant to be.  Bickering like you've been married for thirty years on the night he proposed!   

I think it's a GREAT story.

Btw, the sea must have been freezing on New Year's Eve!

Well, we were walking back from the bus stop in Bromley Common, then Jon got down on one knee, and proposed the 3rd day we were physically together.

After I had gone back to the States, I had gone home to Ohio for TG, and he rang and asked my mother for my hand in marriage. She thought that was really sweet.

See Liz, it was meant to be.  Bickering like you've been married for thirty years on the night he proposed!   

I think it's a GREAT story.

Btw, the sea must have been freezing on New Year's Eve!

Probably but I was so full of booze I didn't notice.

I asked him.

It was my last day in the UK after my two week visit. As we were lying in bed I asked him and he said yes. He went out and bought me a ring that day. 9 years, 4 months, 29 days later and we are still going strong.

Thanks to everyone who posted in this thread.  I told my Brit B/F about it, and I know he had a look.  Hope he's not planning to copy anyone else's ideas....
(Stuart, in case you're reading this, I love you   )

Frank first proposed on ICQ. I was in North Carolina and he was here in England. I told him I wouldnt let him off so easily. He said he would propose to me one day on the top of the Eifel Tower. So a few months later we went to Paris and the lines were so long we decided not to wait. When I came to England for a weekend visit he took me for a pub meal and bought a bottle of wine. He wanted to propose then and there but it was so loud he decided not to. Later that night I was packing my bags and in the middle of folding my sweater he proposed. It was very sweet but not so romantic. We were dog sitting for his sister and I was on her bed surrounded by baskets of ironing
We will be married five years in March. We have two sons together. Still very much in love 

We were dog sitting for his sister and I was on her bed surrounded by baskets of ironing

As a mother of boys, being surrounded by laundry is a natural environment!   

Well, we were living in Newcastle and dead broke but had been planning a weekend in Glasgow and Arrochar. Arrochar had a B&B/restaurant he wanted me to visit. We also stopped by Edinburgh to visit a friend and their new baby.

Since we were so broke, I kept suggesting we postpone the trip but he wouldn't hear of it.

So we drove up and he was really moody. Saw the friends and he was OK but still moody.

We then go to Glasgow and I was so happy since I adore Charles Rennie Macintosh. We went to the famous tea rooms with the gift shop downstairs. While eating, Glenn suggests I get a small piece of silver jewlery in CRM style to go with some of my other pieces (I didn't know this, but he was crossing his fingers I'd chose a ring). I DID decide to get a ring but I was still clueless so chose one for my right hand.

We then drive to Arrochar where we roam about a bit and then have a late-ish dinner. After dinner (and after a Scottish whisky for him), he wanted to walk around the loch but I was cold and needed the loo. But he kept insisting so I grudgingly went along - he said 'Just to the lampost and we'll turn back!' So we walk to the lampost with me whinging the whole way - still clueless! We PASS the lampost, I turn around and say 'Can we go back yet' and THEN he popped the question!!

I was so shocked all I could do was squeal and give him a huge hug. He had to ask again to get a proper answer out of me!!

I had no idea he'd planned all this. The ring was a temporary one as he knew I'd want to chose something made from white gold. We had talked about rings a bit but he'd always dodged any hints about weddings and such. So sneaky!

 

The night I arrived on my most recent visit we'd taken the coach up to Coventry. After having a snack/meal of bread and cheese and stuff with his parents, they went up to bed and left us sitting talking on the couch.  he suggested lighting some candles (already had the fire lit) so we did that.  After a short while, the previously silent stereo suddenly began to play a song.  In the next few seconds I went from thinking "where is that music coming from?" to realizing what the song was (Let's Get Married by The Proclaimers) to turning to find him down on one knee! 

Although I knew he was going to propose on this visit (we were going to look at wedding reception venues the following day and had had my parents blessing since Christmas Day!) he totally took me by surprise by the way he did it!

The night I arrived on my most recent visit we'd taken the coach up to Coventry. After having a snack/meal of bread and cheese and stuff with his parents, they went up to bed and left us sitting talking on the couch.  he suggested lighting some candles (already had the fire lit) so we did that.  After a short while, the previously silent stereo suddenly began to play a song.  In the next few seconds I went from thinking "where is that music coming from?" to realizing what the song was (Let's Get Married by The Proclaimers) to turning to find him down on one knee! 

