[Closed] How did you propose?

Don't give in to pressure. You should LOVE her!

+1 to GG comment

Mine was very low key, Antibe harbour at sunset on holiday. We were utterly broke at the time so original ring was polished, twisted brake cable, inset with a polished ball bearing.

we were, errrmmm, horizontal at the time.

That's strange,www, so was I. Are you my wife?

I took the misses to Paris and had a meal in the Eiffel tower and proposed before dessert, cost a fortune but well worth it!

Definitely need to love her though, otherwise just buy yourself a nice bike instead... and get on a dating website.

"Will you marry me" ought to do it, the rest is just BS

We had just ridden through a liquid sea of what I was certain was mud. It wasn't. It was cow slurry. I think the question saved the day!

🙂 went to cuba and proposed on an island off the main land... worth making the effort

My plan had been for us to go for a walk up bidean nam bian in the snow on new years day and me to propose at the top.

What happened was that we were in the pub watching Liverpool V Southampton on the 28th of December and at half time, my mate goes to the toilet and the now wife says to me "I think we should get married" to which I responded "OK then". Mate came back from the toilet and I asked if he wanted to be my best man. Nine weeks later we were married.

What GG said. Never give in to pressure. My first marriage failed for that reason (at least partially).

Other than that, I proposed on top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. She only said yes so that I would let her leave!

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"You're my wife now"

In her mum and dads garage whilst fixing her bike. Ring was in a box in my toolbox. Had to ask her to get me the allen keys twice before she spotted it.

Top of the Empire State building, very top bit deserted apart from lift guy, got down on one knee and popped the question. Job done.

Out mountain biking. Lovely day. Nobody else around (so I could abandon her in the middle of nowhere if she said no). On one knee. No ring (let her decide on that - you'll never pick the right one). She wasn't expecting it - made her cry and say yes.

I am finally going to give into pressure and ask her to marry me.

Why can't she ask you?

Don't bother with the stupid expensive 'romantic' bs if I were you. The act itself is romantic, anything else is a distraction.

I proposed on MSN messenger 🙂

Ring was in a box in my toolbox. Had to ask her to get me the allen keys twice before she spotted it

This is classy though 🙂

I can't honestly remember maybe didn't propose as such just sort of discussed it. No need for all this fancy, "Oh I arranged the local 5 star Michellin restaurant to do us a table on a secluded beach at sunset, with the pianist playing our favourite tune whilst we gazed into each others eyes" she's going to say the same either way. But if you want to make is special that's up to you, needs to be your own ideas though.

It's not of course that I did the romantic stuff the first time I got engaged before seeing sense and getting the hell out of there. Oh no not that at all.

We were utterly broke at the time so original ring was polished, twisted brake cable, inset with a polished ball bearing.

(Sobs at the incredible romantic beauty of it all)

No seriously, that really is beautiful. Do you have any pics?

On a snowboarding holiday, at the top of the Hintertux Glacier overlooking the Austrian alps.
Quite romantic, but it took me TWELVE years to do it so I'd picked my moment 😀
(I used a substitute ring, in case I dropped it in the snow)

Think we were out walking somewhere and she said 'if we get married...' and I said 'yeah OK then'

And who says romance is dead eh?

I bought her a diamond so she could pick the setting for it (cheaper that way too!) and gave it to her in a presentation box to which she asked "where's the other one?" thinking it was a set of earrings! Once she'd twigged it was for an engagement ring it was all good. We get married a week on Friday 🙂

As above, best to pick the ring together. I had a pretty good idea of what Mrs Udder would have wanted (I was right, as it turned out), but didn't want to get her something she'd be disappointed in.

I decided to ask her, and just pick the right moment. A nice long trip to Marrakesh contained no 'right' moments, and nor did going riding or walking on the North Downs. However, we were wandering around the local allotments and picked a bench to look at the view, and the time seemed right. We've been married since March.

My advice: if asking doesn't seem like the right thing to do, don't ask. You have to want to marry her, not feel like you're under pressure to marry her.

(Sobs at the incredible romantic beauty of it all)

No seriously, that really is beautiful. Do you have any pics?

No afraid not. She has it tucked away in a box somewhere. We picked a ring together once we had a bit of money. Getting married in August.

I just sent the cheque, and when I got the receipt, my heart leapt with joy as I knew she had said 'Yes'

On the finish line at Mountain Mayhem 2009 after winning the Solo race.
If I hadn't won she might still have been waiting 🙂

Slightly drunk one night during an eclipse (of the moon :D) in front of a log fire in a cottage in the Trossachs. Champagne hamper.

I put the ring on the dog's collar and we went off for a Wintery walk on the beach. I was a bit worried when the dog started leaping in and out of the waves and ramming his head down rabbit holes but the ring stayed put....

