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Old 22-02-2007, 09:16 PM   #1
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So I am thinking of getting engaged in the near future and I am after your ideas on how I can pop the question....

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Old 22-02-2007, 09:21 PM   #2
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Try on of these golden lines:

"Your probably not going to do much better"
"You're not getting any younger"
"I'm quite a catch you know"
"I have my problems, but look at the size of that diamond"
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Old 22-02-2007, 09:25 PM   #3
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LOL, they work everytime .
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Old 22-02-2007, 09:54 PM   #4
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Try on of these golden lines:

"Your probably not going to do much better"
"You're not getting any younger"
"I'm quite a catch you know"
"I have my problems, but look at the size of that diamond"
Gold I tell ya, Gold!

I may be in a position to use one of these one day, particularly the "You're not getting any younger" as the GF is 6 years older than me.
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Old 22-02-2007, 09:58 PM   #5
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How have you guys proposed? A mate of mine got engaged while doing the bridge climb. He wasnt even allowed to carry the ring up there in case he dropped it.


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Try on of these golden lines:

"Your probably not going to do much better"
"You're not getting any younger"
"I'm quite a catch you know"
"I have my problems, but look at the size of that diamond"
Hmm I somehow think that I wont get the desired result if I use one of these.
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Old 22-02-2007, 10:27 PM   #6
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Try on of these golden lines:

"Your probably not going to do much better"
"You're not getting any younger"
"I'm quite a catch you know"
"I have my problems, but look at the size of that diamond"
You forgot "Your body clock is ticking...."

Yes, I am married. I proposed on Christmas Day myself. Just do it when it suits you, and do it in a way which you like and you know she'll like.
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Old 22-02-2007, 11:57 PM   #7
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Old 22-02-2007, 09:24 PM   #8
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So I am thinking of getting engaged in the near future and I am after your ideas on how I can pop the question....

Just ask him/her. Set the gound rules early. Dont make too big deal over proposing, keep the expectations low.

Seriously, I hope it all goes well. Do the nice dinner thing with clean finger nails and all that. : = :

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or before if you want GREAT sex
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Does she like a crowd, or does she like intimate moments?

If intimate, just a nice, quiet dinner. Keep it simple but make sure you cook her fave meal, play some sexy music (Aqua anybody? :P) and wear her lingerie. I am sure that will get her motor going.
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Old 23-02-2007, 02:41 AM   #11
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Just pop the ring out one day and say "You Win"
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Just pop the ring out one day and say "You Win"
That how I did it!!! :
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Old 23-02-2007, 08:30 AM   #13
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Cliff top, sunset.....done deal
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Cliff top, sunset... push her off.....done deal
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Old 23-02-2007, 11:38 AM   #15
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Cliff top, sunset.....done deal
I agree. When you come to the realisation of what you've done, you can take a quicker header off the cliff. :P

On the down side, if you don't come to that realisation until several years later, you may regret not taking that header off the cliff.

Nah, just yankin your chain. Good luck, enjoy the strip club on your bucks. ;)
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Worked for me :
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Take her to the place where you had your first date. Pack some of her favourite foods (I took strawberries, chocolate and champange). Get down on the old bended knee, pull out the ring and pop the big Q. Eat the goodies together after you pop the question.

For this to work really well though:
1. She needs to be the romantic type.
2. You need to get the type of ring that she likes, so casually (read sneakily) get an idea of the rings she likes when you're out shopping together.
3. The spot of your first date needs to be something really nice. If your first date was at Red Rooster, I'd choose the first really romantic place you went for a date. LOL!

All the best with it. Go get her mate! LOL!

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Take her to the place where you had your first date. Pack some of her favourite foods (I took strawberries, chocolate and champange). Get down on the old bended knee, pull out the ring and pop the big Q. Eat the goodies together after you pop the question.
Hmm I dont think I should do it where we met cos we met at the cheap uni bar obviously while we were at uni. But she ended up have a little to much to drink that night. Needless to say she ended up seeing them again in the morning. Nice...
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Take her to the place where you had your first date. Pack some of her favourite foods (I took strawberries, chocolate and champange). Get down on the old bended knee, pull out the ring and pop the big Q. Eat the goodies together after you pop the question.

