Marriage and Popping the question... how did you??

[Kiwi]

Well, it involved the Arena

Hubby decided to enlist the help of Chief and BM, and kidnapped the Pony of the Day for Christmas Day (2007). With some help he created an animated POTD using our personas, and a candy heart (yum).
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To get me online, he had bought me a custom ("Robyn" by Nibbles) but she hadn't arrived in time for Christmas - so we went online to show her to my parents. And there was a little surprise waiting on the home page

[skyrocketneko]

We won a trip to Bali, and we were walking around the resort beach one night after dinner and show, and he asked me.

I got to pick out the ring myself when we got home.

[shockponie]

He planned a camping trip for the 2 of us and our puppy. :3 I had no idea he was going to propose! We spent most of the day trying to fish and hiking. That night we made a fire (after gathering enough sticks which took forever), roasted hot dogs & toasted marshmallows. We snuggled by the fire, and then retired for the night to the tent. It was still just light enough to see each other, and that's when he proposed.. when we were snuggly in our tent. I tearily said "yes, of course" and he put on the ring. I cried, we kissed & hugged, and I had to get my cellphone to see it because it was dark by that time. He did an awesome job picking out the ring.
Here is the sunset from that night.
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Here is the picture we took afterwards. (Sorry, I don't take serious pics!)
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Here is the first thing I saw the next morning. 
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[Jinxxy]

*sighs* this thread is awesome.. Kiwi, I remember that day seeing it in the pony of the day... So freaking sweet!!

<3<3

[jupiternwndrlnd]

so many cute proposals ^_^ i love it!!


I can tell you how my fiance proposed with a photo

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[TickledPink]

so many cute proposals ^_^ i love it!!


I can tell you how my fiance proposed with a photo

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best proposal evaaaaaaaaaaar! teeheee

[fiwen30]

We were sitting on the spare room bed in his family's house, I think I was even in my pjs still, and we'd been talking about Big Things like kids, pets, religion and marriage. I'd said that I was pretty sure we'd get married one day, so then he just asked me straight out. Given our topics of conversation I thought it was a hypothetical question at first, so I said yes automatically and it took a while to twig what I'd actually agreed to xD

I got to pick my ring, but it had to be sent off and resized smaller, so we made a Build-A-Bear rabbit to comemmorate the occasion and as a symbol when we told all of our friends at New Year Since I have my ring now, our engagement bunny lives with my fiance. Her name is Diamond, and she's lived in Derby, Belfast, Belgium and Reading, though she's bringing my fiance back home next March just in time for the wedding

[NovelNerd]

Hehe, sadly I don't think ours is overly exciting like some. We had talked about it before and had been dating a little while. She was in a position where her current roommate situation wasn't working out, and we had decided to move in together. I think for both of us it was def knowing we wanted to spend our lives together. We were snuggling and watching a movie, and I proposed and went into a spill about how much she meant to me.    It was honestly not exactly how I planned to do it, but one of those moments of looking over towards her and deciding I wanted to be with her. I did it a little more traditional later on, although I guess there isn't much of anything traditional about us. Course we cannot be legally married here, but someday.

[knitgirl]

I love this thread! The pony proposals are extra cute.

For me, we had talked about it a bit and he had me help pick out the ring I liked.  Beautiful white sapphire/white gold 3-stone ring from Zales for only $100 - score!

He gave it to me in the parking lot at Fed Ex when we went to go pick it up... Not the most romantic but we are head over heels in love and so happy together.  We got married in April 2011 (eloped to Mexico. Best Decision EVER!)

[TickledPink]

My husband was still living in Holland when we made the very mature decision of getting married so he could immigrate over here. It was a very ..hmm..calculated? discussion. LOL.

He gave me a budget for my engagement ring, and told me to go out and look for what I wanted and get back to him about it. SO I did. And it just so happened that the ring I wanted came in under budget because it was on sale that weekend. So I called him at home (the time difference was 8 hours at that point, so I woke him up...haha) and told him I had found *the one* So he wired me money and I bought it. AND THEN I had to put it out of my view for 3 months and wasn't allowed to wear it until his next visit to the US (which i think was something like 3-4 months later.)

Even though we both knew we were getting married, i still wanted him to "surprise me" with a proposal. So he did. IT was in a rather personal way though..so uh, I won't be saying how. But I was surprised and exited.

Then we went and ate Chinese food and called all my relatives to listen to them squeal.

the end.

[banditpony]

So the discussion had come up once or twice before, of how we would like to get married etc etc etc. And I am a picky, picky girl an d I sent him ideas for a ring. I think it confused him? Or he was scared to disappoint me.

I was sick on Thanksgiving, and my fiance was all like "I really want to go to the outlet malls to get a pair of jeans". And I'm like "Oh no, you don't want to do THAT the day after thanksgiving for a pair of stupid jeans, it's not worth the trouble". I thought I had talked him out of it. Well, Friday rolls around and he comes over. I was still sick. And then my mom asked us what we were up to, and he was like "outlet malls to get jeans!" and I'm like "NOOOO" and my mom is like "Oh great! I need to get (something?) , let's all go together". I'm like sobbing, and sick, and I don't want to go.

