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How was your wedding proposal?
Traditional? Fun? Original?.... Or a disaster?
 
Extremely unromantic!

For years, we had thought that the wedding certificate was an expensive piece of paper so hadn't bothered really looking into it. Then, I wrote my car off and as a result decided it was time to update my will. My solicitor asked if we were married and when I said no, he wrote a rather large number on a bit of paper and told me that was how much my estate would have to pay in IHT and that there is no IHT between spouses. Went to see my wife at her work and told her that basically, the cost of a wedding was peanuts! 4 months later and only a couple of hundred quid poorer (including clothes, ceremony and feeding the guests) we were Mr and Mrs (well, technically, she's Mrs *Maiden Name* for professional reasons, although at next passport renewal, that may change).

I should point out that we had been a couple for over 20 years by then and are still extremely happy!
 
I 'may' have ruined the overall mood of the occasion by launching into a whole 'but you want kids and I don't want kids, so we really need to think carefully about this, well YOU need to think carefully' debate
 
I was stood on Weymouth bridge looking into the river with my partner and put a £3 ring from Claire's accessories on the wall (due to being ridiculously skint) and said "do you wanna marry me then?"

She said yes and we preceded to the wetherspoons down the road where we met her parents and me and her father got rather well oiled on courage directors!
 
fabphoto said:
How was your wedding proposal?
Traditional? Fun? Original?.... Or a disaster?
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Took my wife back to the spot under the streetlight where we had our first kiss. Even waited for it to rain so it was the same as the first time.

Got married at the beginning of November. :)
 
13 yrs ago I met my future wife on her birthday(July 22nd).. following Feb whilst on a long weekend in Paris went off on my own to a jewellers and that night in a lovely Vietnamese restaurant I did pop the question, it was pretty darn special, not like me at all. got married July 22nd that year.

then on July 22nd the year after our first child arrived :love::love:

July 22nd is a very special day, one that I never and nor dare forget :nono:
 
I didn't propose.:(

We were walking through a shopping mall when my 'girlfriend' drew my attention to the window of an expensive independent jewellers. She was looking at rings and asked for my thoughts on a particularly nice one as she pointed her finger at the glass. I said it looked nice and she then proceeded to tell me that I should come inside the shop because she'd already asked them to 'size' it for her. I'd no ideas of what that meant, but once inside the shop, it soon dawned upon me that it had been worked to fit her. It was a one-off from Geneva so there wasn't a choice of sizes available.

More than a months wages lighter, once we were back in the car, we got engaged in the car park of the shopping mall.............apparently..............when she took it out of the box and stuck it on THAT finger!!!:eek:

Wouldn't swap her for the world now though.....:love:
 
Untraditional here..very very untraditional :D
 
My (now wife) were in London for what she thought was a shopping trio to find a ring. However, I had already had a ring made and in my pocket. We went to St. James park and after dodging other tourists who insisted sitting next to us I ask her to marry me. We were married the following summer on the hottest day of the year :-) 10 years ago ! this year !
 
Not sure, like I'm always telling the wife, she obviously had me drugged for the first few years of marriage :)
 
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fabphoto said:
How was your wedding proposal?
Traditional? Fun? Original?.... Or a disaster?
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I'll let you know at the end of the year ;0)
 
I took Sarah for a romantic few days in Paris. Whilst at the top of the Eiffel Tower surrounded by American tourists I got down one one knee.

After twenty years we are still together although I probably couldn't get up from a kneeing position quite as easily nowadays :lol:

Romance hasn't died either. For our last weekend away we went to Knaresborough in the caravan. :love:
 
Mine was 21 years ago next month. It was...you busy next Saturday.
 
I took my wife to aysgarth falls (middle falls), and went down on one knee (in a puddle IIRC) , in front of a bunch of other visitors - when she said yes they gave us a round of applause.

The original plan was to do it in the gazebo at fountains abbey the next day, but i'd got so nervous I couldnt wait any longer.
 
Mine went something like this.

Me. A friend at work is going into hospital and has told me that she doesn't want to see a ring on my finger when she returns.

Him. Do you want to get engaged then?

Me. I suppose we could, what do you think?

Him. Aye ok.

So we did. We'd only been dating for 6 weeks, Got married the following year and are still very happily married 28yrs later.
 
The wife and I hired her favourite car for the weekend (Mini Cooper), we drove up to Pitlochry for what she thought was just a day out and about.
We then headed up to Blair Atholl Castle where I proposed in the Castle gardens.