For this to work really well though:
1. She needs to be the romantic type.
2. You need to get the type of ring that she likes, so casually (read sneakily) get an idea of the rings she likes when you're out shopping together.
3. The spot of your first date needs to be something really nice. If your first date was at Red Rooster, I'd choose the first really romantic place you went for a date. LOL!

All the best with it. Go get her mate! LOL!

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i dont think the movies would allow me to take some picnic with me :

my missus is alreeady thinking of what wedding dress she would like to wear etc .... and no we are not engaged! ... talking about hints :

i will wait until her best friends and cousins wedding where she is 1st girl and see how she handles that day and then go from there ... i will be asleep in the last row with the rest of her family (will not be pretty that day ... well at least for me)
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Old 24-02-2007, 11:25 PM   #20
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worked for me too.
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Old 23-02-2007, 10:18 AM   #21
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Simple, ask her when it will be a surprise so she will remember it.

I was doing work late at home, then woke my wife at 3am and asked her to marry me, she said yes and couldn't get back to sleep , so she remembers it.
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Having just been proposed to all I can suggest is that you know her well enough to know what she likes .... or I hope you do as your about to embark on a life experience.

My wonderful OH took me for a drive on my birthday, we stopped at "our little stop away from the kids" and he asked ...... No Im not giving anymore details than that :P

All the best in however you chose to ask .....
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Muahaha I am such a romantic that I actually proposed two or three times.

First time: Came home absolutely farking plastered from the pub and after literally kicking the front door open (I thought it would be funny at the time) I stumbled into bed and then proceeded to tell my half-asleep girlfriend (now fiance) that although there were some pretty hot chicks at the pub, they weren't her and I didn't want them anyway because they were skanks. Then I said to her "Theoretically speaking, would you marry me if I asked you?". Needless to say she said "Let's talk about this in the morning" or something. Can't remember too much after that cause I fell asleep on top of her.

Second time: GF was overseas and I asked her over the phone. GF said "wait till I get back and we'll discuss it".

Third time: GF gets back and on her first day back she was hanging out for some Nandos. So off to Nandos we go and buy a Nandos chicken, bring it home and sat on our bed eating it. This is the moment I chose to strike, and BAM before you know it, we're getting married.

The End.



Well not really, I need to actually get married now .
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First time: Came home absolutely farking plastered from the pub and after literally kicking the front door open (I thought it would be funny at the time) I stumbled into bed and then proceeded to tell my half-asleep girlfriend (now fiance) that although there were some pretty hot chicks at the pub, they weren't her and I didn't want them anyway because they were skanks. Then I said to her "Theoretically speaking, would you marry me if I asked you?". Needless to say she said "Let's talk about this in the morning" or something. Can't remember too much after that cause I fell asleep on top of her.
Absolute gold! It gets funnier every time I read it.
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Old 23-02-2007, 11:21 AM   #25
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way to go mate, i proposed to my missus last year at a very packed resturant in newcastle. as i am a chef and knew all the staff at the resturant, i got them to write it on the dessert plate in chocolate. was so frikin nervous that i couldn't get the ring out of my pocket when the plate came out and nearly took out the waitress in the process e
after a standing ovation from the rest of the patrons and a schooner of rum she said yes.
good luck mate you'll be right :
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First time I popped the question was in the back seat of my Ford. I hid the ring on the back parcel shelf. And it was in the car park of one of the eastern Suburbs beaches, Pretty romantic hey? (LOL) She said yes, but then she dumped me and married a security guard who was of the same religious persuasion as herself, bloody bretherens.
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Experience -noun
Something that is aquired by never making the same mistake twice.

Bachelor -noun
A male person who never makes the same mistake ONCE.
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Experience -noun
Something that is aquired by never making the same mistake twice.

Bachelor -noun
A male person who never makes the same mistake ONCE.
I wish I had read that years ago. Although you never learn til it happens.
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ours was more like a business deal......
we'd talked about it often,,,, lots of things to think about.. it's not a small thing.
we were at dinner on an island in Malaysia.. and i said "so, after all this discussion, will you marry me?" 2 years later, bought her the ring and then got married.
we're not romantics, she HATES me spending money on her, SHE chose the ring, and we're now happily married.
gotta think of it as a life commitment, don't want to do it twice, it's not a cheap event either.

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There is another thread here with a few ideas.

I like this one, a bloke buys a TV commercial spot during his girlfriends favorite show.

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