Places people have gotten engaged!

[agzg]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

My niece's now-husband proposed at the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Dirty mind alert: I totally read "My niece's now-husband proposed while in an Eiffel Tower."

[sceniczip]

My cousin's now-husband was playing soccer in Uruguay (Paraguay?) and they hadn't seen each other in a long time. He came home without telling her and fixed it with my Aunt to come over that night. So my cousin got home from work and my Aunt was in the kitchen so she yelled "Quick, come in here I'm going to drop this!" So my cousin in typical fashion comes strolling in and there he was down on one knee. She was more happy to see him than to be engaged. My Aunt video taped the whole thing. It was sooo cute.

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by agzg

Dirty mind alert: I totally read "My niece's now-husband proposed while in an Eiffel Tower."

KSITY?

[lovespink88]

I got engaged at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. It was very sweet and private. I wouldn't have minded a big public thing, but to be honest, I did prefer it being just us. The funny thing is that since he wanted it to be private, we walked on a trail to the very edge of the place--where there wasn't even any really pretty scenery or anything, haha. We just walked up to the top of a big grassy hill and he asked me there. It was still wonderful

I was sort of part of an engagement once too. I used to play travel softball during high school and we had a softball tournament in Disney World. (It was awesome, the pitcher's circle had Mickey ears on it!) Anywho, before the game, the coach from the other team came up to our coach and told him that he was planning on proposing to his g/f, who was the assistant coach of the other team, right after we did ground rules. He asked that instead of having just the captains meet at home plate for ground rules, that each team line up on the baseline to watch. The ump was in on the whole thing too. Anyways, after they went over ground rules, the ump asked "Does anyone have any questions?" and the guy said "I do". He reached in his pocket, got down on one knee and popped the question. The girlfriend was SO shocked, it was fantastic! Everyone went crazy (both teams and the whole crowd).

And then the other team whooped our asses lol

[KSUViolet06]

There is an ice-skating rink in downtown AK (just for the holidays) and I'm fairly certain that someone gets engaged down there every night. It's the ideal setting for a Christmas proposal.

[sceniczip]

^^^truth lol. What is it about ice skating rinks?
The one time BF went ice skating he was part of tearing a girl's ACL (they crashed, I heard it was ugly, it was before I knew him lol) so I doubt he'll be popping the question at any ice rink!

[AOEforme]

I threw a surprise party for my parents' 20th wedding anniversary and my boyfriend proposed after the party. He had such a nice idea planned, and I totally ruined it.

First, he wanted me to go for a walk down to our lake and I was adamant about not going. I was tired, had already had a few drinks, and it was dusk, so I knew the mosquitos would be awful. Consequently, I whined and refused to go. He insisted as did my dad, so I finally went. But the sun had already set, so it was not nearly as beautiful as he had hoped.

When we finally got there, he put my grandmother's ring in his shirt pocket. (He always fidgets with it, so I didn't suspect anything out of the ordinary.) However, we were at a lake, so I wanted the ring back before it fell in the water. He told me to reach in his pocket, where I pulled out....

my grandmother's ring, instead of my engagement ring. I crammed the ring back on my finger and started walking back to the party. He had to yell, "I am trying to propose!" so I would stop in my tracks.

Poor kid. He tried so hard and I ruined it.

[nittanygirl]

Originally Posted by AOEforme

I threw a surprise party for my parents' 20th wedding anniversary and my boyfriend proposed after the party. He had such a nice idea planned, and I totally ruined it.

First, he wanted me to go for a walk down to our lake and I was adamant about not going. I was tired, had already had a few drinks, and it was dusk, so I knew the mosquitos would be awful. Consequently, I whined and refused to go. He insisted as did my dad, so I finally went. But the sun had already set, so it was not nearly as beautiful as he had hoped.

When we finally got there, he put my grandmother's ring in his shirt pocket. (He always fidgets with it, so I didn't suspect anything out of the ordinary.) However, we were at a lake, so I wanted the ring back before it fell in the water. He told me to reach in his pocket, where I pulled out....

my grandmother's ring, instead of my engagement ring. I crammed the ring back on my finger and started walking back to the party. He had to yell, "I am trying to propose!" so I would stop in my tracks.

Poor kid. He tried so hard and I ruined it.