Gave her the box at the end of the beach - it had a dog biscuit inside! She was supposed to notice th ring on the collar when giving the dog the biscuit, but I had to ask, "Oh! What's that on his collar?" before she noticed the ring.

my ex asked me when we were out on the mtbs. We'd just said goodbye to some friends and stopped mid way down a descent to eat and he got down on one knee and proposed.

At the top of Ben Nevis!

Arranged to climb it 6 months earlier with some friends and thought it would be a good idea. Unfortunately after I had bought the ring it turned out our house moving weekend fell the weekend before out organised trip and it took mucho persuasion to convince her to still have a weekend away from the stress of packing etc.

Hid the ring in a box of jaffa cakes and had to keep stopping and checking it was still there every 10 minutes on the way up!!

Proposed at the top in the mist, surrounded by half of Glasgow, well at least we got a cheer and a few tears from the crowd!!

Fairly low key, walking down by the harbour in Palma. She was speachless for a while... when a few people further down saw me produce the ring they gave us a round of applause. Dinner with some bubbles to celebrate afterwards

At the Taj Mahal, nearly got arrested for it though 😯
It was worth it, it's our first anniversary next month.

I just sent the cheque, and when I got the receipt, my heart leapt with joy as I knew she had said 'Yes'

Aaaawwwh.. I bet you were straight down the docks to wait for her container to arrive. 😀

Reluctantly?

On holiday in T'Egypt, last full day there and we went shopping into town.

Bought a diamond ring for her as a Christmas Pressie. Got back to the hotel, on the resort, all alone (apart from a whinging 3 year old) and got a dirty knee.

Regretted it about 6 months later. Married her after 16 months.

I'm in the process fo getting divorced.

+1 to any and all comments that will say something like "be ABSOLUTELY sure" or "Don't do it" 😉

Will always regret my proposal -

In the chippy at chucking out time and slurred to my beloved "we can get engaged if you like"

Will always wish I did it properly!

Fell out of the back of the Land Rover, somewhat overcome by beer. As she helped me up off the pavement, I thought that perhaps this one was worth sticking with.

I asked, she said that I was drunk. I conceded that this was a possibility, so whisked her off to Hatton Garden the next day. She took me a little more seriously then.

Trials and tribulations, but still together 18 years later

Similar to Nickf (other than the landie bit) was watching Scotland v S.Africa rugby game on TV and she kept bringing me beers when mine was emtpy, so figured she was a keeper & proposed (at half time naturally)

at gunpoint

we talked about it, I'd fallen out with my parents and wanted to pee them off proper big time so decided we should get engaged, he didn't really get a choice 😀 Don't judge me, I was only a very immature 17 year old at the time. Luckily 11 years on we aren't actually getting married to annoy my parents, they are actually quite pleased. 🙂

Whilst carrying her on my shoulders along a deserted Greek beach!

Before I proposed, I was living in Luxembourg for a year while my better half lived in Hastings, we saw each other every month to 6 weeks. Living apart was a pain but it did give me a lot of time to consider what I wanted and if I was going to be good enough to be 'husband' material.
The actual proposal was surrounded by rucksacks and clothes, on both knees, in the flat, as I packed for a surfing weekend with the boys.
I think she was more shocked at the proposal than my newly dyed (red) hair and a pierced nipple - Luxembourg can get boring.
We have been married 10 years this year and have a brilliant, energetic, havoc wreaking little boy.
It was the best thing I have ever done.

Thailand - Koh Samui.
Last 3 days of our holiday. I asked the resort staff where the trusted shops were.
We went into town one night, slowly steered her to the shop I was looking for, suggested we look at rings, perhaps even 'try a few on'... the one she really liked was a perfect fit. Cue 'On on knee, middle of the shop....' proposal. Followed by a few beers in a bar, complete with bottle of local fizz bought for us by a group of young travellers who overheard our 'wow, just got engaged' type banter - twas a really lovely gesture.

Spent the next 2 days in bed 🙂 - well, I did - D+V to the extent they almost stopped me flying home... 🙁
There was no point the future MrsMM just sitting in the teak hut with me so she went off on the planned trips diving etc - i watched national Geographic Chanel and kept the loo roll in the fridge.....

Oh and just in case anyone was wondering - i did not buy a wife and ring on the same trip!
Diamond ring from Thailand, MrsMM from Sale, Manchester, England 😉

Excellent, Managed to get you wife in a Sale! My was cheap too, but clearly last season's

Oh and just in case anyone was wondering - i did not buy a wife and ring on the same trip!

There's one problem with mail order brides, the return postage is phenomenal.

watching the morning begin whilst drinking rum and redbull out of kiddies buckets in the rain on a beach on ko phiphi.

didnt plan it. the conversation just kinda went that way. i think. it was a long night and the rum was working...

I had the ring in my pocket all during practise and the race runs at Moelfre, in Oct '09.

Proposed at the top of a Welsh hill (I was born in Cardiff, so seemed appropriate) in full riding body armour.

