Proposals

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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 !!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.