Proposals

Ours was very low key. So much so that I can't remember exactly where we were
I know we were dancing close and he whispered in my ear "Shall we get engaged" rather than will you marry me.
We bought the ring on holiday and nobody knew about the engagement until we came home.

I don't think OH actually proposed at all he just assumed I guess and so did I that we didn't go through all that we went through to be together and then not seal the deal as it were

My DH's proposal was meant to be romantic. Apparently he had rehearsed it in his head many times. As it went it was a bit bungled. We had lived together for quite a few years (I had 2 children) and we were all on a holiday. He splashed me in the sea then said "Shall we get married then?" I would have loved an engagement ring but it was either that or a meal for the family on the day. Sadly.

My OH proposed when we got in his mum's car after coming out of a pub (dutch courage?). He started off with 'Right then Mrs woman' to which I of course replied 'I'm not Mrs woman' and he said 'That's what I want to talk to you about!' We hadn't known each other very long but both knew that was what we wanted and we married a year later.

PS His mother wasn't there - he'd borrowed the car for the evening

PPS That was 50 years ago this year. We were very young but I don't regret it at all and we have our wonderful DS and his family as a result. OH left me for another woman 11 years later but we still get on when we meet at family events.

Having both been separated for a few years, we lived together and bought a house together so I rather pre-emptied him by saying one day "I suppose we might as well get married then" (Ever the romantic, me). He then said that actually he had been planning to take me away to propose somewhere romantic like Prague, but I ruined that! We then thought it might be an idea to both get ourselves divorced first. So the actual proposal occurred at the park and ride when he said "I got my decree absolute through today so will you marry me?" Not even on one knee

Mr P proposed by text, it was either 8 or 12 days after we had started going out together!

We were like you Nina, it just happened somehow. Otherwise I'don't probably still be waiting (for 46 years)

No proposal - we just drifted into it. We were both students and (for very complicated reasons I will not bore you with) my OH had no student grant. If we married I could put him as a dependent on my grant and get an extra allowance. Romantic ain't it!? We are still together 46 years later!

We were both divorced and had been a couple for 8 years. After a year or so we knew it was for the long haul but lived in our own homes as I had one 18 year old and he had 3 sons at home with him still at school. After 7 years I moved in with him when there was just one son still at home with hi.
At 8 years we were away for the weekend and he stopped at a jewellery shop and says....is there anything there you fancy !! We were married 3 months later, my ds gave me away, and that was 12 years ago.

When I asked him later.... why he asked at that particular time he replied..... coming up to an early retirement and we'd need to be married before he left the job for me to benefit from his very good pension should anything happen to him !!

We had been to a Burns Supper and gone back to someone's house for a few more drinks, so he was quite tiddly. I said 'ask me when you're sober' so he rang me the next morning and did just that. We'd known each other 6 weeks.

5 years from the start of our relationship (we met when we were 16 & 18 ) we were out with my parents having a Chinese meal. My Mum was saying how much she had enjoyed the evening and that we should do it again. DH replied ' yes, we'll do it next month when we get engaged. Took me a while to realise what he had said ! We married 8 months later.

We lived together for two years in Portsmouth but when we finished college we applied for jobs in Tyne and Wear. We still had 6 Victorian grandparents who we didn't want to upset so we got married to avoid their horror. That was 42 years ago and we're still going strong.

Very low key for us. We were only nineteen. We were standing outside Samuels the jewellers when he said "do you want to get engaged?" I was a bit flustered but said yes. We went inside and bought an engagement ring. He must have had the money saved up as he paid cash. We're still together by the way.

Out side a fish shop for us we are still going 40+ years

We met in the summer holidays when I was about to go to Uni, and he was home after his first year. He didn't return and I didn't go.

We were married aged 18 and 20. Everyone said it wouldn't last... but we'll have been together 47 years next March.

Oh and the actual proposal was when I cooked him supper for the first time... and he took my hand and said... will you cook me Shepherd's Pie like this when we're married.

And I do !!

We were living together back in the days when such things were highly unusual. I got home from work and my DH said ' we have to move so I think we should get married'. He didn't have a ring for me and I never got one but we have been together a long time. It's not the proposal that matters. It's the person making it.

We'd been dating for just over a year, both still lived with our parents.
It was the 29th February 1984 but I was determined that I was not going to use the opportunity to propose to him!
We went out for a meal, and as we got back into his car, he said "Well, are you going to ask me or not"? I told him that I wasn't because I think it's the man's job to propose, so he said "Okay then, it seems it's down to me to do it, so will you be my official girlfriend and should we get engaged"?
I'd always wanted a romantic proposal, which this patently was not, but as I knew he was 'the one' and it's just not in his nature to be romantic or demonstrative, I accepted!
I did make him ask my dad for my 'hand in marriage' though, he was terrified!

We were in bed and given that it was almost 40 years ago and had only known each other a month a little bit naughty I suppose.

We had gone away for the weekend to a sports centre (separate bedrooms!) and just before dinner, DH casually asked 'are you going to marry me when I have got enough money?' We had been going out only six weeks. I said I wouldn't answer unless he did it properly, so after dinner we went out for a walk and he got down on one knee in the mud and asked again. We chose the ring together when we got back, from a discount place in Hatton Garden where you rang the bell and someone slid back a hatch and peeped at you before unlocking the door! We got married 5 months later, I made my dress and the bridesmaids ones, mine cost £5, the material for those was £11. Flowers were the cheapest the florist could provide. We were going to take a taxi to the church, but my father was having none of that, and insisted on paying for a Rolls for his daughter!

This seems awful, but I don't remember him saying the actual words. But, I do remember telling my Mum that he had asked me to marry him. Mum and I were on the way home after visiting her sister. She just grabbed my hand, whisked me round, and marched me back to auntie's, where she said, " just listen to what this child has told me. I was 16. When boyfriend asked my Dad (as they do/did) Dad made him say it twice. We were 19 and 22 when we married, and this Sept will be our 55th wedding anniversary.

Got me at a low point - was in bed with the flu! Had spent previous months expecting it during some super romantic times in Thailand but no!!

Tanith. Sounds familiar. Just an assumption!!

I think there was were a few threats to disappear if he didn't get on with his long overdue divorce. After getting huffy he mentioned the next week that he had seen some houses for sale. After that it all took its course and we got married after the decree absolute.

Really not bothered as we are still together 40 years later and very happy, unlike a few I knew who had the full champagne deal. However I do bring it up from time to time.to wind him up!!!

Hey Ho.

P.S..We.we're.living together at the time.

He said he wanted me to be the mother of his children! Didn't actually mention marriage which was a bit odd, but it happened and so did the children. 16 years later he slung his hook!