How did you or your spouse propose?

A wonderful story! And how great to be wanted by the whole family. That is a memory to be cherished forever.

I have been very happily married for almost 50 years (March next year). My hubby is wonderful and I wouldn't change a thing about him, but he isn't at all romantic. We had been dating for over a year. He took me home after Church one Sunday night. We were sitting in the car talking about predestination and in the middle of the conversation he said "What say we get engaged for your birthday?" and kept on discussing predestination. I don't know that I said "Yes" but later he told me he'd made an appointment with the jewellers to choose a ring.

As I said, he isn't romantic in the slightest but we are happy.

we didnt have the proposing by the bride and the bridegroom,our families were family friends and they proposed for us.after they got our consent,it was engagement and then marraige.

I love your story; to be welcomed by the family like that would have been wonderful. My husband proposed to me only six weeks after we met and at the time, I thought he was joking and I laughed at his proposal until I realised he was quite serious. I had to decline at that stage because it was way too early but the subject came up again about a year later and this time we both agreed it would be a good time to at least put a ring on lay-by so we went to a jeweller and chose an engagement ring and he put it on lay-by promising that he would have it paid off within three months.

Two days later he asked me out to dinner and eventually out came the ring and a well rehearsed proposal! He of course had picked up the ring early. I accepted this time and here we are with a mortgage and a kid!

we met cause I put an ad on a Christian dating site and he e mailed me two weeks after seeing it the first time.
He was very romantic someone who liked candlelight and music, so you would expect that his proposal would be romantic as well.
But nope it was not really a proposal in the old fashioned sense of even asking me to marry him. LOL
When we met for the second time the weekend of his birthday the birthday was on a Saturday, so then on Sunday,the day I had to leave again for home ( a 3,5 hour journey by train) we cooked lunch together and after the meal I said, I will do the dishes before I get ready cause I dont want you to sit in the complete mess here when I am gone.
We had used an older frying pan and I scrubbed it well and asked him I wonder what in here is new and old stuff that burnt in...... he just said, so wait a moment, and went to the living room and came back with a huge good new frying pan even with a glass lid. He placed it on the table and said, dont worry about the old frying pan. I still have that one here, I suggest we use it when we are married.

I was speechless. It was May 5 and June 6 we got engaged.

Wow that sounds nice. Me and my now ex-wife wasn't romantic at all. We both had taken "mood enhancers" and made love for 6-7 hours straight. It was amazing for both of us and after we were done we both laid there naked holding eachother. She looked over at me and says,"we should just get married and get it over with". I said that we should. We did.

I said, "Marry me or give me back all the chocolates I gave you."
She said, "but I have eaten all the chocolates"
I said, "Since you can't return my chocolates, you have to marry me"
She said, "I guess I will have to marry you then"
Just kidding.

That is really cute. Sort of a second proposal by proxy because he coudln't be there. I'm glad his whole family was on board with it.:)

As fr my husband and I, we were long distance for quite a while, because of work, etc. He proposed to me just before I went back to Canada the first time (we'd known eachother on line for years, but only in person for a couple of weeks LOL) and we looked for a ring on bidz.com because neither one of us had a penny to spare. haha I found one I liked in our price range, bid on it through his account (he told me to just sign in and find one) and had it sent down there to wait for me when I came back in a few months.

Knowing full well that the ring was just the final piece, he looked at me and said "why don't you see if this fits?" I've been wearing it ever since. LOL

I remember the day I proposed to my wife like it was yesterday even though technically I proposed to her like three times,the first time I gave her my class ring and told her I promised her we would get married in the future,the second I lit candles in our room,put So Small our favorite song on the CD player,and then I had her come in and I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me,and then we got a nicer ring,and I asked her to marry me again,and she said yes all three times,and we got married about a month ago and we are very happy,and we are going to be married forever.

Well, for my husband and I it was just something that a lot of people kept on hinting at as in how serious were we, and had we thought about getting married, etc. when it just happened one evening after we had just gotten back after being out of town and were sitting there talking when all of a sudden Rod says they might be right. "Why don't we get married, that is if you want to marry me," and it was sort of unexpected, and a little scary but I did say yes. We had only known each other 4 months at the time, and were married 3 months later. It has now been almost 11 yrs. and some of the Best yrs. of my life for sure.

Awwwwwwwwwww that is very sweet. I still believe in marriage event though I am divorced and try not to think about that time he asked me. I do however like to read about others and their story of romance.