I never got proposed to but I like hearing stories because I am such a PATHETIC hopeless romantic . 😍 I spent some time surfing the net for a little while and came across some really cute ideas.
SECRET CODE PROPOSAL
Submitted by: Anonymous
My fiancée proposed November 6th 2004. It was the most amazing day of my life and of course a complete surprise. The proposal started seven months before he got down on one knee, not that I realized it at the time.
He was sending me flowers once a month starting in March. The flowers in order are
Mums
Anemones
Roses
Roses
Yarrow
Mums
Echinacea
He took a picture of me with each of the flowers "for his monitor at work" and I was too happy getting flowers to see the alternative motive.
About a month after the Echinacea my sister and her husband came up for their one month anniversary and a trip to the Finger Lakes for wine tasting.
It was a great trip that had been meticulously planned. The day before he went to our favorite winery (Atwater) and dropped off 20 by 30 pictures of me with each of the flowers with the names of the flowers printed on them. He then went to my parents house to ask permission with a New York Times (another long story about my sister's engagement which has turned into a family joke).
After we arrived we were tasting the wine and just as a tour bus crowded in the staff revealed the pictures of me to the room. My sister's husband looked up and said, confused Lillie - isn't that you!" Shocked, I looked up and there were huge pictures of me with the flowers on the wall.
Jason then paraded me into the middle of the crowed and got down on one knee. He of course had recited a poem that he had written especially for the occasion.
I realized (after looking at the photos) that the flowers that he had sent had a secret message and the photos of the flowers revealed it in a more obvious way. I'm glad he had given up on the subtleties and asked me to be his wife in a way that could not be mistaken!
I was in such shock I gave him my right hand, I started to put out my left which he snatched and presented a gorgeous ring to seal the deal. After nearly knocking him to the ground with a big hug I managed to say yes as soon as enough of the shock wore off. We celebrated with Champagne; he even had them make us our own label, with names and date!
I was amazed by his creativity and planning and I know that I can look forward to many more surprises in the years to come.
MARRY ME NO FOOLIN'
It was Tuesday, April Fool's Day 2003--just an ordinary day in the middle of the week, (NOT when a girl would expect a proposal). Tuesday nights my sweetheart's daughter had drama practice at our church, so he'd dropped her off and come over to my house--just like usual. We'd been sitting on the sofa watching TV when I got up to do some laundry. I was carrying a load from the dryer to the bedroom when he turned off the TV and said, "Can you come sit down... we need to talk."
I knew it was something serious because men don't turn off the TV for just anything; so I put down the clothes and sat down on the edge of the sofa facing him. I was thinking that it might be a problem with his daughter or the church or something that he wanted to talk over with me. He put his hand on my leg and got very serious when he said to me, "I said I'd never do anything to hurt you and I don't want to hurt you, but we need to break up."
Ha! I immediately knew that was an April Fool's joke, so I laughed and said, "Yeah right! April Fool's!". We get along great, so this was such a lame joke to me! The more serious he tried to be, and the more he tried to tell me that it just wasn't working out and we needed to break up, the more I laughed at his attempts until I was almost rolling in the floor!
Then out of nowhere, he takes my hand and slips the ring on my finger.
I thought it was the next joke! I thought that since the break-up joke didn't work, he's going to try the proposal joke. I thought it must be a ring from a um ball machine--until I looked at it. STOP EVERYTHING!
I said "Oh my gosh! This is REAL!" (probably about three times). He said, "Yes, this is real." My heart fluttered and my tummy flipped and we looked at each other. Then he got down on one knee in my living room floor and said, "Linda, will you marry me?"
