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At some point in the near future I am going to ask Miss Lunge the BIG question and would like to make a good job of it.
With this on mind I wondered if you could share youe (un)romantic stories about how the question was asked and whether it was concidered good, bad or indifferent.
i nagged her till she said yes.
we were, errrm, horizontal, she said yes.
I've never asked whether it was considered (in)appropriate, tbh.
Wife said - "Shall we go on holiday to St. Lucia? If we're there 3 weeks we can get married."
I said, "Hmm, sounds ok. Can I try windsurfing too?" (or something similar)
At a viewpoint on top of the Hintertux Glacier overlooking the Austrian Alps while on a snowboarding holiday.
(used a stunt-ring in case I dropped it in the snow!)
She wept, people nearby cheered.
Just celebrated our 5th anniversary.
Fell out of the back of the Land Rover, pissed. My girlfriend looked a bit exasperated, but helped me up, got my bike out of the car, and told me to get to bed, she'd sort things out. I decided there and then that if anyone could put up with my rubbish, she was worth hanging on to. So I asked her to marry me.
She told me to ask again in the morning. I did, she said yes, we bought a ring. Ups and downs, but we've been married 18 years.
i was told there was no question that i had a choice.
everytime we got pissed for about 3 years.
Finally tried it sober and it stuck 🙂
I whispered it in her ear at midnight on New Year's Eve.
She said she had to think about it 😯
A month later she asked me back with a 'Marry me' Love Heart sweet and it took her about 8 packs to find a pack with the right one in.
But my brother's was best - he asked his girlfriend whilst having a pee against a wall behind Knaresborough bus station. Sweet.
On a beach 🙂
At sunset 🙂
With only gulls for company 🙂
Sheesh, it was freezing. That's why I needed several pints afterwards. 🙂
Hastings beach at sunset on a massive sugar rush.
I had something far grander planned but the moment was perfect.
Our'e not are you ? are you sure its mine .
Ring in a small box, wrapped up as a Xmas tree present - opened it on Epiphany as the tree was being put away (we usually save one present for epiphany)
Walking down by the harbour at dusk whislt we were away in Mallorca. Had a ring already picked and she was speachless. Got a round of applause from a small crowd further down when I pulled the ring out.
I did the honorable thing of asking her dad before we went away... (he's paying for the wedding now)
Rugby World Cup, watching Scotland v SA, waited until half time & asked her. Did the one knee thing but there was nobody else to see as was in the lounge at the time.
A bit spur of the moment but she kept bringing me beer & I felt happy.
Don't regret it 🙂
Top of Ben nevis
But my brother's was best - he asked his girlfriend whilst having a pee against a wall behind Knaresborough bus station. Sweet.
😆
On this beach, Cayo Levisa, Cuba 🙂
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Outside our first house on new years eve 1999, I asked the question and the whole of the skyline lit up with fireworks for the start of 2000. Three Children later 8)
I was proposed to, I should have stuck to my guns and said no ... wonder where she is now?
Top of dunkery beacon
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We were planning a dream holiday to Canada and the US - I was going to go down on one knee at the top of the Empire State building. Then she decided we weren't doing New York as she'd already been.
Then suddenly she started referring to the holiday as the honeymoon, and I said that if she organised it, I'd turn up.
So I never actually proposed....is it still legal and valid?
On both knees, surrounded by half emptied luggage having just arrived from Luxembourg sporting dyed red hair and a newly pierced nipple (both of which were suprises to my intended) - she was suprised to say the least but did say 'yes' straightaway.
in Hastings as well.
We already had a few nights booked in Vegas.
We mutually agreed that we didn't need any more toasters (big party with wedding gifts), we both hate being centre of attention, had been co-habiting 6 years already and were looking to buy a 2nd, grown-ups home together (3 bed from a 1 bed flat).
Booked a driv-thru do about 2 days before take-off. The reception was McDonalds for 2 on the Strip! Told the rest of the family in the evening .. they still all feel hard done by.
In the middle of this:
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Campo del Moro, just under the palace in Madrid.
My first LTG said no, here (Tarifa)
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So she found her own way back home..
I waited until she was suffering from vertigo at the top of the leaning tower of Pisa, then asked her.
I'm sure she said yes just so I would let her come back down, but we're still married two years on, so it must have worked.
MrsBouy said erm.. here (Valencia Harbour at the last Americas Cup)
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We're still together, hahaha, and happy.. one day maybe we'll get around to it..
I hope her first name doesn't begin with the letter C? Actually I hope it does... Mrs C Lunge.
schrickvr6, unfortunately her name does not begin with C and my surname isn't Lunge. Shame as that would have been funny.
While out riding on the Malverns last weekend, once we were both suitably covered in mud spray, I made an excuse to stop, got down on one knee, pulled the ring out of my camelbak and said the magic words,,
She said yes, (which was nice) and then we dropped off the side, down a sweet single track to the cafe............
she asked me
Wife went out with her sisters and when she came back she said were getting married on bla bla bla
London eye on a weekend away - didnt have loads of cash for a fancy holiday but had a ring.
