A romantic proposal of marriage.

First time aged 16, walking round a supermarket. I accepted and we were married for 5 years. Second time I was 22 and we were sitting in a Wimpy Bar. At the time I was still technically married to proposer no 1 (but separated.) I accepted that one too, and we've been married for almost 44 years.

A very unromantic proposal in a shop doorway, when we were walking around the town one evening. I was 23, he was 26. When I got home, I told my mum but said "Don't say anything about it when you see him tomorrow. He'll have changed his mind by then." Next day, he came round and we painted mum's kitchen but he never mentioned the proposal. When we went out for a drink, I asked him if we were engaged and he muttered something about getting to know each other better. We had been dating for 18 months.

He was under huge pressure at home to break up with me. His parents wanted him to marry someone of his own race and religion. They tried to persuade him to go and live with his uncle in Canada, to split us up.

But he got over his hesitation, bought me a ring and we were married a few months later. It will be our 46th anniversary in April.

I never let him forget the unromantic proposal or the fact that he had had doubts the following day. On my 60th birthday, we were in Hyde Park, with a couple of our grandkids playing in the Diana Fountain, when he went down on one knee and proposed to me again. He gave me a new wedding ring - I had taken off the original one, ages ago, to do the washing up because I had an allergic reaction if soap got under the ring. Somehow it had disappeared.

The second proposal was completely organised by our younger daughter, who even chose the ring. Husband still has no idea how to be romantic.

My driving theory book for the driving test started off "Driving is like getting married, almost everyone achieves it in the end" and wasn't that just the way we thought of marriage? At least, it was for me, although I was obliged to put my emergency action plan into effect, with the campaign starting on my 29th birthday. Total success! Three months later, I was engaged to a previously unknown man. After the usual "Shall we get engaged?" we went out to buy a ring together, though (Oh the romance!) I insisted that he put it on my finger in the most convenient "beauty spot" - by the peacock enclosure in the local park. By the time the dreaded thirtieth birthday came around, we were married, I was three months pregnant and we were living in a beautiful house overseas. We made a go of it, having entirely similar expectations of marriage, and three children and more than 40 years on, we are still making a go of it.

Such lovely stories.
Only one for me & I did the asking.
Dated for 18 months & we were laying on my parents living room floor, he said I love You and I said shall we get married then….. !!! still together after 50 years and have had the happiest of marriages to my very best friend.

Proposed to twice. First on a woodland walk. I rejected and we split soon after. Second wasn't all that romantic. Friends had become engaged and he uttered 'it'll be us next". 4 months later out in the city for the day and I found nyself directed to the window of a very up market jeweller. Thought you'd like to choose your own was basically his proposal. Martied for 55 years until his death last year.

It was a leap year, so I asked him...in a card for Valentines as he was working 1.5 hours away. We married 18 months later in November 1985 and are still together with 2 children x

EMMYPEMMY

I've been engaged 3 x times
I get scared and run when the weddings were discussed
Proposed to taken out for a meal
Proposed to with flowers and balloons
Proposed to on a drunken night out

Me too! For one of the proposals, I hid in the bathroom and wouldn't come out.

I think surprise proposals are just daft
Surely it should be a discussion rather than a surprise question
You wouldn’t buy a house on a surprise question
Then maybe a romantic proposal when both parties are sure it’s the right decision

Like TISLY he sat on the bed (I was in shock from being pregnant and had gone to bed) and said we’d better get married. We were nineteen and we’ll be celebrating 47 years of mostly wedded bliss!

Yammy put out of our misery!
Which one?

I've been engaged 3 x times
I get scared and run when the weddings were discussed
Proposed to taken out for a meal
Proposed to with flowers and balloons
Proposed to on a drunken night out

My husband proposed to me on one knee on a boat on the Pearl River in China. China was just beginning to open up and we were a couple of only a few tourists so he caused quite a stir as none of the other folk on the boat understood what was happening! We then chose an engagement ring and each stone in Hong Kong.

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Just 6 weeks to the day after we met. I said yes. Still together after 4 children and many years. My soul mate, who I could strangle on occasion, who can drive me mad, but without whom I'd be lost, who knows me better than any other living person, who loves me more than even my own mother loved me. I am blessed.

I was just 16. He lived in a prefab in Brixton. He was such a sweet boy but my mother did not approve. She sent me to boarding school to get away and in time I stopped writing to him.

I met DH when I was 20 he 23. About 6 weeks after we met he asked me if I'd like to be married in Scotland at Easter which was 6 weeks away. (He was Scottish but we were living in Kent)
I said yes. We had to organise a wedding very quickly and both our families assumed I must be pregnant. I wasn't!
We were married for 51 years until he died in 2020. I was very lucky.

The third - not a very romantic proposal. But we're still here

He said "if we get married before I go away, we'll get a married quarter"
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“I suppose we had better get married” I was pregnant. Still married 52 years later and he hasn’t got any more romantic.

Two unromantic ones:

1 'I'll get a shorter sentence if we're married'

2 'I'll get married tax allowance if we're married'

(accepted both, great fun!)

I met my late H while I was still at school.
Never had another relationship.
After a couple of years it was just assumed we would marry one day so no proposal.
My mother made it clear she would not let me marry before I was 21 so we married when I was 21 and 3 weeks old, he was 22.
We were married for nearly 61 years when he died.

Four times. Only one was romantic and that wedding never happened.

I'm really not the marrying type despite having been married once (never again).

The first husband I don't remember him proposing at all I think Mother just assumed we were getting engaged at Xmas and it all took off from there. I was 19 it only lasted 6 years - demon drink him not me,

Second one was in bed- 'I think we should get married' he said- 44 years next Friday.

But I did have another one about 30 years ago ' Marry me' he said after his wife had fled. He meant it too.

Me too Granny Somerset. Almost an exact mirror of yours. But lucky us, eh?

I don’t remember a proposal; it was just clear quite quickly that the relationship was either serious or over. Despite being so young (19) I knew a good thing when I saw it and we were married when I was 20 and had nearly 60 years together. I miss him more than I can say.

On our second date I was proposed to. My heart said yes but my sensible head told my brain it was too soon. I said, ask me again in 6 months. Six months later, on holiday in Scotland, we made arrangements for our wedding for six months later and have been married now for 43 years (this year). He has always been much more romantic than me but I have always loved that about him. What a lovely thread, thank you Yammy