what is your engagement Story

Charlie and I met in April of 1989, in Sept '89, he came to pick me up for our regular Fri. nite date, and before we left, he told me he had something he needed to ask me (I had no idea!), He then proceeded to get down on his knees and asked me to marry him in my folks dining room ! I told him "yes", of course, and that he'd better ask my dad if he could, since dad is VERY old-fashioned. We went to a concert that night, so he talked "man-to-man" with my dad the next night. We were married in May 1990, and are still going strong !

What sweet stories! Shell, even the Walmart one is sort of sweet

Mine didnt pan out either but I still love the story. Ron and I had been dating about 6 months. We were so in love, so hopelessly in love. I still get sad when I think about it because it was so perfect. We dressed up for a nice night out on the town. I think it was a Friday or Saturday evening. This was June of 99. We were both dressed up nicely and first went to his neices birthday party. Afterwards he brought me to Pepitos in Minneapolis. I knew he was going to ask. We had been talking about marriage for a while, and I just suspected with the nice evening that it was going to happen. Well, the stupid table made it all wrong The light that hangs down over the table blocked us from even being able to see eachother. We both stared at the light or had to duck down or around to look at the other. It was kind of funny.. and I think thats why he didnt do it there.

We left and went down to Minnehaha Falls, a place where theres a bridge and right above the actually falls, and walked around a bit. It was a beautiful night and very quiet. He told me stories of his childhood and playing there and we walked up to the bridge. I thought maybe here...?? But we just stood there for a while looking at the water. Then he lifted me up on to the wall and we talked and kissed a bit Then it happened, he asked me to marry him and I was full of tears and joy and love that I cant remember anything else he said. I just remember him slipping the ring on my finger and me walking on air the rest of the night. It was about 10:00PM by now, and we stopped by my dads house and I showed him my ring. It was a gorgeous square setting, white gold with a large diamond. It was his grandmothers.

We went out to dancing afterwards, to the club we had met at and showed my ring to all my friends. It was a wonderful night

My husband & I had been "talking" marriage for a while but I didn't think he would propose until months after he did (he kept saying it would be romantic to propose on Valentine's Day). We had been looking at rings and unbeknownst to me he had bought the ring and still kept looking with me (it is a good thing I didn't change my mind about what I wanted). On Christmas day we went back to my parent's place after having dinner with his family. We were alone, as my family was at my grandmothers. The lights were out, except for the tree, & we were sitting in front of it just being mellow. It was weird - he just couldn't sit still. I was actually getting irritated at how jumpy he was. Next thing I know he is down on 1 knee proposing.. The 1st words out of my mouth were "oh no" as I wasn't expecting it at all. I then said yes, of course!

What sweet stories! :

My sweet husband took me out to dinner on the fourth anniversary of our first date, to the place we had gone to eat on our first date. He had been acting preoccupied all evening - I couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. Then during dinner he started reminiscing about our time together over the last four years, and how we had gone to this place for our first date, and how nervous we had been. Then he asked me to marry him. To be honest, I was really surprised - we had talked about marriage but he'd never come out and asked, so I was really beginning to wonder if we were going anywhere. That explained why he was so nervous that night! I started crying, and after I recovered my breath said "yes". He told me that he hadn't gotten a ring because he wanted me to go with him to pick one out - he wanted me to choose one with him, together, as any decision in a marriage should be made with consideration of your partner's wishes. : We got married exactly a year later, on the 5th anniversary of our first date.

Originally posted by tuxedokitties
We got married exactly a year later, on the 5th anniversary of our first date.

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That is sweet! We got married on the anniversary of our 1st kiss.

I already posted my own story, but this thread got me thinking and now I want to post some other stories I know about - the most romantic and the least romantic.

One of the sweetest and most romantic is my mom and dad's engagement. They met when mom was 14 and dad 18, and got married 5 years later, but they got engaged the Christmas before they got married. My dad, who is an orphan and had very little money, bought a diamond ring, so that is a story in itself, but then he went to my grandfather to formally ask for her hand. My Pappa was a very capable drinker, so he took my dad down to the basement for a few shots of 18-year-old whiskey to see how much my dad could take - well, he doesn't really remember how many he had, but apparently enough, since he got permission Anyway, a week later on Christmas Eve, my dad was at my mom's house for dinner, and he was getting dressed in his good suit. He called her upstairs saying he couldn't find his cufflink, that he'd lost it under the bed. She heaved a big sigh and went upstairs, where he was on his hands and knees looking under the bed. She sat down, he pulled the little box out from under the bed, he was already down on one knee, and then he asked her to marry him. They've been married for 34 years.

