my fiance and i have known eachother for about 9 years and have been dating for 6.5 years. him and i knew we were going to get married after i came back from school in costa rica. i had been there for a year and we still kept a healthy, Godly relationship going. when i got back, the only thing holding us back was a job that could support the both of us. so we searched and searched and started to become discouraged. after a few months of giving up, we continued to pray that God would bless us with something, anything that would give us the means to get married. about a week or so later, he got calls from 3 different companies. after getting a job he decided it would be nice to celebrate this blessing so we went out for a picnic. now, as a sidenote, i had been getting really impatient with him ... [+] for not asking me to marry him and would get excited everytime we went somewhere nice. but my hopes were dashed everytime so i decided to not get my hopes up anymore. so we go to the railroad tracks behind my house and proceed to start a fire and cook our food over the fire. we ate and walked the tracks just talking and enjoying eachothers company. after a while of hiking, i got tired and laid down on the blanket we put out. my fiance come up to me after putting out the fire and asked if i wanted to go on one last walk on the train tracks while the sun set. i agreed and started walking. when he didnt follow me i turned around asked him if he was ok. the moment i saw tears in his eyes i knew. he told me he wanted to share my happiness, joy, and laughter. and he also wanted to share my sadness, tears, and pain. he wanted to grow old with me. then he got down on one knee and presented me with a ring he designed based on all the things i told him i wanted in a ring. obviously i said yes and we cry/laughed together all the way back to my house. *sigh* i love that man.

My then boyfriend, now fiance have known each other since we were about 10 years old, and had been on and off (the teenage stage). But after graduating we reunited had been back together for 2 years when i found out i was pregnant with twin boys. We were soo happy and excited and ready to have a family together. But when i was 22 weeks i went into labor and gave birth to our twins that just werent ready yet. Our babies had passed away 4 hours after birth. As we layed in the post partum room together griving over the loss of our twins, My fiance got on one knee with tears in his eyes, proclaimed his love for me and then asked me to marry him. I was shocked because of the circumstances but immediatly said yes. He didnt have a ring and i didnt need one, because if he would ask me to marry him ... [+] at one of the hardest times in our life, i knew he was defiantly the one for me. We are due to be Wed 6 days from now on April 14th 2012 in honor of our beloved Twin boys.

So, I went over to wake my (at the time boyfriend) fiancee up. He rolled over and asked me "If I'd marry him" I was speechless. It was the last thing I'd expected and come to find out, He'd been awake all night trying to figure out how he was going to ask. Not to mention, he was shaking so bad he could barely ask

One morning, my boyfriend who I live with asked me if I could make us eggs for breakfast. When I opened the egg carton… it was empty except for the most beautiful engagement ring. I turned around and there was my boyfriend on one knee!!

so my fiancee and I had known each other for 2 1/2 years, we were friends at first for a while, he liked me and asked me out several times but i had hang ups about an ex-boyfriend and wasn't ready for anything new. finally in march of last year i was ready and we started dating, by october we knew we wanted to marry each other but he was having a hard time with a job in the economy and i knew it would be some time coming...but i was really starting to get impatient. i wanted to be engaged by the end of the year so we could start planning the wedding. hanukkah came and went, christmas/his birthday came and went. meanwhile i'm sending him pics of rings i like and endlessly pestering him. he kept talking about going to the beach on new years day so i thought it would happen then. then at a big ... [+] party my friend and i threw on new years eve right after the midnight toast he started giving a toast and then all of a sudden was down on one knee in front of like 50 people. i could hardly hear him everyone was screaming, i said YES! then he kissed me and the neighbors set off new years eve fireworks right then. it was perfect! (he had been planning a new years eve proposal for 3 months...)

My boyfriend and I went to AC for the weekend. On our way back, my boyfriend kept saying there was something wrong with the car. After a little while, he pulled over and told me that the car had broken down. He told me he could fix it, but asked me to reach into the glove compartment to grab him a wrench. When I opened the box, there was a ring sitting there for me. Best night of my life!

