Romantic proposal ideas

LegacyUser

Hi all,

I'm in a relationship with the most amazing gorgeous wonderful girl i've ever met. I am planning on proposing to her soon but really want the proposal to blow her away. I'm not generally the most romantic boyfriend in the world but want to make this romantic. Any special ideas? I probably will wait for her to say yes before we go ring shopping so she can choose something she likes herself as long as she says yes!!!

Thanks

Lollipops23

help with romance wrote: »

I probably will wait for her to say yes before we go ring shopping so she can choose something she likes herself as long as she says yes!!!

Well you could buy a cheap but pretty ring to propose with, it's what someone I know did. At the end of the day, she'll be wearing it forever so she should have say in choosing it!! But it's nice to have one to do it with.

Proposals are very personal, for instance, a friend of mine was proposed to in a VERY public way. She loved it, but my god I would KILL my OH stone dead if he did that to me. I'm quite private and hate being the centre of attention.

It depends on your lady really, just make it really personal to the both of you.

LegacyUser

help with romance wrote: »

Hi all,

I'm in a relationship with the most amazing gorgeous wonderful girl i've ever met. I am planning on proposing to her soon but really want the proposal to blow her away. I'm not generally the most romantic boyfriend in the world but want to make this romantic. Any special ideas? I probably will wait for her to say yes before we go ring shopping so she can choose something she likes herself as long as she says yes!!!

Thanks

I'd go for proposing in McDonalds in Tallaght, or Ballymun or somewhere less salubrious. Trust me on this: start off crap and things can only get better. Start off brilliant with all the romance and it will be hard to keep that up and she's going to feel down. Happiness is relative to former happiness.


/end words of experience.


I find water very calming and spiritual, and I'm also passionately interested in history and spiritual music so with that bias noted here are my suggestions.
Bruges is stunning. Strasbourg, likewise, is gorgeous and hugely underrated here because there is no direct flight from Ireland. We flew into Baden-Karlsruhe in Germany with Ryanair and visited Heidelberg on the way down by train to Strasbourg. Google festivals across Europe, we found ourselves once in a medieval festival in Sienna with hundreds of people dressed up in the colours of their respective medieval guild parading at night through the city. Walking the meseta on the Camino de Santiago at 4am with your path lit up by the moonlight and stars?




At home, there are so many extraordinarily romantic places that are still shining as bright as ever and which cost nothing. Dún Aonghasa on Inis Mór is like being on the edge of the world, just the two of you. [url=http://images-cdn.holidaylettings.co.uk/pics/14/141559_15.jpg?ts=1288266216000Ballycotton village[/url] in east Cork? Take a boat trip over to Ireland's Eye or Lambay Island from Howth or Holmpatrick? Walk the Wicklow Way and propose to her as you walk along the ridge above Powerscourt Waterfall? On the path next to Glencar waterfall in Leitrim? On the top of Croagh Patrick? After Gregorian chant at vespers (evening mass) in Glenstal Abbey?


Bain taitneamh as!

Witchie

As said before make it personal.

If there is something that you like doing as a couple do that.

Some friends of mine got engaged recently in front of the Monkeys in Amsterdam zoo! They met saving turtles on a beach and their love of animals has been a big part of their life so it was so romantic for her to have that kind of proposal.

I want to be proposed to at a gig or football match coz other than my family friends and fella, they are what make me happy!

My best friend wants it to be on a random day when she is curled up with him on the sofa.

My sister got engaged when she arrived back to her flat in Edinburgh tired and miserable coz she had to get a bus from London as flights were cancelled due to an ash cloud and he asked her coz he wanted to make her happy.

There are many ways but my advice is make it personal to you both and thats what will make it romantic.

Good luck and let us know how you get on!

kryogen

Two people I know got engaged 2 weeks ago, the story was, if the girl could acquire a drumstick from the band they were seeing at the time he would propose, the band was Aslan so not exactly tough to get to them.

She got the drumstick, he proposed, no ring, no frills, clearly no planning and from personal knowledge I know he hadnt actually been planning to ask her anytime soon. Drink can make you think stupid!

Do not do anything remotely like this because this will be a story to everyone after it happens, it has to be romantic, it is one of the biggest moments of both of your lives and needs to be given the proper attention, now romance is different from person to person, some want to be proposed to on top of the Eiffel Tower, some would think the most romantic way is for it to be a very private moment with just the two of you around.

The key is to know your girlfriend, know what she would like, what she finds romantic.

Good luck

I am a friend

Well dont do it on Valentines Day.....

What does she like to do and what do you like to do as a couple?

you could enter this OP

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056520415

saa

Cheap ring!!!

My partner got me an expensive one before Christmas, now I'm allergic to the nickle in the gold and fingers cross the shop will take it back