The least romantic was friends of my ex-boyfriend's mother. They had been going together for a while, but no serious plans for marriage had been discussed. One day, they were sitting in a pub with about 10 friends around a huge table, and they weren't even sitting near each other. In the middle of a mundane conversation, he pulls a little box out of his pocket, tosses it across the table through the beer puddles and peanut shells, and says, "here, this is for you"... and she married him! They've also been together for 30+ years.

Just goes to show, a romantic proposal is not necessarily a predictor of a good marriage...

Zack and I had met online back in August of 2001. We actually met for the first time on September 7, 2001 (2 years ago yesterday)! We had talked about getting married when we had gone to Colorado Springs at Christmas that year. Well, he said he would purpose on Valentine's Day...well he kind of through me off when he did it on my birthday, exactly a month before (January 14). He went for a picnic at the Waterwall in the Galleria area. It's a little park with walls of water streaming down. Well, right after we ate, and had a little birthday cake for me...he grabbed my hand and he walked me over right in the middle of the wall, got down on one knee and opened up the ring box (my .77 carat heart shaped diamond sparkled at me). He said, "This has been the best couple of months of my life, and I want to spend the rest of them with my wife, if you will take me?!!!" Of course, I had to say YES! On August 10 (2002), we were married in his father's church...his dad married us

My husband knew that I loved seeing animals, be it at the zoo, petshop, rescue shelters, city aquariums...etc. I had wanted to see the Tampa Aquarium, so he took me there and while I was in the aquarium....we saw a huge glass wall with many tropical fishes swimming about. While I was watching the fishes swimming about, another man stands in front of the wall, and proposes to his girlfriend. I wonder...."When and how will my fiance propose?"....
Little did I know that I would get proposed to 15 minutes later. We finish looking at the aquarium then we go outside and drive to a little pier overlooking downtown Tampa. My husband tells me to close my eyes and when I open them, he is down on one knee with a beautiful engagement ring.
~Of course I said "YES!"....2 years later, we were married!

Mine is unromantic as well. We met online and hit it off wonderfully from the first contact. We were only 3 hours apart so saw each other every weekend, and talked on the phone everyday, usually twice a day!(Thank goodness for calling cards, kept those phone bills low!) We moved in together after 7 or 8 months. We decided we wanted to get married and it would be nice to have a baby. He was concerned about his sperm count so we decided to start trying thinking it was going to take awhile. A month after starting to try we were told that we were pregnant with twins(low sperm count my a@@)!! Things were really rocky for us the duration of the pregnancy. Not between us mind you, just alot of awful stuff going on around us. We weathered it despite me being the size of a small whale(very pregnant).

Anyway to get to the point we had gone out to dinner one night when my ex had my older girls. We were sitting there with the babies in carriers on the table. He was feeding Samantha her bottle when he looked over and said "We really should get married. Is that alright with you?" So there you go. He didn't have a ring because I wouldn't let him buy me one.(We had discussed it earlier.) I do have one now, it came as part of a set that we caught on sale!

Mika and I started dating on Jan. 11, 2000. And for our first anniversary we went out to a really nice restaurant for a romantic dinner. We had a great time and talked about anything and everything. While we were there, he asked me when I thought we were going to get married and I told him that its not like he was going to ask me that night and that it probably wouldn't be for awhile. (We had talked about getting married and how we were soulmates before that)Anyways, he started acting all nervous and it we were done eating our food and about to leave, when he said that we should stay and have some tea or something. I thought that was a little strange since I wanted to go, but I just brushed it off.

Well, we were talking more and he started to play with his sugar packets and I thought that was strange. Then he asked me where the bathroom was and I told him that I didn't know and I thought they were in the back somewhere. So, he got up and started to come over by me...then he said that he thought it was over by me and he got down on one knee and said how much he loved me and all this other mushy stuff that I don't remember and he asked me to marry him. I was so shocked cuz I TOTALLY didn't expect him to ask me then. I was crying and I said yes, of course. Then I was kinda embarrassed and I just wanted to leave. (I was kinda shy and I didn't like all the people watching)

We had talked about getting married before and how we were soulmates.

After that, we went to my house to show my mom and sisters and brother my ring. They were so surprised and shocked.

I was 18 and he was 19 when we got married. Everyone told us that we were too young to get married and that we were stupid for getting married so young and that we didn't know what we were doing...yadda yadda yadda. Well, we got married 6 months after he proposed and we've been married for a little over 2 years now and are planning on being married for another 75 years!

