(Kinda Embarrassing) Proposal Story -- sharing funny stories

Aw that’s super cute


I had a feeling my husband was gonna propose but didn’t know when exactly - til he said he randomly got us some tickets to a garden on Sunday. That felt like a stereotypical place to propose right? So it’s Friday night of that weekend and we are just in. I go take a shower and he says “take your time in the shower” I didn’t think much of it. So I come back in the room and start painting my nails and he’s telling me to come look out the window. I say eh later or in a minute, I’m busy painting nails. And he keeps pushing me like no no cmon will you just come look omg. Finally I come look and in candles and rose petals in the back yard he has spelled “I love you, marry me?” And he’s down on his knee proposing and I say “yes but I wish you would have waited til I had pants on” — I didn’t have any pants on.

We picked out my ring together because I saw it online and knew it was my ring, so I knew it was coming and was there when he picked it up. I was so excited! Lol so we were planning on going to dinner at the place where he confessed that he had feelings for me, and for some reason he realized at that moment that the ring wouldn't fit in his pocket. So he tried to pass off wearing his hoodie in August...in Texas. And I could see the box! I was so nervous excite the whole time lol. Not sure how I ate i was so on edge. So I totally knew it it was still very sweet.

I have always told him that I do not want a big proposal in front of people, family, crowd, period. I do not want it on a holiday, birthdays, etc lol. So, I was getting off work Friday and I was really cranky because I did not eat all freakin day and asked him if he wanted me to bring Wingstop home. He asked if I was sure that I wanted that, I told him yes, that is what I want. I opened up the door carrying a big bag of Wingstop with the drink holder and first thing I noticed were rose petals on the floor. Walked in slowly calling out, "baaaaaaabe" and he told me to follow the rose petals. Remember, I was cranky, hungry, wanting to eat, NOW. I was like the foods going to get cold! LOL. I followed the rose petals to the kitchen and he told me to open the freezer. Opened it and there was Edible Arrangments (dozen chocolate covered strawberries). I took it to the table and opened it. There was a card, and thing a ring box. Of course I read the sweet card and started tearing up trying to get myself together. I grabbed the box and opened it and....... nothing was in there. We started laughing (he is a goofy prankster!) I then turned around and he got on his knees and grabbed my hand and started saying the sweetest things ever crying and I am crying. He pulled out the ring that was inside a red rose in the living room table and of course, asked me if I will marry him and of course I yelled out, "YES, HELL YES, OF COURSE, YOU ALREADY KNOW!!" It was the best. I couldn't have asked for a better way for him to do it. It was US.

I’ve always dreamed of a super cute and romantic proposal and FH knows that but we both wouldn’t like it to be around people. So one day he came to my place and we were watching something random on tv, just chilling, he started starring at me and said “I owe you” and I couldn’t understand what he was saying so I was like “hmm what?” Then he said it again and I asked why then he said “will you marry me? I don’t have a ring but I wanna marry you” I was so speechless cuz that’s so him LOL He said he looked at rings but couldn’t decide what he liked so he took me to the mall afterwards to get one. I still can’t believe that’s how he proposed but I’m not mad at all lol

We had been talking more about getting married “someday” and how he was going to buy me a ring “someday”. Looking back I still can’t believe I didn’t catch on.
My car was totaled in a bad hail storm and we had just gotten home from buying a new car, we had stopped at a Local taco truck and picked up some street tacos. I was setting everything up, getting the kids ready for dinner and he walks in with a box from Jared’s and says “can you open this for me”. I had also recently broke a necklace that had charms with my kids names. I thought it was a new chain. I opened it and was completely shocked!
1. Because I didn’t expect it2. Because I really thought it was a necklace3. Because he is so much more romantic then that.
We laugh about it now but I still tease him for the lamest proposal ever. I really expected he would do it one year during our annual Christmas trip to Durango.

When my fiancé proposed he did it outside in the winter at this fancy restaurant. It was outside and no one was around and he’s saying his speech telling me he loves me, and he goes to bend down and I was like “WAIT THERES SNOW ON THE GROUND YOUR PANTS ARE GONNA GET ALL DIRTY!!” And he was speechless that I was yelling at him to not get his pants wet and dirty and was like “well that’s the risk I’m willing to take!” And then it clicked what was happening. Still to this day I’m embarrassed at myself

My FH Proposed While We Were In Bed. He Did It So Nonchalantly That He Had To Convince me He Was Serious For An Hour, Since He Didn't Get On One Knee Like Tradition. I Didn't Believe Him At All And Even The Days Afterward I Didn't Bring It Up Cause He HAD Been Drinking A Little That Night. I Knew He Was Serious When On My Birthday, He Had Our 2 Year Old Son Bring Me My Ring.