So my fiance and I are not always the mooshiest. We've been friends since high school and I think part of what's made us so happy together is the fact that we are such good friends beyond our romantic affection. Last year we moved in together and about 6 months after he started planning the proposal. In early July he bough my engagement ring and waited for the most special moment he could think of to ask me. First, he was going to take me camping to a private spot and ask me under the stars. Unfortunately the morning we planned to leave I started not feeling well and we cancelled it. So he figured he'd wait until another moment came along. Shortly after our community was doing it's annual picnic and fireworks. I was pretty pumped for the fireworks, but again last minute I just didn't ... [+] feel like going. (If I'd known I would've changed my mind) He tried all night to get me to change my mind, but I said nah. He tried to take me to a nice dinner, and I told him I was having a "fat day" and didn't want to eat bad food, so I squashed that. After over a month of small romantic gestures and plans that I kept ruining, it just happened naturally. One Sunday morning we were just cuddling in PJs. I asked him "What do you want to do?" and he said simply "Marry you" and reached into the night stand to pulled out the ring. I looked a mess and was completely shocked. Then he started explaining how all the other plans he'd had just weren't panning out and he just had to ask me. (He'd already had a talk with my mother- she'd be dying waiting for the big question!) In the end, I think it was the perfect proposal for our dorky selves.

Me and my now fiance has been dating for going on four years. We had been talking about marriage for a long time. On Christmas day he finally asked! After we opened all the present we was cleaning up. We was at his house so he walked to his room, I did not think nothing of it. After him staying in his rooms for the longest time it seemed I asked was he okay. He finally came in the den where I was. I was sitting on the couch looking at my christmas. He walks in and says "Thanks for all my gifts." I then thought he was fixing to kiss me, but he got on one knee and I just knew. He only got out " You know I love you with all my. . ." Before he got it all out, I just screamed and said really? So then he said yes I am. I then said Yes and asked again was he being forreal. He never got out Will you ... [+] marry me. I was just so happy! God has truely blessed me with an amazing man.

32 years ago... I lived in a city 60 miles from where he lived. One night after a date, he said, "You know, I am getting really tired of driving so far to see you." Then he paused. I was ready to say, "Well. OK. Then. Don't." Then he said, "If you would marry me, I wouldn't have to." On our 25th Anniversary, he took me to a romantic restaurant and got on his knee in front of everyone and asked again... this time with a diamond ring!!

On the night we met he told me I was the girl he was going to marry. The next week we had the worst 1st date imaginable. Five weeks later we were married in a small church wedding. The only proposal he made was the first night we met. I guess we both knew it was the real thing, in 2013 we will celebrate 35 years of marriage.

My husband and I were high school sweethearts, we were friends for a year and didn't even start dating until we were on a school trip in L.A., it truly was a fairy tale from the start...there was a necklace in one of the shops we had visited that I fell in love with, it was a dolphin with my birthstone in it but couldn't afford it. Like a gentleman my husband had offer to pay for it but as friends there was no way I was going to let him spend any money on me thus bringing up the discussion of (defining our relationship) which led to him asking me out. Obviously I said yes and as soon as I did be pulled the necklace out of his pocket. Our first kiss was just as romantic, and after 2 years and in my junior his senior year he had told me loved me while watching a movie, I of course replied that ... [+] I loved him too he said "will you always love me?" I said "Yes I will" while reaching into his pocket he replied "do you promise?' and then Presented me with a promise ring...3 years after graduation and I was at my job at the time in a department store on a stepping stool stalking a shoe wall when all do a sudden I hear my name over the intercom and just as I turned around to see the whole store looking up at me my husband asked me to marry him! As I walked to the counter he was standing at he had needled to one knee and presented me with a ring with my birthstone (A pearl) In the middle surrounded by a thin ring of diamonds...it is currently welded to my wedding band and after 7 years and a beautiful daughter my fairy tale with my husband is still just as amazing as it was the day it began on that island in L.A. That is my story and I hope you enjoyed reading it.

