Would you accept an online marriage proposal?
@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
Perth, Australia
August 15, 2016 9:23am CST
I have no idea why this popped into my head. Nor if this has actually been done before but if your lover asked you to marry them via Facebook, email, MyLot....or any other sites where you talk online, how would you feel?
I mean putting aside those relationships where people live so far away from each other who rely on the internet to keep in contact. Not talking about those relationships.
But how would you feel if that's how you got asked? Would you feel disappointed that they didn't put much thought into it? Be annoyed?
I know I'd feel like I wasn't special.
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
16 Aug 16
You mean I can't propose to you through myLot? LOL
Seriously, that is something that needs to be done in person, and I would hope the guy would make it s special occasion somehow. And yes, the man needs to put some thought and attention into the matter, as he is soliciting his partner for what should be a lifelong commitment. And lifelong commitments can't be taken lightly. So, effort is a big deal in a marriage proposal!
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
17 Aug 16
@VivaLaDani13 I will pop the question to you when you least expect it! But I promise it will be special!
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
17 Aug 16
@sabtraversa You're already taken Sabrina! So, unless your man is also a member of myLot, nobody on this site should be proposing to you! Only your boyfriend can do that!
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
16 Aug 16
@moffittjc lol nope. Sorry. It has to be more special! 
Very good answer! I sometimes wonder how I would be proposed to.....well IF it will even happen! I hope it is something special and well thought out.
Very good answer! I sometimes wonder how I would be proposed to.....well IF it will even happen! I hope it is something special and well thought out.3 people like this
@skysnap (20152)
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15 Aug 16
I know this girl online.. she's 22 young and we are communicating almost every day.. distance friendship.. and she did asked me that question. I being 10 years older than her, I directed her back to her own age group. The reason being india is conservative and it's suffering with such age gap. If i were to be in US or other first world country, I'd have given thought about it.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
16 Aug 16
@skysnap That's fair enough. I mean you have to be comfortable with it all too anyway.
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? I am perhaps conservative, but I think that a marriage proposal is something important enough to need to be done face to face, and not by email or on FB.@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
16 Aug 16
@topffer lol a text message would be so horrible! And I agree with you completely!
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@vandana7 (102698)
• India
26 Aug 16
I am from your club...perfect marriage proposal is the guy placing a pillow on the floor, and then kneeling on it...so that there is no injury to the knee and asking for the hand, which hopefully does not come out of the arm pit, kissing it...and proposing the Romeo...or whichever Shakespearean play it was...
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
22 Aug 16
seems most impersonal to me :( i'd then run screamin' like my hair 'twas'n fire :)
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
26 Aug 16
@vandana7 some're very serious from what i've been told...been some years 'go, but they'd go to the local waterin' hole (aka: boot scootin' joint, aka: local bar) pourin' their woes out when such 'twas either thwarted 'r 'twas 'xcepted 'n then regretted.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
27 Aug 16
@crazyhorseladycx lol I can imagine someone running around like that!
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@msiduri (5687)
• United States
17 Aug 16
@VivaLeDani13 This is so sudden! Besides, I have to tell you, I'm already married.
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
15 Aug 16
Depends on the person's character and personality. That special one would even make that online proposal memorable. Not necessarily by going all out. But just by being himself!
Some people like to prepare and some like to do things spontaneously. So yeah ...depends!
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
16 Aug 16
@Daljinder Good point actually. If it was literally just a "Will you marry me" online, I don't know....just seems boring and like no effort was put into it. But yeah it still does depend on the person and the couple as well with how they are and what they like.
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
17 Aug 16
@topffer LOL! Then he can marry my parents.... 
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
16 Aug 16
@dodo19 It would be a very odd way to be asked and would be such a let down. I think a majority of girls / women day dream about such a day to happen and hoping it's something magical. Online doesn't sound magical or romantic at all lol
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@dodo19 (48119)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
16 Aug 16
@VivaLaDani13 lol. Doing it online doesn't have the same effect.
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
24 Aug 16
@VivaLaDani13 If a person wants to he can make the online proposal more special than the face to face one.
Plenty of sources online to do that. Skype call, roping in friends / family for special arrangements, setting up stage/ location for proposal to happen, candles, dinners, whatever, luring the girl to the location on false pretext, etc...etc... lol
Imagine a park and a pathway lit up with lights leading to a private set up and a laptop screen with your guy online.
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@vandana7 (102698)
• India
26 Aug 16
@Daljinder ... Oh yeah..the seat should be in the right place too.. or did you mean constipation.
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
26 Aug 16
@vandana7 um........ you forgot this
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@CinnamonGrl (7086)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
15 Aug 16
It's ridiculous for me to even think about it now, lol. I don't even date any more. But. . .I would not want to be asked anywhere that wasn't private. For me, that's a very romantic moment, I'd want it to be just me and my sweetheart, and I'd want it sealed with a real kiss, not a "virtual" one lol. I feel like you do, like it would make me feel not very special.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
16 Aug 16
@CinnamonGrl I like the idea of it being private too actually. Not having a go at the ones who do this but for me personally, I'd hate to be asked with a huge crowd around me. Like how some proposals are done at a baseball game or at a family gathering or something. I mean what if the answer was no lol how embarrassing!
@CinnamonGrl (7086)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
16 Aug 16
@VivaLaDani13 oh gawd yes, think of the humiliation.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
27 Aug 16
@Tampa_girl7 Yeah I agree! I'd rather be in person so I can then hug and kiss him. 
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@RichardMeister (5328)
• Otis Orchards, Washington
15 Aug 16
When I read your title the first thing I thought was you were talking about a couple who only knew each other via the internet and I thought, no way should a woman accepted such a thing. But after reading the post and understanding exactly what you mean, I think a woman would feel very let down by such a proposal. Even if they lived apart and kept in touch by the internet I would still think the woman would be somewhat disappointed that he didn't make a trip to do it in person. Doing it by the internet makes me think the man isn't confident enough to think she will say, "Yes." It would be much easier to be told "no" on the internet than in person.
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@RichardMeister (5328)
• Otis Orchards, Washington
25 Aug 16
@VivaLaDani13 I agree with you. It may be a hard thing for a man to do but doing it on the internet just doesn't seem right to me.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
16 Aug 16
@RichardMeister That is true. Even people who are madly in love have a chance of a marriage proposal being declined. I do feel bad for men for doing such a thing though. It is a major step and can imagine it being really stressful not knowing how the woman is going to react. But still, online is a very weak way to show you want to spend the rest of your life with them.
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@JESSY3236 (22199)
• United States
17 Aug 16
I would no because I'm already engaged.
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@JESSY3236 (22199)
• United States
29 Aug 16
@VivaLaDani13 It's been over 10 years.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
29 Aug 16
@JESSY3236 Have you guys set a date yet?
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
27 Aug 16
@JESSY3236 Congratulations! How long have you been engaged for?
@kamruzzaman5ndc (791)
• Dhaka, Bangladesh
15 Aug 16
i dont think yet what i will do..if i got then i will think about it..@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
16 Aug 16
@kamruzzaman5ndc That's fair enough. :)
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