Please, hold your applause. 
Six years together, four years married.
I thought to lighten the mood around here, it’d be fun to share my engagement story. Cause if you’re married at some point you, too said yes to that age-old question: Will You Marry Me?
Oh, but ours friends, is not as fun and romantic and classic as others.
My husband and I dated for…(let me count) 4 months before we got engaged.
Before you gasp. I spoke with a family friend (who also happened to be my physician) and she knew her husband for TWO WEEKS before they got engaged and they’ve been married for over 30 years. Her advice for me?
Sometimes, ya just know.
So I went with it.
Anyway. I hate surprises. HATE, HATE. My husband knows this. So we spoke logically about loving each other and wanting to get married. So what did we do? We marched our happy butts to the jewelry store on New Year’s Day and bought an engagement ring. There, in the middle of the jewelry store at the mall my husband asked me to marry him.
Romantic, huh?
Have I mentioned I’m not into romance and stuff like that either? At least not an overflow of it, just a little bit.
Well, I’ve mentioned before that my husband and I love hard and fight hard. It’s been like that all six years we have been together. (Though I must admit we are slowly learning how to decrease the fighting hard part and taking time to cool off and talk to each other rationally.)
Sometime in the early summer of the same year we got engaged, we broke up. There was a big, explosive fight, the ring was returned and we were both pissed. He went off on a volunteer trip for about a week and I took that time to breathe. Clearly, we got back together, but I refused to take the ring back or hear a proposal until I knew he was serious about us.
On the 4th of July, he picked me up and took me down to this private beach at one of the local colleges down in Saint Pete (Florida). No one was around, the sun had gone down and there was a hammock just there- randomly- that we got in and watched the stars. We talked and talked and talked and boom!
Will you marry me?
Who? What? When?
(I told you I hate surprises)
And voila! Here we are.
How many women get 2 proposals?
Me.
So. Your turn. How were you proposed to? Spill the beans.
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my husband made me go on a walk that I bitched about the whole way. when we got to a little foot bridge, he bent to tie his shoe and came back with the ring. I quit being bitchy and said yes.
he wanted to marry me even when I was a crab. gotta love him!
Katie´s last [type] ..a room of her own
Oh our men are pretty awesome. Cause we can be bitchy and crabby, yet here they stand.
Steve remembered the date, October 23rd, when we met the first time around in Atlanta at the World Series! He and I went to the Hurricane for dinner. He had researched what time sunset was. So after dinner, we walked across to the beach. As the sun went down, Steve got down on one knee. I said “oh my god, your pants are going to get filthy.” He then asked me to marry him. I sat there shocked. Then he said “well?” My reply–”of course I will you fool!” It will be 9 years in July! Happy anniversary girl!
XOXOX
Jill
October 23?! That’s my birthday!! Best day ever!
i got proposed to 2ce too! the first time at his flat whilst watching friends and eating ben & jerry’s cookie dough icecream, it was obviously spontaneous, we had no ring & i was gobsmacked! infact my response was “but i’m 19!” eventually i said yes coz it felt right. 5 months later, he had got the ring i chose and asked – it was perfect just us 2!
congratulations on your anniversary!
Lucy´s last [type] ..Ethans Birth Story
LOL Spontaneous, but so awesome that he knew he wanted to marry you- ring or not!
My husband was going to propose when I had surgery but the dude making the ring effed it up so he had to wait.
When he finally proposed we were at his house an he had prepared a wonderful dinner. Our desserts? Was my ring…swoon
Kimberly´s last [type] ..She Was Wrong
Um… that’s super cute. Suuuper cute.
Was that at Eckered College? If so, Woody and I had our first smooch on the beach out there some 11 years ago. Congrats to you and the hubby!!
Yea Mel it was. Chris used to work there in the summers helping with their camps!
My husband tricked me. He did. I had imagined that the proposal would be all grand and spectacular with fireworks and a marching band or something. And it wasn’t. It was totally him. Quiet, private, in the Founder’s Garden where we went to college.
It was perfect.
Heh heh Marching Bands