[Closed] Proposing in a hot air balloon?

Been done, sure Mr Spice will be along here and give you some more info though as when he occasionally works it is as a pilot.

I need somewhere that everyone hasn't already tried.

Don't worry so much about the location for the proposal.
If she wants to get married she'll say yes wherever it may be. If she doesn't she'll say no wherever it may be. Just a bit awkward coming down a mountain or hot air balloon if you've been let down.
Do it at home/local pub/wherever. Much less risk.
It's the future together you need to enjoy.

mrs T_R's cousin did the hot air balloon thing.

I got told "ill have to try hard to beat that" - Im not going to try , it'll just gets stupid.

Have you considered getting the balloon to land somewhere special, to do the proposing? Like a zoo, or something?

dont drop the ring!!!!!!!!!!

might be awkward when she says no

might be awkward when she says no

Should probably consider having a slimline parachute on, just in case. She says no, then just hop over the side.

Flash mobs are where it's at. Get a flash mob to hide on top of the balloon and come down into the basket at the opportune moment.
Never been done that...

dont drop the ring!!!!!!!!!!

In Spearmint Rhino? I agree. It's really hard to pick up a small, smooth object when it's covered in baby oil.

Sounds tacky to me. Just do it somewhere that has some significance to you both. Where you met, or first date or whatever.

Where you met, or first date or whatever.

Both of those things could involve a balloon ride...

Wait until she asks you. It's the 21st century you know..

Where you met, or first date or whatever.

Spearmint Rhino's it is then.

🙂

Risky. I was in a hot air balloon that got becalmed then ran out of the vital gas and came down rather fast on a small patch of brambly waste land out the back of some houses in Blackburn. Within a minute we were surrounded by a mob of excited ****stani kids and feeling like missionaries who had arrived unexpectedly in some village. It was, er, quite exciting. Police and FB came, the lot. The pilot was a muppet.

Like this Globalti?

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More true than you know!

Later the press revealed that the year before this incident he had been investigated by the CAA for breaking a passenger's leg in a landing.

Have you considered getting the balloon to land somewhere special, to do the proposing? Like a zoo, or something?

Good luck with steering a balloon to the venue of your choice 😆

I need somewhere that everyone hasn't already tried

Why? Have you proposed to her in every other location so far?
This is about you and her/him (delete as appropriate). If it means something to you two, all the better. It isn't a competition.

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Oh, I'm sorry, I thought that said [b]by[/b] a hot air balloon

Have you considered getting the balloon to land somewhere special, to do the proposing?

bbsb - peter griffin 😉

Don't get worked up about it. Just propose, then do fun stuff at some other time. I just don't get it. It's a special act in itself, it doesn't need all this bollocks.

We were booked to go in a hot air balloon once. The way it works, is that you phone them up the day of the flight, and they tell you if the weather forecast is acceptable for them to fly. If not, you go to the back of the queue and are given a date a month or so afterwards.

After arranging to get home from work early 5 times over 5 or 6 months, only to be told each time that they'd not fly, my wife got pregnant and by using that as leverage (they don't fly with pregnant women), we finally managed to convince them very grudgingly to give us a refund, which they don't normally do (minus a £30 'administration charge' for basically doing nothing, the buggers).

None of the balloon companies will publicise how many times they cancel per year, but the internet is full of similar tales of people waiting months and never getting to go, so probably quite a lot. Their terms and conditions are very much full of notes that you're not guaranteed a flight, that they might never get you on a flight etc.

So I would recommend that you only do the hot air balloon thing if you are both retired or both have jobs where you can just pop off at very short notice. Certainly not something you can just do as a surprise, unless you fancy calling off your surprise 5 times before it goes, or can just whisk your girlfriend home from work at very short notice.

Ha ha yes, I do remember several cancellations of my mystery birthday treat.

I suggest first making sure she is fertile.

Then in the delivery room once you have inspected the result, you can make her an offer.

🙂