Will you marry me?
Good stories are important. People like reading them and listening to them. When two people get engaged, their friends and family always want to hear the story, and more often than not, they want all the details.
In one episode of the TV show "'Til Death" the young newlyweds talk about how they got engaged (a hike up the mountains and sunrise were involved). Then, the new bride's husband said he had planned a skydiving stunt but went with hiking because it was "more us." After hearing that, the wife was obviously disappointed in the actual engagement and asked if they could tell the skydiving story instead. She thought that would make the better story.
One of my friends from high school recently got engaged. The proposal happened on her birthday when she was student teaching and involved cupcakes and kids turning over cards that read "Will you marry me?" It was down-right cute — and a good story.
To all the married readers out there: What was your engagement like? Do you have a good story to tell? Is being able to tell the story an important part of the proposal? And to all the single bloggers: Do you ever think about the way you want someone to propose to you or how you're going to do it?
In one episode of the TV show "'Til Death" the young newlyweds talk about how they got engaged (a hike up the mountains and sunrise were involved). Then, the new bride's husband said he had planned a skydiving stunt but went with hiking because it was "more us." After hearing that, the wife was obviously disappointed in the actual engagement and asked if they could tell the skydiving story instead. She thought that would make the better story.
One of my friends from high school recently got engaged. The proposal happened on her birthday when she was student teaching and involved cupcakes and kids turning over cards that read "Will you marry me?" It was down-right cute — and a good story.
To all the married readers out there: What was your engagement like? Do you have a good story to tell? Is being able to tell the story an important part of the proposal? And to all the single bloggers: Do you ever think about the way you want someone to propose to you or how you're going to do it?
posted by Anonymous at 9:06 AM
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I'm not married, but I have plenty of friends and relatives married or engaged...so I have heard lots of stories.
I think my favorite funny engagement was my sister's. She and her boyfriend moved in together with the understanding that they would be engaged and married soon after. One day, she came home from work and my brother-in-law was in the living room, playing video games. He told her to go look in his coat pocket...not once looking up from the game. She reached in, and there was her engagement ring. And that was the story — I think he pressed pause when she came in to show her wearing it to him! : )
It seems bad, but knowing the two of them, it's actually very, very funny! But definitely not the way I want my proposal to happen!
My story...New Years Eve around 11:45pm waiting on the new year (sound good so far right). My husband (of couse BF then) and I were talking about our freinds wedding (the couple who first set us up on a blind date). When out of the blue he ask (while sitting on a desk smoking a cig in my parents garage)"well how about it...ya want to marry me?". I said "NO, NO, NO, not like this". Well it was too late, no ring or anything but the cat was out of the bag. We tried to 'set it up' again to have a good story to tell...we even went to the beach. But we still consider that our engagement. I still hate having to tell people how we go engaged though....
Our story couldn't have been more perfect. We were in Las Vegas for Christmas vacation with his family. No one knew about it especially me. It was our last night there and we were supposed to go out on a date, just the two of us. In the morning, He told me his Dad won gift certificates to the spa for all the girls and I had to go first. So I went and had my fingernails and toes done and had my first ever massage. As I was leaving, a woman handed me a note, which said he was surprising me and I was to go next door and have my hair and makeup done. So I did. Then I went upstairs put on my dress and there were more notes saying he was coming to pick me up. He got there and I still had no idea what was going on. We got in a limo that came to pick us up and he had the driver put on a CD that all "our" songs on it. He started telling me all these amazing things and then got down on one knee. I was floored. We then went and had dinner at the Stratosphere. Besides our wedding day and night, it was the most perfect day and night I have ever had.
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