What's your dream engagement?

[Lislis89]

What's your dream engagement? I thought I would ask the many LIW the obvious question!

Are you wanting it to be a suprise or a mutual decision?

Ladies in the process of waiting for a ring to be delievered or picking one with SO are you just waiting until it arrives or is your SO going to wait to ask you after its arrival?

Do you want it to be private or do you want everyone in your life to be there at the time?

And whose got the entire situation planned out in their heads because I know I do!!!

Cant wait to hear your thoughts!

 

[Jessie702]

Personally, at this point in time, any proposal is fine with me ...but if i were looking at soon( few weeks) i would like if he would wait until our halloween party, and propose while a few of our friends are there, and we are dressed up really cute, its a few weeks before our anni, so it would be easy to remeber. Also, if it were to happen within a few weeks at the party, our friends could get some pictures, and we could celebrate with people there, and have a inpromptu engagement party.....

Normally i would like a private proposal, just him and i, doing our thing, or at the local botoncial garden. Im not big on a big public proposal like in a resturant were everyone can see me cry. Also, im not big for dinner proposals, i want to kiss him afterwards and ill be worried about how my breath smells, silly i know, but i know i dont like it when he kisses me after eating garlic.

Anything private and uniquly us works, or even on vacation, in New Orleans( My favorite city) in the dungeon( Our favorite bar) or while walking around Jackson Square or big the Mississippi River, enjoying the breeze, Okay, so now that i thought about it, my dream engagement would be sitting by the Mississippi River, in New Orleans, while eating a Beignets on our favorite bench ....awwwwww...my ideal paradise

 

[PrincessNatalie]

Just us two, a surprise, preferably overseas :*) Other than that I dont have any preconcieved ideas or hopes.

 

[lovetorenovate]

I was engaged before and my fiance put a lot of effort into the proposal. We had a great story to tell - but in the end, our relationship fell apart - so it doesn't really matter a bit. This time, it doesn't really matter. I would prefer that the proposal doesn't go down like he did for his ex-wife... (mostly accidental when she found the ring) but really I just hope that he'll put some effort into making it special - whatever that means for him. I have teased him quite a bit about using an airplane to write something in the sky, jumping out of the plane or doing some crazy stunt... or other elaborate ideas - but I really would prefer it be him and me, someplace quiet, outside in nature, and that it be very heartfelt and sincere.

Have you all seen the proposal video that is in proposal ideas - they guy who took his gf to yellowstone and napa... it's really amazing. Love that video and how his love for her just exudes out of it. Very sweet. My bf is not talented/creative in that way - but I would love someone to do something like that.

 

[UnluckyTwin]

I think SO feels like he has to do the whole ring/surprise thing, though I remind him all the time that really we're just waiting on finances and I'm waiting on him to say he's ready to start planning for a ceremony, and those words would be good enough for me to hear. He once joked that he would probably say something like, "Rachel, I recognize that in our culture there's a certain process whereby a man gets down on one knee and presents a woman with a ring and asks a question he already knows the answer to. I'm pretty sure we don't need to do that, but would you do me the honor of not embarrassing me too much since I am now doing it too?" or something like that. (He said it much better and cuter and with lots of wit.) So I guess if he is going to go the route of buying me a ring (please please please let me help plan that!) and asking me to marry him/have a ceremony with him, I suppose my favorite time would be at a Hanson concert, either during my favorite song (like I could pick one!) or right before or after the show. That's when I'm at my happiest in all of my life so it would be REALLY awesome for me (although it doesn't have much to do with us as a couple). But you know, I can't imagine I'd dislike whatever he did.

 

[amc80]

I only have two real "requirements"- that it be private and somewhere we can go back to. Other than that, I really don't care.

I was thinking that the perfect day would be the day after Christmas. This is my least favorite day of the whole year, since it means my favorite time of year is over

So if he proposed that day, I would have an awesome memory to think of every year.

 

[mochamamasita]

I just want him to hurry up and propose. At this point, after waiting 6 years, I'll take almost anything. However, my dream proposal would be a surprise and would be romantic. For example, I'd like it if he even did something as simple as showing up at my house before I get home from work and spelling out "Will you marry me? " with rose petals and candles on the floor. Or, it could be as elaborate as him whisking me away on a vacation and proposing during a sunset on a beach. *sigh*. I hope he proposes soon.

 

[maebelle]

Mutual decision without telling anyone else , mutually choosing all three rings, receiving them, and then disappearing for the weekend to elope and surprise everyone when we get home.

Pretty much I like spontaneity and jewelry. Nothing more romantic than that

 

[Grlsbestfrnd]

I want it to be a surprise and so does he . He's even told me I'm not allowed to ask questions about getting engaged at all just in case I ruin the surprise. I mean I can ask NOTHING about getting engaged lol. It's all in his hands and I'm fine with that.

I really don't care how he asks me as long as it is in some way that has meaning for us both. The only requirements I gave him are that it can't be at a restaurant because I think I would see that coming and, I have to have makeup on for pictures immediately after

edit: I forgot to say, my dream would be if he could find some way to get it on tape without me knowing but that would be very hard so it probably won't happen.

 

[Glitz]

I want it to be a surprise, I know that we'll get engaged sooner rather than later so it's not going to be a total surprise, I just don't want to know when (hopefully soon though). I never really imaged how it will happen, all I want is for the proposal to be private and intimate. I would also like to be dressed up, this would ensure my nails are perfect and so we could take pictures right after. I think my ideal proposal would be a romantic dinner for 2 by the ocean, and then a walk on the beach afterwards for a private sunset proposal.