So we go, we are still in town, but going down the wrong road to the highway. My stepdad is driving, and sometimes he forgets which way is where, so I'm like "meeeeh, why are you going toward the south ramp". They stopped at the local jewelry store a minute later. I still didn't get it. I'm like "I'm staying in the car", because I thought they were going to get his ring resized or something while he was in town. And they are like "no, no, no, you need to go in". And then I'm sure my face turned red, or I felt really dizzy or something.

That isn't really how he proposed, but it was just me picking out a ring for it. And I didn't get it right away, because it was specially made for me (and he had to pay it off). But it REALLY surprised me. And THANK GOODNESS, we didn't have to go to those awful outlet things.

I warned him fiercely that he needed to surprise me. ;__;* cuz it was my dream to be surprised. This meant, no xmas, no new years, no his birthday (jan 5), no my birthday (jan 12), no anniversary (feb 5), no valentine's day (feb 14).

X-mas rolls by, and he takes a polaroid picture of the ring in a box near "our" city. We didn't have much money at the time, so he wrote, something to the effect of like how he loves me, and he's going to buy me lots of (my little) ponies. So that was my x-mas present, a picture. Which I adored.

Birthdays roll by, and I get antsy, because I didn't think he'd wait so long.

Anniversary comes, and by that point, I'm like, in my head, I'm tired of waiting~~ But again, I was sick. But he wanted to re-create our first date-- by going to another big city (not our city). Our first date, we skipped class, and he just drove and drove and drove. So. We get to the city, and it's a big super bowl party, everything is blocked off, we got yelled at, and etc. He tried to get downtown parking for the restaurant we really like, but it just wasn't possible. (;__;) So then he's like, whatever, we are going back to our city. So we did. We picked a restaurant similar in style to the other one, and ate there. At that time, I had thoughts he was going to do it-- but I didn't know why he waited, and I kinda was exhausted. I fall asleep in the car. I wake up, and we are in the city. And I'm like "why are you going the opposite direction..." No answer. I fall back asleep, and I wake up and he drove randomly behind to a scenic spot. Of course, the road is closed, and there is snow everywhere (I LOVE SNOW!), and I get forced out of the car to walk under a bridge, into the bright lights of a popular building near the lake. So he gets on one knee "You are silly (me), proposes traditionally (I laugh o_o), and then I'm like "of course". It was really cool. We were all alone, and it was really pretty. I wrote DL + DM in a heart. He took pictures but all of them got messed up (I forget why, bad film I think). Oh and he carried me back to the car.

In the end, I felt surprised, because he took me to a breath taking place I had never known. And there was a foot of snow!

[MonstarNomNom]

I absolutely love this thread! Keep them coming!
My boyfriend and I talk about marriage seriously and we definitely know we want to marry each other. He's still saving for the ring And I told him the proposal has to knock my socks off! lol Apparently he's had it planned for a long time but I have no idea when or how he's going to propose :3 I can't wait!

[ZennaBug]

Oh my goodness, my story is long and it's past my bedtime.  I'll have to post it tomorrow.  The cliff-notes version is that we started dating in high school and he proposed just after our 6th anniversary (I was at drum corps tryouts on our actual anniversary) in a cabin in the mountains.  We got married on our 7.5 year anniversary and just had our first wedding anniversary.  This December, we will have been together for 9 years. 

[LeighAnnApanites]

What fun it is to read all these stories! Here's mine:
We'd been going out for about a year and a half and were doing the (relatively) long distance thing. He lived about three hours away, and I would drive down on weekends to see him. I was working third shift, so I'd get off on Saturday morning and drive down. One particular weekend I made it down and he had to work, I think, I couldn't hang out with him at any rate, so I spent the day with some of his friends. It was hot, I was tired and didn't feel well, and I spent all day waiting for him. He kept calling and saying that he'd be there soon, but hours would pass and he hadn't shown up yet. This happened at least three times. I was so mad at him.

I went back to a friend's apartment, and tried to get some sleep while I was waiting, but didn't have much luck with that. A bunch of folks were planning on going out to a club that night, and I didn't want to at all. I still hadn't slept any, I was mad at Robert, and I didn't particularly like that club (I've never been much of a club person, anyway). I started getting a clue that something was up when I said I didn't want to go and all these guys I'd never met before started telling me I had to go and they wouldn't let me stay home. So I went, but I was grumpy.

People bought me drinks all evening, so I had a pretty good idea something was up by the time my husband got up to sing karaoke. He loves karaoke, and he sang "I Cross My Heart" by George Strait, which was absolutely adorable. Then I had to get up on stage while he made a wonderful speech about how much he loved me and things like that that unfortunately, I don't remember at all, because I was very intoxicated, despite telling the friends buying drinks that I didn't want to be. (I guess I did choose to drink them, so I really can't blame anyone but myself.)

Wow, rereading this, I sound like a grouchy sullen person, but I'm just not a loud crowds and public spectacle kind of gal, so it was pretty much the opposite of my style. It was a really sweet proposal, though. He put a lot of thought and effort into it and he's a fantastic guy and we love each other very much. Our 10th anniversary is in a couple of weeks and I'm so glad he married me and I got to marry him.