Mine is unromantic as well, seems to be a lot of that on this site! Peter asked me to marry him on my 16th Birthday just a few months after we met on a Blind Date! It freaked me out and took me by surprize and I said "Yes" but then I ran away to Florida to make sure I was saying yes to the right guy.

Once in Florida I was only there for about 2 hours and on the beach and some guy asked me to marry him, now I was really confused but there was something about this guy that I just didn't like. He scared me, didn't even know my name and asked me to marry him? WEIRD!!!!!!!

This guy wouldn't leave me alone so I made a long distance call and asked Peter to pick me up at the airport that night. He willing did so and then we just lived together. The wedding was all planned and my Grandmother died and 2 weeks later his Mother died. The wedding was off!

Later that year in October I said to him, "Marry me now or lose me forever!" Of course he married me on December 31 and that's my story!

We've been together 27 years and married 25 going on 26 this Dec.

Originally posted by SkyKitty
Mine is unromantic as well,...

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I don't think so!

I met Steve at work....he was a programmer and I his client. He and his friend Jeff called me the Red Menace (OK, so I'm all business at work), but both were vieing to date me. A group of us went skiing in Wisconsin one weekend and I ended up at a chalet with 11 guys. About 4 in the morning during a poker game, after a long day skiing and a long night of drinking, it was my turn to deal. I raised the top bet for the round. Jeff whined about being too rich for his blood. Steve looked me in the eye and said "I'm going to win all of your money". He caught my eye that night.

We started dating shortly after that and lived together for about a year when we decided to move to a warmer climate. The idea was to buy homes, rehab them then sell them for more money. I looked at it logistically (always the business mind), and realized that legally, it was going to be difficult to do as an unmarried couple. So one night when Steve was asleep, I picked a date (December 30th), made a list of friends who do invitations, cakes, DJ's, etc, and wrote it on a piece of paper. I turned it over on the coffee table and went to bed.

The next day we were out car shopping - his had just died and we decided to buy a cargo van for our new adventures. Somewhere between the Dodge and Chevy dealer, he turned and looked at me, said "so, December 30th huh?". I said "yes". He said "OK".

6 weeks later, we hosted a wedding with 250 of our friends and family, said our goodbyes, then moved out of state the next day. And yes, he did win all of my money! LOL

Romantic? Not. Interesting? Perhaps. Close to 14 years of marriage and counting.....

My grandparent's got married on December 30, 1950. It would have been 53 years this year.

Small world....after the wedding, we moved to Houston.

Eric asked me on the night of my graduation. I was saying "I need to find my mom, honey I can't see her!" And he says "you know what you need to do?" and i go "what, start yellin mommy real loud?" and he drops to one knee and says "you need to marry me" and i'm thinking "what the hell???? But I said yes, and not three second later, his mom found us and i go "you just missed your son proposing" and she laughed. We've been together 1 year and 3 months and we're planning to marry June 19, 2005, which just also happens to be our 3 year anniversary!!

My Husband and I started dating in May of 1996 at my High School graduation party (he was my sisters best friend) and he proposed to me at his High School homecoming dance in October of 1996 during one of the slow dances. I actually did not even let him get a chance to ask me before I had the ring on and was running around showing my younger brother and sister who were also at the dance. He said to me "I take it that the answer is yes"? I of course said yes and we were married May 16, 1998 and are still married today!

Ok I'm going to tell my story even though I don't think it's very romantic! It's more about how we met but I think it's funny! And my hubby and I are seperated but still in love (does that make sense??)

Ok here goes... I went into the middle eastern grocery store, owned by a friend. He said (in my best middle eastern accent) "Seester, I have man for you. He's very very good man! He see you with the children and working hard for God!" I told him I didn't want a man and he said: "NO seester, don't say this! Astagafir Allah!" (That means God forgive). I asked him: "Does your friend speak English?" He said: "uhhhh no but seester you know some Arabi." I asked: "is he Iraqi? Because I'm sorry brother but I don't want an Iraqi man." His eyes went up in his head and he said: "yes he is Iraqi but seester, he has good heart, I swear by Allah!" I asked: "Does he have a job?" He said: "no seester, he just came to America one month ago, but in Iraq he had business." Well these were all things against him so I stood firm. But every time I went into his store, which was about 2 times a week, he would hound me about this "very very good man." And he'd say, "Please seester... just meet him one time." I kept saying no but after a couple of months of this I gave in and said I would meet his friend. I just wanted to get him off my back and stop bugging me!

We set up the meeting to be at his store. When I walked in I saw him and he had this little sh*% eating grin on his face and his eyes sparkeled and that was about it! We were married about a year later!