Produced ring in the pod - however as I'm reminded lots now i only asked her - "fancy getting engaged" and never properly proposed nor did the one knee stuff either.
5 yrs married and one daughter later we are still doing grand.
London +1
Took her to London for the weekend. Went for a lovely dinner and happened to pass Eros where I popped the question (had the ring in my pocket).
Took her to Amsterdam, thought we could get a ring whilst there but I didn't really have a plan of when to ask her 😯
Somewhere past Rembrandtsplein (I think) a plane went over pulling a message banner it looked like it said - <MrsDaRC_L's name> will you marry me - although it was all dutch to me...
So I shuffled my feet and asked her then. She said yes. It's been 7 years of happiness.
Although allegedly because I didn't drop to my knees/have a plan it wasn't romantic enough. However, looking at some of the above she should be grateful 😆
top of the aiguille rouge in les arcs (highest place in the resort, top of a cable car), surrounded by skiers and snowboarders all taking pictures.
I didn't think it was all that romantic, but she loved it.
Dave
Sunrise, Mt Sinai. Wish I hadn't.
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Last time I skied the Aguille Rouge there was a guy with his knee facing 180 degree round from where it should have been, he understandably was in a fair amount of discomfort.
Anyway, good inspiration, thanks so far!
On the roof garden of our hotel in Rome, where we'd gone to celebrate both her birthday and valentine's day.
She asked me if I was joking & then burst into tears.
Stood behind a waterfall where the splashback was frozen. Tasha (ahsat) had no idea, she grabbed hold of me and started jumping around. We both nearly ended in the waterfall.
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On top of Bioda Buidhe on Skye this May.
It's not the hardest walk in the world but the future misses CD is an exercise-shy asthmatic so I had to get her to the top with promises of amazing views. Once at the summit I had to let her catch her breath before I went down on one knee. She was genuinely surprised and very happy, the view was amazing and we were all alone for the hour we were up there.
The trip was part of a Highlands roadtrip for her birthday and I owe STW one for the advice on the itinerary.
Still waiting.
😕
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on Christmas day 2002
Had no ring, but went down on one knee. We then went to a little jewellery market just outside Central Park and bought a ring off a chinese lady. It was designed and made by her. She took us through to the back where we watched it get re-sized, the stone was reset and polished back up. We were told that it was the only one in existence.
We then went back to central park and made snow angels.
By a wee stream, in the rain and melting snow in Cumbria. Having bottled it the previous sunny, snowcovered day on the top of Helvellyn, I had to just blimping do it before I bottled again....
Top of the Schilthorn in Switzerland. The original plan would have been to ski from there to Lauterbrunnen on the Inferno run after asking. However they had closed the upper run so queue much "Let's just go to the top to look at the view" from me with her wondering why for the first time ever I was happy leaving skis at the intermediate station. Took several laps of the viewing platform so I'm glad I wasn't trying to time it with something like a sunset... would have been dark by the time I actually asked.
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Peel Castle in the Isle of Man during the Centenary TT races. I planned it all, asked her dad before we went, bought a small bottle of champagne and proposed in with a stunning sunset on the beach using my Grans Wedding ring.
She said yes, we opened the champagne (which I'd hidden in my camera bag) and then shared it with her family who were waiting round the corner 🙂
a little boy and 3 years later and I'm getting happier each day 🙂
Met the missus on match.com so the first time she saw me was a photo taken in a nice little Lake District pub. Took her to the same pub, sat us in the same spot. Produced ring, down on one knee... she's delighted, job done.
Mr Y propsed to me within seconds of giving birth to our first child. I think he'd intended to do it before, but LilYeti was 3 weeks early.
Me and Mrs S were at a Level 42 gig in Liverpool. I asked Mark King to propose on my behalf, live on stage in front of 2,000 people.*
*this is completely ficticios.
I proposed badly when drunk one morning and to make matters worse she accepted. It went downhill from there tbh.
Top of pitch hill....
- Stashed champaigne in bushes on a ride the previous day with glasses
- Asked her fathers permission
- Went on a walk with her round surrey hills
- Got to appropiate point, told her I was going to take a picture of her sitting on the bench
- Took a picture, remarked 'oooo that's a good one'
- Bent down on one knee to show her said picture on camera
- Picture actually was an image i'd stored earlier that said gooey words to the effect of 'marry me'
- Got a yes, produced ring, fetched champagine
About the most romantic i've ever been or will be!
GrahamS
At a viewpoint on top of the Hintertux Glacier overlooking the Austrian Alps while on a snowboarding holiday.
I did exactly the same thing!
Then a pulled a all meat sandwich out of my top pocket that i has been carrying around all morning and we sat and ate it in snow.
This is quite nice 🙂
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Finish line of Mountain Mayhem 2009 after winning the solo race.
I'd been planning it for a while, but I messed up the year before and dropped out.
We got married a few weeks ago 🙂
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