Although I knew he was going to propose on this visit (we were going to look at wedding reception venues the following day and had had my parents blessing since Christmas Day!) he totally took me by surprise by the way he did it!

That sounds very sweet and romantic.....  When are you getting married?

The night I arrived on my most recent visit we'd taken the coach up to Coventry. After having a snack/meal of bread and cheese and stuff with his parents, they went up to bed and left us sitting talking on the couch.  he suggested lighting some candles (already had the fire lit) so we did that.  After a short while, the previously silent stereo suddenly began to play a song.  In the next few seconds I went from thinking "where is that music coming from?" to realizing what the song was (Let's Get Married by The Proclaimers) to turning to find him down on one knee! 

Although I knew he was going to propose on this visit (we were going to look at wedding reception venues the following day and had had my parents blessing since Christmas Day!) he totally took me by surprise by the way he did it!

Thank you for sharing that!  So sweet!!!

I had known him for something like 12 years, as platonic friends.
I was living in Glasgow, and he, a Glaswegian, was living & working in London.
He came up to visit his parents over Easter, and as I was only a couple of streets away, he came round and we went for a drink and the next day we went to the Rangers match together.
That night, after the match, we met up with some mutual friends for a curry, and they were looking at us really weirdly... finally Teresa piped up with 'you two look like a great couple' and i laughed and said something like 'aye right, AS IF Neil would go out with someone like me!' and he turned to me and said 'actually i would', and i was pure shocked.
We kissed for the first time that night, and spent the rest of the week in eachother's pockets.  At the end of the week when he was getting ready to go back to London, he said he felt this was his last chance to ask me to marry him, cos if he waited till the next time he saw me, I'd probably have met someone else.  He confessed that he had fancied me since we first met 12 years before, but never dared to do anything about it as i was always either going out with someone else, or married to someone else!

I said 'no'... incidentally.  I had already been married twice before and was NOT into the idea of doing it again.
But we ended up carrying on a Glasgow-London relationship for the next year, and everytime we saw eachother he asked me.  I guess i could only say 'no' so many times, so when we were on holiday in Cornwall, i finally agreed.

It hasn't been a marriage made in heaven... not by a long stretch.  But we get on, and never fight (only 1 fight in 7 years of marriage), so i guess that says something.   

That sounds very sweet and romantic.....  When are you getting married?

52 weeks 3 days 12 hours... LOL

otherwise known as 24th Feb 2006

November 1997 - I had known Erin since the 7th grade.  We dated a little in H.S. and college but had other people that we had dated in between.  After she moved away to Chicago I did one of those "I'll show you" moves that guys do and moved to Newport Beach California.  I only lasted three miserable months there (but I did enjoy watching the sunset every night).  While I was out there I had decided that she was the one though, so I packed up my stuff and headed to chicago.  (It's a sad commentary that at the time I could fit all of my worldly posessions into a Honda CRX)

Fast forward a few weeks, it's thursday night, I have the ring (a family heirloom), I phone her parents and ask them.  FIL says "We're a little concerned you don't have a job" but agreed to it, as did MIL and 4 sibs did too.  Lot's of happiness.  I told them to keep it quiet b/c I was going to ask that weekend.  Well after I got off the phone with them and had their official OK the ring was burning a hole in my pocket.  I decided to propose to her while Ice Skating in Daley Plaza after a nice dinner - THAT NIGHT.  Erin liked ice skating at the time.  She got home from work and I told her to change b/c we were going to dinner at the Signature Room in Chicago (top of the Hancock building there).

E says that to this day she was expecting the proposal at the restaurant, and was really confused when I didn't do it there.  Anyway, dinner wound up taking waaaay to long and ended like at 11:15 or so - We walked to the Ice Skating Rink that was close by, but it was CLOSED!  We decided to walk a little further through Daley Plaza and came to the German "Kristkindle Markt" -  which was also closed - but the City Christmas Tree was up....lights and all, it was snowing a little bit.  Underneath the tree they were playing german christmas carrols.  I sang along to "Ihr kinderlein commet" - then, under the tree, got down on one knee and proposed.

She said yes, and we immediately bought cheesy santa hats with light up plastic figurines on the end that we still wear every christmas.  We've been married now for 6 years, going on 7.  It's been a lot of fun facing new challenges together.  I'm pretty lucky to be married to her.