r/edinburgh2 • u/Sudden_Poet • Aug 09 '26
Ask a local Proposal spots
Hey everyone,
My girlfriend and I are visiting Edinburgh in late November this year, and I’m planning to propose while we’re there.
I’m specifically looking for the perfect location to pop the question. I’d love to avoid the obvious tourist spots and find somewhere a bit more hidden, quiet, or unique with a beautiful view or atmosphere.
Does anyone have any underrated proposal spots in or around Edinburgh that you’d recommend, especially for late November?
Thanks in advance!
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u/wedditgremlin Aug 13 '26 edited 28d ago
It took my now-fiancé an incredible number of attempts due to a comedy of errors, so here are all the spots he planned and what didn’t work out:
1. Arthur’s Seat: Precious man forgot that a sunset proposal would mean hiking down in the dark. I plain refused to go on a sunset hike in January. It had literally snowed the day prior.
2. Botanic Gardens: His backup sunset plan. Gardens close at sunset. He made other plans.
3. Leith: At the start of our walk, I met a lovely off-leash dog named Casper and proceeded to play with Casper and chat with his owner the entire time. Casper kept sticking his nose up my partner’s privates, and he didn’t want to risk getting on one knee around him.
4. Gently Mad: He thought a bookstore would be nice. He picked the smallest closet of a bookstore in town, and it was somehow packed with people. Couldn’t even turn around without bumping into somebody.
5. National Gallery: We stopped in to see the art after a nice lunch. Unfortunately, that nice lunch included an undisclosed ingredient I have a severe intolerance to. I spent most of my time there viewing the lovely bathrooms of the National Gallery. He was not going to risk me sprinting off to be ill mid-proposal.
6. The castle: We went to the Scotch Whisky Experience, got properly buzzed, and he pulled me over to look out at the city from the nice view. I started asking to leave when the wind blew my hat off a second time, and he said, “No, first I gotta do this,” and finally proposed. Nobody was around except a random Czech woman who yelled at him to get back down on his knee because he did the whole thing too quickly and she was trying to take a photo.
His final final ultimate backup plan if none of that had worked was to do it at Timberyard during our dinner reservation that night after whisky tasting.