We're going on a cruise this January and these are the types of stories my wild imagination thinks up as "could happen" possibilities

 

[gemma.in.waiting]

I don't really care how it happens Since we seriously started looking at rings, he has made it a big deal that I've been so involved in making sure that I get what I want, because he says the whole proposal is the "man's job." He doesn't understand that I'm the one that is going to be wearing it for the rest of my life, and that the ring is important to me. I don't know why he is making such a big deal about that now, it's not like we ever practice archetypal gender roles. (Sidenote: In fact, we always joke that I'm the man in the relationship and he's the woman). Anyway, now that the ring is picked out, I think he is getting nervous about the proposal and doesn't want to let me down. I keep telling him that I don't need anything extravagant, but who knows what will happen! I think he wants to involve our dogger (daughter) in some way. To us, our dog is our first born, so that would be special.

 

[ksmyheart]

I picked out my own diamond so thats not going to be much of a surprise and its recently gone missing so i know he wants some part of it to be a surprise .My dream propsal is relaxed like us cooking dinner together or going for a walk with our son and dog , no matter how he does it it will be perfect.

 

[Lislis89]

I picked out my own diamond so thats not going to be much of a surprise and its recently gone missing so i know he wants some part of it to be a surprise .My dream propsal is relaxed like us cooking dinner together or going for a walk with our son and dog , no matter how he does it it will be perfect.

That sounds like a wonderful engagement! an element of surprise, an element of family, an element of food haha and ofcourse a heap of love!

 

[Amber204]

Forgive me for posting this since I'm technically a BIW now. However, not knowing a proposal was coming and not having thought of the perfect proposal he did it all himself. It was very simple and beautiful. I'm an avid hiker, there's a beautifal national park in Alberta Canada known as Banff. I had never been there but decided this past summer would be a good time to go. We were hiking around a lake called Moraine Lake. The water is picture perfect being a clear blue turquoise. There are little water falls on the trail that run into the lake. We had stopped to let our doggy get some water and I sat down on a rock. Then I heard my name and there he was on one knee. All planned himself. It was perfect, and I had no idea it was coming but somehow he found the perfect place.

 

[Jessie702]

I thought i would refresh this thread, since we have quite a few new ladies...so ladies what's your dream engagement?


At this point, as bad as it sounds, ill take anything......actually i would love it if C could include our dogs in the whole proposal, they are extra special to me, along with him.

 

[AdanaEsq]

In my head I want something special but possibly cliche. I would love to get engaged like on the beach on a vacation or if he recreated our first date or where we met.

I definitely want a particular ring (LM cold fusion, 3 sided pave is my dream but probably more $$ than I'd want him to spend). Other than that, I'd honestly take whatever proposal, however since my first proposal from when I was married before was pretty anti-climatic, I would want something more thought out and planned now.

 

[PrincessNatalie]

Ahh yes, I agree, lol: I dont want a cr@p proposal! Please and Thank you.

Whatever he does is fine as long as its not: A text message, a phone call, while we are , at a party with lots of friends around, an email, at 6 am in the morning, while I am in the shower, while I'm at work, or before work, while we are driving, at someone elses wedding, a screen saver, a letter or someone who else asks for him.

Otherwise whatever he thinks of will be perfect.

 

[DuckLovingVegan]

I agree with Princess I don't want a crappy proposal either. I'm not expecting something overly romantic because that just isn't my SO style. I just want some thought to be put into it. I would love for it to be just the two of us he know this. Although once we have our time I would love if our family and friends were waiting to celebrate with us. I would love to pick my ring only because I'm really picky I told SO I have a document on my comp with the ring I want and the diamond specs. I just hope he takes the hint and follows it.

 

[beesha77]

I really hadn't thought about HOW he'd do it. I had a great surprise proposal with my late husband so anyway this time is just awesome. I told him as long as he wasn't standing naked anyway was ok with me.

 

[Blackpaw]

Italy, sigh perhaps at the opera in Verona...with an LM ring...


Amber204 that proposal sounds beautiful i love hiking too!! do you mind me asking where you're from? or rather was Banff far away from you?

 

[brittany0613]

I've never thought about what my dream proposal would be, but I know my SO is going to try to surprise me somehow. And I definitely want it that way. I know it's coming in the next couple of months because we just took our diamonds to the jeweler and planned what setting we want made. (We have slightly different sized stones since they were given to me by my grandmother and mother, so it's going to be my special lopsided ring and I'm going to love it. ) I just want it to be special, however he decides to do it. It could be in public or in private, it doesn't matter to me. As long as it's a surprise.

 

[Steel]

Ohh can I play too ,

I'd love to be whisked away to a tropical island and stay in a luxurious unit on the beachfront with a fully stocked kitchen and instant room service, beautiful weather and a **surprise** ring.

Yup, I'll take me one of them please. Oh and a time machine too .

 

[rosetta]

LOL steal!

i would need a time machine too....

i had a wonderful proposal: dinner at a michelin starred restaurant, followed by a proposal the next morning (rose petals in room etc) in our home, just before we jetted off on holiday.

but really, it's the question and not the paraphernalia surrounding it that truly matters, i remember most his face when he proposed, so anxious that he asked "do you like the ring?" before he asked me to marry him!