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Tossed a box with ring in it accompanied by the words 'eeyar then', I don't go in for any of the romantic bollox. Plus I'd already been with her 9 years so it wasn't like it was that big a deal.

It took place in the bedroom, not that it makes any difference.

On one knee in church one Sunday morning.
Ian
Well it was the Church Inn at Llanishen.

Outside our first house at the strike of midnight New Years Eve 1999, whole of the place lit up with fireworks for the millennium.

Three Children later 8)

All the best.

Matt

We were planning a dream holiday to Canada and the US, and I was planning on doing the whole cheesey down on one knee thing at the top of the Empire State building.

Then there was an argument about marriage and weddings, and I told her that if she just organised the damn thing I'd turn up. Suddenly the "dream holiday" was being referred to as "the honeymoon".....

9 years and 2 kids later, I still haven't actually proposed, still not sure how or why she has an engagement ring alongside the wedding ring ......

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About a 2 months ago on a lovely walk in the Peak District just as you walk back down into Dovedale. I got down on one knee and nearly fell over the edge!

On a beach in tofino, bc. Right on the pacific rim.
We'd spent the day sea kayaking and eating the freshest seafood I've ever tasted.
I hadn't planned to do it there but it seemed perfect and it was early on in the holiday so I had a very happy gf, even when I went off riding!

mrs t had just got back from a holiday in canada. she'd been in the house about 10 mins and we were stood in the kitchen.
me: 'shall we get married then?'
mrs t: 'yeah go on then'

we'd been together 3 weeks and 4 days. she'd been in canada for three weeks of that. i moved into her house while she was away. 9 months to the day of us getting together, we were married. got the date of he wedding engraved into the rings. she thought romantic gesture, i thought convenient way to remember wedding anniversary.

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My plan had been for us to go for a walk up bidean nam bian in the snow on new years day and me to propose at the top.

What happened was that we were in the pub watching Liverpool V Southampton on the 28th of December and at half time, my mate goes to the toilet and the now wife says to me "I think we should get married" to which I responded "OK then". Mate came back from the toilet and I asked if he wanted to be my best man. Nine weeks later we were married.

seriously that fukking made me laugh!! lol

I left a trail of notes in our house and she followed them upstairs to our bedroom where I was waiting - dressed! - and then gave her the last note asking her. She even cried so it must have struck a chord somewhere lol.

My girlfriend was staying the weekend with my brother's wife in Plymouth. I was supposed to be staying home in Glasgow to watch the Kelloggs criterion round George Square. Instead, I drove from Glasgow to Plymouth and hid out at a friend's house. Said friend is a Royal Navy instructor who teaches Royal Marines boat handling skills using rigid raider assault craft.

Girls' beach picnic ensues the following day on the Cornwall side of the River Tamar. All participants except my better half know what's coming. 'Borrowed' rigid raider thunders across the Tamar carrying a somewhat nervous young man wearing a black Gieves and Hawkes dinner suit, dickie bow, patent shoes and carrying a red rose and box of Milk Tray. Bloody beach was quite rocky, forcing the boat to stop short. I had to jump baw deep into the river and wade ashore, red rose betwixt teeth, chocs under arm, before running up the beach to do the deed.

She nearly fainted but said yes.

I'm not normally romantic.

I was with Mrs Stratobiker 12 years before we got married. Didn't want to rush into it.at

Anyways, she used to wash my CX bikes when I was racing CX. So, one particularly cold wet day as I took my bike I asked her if she would marry me. Had to wait a whole lap for the answer!!!!

We got married 2005. She's bloody great she is!!!!

😀

On a December day in Edinburgh. I'd hidden a small bottle of fizz in the rucksack and carried it around all day seeing all the main sites, with the intention of walking up to Arthur's seat near dusk to get a view down over the city and pop the question there. But when the time came, despite my protestations that it's not as far as it looks, she told me to (and I paraphrase here) 'F-off, I'm f-in' knackered and my feet are f-in' killing me'

So instead we get engaged in bed the next morning in a Travelodge in Leith, with warm champagne in plastic tooth mugs.

I got up early one morning and made, well for me anyway, a nice posh breakfast - croissants, fruit, flowers, all that crap, and the ring of course. Woke her up and asked her, to which she replied 'yes', followed immediately by 'Did you wash those strawberries?'.
Also, in retrospect, I think it would have been a little more dignified if I had got dressed first.

Top of Mt Kau Kau. Midway through the proposal a cow licked my head. An omen perhaps ?

I love reading threads like this now I've actually met one or two of you, even it was just in passing while buying your old bikes......

pissed on a pier in torqauy

Soma_Rich proposed to me at Handfast Point on top of Old Harry Rocks in Dorset, with a ring he had designed himself. We get married next August 😀

Was told I was getting married and made sure I turned up.

(Still am 11 years later though)

"AARRRRGGGHHH!!! OK OK! Will you marry me? Just let go of that!!"