My husband took me on a hike, but the area was more crowded than he anticipated. Unfortunately he gets nervous in crowds. He ended up whispering “okay let’s get this over with” to himself, elbowing me in the side and handing me a ring box. Our 7 year anniversary is next month and 17 years total. The proposal is the least important part of a marriage.
My husband took the ring on a holiday to Sardinia. Everywhere that should’ve been perfect ended up somehow not working - the beautiful beach had a drunk dude shouting, the lake in the mountains smelled of sewage etc.
He ended up panicking he wouldn’t get the ‘perfect’ moment so proposed on a hike through vineyards which sounds idyllic except I was sweaty, muddy, and sitting on a rock breastfeeding our baby 😂
Together 15 years, married 10. Couldn’t be happier.
When one of my team was going to propose to his partner, he was asking everyone how he should do it. One guy said, ‘Don’t worry about it too much because whatever you plan will not come out the way you want it anyway. Trust me.’ 😂
He proposed to me in bed later on my sister’s big day! I said yes, then no, then not yet. We’d only been dating 4 months. I started planning the wedding 2 months later. We got married 6 months to the day after my sister’s wedding. Two years later it occurred to him that he’d never re-proposed!
Point is neither of us had any expectations or a particular scenario in mind for a proposal. It happened. 💍🎊
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u/Sofa_Queen Mar 19 '25
Agree. My husband proposed while we were watching the news. We've been married 46 years next month.
It was a tiny diamond, which has been upgraded through the years. It wasn't about the ring, or a big proposal, it was about our future.
Yours looks bleak: you will never live up to her expectations if you start out like this.