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My mate's just asked his bird with a haribo ring... How did you lot do it?

Urm I think most of you on here know how I did it :)

Can't remember the proposal.

The actual marriage is still horribly fucking vivid though.

I still get flashbacks sometimes at night. I imagine it's similar to being a Vietnam veteran............

That all pretty much sums up my first marriage too Steve.

Post traumatic stress disorder all round!

My was cheesey with corn,

Under the Eiffel Tower

I was tricked into proposing - my ex had a great body was good in bed, did the cleaning, cooking and brought me cups of tea in bed right up until the day we got married then BANG! she metomorphasised into an overweight lazy cow with a mouth like a fog horn and an evil stare that could cut a diamond... The only good thing to come out of her after we got married was my daughter who is 21 next month...

I've been with my current partner for 17 years and I'm too scared to ask her to marry me in case the same thing happens again...

cripes, this wasn't the happy topic I thought it would be!

We just decided we were going to get married and bought the engagement ring together from an antiques market. Then I stashed the ring and one sunday morning a few weeks later produced it from under the pillow...

Thus is shattered the illusion of marriage!

was on holiday in Cyprus in 2002. Hotel had it's own secluded beach where the sun looked to set into the sea so one evening i made an excuse to go down and take photos of the sunset.

Took 3 photos and then stood there shitting myself to which she then said "you're not taking many photos are you?"
then i dropped down on one knee etc. Got married in Aug 03 and Divorced in Jan 07.  :bye:

Been with my partner now for 2 years and not sure about marriage to be honest. We've both been there and done it so not sure if we'd do it again. Happy as pig in shit at the moment so why ruin it

the only times i've considered proposing is at the moment of orgasm.luckily that point soon passes.i'll never marry

Down on one knee in front of the Christmas tree on Christmas Day.

Girlfriend (now wife) and I were due to go to fly out to Barbados the following week and family etc were convinced I would do something like that...secluded beach, sun setting in the distance etc.

So I asked her the weekend before we went away.  Finished the ironing, went upstairs to fetch ring, changed my T-shirt and then asked on the sofa while we were watching TV.

Oh god............i play back my wedding video on rewind........i like the bit when it looks as if im running away.....what i should of done on the day!

Ardiles, I like your style. I'm going to Thailand in August and everyone is expecting me to do it. But also going to devon a few weeks before for the weekend...

Welcome to the real world! :D

Top of a mountain in Canada..... she almost fainted...... I almost fouled myself.

Happy time all round!

I was worse for wear, and mumbled "will you carry me"  That's when i learnt about the female condition of selective deafness.

Sussex proposed at the top of the London Eye, would have been lovely (seeing as I had always wanted to go up there) if he hadn't of got shifaced by 10am and me having to carry him there on the train.

He will do it again properly if it is the last thing I make him do on this planet.

yours or hers arriba ?

Are you Paul Macartney?

nice.

I love this thread, its realy funny, keep it going all you other males out there.

Women have orgasms? bullshit do they!

Was going to ask the superior half on holiday in Portugal and bottled it ! Day after we got back I thought what a wimp and got dowm on one knee on top of Barbury Castle, not the same but it worked !

I've heard it happens.....when they are sat on unicorns.

Mine was "s'pose we'd better get married". That was 28 years ago.

My advice from anyopne considering it is to do it live at half time & take the advice of the rest of us.          

ie DON'T DO IT !

Im so loving this thread

Ardiles Im loving your proposal - I think I would really hate a cheesy proposal Im not really into slushy stuff - although the size of the ring is deeply important to me! Ive put in the time!!

Some people are never happy...

I'll never forget the FA Cup game at the kassam when a proposal took place to the chants of 'Does she take it up the arse'. Never propose at a local derby...

Cooked a nice romantic meal at home, had already bought a ring and then popped the question after the meal - she did wonder why I was doing the cooking !!

Thanks guys!   :-[

Only problem with the sofa/TV scenario was we were watching Monarch of the Glen (ie BBC, so no ad breaks).  I had to momentarily distract her from Archie.

mine.women can sit on a washing machine or have one of those rabbits for their needs ;)
this has reminded me of the bird who nearly ripped my back to shreds at her moment of no return.i never went back for more.ouch!

I reckon my missus would agree with you, JFW, not bothered how it's done, just hurry the fhell up (been nine years)

the more time = more diamond!!

I never had Arriba down as "unlikely to take a wife"!! I guess I always assumed you were married?

as good as jfw.

No :( tell me

i have been asked twice, once on a romantic break in paris, i said no, kind of spoiled the weekend and once at mexico city airport, again i said no and it totally fucked my last time over there. selfish bitches.

I got engaged when I asked the GF (at the time) during NYE fireworks in London, Unfortunatly, we didnt make it to the wedding. Hey ho, I wouldnt change things for me just now tho!

My wife,then girlfriend was going into hospital for a fairly major op...i proposed tehe day before she went in...i was hoping it cheered her up but she didnt want to come home!

On the beach last year, getting married next year, After beeing together for 12 years.

i'm old.

In the kitchen of our house also after 12 years together.  Extremely unromantic. 

  I wrote a poem....a visit from the Muses can be a dangerous thing.

In a snowdrift close to the Goat Hut Bar in Hinterglemm Austria after a heavy evenings Apre Ski - she asked over breakfast if I really meant it  :nod:

That's bollocks. I managed to get on the train perfectly well by myself.

I asked in the multi story behind Debenhams.

We had met up at the end of the day, and she was whinging on about when I was going to propose. Something about my look made her guess that I had been shoppping for something different from what I had claimed in the morning. She sat there refusing to start the car until I told her the truth. I felt like I couldn't say "OK, I have the ring but am not proposing" so I popped the question threre then.

She takes great delight in telling all her friends how I lack romance, but they all got proposed to in romantic places and then got divorced, but we are still going strong 15 years on.

Ladies Day at Royal Ascot 1989 - was a tad worse for wear - we're getting actually married in September (well you've got to make sure haven't you) and JFW, she's managed to blag a good few rings out of me in that time!!

last christmas eve/day midnight on one knee! :)

I'm neither married, engaged or indeed seeing anyone so I'll tell you my folks' engagement story.

So they were on holiday with my mum's family, mum goes to bed early not feeling well, dad says he's off to the casino, mum says if he wins he will be able to buy a ring... he wins and presto a ring - terribly romantic...

That's rather lovely, and also a lesson to all that gambling does pay.

I had to pretend that you were my disabled brother AGAIN though didn't I!

so you've been engaged 20 years RD?!

yarp I certainly have