Top tip though, never put the ring in a tiny resealable snap bag, small bag and big fingers make for some awkward pocket jockeying to get the ring out unnoticed :D
 
Took my now wife to Prague for a long weekend for her birthday and on the way back from her birthday dinner I did the whole down on one knee proposal in the middle of Charles Bridge. :love:

Mind you I'm not sure if touching the statue of St. John of Nepomuk as I knelt down brought me the good luck it's supposed to. :D
 
Proposed to my now wife back in October 1995. We'd been together just short of 2 years. From the off, she said she never wanted to get married or have kids. Anyway, we were on holiday in Luxor, after a long day in the sun I just casually leaned across to her and said, "Wanna get married?", with a big grin on my face. Her immediate response was "What?" Silence......then a tear in her eye and finally a "yes". Didn't have a ring or anything, as I wasn't even thinking of proposing or anything like that, it really was a spare of the moment thing; I even surprised myself! Next day we bought a ring in Luxor, and made it official. Got married the following year on the day I 'proposed' and spent the honeymoon in the same hotel and the same room, overlooking the wonderful Nile. By the time we got married, she was onto her 2nd engagement ring! First one we bought ended up being cheaper than it appeared and broke just as we got back to the UK, and it was a little far to take it back to Luxor for an exchange. The replacement then lost a stone, then broke one of the clasps holding the stone; we ended up getting a refund as we didn't trust getting another one from the store. Our 3rd attempt at an engagement ring had to be cut off when a wasp stung her on the finger under the ring...........Thank god we were married a while by now! Anyway, on her 40th Birthday a few years back, we finally got the 4th and FINAL engagement ring, and to date no accidents with it.

Just celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary in October. And some said it would ever last!
 
Having already booked a weekend in Paris I decided the time was right so bought a ring before we went, had it in my pocket and the box hidden in the bag. Went through Eurostar security and guess who's bag was randomly searched :lol: security spotted the box and covered it up then wished us a good holiday :-) I had planned to "pop the question" the following day but was afraid i'd lose the ring so suggested a walk to the tower and the rest is history. That was just over 6 years ago, and been married since march 2011 :thumbs:
 
Top of Table Mountain........ "how do you fancy being Mrs Smith?" - after standing there for 15 mins taking about 5 million pictures of the sunset, plucking up the courage to ask...
 
AndrewA123 said:
Having already booked a weekend in Paris I decided the time was right so bought a ring before we went, had it in my pocket and the box hidden in the bag. Went through Eurostar security and guess who's bag was randomly searched :lol: security spotted the box and covered it up then wished us a good holiday :-) I had planned to "pop the question" the following day but was afraid i'd lose the ring so suggested a walk to the tower and the rest is history. That was just over 6 years ago, and been married since march 2011 :thumbs:
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Good for you, and good on the security chap! 5 year engagement though...yowser....:lol:
 
wegotitugetit said:
went to las vegas with my wife where we went to a hotel that had ghondlars (spelt it wrong lol ) and propsed while going down the inside river with a guy singing only one corneto lol was pretty funny
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The Venitian...nice!!
 
Attempt one, in the pitch black in a car park vaguely near a waterfall because I couldn't find a torch to actually get that far, down on one knee and asked.

Attempt two I was dragged to the pub to make up for getting in a fight over her on her birthday the previous night and she randomly turned and asked me if I wanted to get married. I asked if she was joking before agreeing.

Not sure which one counts as the real deal but we did eventually get married!
 
I took my wife away to Venice for a long Birthday Weekend and Proposed on a Gondola. I couldn't go down on one knee in fear of tipping over the bloody thing!!!
 
About as unromantic as you can imagine. On a dark street corner in Derry in the rain.....

There were too many people hanging around in the house on that evening and we went out for some fresh air - stopped at the street corner and, if I remember correctly, we were holding each other up due to an overindulgence.

Talking of replacing rings. I've lost count - completely. The last time rings had to be replaced was in St Martin where a nasty mossie bite required three rings to be removed in the local hospital. Fortunately, St Phillipsburg is famous for lots of posh jewellery shops. What a coincidence :shrug:
 
When I realised that I wanted to marry my girlfriend, I knew exactly where and when I wanted to do it........

On our first date, we went for a walk along the beach (for anyone who knows Shoebury it's the bit between Shoebury Common and East Beach) and there's an old barge pier that was used when the area was used as a Garrison.

I'd got the ring, it was early evening (good time for sunset) and I suggested we go out for a walk so I could get some pictures from the old pier ;)

Well it was all going to plan except for the fact it was REALLY windy :lol:

Anyway, the ring was hidden in my camera bag, we got to the pier walked to the end of it and I crouched down as if I was getting my camera out. Whilst still down on one knee, I produced the ring and popped the question.

Took Rachael a little while to realise what was going on as she didn't have a clue! So much so that after she'd said yes and composed herself a little more she said "This sort of thing doesn't happen on a Wednesday", to which I replied "no it's doesn't.... it's Tuesday" :lol:

Anyway, here's a shot I got from the pier when the weather was a little nicer.... if you look carefully you can just see Southend Pier :)

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my wife proposed to me
we had been together for a good number of years and i couldn't see a good reason not to marry so we did

12 years later she's still here i don't know where i am going wrong :shrug:
 
cosmicma said:
12 years later she's still here i don't know where i am going wrong :shrug:
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that's easily solved - come home late one night stinking of beer and cheap perfume, with lipstick on your collar, and your flies half undone, then slap her on the arse and say " you're next, fatty" - sorted :suspect:

however before following this course of action you should reflect that although marriage may well not always be grand, divorce is generally about a hundred grand :lol:
 
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Mine? Over a sausage butty in bed one Sunday morning (not a euphemism!)
 
5 years engagement,Thats nothing, me and the other arf have been engaged 27 years this year,just havn't had a spare weekend to tie the knot.....LOL
 
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