Super Proposal

I would prefer something much more private and intimate.

Seems to be a lot of pressure to do over-the-top proposals, no? I'd be happy if I was standing in the kitchen with my honey, prepping food for a meal and found a ring in the lettuce. Something like that would be cute. Or if I was in the middle of brushing my teeth and he proposed. Doesn't matter how he does it - just that he wants to commit himself!

Unless you were preparing Foie Gras or some other form of pate', then that would be kinda gross...

I love foie gras! That would be cool!

But I'm envisioning having a mouth full of toothpaste. I like that scenario best - has an element of humor and it would prevent me from asking 100 questions. It would be a "yes" or "no" moment. Brilliant.

So, are you saying marriage is a kinda of Catch-22 thing?

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he [Yossarian] observed."It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

Proposed on January 6^th, 2001, we were in Playa del Carmen, Mexico for my friends wedding.  The day before was the wedding and on the 6^th we all headed out to Mayan ruins and ended up at COBA.  After a walk through the jungle seeing the ancient city, we climbed to the top of about a 125ft temple.  Before we went back down I asked my friend to take a picture of us.  For the second picture I got on one knee and proposed on the top steps of a Mayan temple (cool to have pictures of the proposal).

My wife said she just thought I was going to do something silly when I knelt down, then she saw me shaking and her medical mind started thinking…low blood sugar, how do we get 250lbs down this steep temple…then I came up with the ring, “I love you, I always have.  Will you marry me.”  She kissed me immediately.  Then she realized she had not actually answered.

Since I was so excited about proposing, the other couples there knew what was going to happen because I had to tell someone to help ease the excitement/nervousness.

Sounds like your sexual preferences have been elevated beyond the scope of normal marriage, anyway.

I agree.  We had a nice dinner and I put it on the creme brulee on the cookie.  But if the woman was someone who loved crazy big things, then maybe that type of proposal is appropriate.

I won't bore you with the details, but I did something nice, meaningful and memorable.  It wasn't over the top, but it was planned and took some work to do right.  I did all of this because I knew/know our marriage will last forever and as long as I'm alive I'll remember the way her smile brightened the sun that afternoon.  That was over 10 years ago.

Yeah, but that's you.  You're just weird, but in a good way

My hubby really doesn't have a romantic bone in his body, but every once and a while, he does something that WOWs me.

When we graduated college, we decided to go get our pictures taken together by a professional photographer.  Little did I know that he had already talked to the photographer and had given her the ring.  When we went in to get our pictures taken, she was putting us in all kinds of weird poses, one of which was him down on one knee.  I thought it was weird until she said, "Wait, there is something missing."  She runs back and gets the ring and hands it to him.  He pops the question and the photog gets the whole proposal.

I gotta give him props for that.

My proposals would be meaningless to all women except you Lisa.  No, really. 

A guy proposed at the end of IMWA this year - ended up broadcast nationally in the package the other weekend. The couple were bot hracing - he finished and waited for her tocross the line then proposed, over the mike infront of everyone.

Her comment after just finishing an ironman? Something along the lines of how hard he made her work for it!