FH told his friend last June (while I was in the car) that he was going to propose. We had been talking about it but I didn't think it was real conversation, so after that I started looking out for it and planning (can't help that, it's who I am). He bought a ring in October and in once it hit December and he still hadn't asked, I assumed it wouldn't happen until Jan/Feb because I told him I didn't want it at Christmas time. Dec 15 we went to a museum. I thought "this might be it!!!" but was trying to act super casual because I didn't think he would ask yet. We went outside because they have a beautiful garden. They have a big pond so I stopped to look at the fish and took pictures because it was so pretty. And he kept guiding me to the gazeebo, which is where he asked because I love gazeebos. And he had my photographer friend there to capture it. It was perfect!! So the big joke is that my friend was hiding in the bushes in the freezing cold ready to take the pictures and he was trying to figure out how to get me up to the gazeebo, while I was way more concerned with looking at the fish in the pond lol

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OH NO That's so cute, though! Oh my goodness! I love how he made you think he was going to go propose at the garden, but then he hit you with it as a surprise. And the no pants thing... that'll be a fun one to tell the grandkids, right?

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AWWWWWWW. What a great place for a proposal! I can't imagine how hot he must've been, not just from the season, but he was also probably pretty nervous, too! So sweet!

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AHHHHH you describe it so well, I feel like I was there. I would be so upset if my FH was keeping me from food LOL. That is super super super adorable, though. I absolutely love how he didn't put the ring in the actual box. What a cutie! You guys sound so fun. And it sounds like it was a pretty big surprise! I hope you ate your Wingstop afterwards

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This is so special ugh my heart. It feels like it was so spontaneous and heart felt and ugh. Sometimes the non-planned ones are the most romantic and cute

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What a card! LOL!! It sounds like he definitely didn't want you to see it coming! That's great, though!

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OH MY GOSH I can totally see myself doing the same exact thing I don't know if you've seen Frozen 2, but my FH asked me if women could really be as oblivious as Anna and I was like UH YES THEY CAN LOL. I laughed out loud for real on this one. Super funny! And definitely not the typical proposal story, which is a good thing. I bet it's fun for him to tell.

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Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. So sweet. This sounds like something out of a movie

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Oh my goodness!! This one is hilarious, too! I can just imagine him trying to convince you to go, while you're looking at the fish So funny.

View Quoted Comment Yea he laughed, put the ring on my finger and then handed me a pair of pants ahaha. So on Sunday we went to the garden and took some engagement photos there

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Melle, this is why I made it clear, from VERY early in our relationship, that DH had to propose to me WHILE WE WERE BOTH VERY MUCH CLOTHED. As in, he better plan it in public.

We had been talking about getting engaged for so long, I started to go a little bananas, because all kinds of situations popped up where it would work for him to propose. (Everyone wants to know why I didn't, and it's because DH made it clear he wanted to... so I didn't.) Finally, my friend got TICKED at him for putting it off, dropped the link to my ring in his DMs, and said, "DO IT!"

And then he planned a party-proposal with our other friends, nearly called it off because the ring would be late, and poor friend had to deal with BOTH OF US simultaneously texting her anxiety (him about going through with it, me with whether or not he'd get off his duff and do it already... she is an angel and we love her).

Then, he got SQUIRRELY. Y'know, when your SO starts acting odd, but denying it, and you just know something's up.

I went to work, knowing we were going to a NYE party later, and made it clear to my coworkers that I was getting engaged, or burying a body in the Pine Barrens. I accuse DH of being squirrely on the way to the party. He gets MORE squirrely denying that he is squirrely.

We go to the party. People keep getting dragged out of the apartment to talk about something. I am Suspicious. I ask EVERYONE at the party, "he's proposing tonight, right?" Some friends are better at lying than others. (I know this. Apparently this makes me awful.) We play a game, wherein you get blindfolded, spun around, and then dropped to the floor, and you have to find a pot with a wooden spoon, and then you get a gift. (It's fun.) People are whispered to while this is going on. I target said Bad At Lying Friend: "I'm being set up, right?" She blinks at me. (Told you she was bad at lying.) DH is picked early, but doesn't pick me. I glare at Bad At Lying Friend. She blinks at me. I am picked LAST. I am very suspicious. DH moves and I know he moves, even though I am blindfolded.

DH hides the temporary ring under the pot, I find it, I flip over the pot, and I say, "I knew it". DH makes a little speech, we get engaged, everyone cheers, and also say, "Rebecca, you can't just ask people if you are getting proposed to!!"

(...I am a Ravenclaw, I always ruin my own surprises.)