Haha what a story. Something like that will happen to me, I'm sure. I always do things like that.
So cute though at how hard he was trying. Aww

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by AOEforme

Poor kid. He tried so hard and I ruined it.

Awwwww.

That reminds me of my friend from youth group's story, it was kind of a "bad day ends with proposal" story.

Her boyfriend had this nice evening planned that included a show at a dinner theater (with her parents/family), where he would propose.

Show is at like 8pm. He tells her to be ready at 7:00 to go to this show (she does not know her parents are coming or anything).

Day of the show comes and someone at his workplace gets fired. So he has to stay late. He calls her and tells her he'll be running late but he'll be at her house by 7:30 at the latest.

Wrong. He doesn't even leave work til 7:30. He is worried because they have reservations, her parents are meeting them, etc.

He calls her and she is super upset. She had a patient die at work, he is running late, she can't find the outfit she wants to wear. She told me she was pretty much having the worst day she'd had in a long time. She ends up crying on the phone about how she is upset about today, doesn't want to go, and he should have called and changed the reservations when he knew he was going to be late.

So, he gets off work and drives like a bat out of hell to go home, get ready, pick her up, and pick up her parents. He gets to her house (they are late for the show at this point) and she is NOT READY. She is still halfway in her work clothes, crying about her terrible day and asking if they can just do this some other day. He says NO WE HAVE TO GO TODAY because it's the last night of this show and I invited Couple Friends from out of town (lie).

So she's like "OMG Mike seriously, i'm not going. Call and tell them we'll go to the next showing this weekend." He says "I can't." Back and forth ensues and they both get annoyed. He tells her to just throw something nice on and go. She agrees (not happy).

The whole way there, she reminds him of how she just had a patient die today, she doesn't have time, she's so tired, and he should've been on time. To the point of an almost argument.

They FINALLY get to dinner theater at 8:45! She (still annoyed) is like "WTF are my parents doing here? What is going on?" when they pull up in the parking lot. He says he just happened to mention it to them at family dinner last week and they just decided they'd come.

They get there in the middle of the show. Dinner is not really warm. She is still annoyed but happy to see her family. At the end of the night he tells her "there's a reason why I INSISTED on coming here even when you didn't want to." She says "why" and he proposes!

For the record, she says she cried and apologized the whole way home for her attitude because she admits that she was really bitchy to him that day. lol.

[DrPhil]

These stories make me a bit sad. LOL. Lo and behold, proposals can be as imperfect and unpredictable as life is.

[BraveMaroon]

My then boyfriend was living in Nashville and I lived in Atlanta. He came down for the weekend, and we had planned to go look at rings because he wanted to make sure he knew what I wanted.

So we were at the jeweler, they made him an offer and he whipped out a credit card and bought it. They sized it while we waited, and he took the box with the ring in it, and we walked out of the store. I couldn't believe he had done it, but I was thrilled.

I told him he needed to talk to Dad, which he knew, so we drove over to see them.

And yeah, I know - I'm not property, but my Dad is old school and it meant a lot to him.


They had just sat down to lunch and so we sat with them and my boyfriend asked my parents if they'd be ok with us getting married.


My parents of course said yes, and I suggested he show them the ring. He did and my mother said, "Put it on her, put it on her!"

Well, he's wrapped around her finger, so of course, he took it out of the box and put it on me.

And that's how I got engaged. It's actually perfectly us - and I don't feel like I missed out on any surprise.

We did drive up to see his Aunt and Uncle that night, and we surprised them! They knew we were in the talking stages, but they hadn't known we were going ring shopping.

Happy times.

[LouisaMay]

I had a "bad day" proposal. My boyfriend and I were trying to get ready to go up to Massachusetts with my parents for my job interview. My boyfriend was planning to propose in MA. Well, the paper I was supposed to be finishing for my honors project was going horribly. I was freaking out and crying when my boyfriend got to my apartment with my luggage. I was in sweats, unshowered, and feeling completely grossed. He started digging something (the ring) out of the dress shoes that he had packed for our trip while I paced around the apartment stressing out. He started following me around saying, "you are going to hate me for doing this now!!" Finally, I stopped my ranting and said, "What?" He got down on one knee and proposed. I dropped to both of my knees and said yes. He said that I deserved a big, beautiful proposal, but seeing me so sad and upset just made him want to make me smile. Well, he certainly did!!!!

(My honors project was approved, by the way.)