JFF- Engagement

I met my husband...knew he was the one...we "mocked" marriage rings with the twisty ties off of a loaf of bread...8 weeks later, we eloped.

Its been almost 6 years now, and one PLANNED daughter later...did you all know that HE gets up EVERY morning and puts the sun out for my DD and me!?! He also finds time to hang the moon every night!!!! Boy, he must get tired!!!!

:)

...and PS....we actually danced in the kitchen last night to Otis Redding....I tell ya, when you get a good one, you get a GOOD one!!!!

I was a brand new RN in ICU at the time. My husband had a mutual friend of ours dress him up as a "patient", then she called the ICU and told me she had a heart patient that needed transfered to the ICU. The whole hospital knew what was happening (even staff on other floors). I was all nervous because this was to be my first heart attach patient that I would have all by myself! Everyone kept telling me that I could handle it and would be fine.......of course, they all knew what was happening. When he arrived, I was stressed and nervous that I didn't even recognize him. When I saw the dozen roses on his chest I tossed them aside, literally, tossed them. I started hollering for someone to help me get the heart monitors on. No one was coming.......then, I turned around and saw the whole hallway filled with people and flashing cameras! They were all smiling. That was when I realized WHO was in the bed and who the flowers were for!!!! Then, out came the ring and the question!

Best day of my life! Well, shared with the birth of each of our 4 children and the actual wedding day.......and some of the days in between! lol I could not have asked for a better proposal. ;)

Sounds very familiar!

My husband and I knew we were going to get married. We even had a long running 'in joke" of asking each other or telling each other at random times. "Guess what? I'm gonna marry you." or "Hey, marry me?" My ring was bought long before the proper asking. I actually wore it on my right hand when we visited his parents, just to avoid awkwardness (it was the first time they met me). New Years was when he properly asked as well. We're PC gamers and we were playing a game together. Midnight struck and he got up to wish me a Happy New Year and he asked me to marry him. At first I thought it was our usual joke, but he smiled and shook his head and asked again. I took a pause and of course said yes. We're about to celebrate our 5th anniversary in May!

Mine called me when I was getting off work to see if I could go home and give him the 'code' off a letter he got that he needed for work. (In reality, there was no letter. He just wanted to make sure I went straight home aftrer I got off.) So I go home, and when I open the door there are a TON of rosepetals in the space between the screen door and the regular door. (In my mind that's when I knew he was going to ask me.) Then I walk in and he had transformed the living room/dining room area into a little Italian restaurant setting, had music playing, candles, flowers on the table, etc. Then he serves me a nice romantic spaghetti dinner (which happended to be what we had on our first date...) Afterward, he told me that he would be right back, and went to the next room over. Then he comes back, gets down on his knee, and gives me.... a book. Granted, it WAS a book that I had been wanting, but I was expecting a ring. So I kinda flipped through it, thinking maybe he hid the ring in it, but nope. I'm just sitting there kinda like... 'uhhh. thanks honey, I needed this one....' (I'm sure the look on my face was priceless) Then he pulled the ring out of his pocket and actually proposed to me. Lol.

I had gotten a job and apartment out of college an hour and a half away from home to relocate to be near him. We had discussed that once I got a teaching job near where we would eventually live, he'd propose, so I knew it was coming sometime.
He came to my apartment and picked me up. We went to a large State Park and we were just sitting on a picnik table talking and decided to leave to get something to eat. (At this point, I was like,"Well, I guess he's not proposing tonight!") We got in the car and he started to pull away when he stopped and said, "Did you just see that?" He stopped the car and got out, I got out and there was a wooden ring box on the ground. I said, "You better not be messing with me!" (He is a real jokester and it would be just like him to tease me about it! We'd been dating 2 years.) I picked up the box, opened it, and there was my dream ring! I started to cry, turned to him and he asked me to marry him! I was so excited!
Needless to say, we just got carryout and went back to my apartment. I called my Mom and she and my Dad already knew, since he had asked my Dad permission. (So sweet, since chivalry is dead!)
The rest is history!

We met in Minneapolis MN while attending college. We started dating during our sophomore year and by our senior year we knew we wanted to get married. We had gone several times to look at rings but I had no clue he actually bought one. One afternoon we went for a walk on the Stone Arch walking bridge over the Mississippi River. We had often gone for walks on that bridge and it was where we went on our first date. We walked to the middle of the bridge and he stopped. He started talking about how much he loved me and wanted to be with me forever. He got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. It was perfect. He had called my dad earlier that week to ask for my hand in marriage. We will celebrate our 10 year anniversary in June.

