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Marriage Proposal. but she wants to pick eng ring

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,128 ✭✭✭sweet-rasmus


    free2fly wrote:
    I'd say go looking at rings together so that you know what she likes, but don't buy it when she's with you. Just say something like "Yes, that's a lovely ring." Then buy it later and surprise her with a nice, romantic proposal :)

    brill idea this! go for it!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,006 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    'Step 1 : go down on bended knee and ask girl to marry U

    If she says 'Yes' :

    Step 2 : go to the Jewellers shop together and get ring
    Step 3 : get married
    Step 4 : constant rumpy pumpy
    Step 5 : girl pushes out kid
    Step 6 : Look after kid for 25 years
    Step 7 : GoTo Step 4

    If she say 'No' :

    Then, U're f*cked.'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,365 ✭✭✭hunnymonster


    The Boardsie men are quite a romantic bunch aren't they? It's always lovely to hear stories of love & thoughfulness like these.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭00112984


    I got engaged a few months ago. My boyfriend asked me outright when we were on holiday and then we went ring shopping when we got back. I really liked it that way because it avoided two scenarios-

    1) Him buying a ring I didn't like
    2) Deciding to buy it abroad (after being proposed to on holiday) and being under pressure to pick something out.

    It took me a few goes and a few shops to find my ring but I absolutely adore it.

    I'm not a very girly-girl anyway so the whole down-on-one-knee-with-a-ring-box idea didn't appeal to me at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,787 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    seamus wrote:
    My brother got engaged just before Christmas. If you want to go mad on it, this is how he did it;

    1. Book flights to New York, and an expensive hotel overlooking 5th avenue.
    2. Tell her that you're going to a ball (work or whatever) on the day you're flying out.
    3. Let her best mate in on it, and arrange for her best mate to take her out and get nails and hair etc done "for the ball" the day before the flight out. No girl wants to look like crap on her engagement day.
    4. That morning, have your Dad ring you to wake you up. Claim it's a wrong number/drunk brother/etc.
    5. Tell her to get her **** together, she's going to New York.
    6. Take a second to laugh (inwardly) at the utterly perplexed face on your partner.
    7. Propose.
    8. Take a second to appreciate the happiness you've just caused.
    9. Pack bags, go to airport, fly to New York and buy ridiculously huge rock for fraction of what you'd pay here.
    Make sure her passport, etc. is in order.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,626 ✭✭✭Stargal


    sofireland wrote:
    I put the deposit then on the ring, my OH knew, but little did she know she'd have to wait til we were in Spain (6 months later) to get the ring.

    You waited 6 months?! That's so cruel...


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