We were dating for almost two years. My husband helped his father in the garden a lot. We worked on the same shift. But he told me he was going to help his dad in the garden while I slept. I need my sleep. (we were on night shift). He came home with powder on his shoes?? He told me it was pesticide for the garden. The next day or so we were scheduled to go on a small aircraft ride to see the land he just bought from above....as we did fun spontaneous things. So I may have had some clue something was up...I was always anticipating. So we get in the plane and get closer to his land when I noticed huge white letters on the ground. I thought someone vandalized at first. But as we got closer I realized these huge letters spelled out WILL YOU MARRY ME? I was shocked and got so nervous and excited and he pulled out the ring and asked "Well, will you"? I of course said yes. I received a beautiful heart diamond just as I had hoped for. He had rented a football field paint sprayer and was spraying the property not helping his dad in the garden that day. He also asked my dad for my hand in marriage. I called Channel 11 News and their Big Board Friday helicopter was going to be flying over our property anyway, so they covered our story!! Got married May 26, 2001 to my love!

Well my hubby took me with him to pick up my ring. I didn't know that's what we were doing of course. He said " I have to get something from the mall real quick, but u have to stay in the car..." He came back out with no bags or anything... Hmmm. So then he wanted to take me to a job that he had recently done (which was coinsodently by the bay)... We were supposed to be going to my friends house and we were already late, so I was a little annoyed, but went with it. So we went and looked at his work, and while walking back to the car he stopped and whispered in my ear "hey, will u marry me?" down on one knee of course... This sept we will be married for 8 wonderful years!!! =D

tee hee. my man was working on a highway crew in atlanta, they would be gone for weeks at a time, home for a few days, then gone again. one 4th of july weekend i went to atlanta to stay with him for the weekend and we went to Stone Mountain. at night they have this amazing light/laser/fireworks show, and during (i kid you not) "Proud to be an American" by Lee Greenwood, he gets down on one knee. it was actually super romantic and i bawled like a baby. but it does make me laugh because i have never like that song at ALL. tooooo cheesy! lol!

Hahaha ok.
This was my first marriage, in which I am now divorced.
I had a three day weekend, and we were in bed, drunk. I jokingly said, he I have time, lets go to Tahoe and get married!
He looked at me and said "ok." I responded laughing hysterically, "Yeah right." He told me he was serious. The next morning we packed, and everything but he backed out because he knew his mom would be dissapointed not being there, so instead we went ring shopping, and bgan our engagement.
Our engagement started off speedy, then the whole idea of a "wedding" by my mom and his kept blowing up and ended up taking a year before we were married...and then later divorced. LOL
My SO now hasn't proposed to me. He said he is waiting until he can afford the ring he thinks I deserve (the ring is a super big deal to him for some reason). Which is fine, we had discussed it before. Probably another year before he proposes. =)

DH is in the military so we decided to get married when he was 2000 miles away-- we were also 19. I planned a wedding and he came home on leave a few days before the wedding. We were engaged for 3 months be he officially asked me with a ring and everything three days before the ceremony.

He had this whole night planned out-- our fave take out and a 4wheeler trip to this gorgeous lookout overlooking Denver. Special night comes and it's pouring outside. So we changed plans to watching a movie, and then then somehow the only working DVD player in his house was in his brother's room. So we picnicked on his brother's Pokemon bed and watched a movie. He had bought me a promise ring a year before and he slipped it off claimed he wanted to look at it and then replaced it with my engagement ring. I was expecting the proposal the whole night and somehow that one little guesture completely caught me off gaurd!! He was quite sweet as he asked me to marry him and I said yes since I had 200 people arriving in 72 hours for a wedding-- and I loved him of course! Seven and a half years, two children and three deployments later we are still happily in love. We've had our bumps but you know that Stuck Like Glue song? That's us. :)

We started dating in April in college (sophomore year) and he stayed on campus in New York for the summer while I went home to Oregon. I had assumed that whenever he ended up proposing it would be one of three times and places: Either on his visit to me over the summer if we went to the coast (he is from Maine and I'm from Oregon, so we both LOVE the ocean), in the cemetery near our college where he first kissed me in the middle of the night, or in England as I was intending to do a study abroad the fall after we started dating and he was hoping to visit me there.

He came out to visit me in August and for part of the visit we ended up going to the coast to see places and some of my family. He started acting really antsy at my great aunt's house, like he couldn't wait to leave and getting all jittery, and unfortunately I noticed while sitting next to him that there was a weirdly shaped square box in his pocket. Eventually, we were walking around on the beach near Haystack Rock right before sunset and he stopped and pulled out the box and ring and asked me to marry him. I said yes, of course, but to this day he is a little bummed that I wasn't surprised. I was just excited that he picked such a perfect ring (opal) without any input from me--it is to this day the most beautiful opal ring I've ever seen. He had plenty of jewelers trying to talk him into a diamond in spite of the fact that I do not like diamonds.

So, six months after that we were married, and we just hit seven years. =)