My now fiance was my Resident Assistant when I was a freshman in college. We were best friends for years and just seem to loose touch once we had both gotten into other relationships. Years later he walked into Chili's (where I worked at the time) and I freaked out. I hadn't spoken or seen him in 2 years and I didn't know what to do or say. I finally found the courage to go up to him and say hello. We spoke for a couple minutes before I had to go back to work. Then, as we was walking to the bathroom, we literally ran into each other. We had a conversation for a few minutes and I finally asked him what he was doing that night. We decided we would go and have drinks when I got off of work. He came, picked me up and we went out to a local bar. We had a couple drinks and then he came to my ... [+] apartment to see where I lived. I then went and saw where he lived. After that, we started talking more and more and right before he moved 160 miles we decided we really wanted to try to make this work. After two a half years of being long-distance he called me one morning and told me he was basically in tears because he was tired of leaving me. That's when we decided I would move in with him at the end of the year. We had talked about getting married before I moved, because I always swore I wouldn't live with a boyfriend until we were engaged so I thought it may be coming but I really didn't know. Thanksgiving passed and it still hadn't happened so I thought it wasn't going to happen. The following week, December 4th, was the day before my birthday and he said he wanted to spend some time just the two of us and he was going to take me on a picnic. We had plans with friends that night and family the following day to celebrate my "birthday" so I thought...well this would be a good time for him to but who knows. So we picked up food and went to the place we met, University of North Florida, and we sat where we once, 7 years ago, looked up and clouded watched. It was really nice to go back to the place where it all began. He gave me a present and said "There are two presents in there but you can only open one right now" so I did. It was the first season of Glee. The he said, "let's go on a walk." We walked until we found a cute bench. I sat on the bench and as I sat down he got down on one knee and all I could say was, "Are you serious?". He said a bunch of things that I truly don't remember and then I said yes and finally got to look at the gorgeous ring! He then informed me that both the party that night and the one the following night was put together because of the engagement and they were all already aware that he was proposing! We will be married on April 21, 2012 and I can't wait!!!

Our relationship began 20 years ago when we were both in middle school. Back then, there was just a lot of hand holding, slow dancing, and movie watching (Back to the Future II!). After a break up and many life experiences 10 years later, we reunited briefly in college after randomly running into each other on Bourbon Street in New Orleans in 2000. The relationship never really got off the ground because of distance and job opportunities that took us in different directions. In 2009, we bumped into each other back in our hometown after not seeing each other for 10 years. The timing was perfect for both of us and on July 18, 2011, my childhood sweetheart proposed to me on Jekyll Island in Georgia. It was a perfect answer to our unorthodox 20+ year courtship: he waited until after the romantic ... [+] candlelit dinner ... after the moonlit stroll along the water ... until I was in my pajamas complaining of a sunburn. It was unexpected and wonderful. We're getting married at the end of this year ... two weeks after what would be our 23rd anniversary!

In March my fiance and I planned a trip to visit my aunt in Honolulu for spring break. We had been dating for almost two years and had talked about marriage, so I was hoping he would pop the question there. Our second night in the city he had planned a dinner at a restaurant on the beach. It was still early (around 5pm) and I wanted to wait to get a table close to the ocean but he said we didn't have time and told the waiter to seat us wherever. After seated the waiter moved us to a table close to the ocean and I was sure it was going to happen then. We ate dinner, paid quickly, and got up to leave, still no ring. We were walking along the beach when I wanted to go out on a pier to check it out. After being told "no" I continued to walk, admittedly a little bit annoyed. We came to another ... [+] pier where a bottle was lying amidst the rocks. He saw it, went over to pick it up, and read his message to me. I cried as he put the ring on my finger. He later told me he was in a hurry because he wanted to propose as the sun was setting. I am marrying my best friend next June! Teila Schjei

While in high school I had a huge crush on him and he knew of me but didn't know me. We started talking from facebook, then emails, then texts then phone calls on my way to work every morning and then began a long distance relationship. We both didn't believe in them because we didn't think it would without being with each other. Boy were we both wrong. After a year of this long distance relationship, he flew from MI to AZ to visit my daughter and I, we went out to dinner the 3 of us then I took him back to where he was staying, he didn't want to stay with me out of respect for my daughter. He then handed me his phone and asked me to look up something but this video came on. It was my favorite song "but i do love you" by leanne rimes and he have put together a photo montage of pictures ... [+] we had sent between the two of us and towards the end "will" was typed on the computer "you" he wrote in sidewalk chalk "marry" was in magazine letters and "me?" he wrote on his hand and took a picture of himself with his hand up. When the video was done I looked up and was on his knee with my daughter right next to him and a ring in his hand. It meant so much to me that he included my daughter. I accepted and we will be a family on 5/18/2012, that is our birthday's added together, he is 1/8 and I am 4/10.

In college, my roommates and I always had game nights and the main game of the night was always guesstures. My fiance set up a typical get together but it was actually a built-in engagement party where everyone was in on it. It was our turn and started acting out a few words that were pre selected to make sure they were guessed quickly. And then the word was proposal (which is a legit word in the game) so I didn't think anything of it. Unfortunately, the buzzer went off and I walked away thinking we lost all our points. After some improvising on his part, we were back up at the front and acting again. He busted out the ring and a friend hit play to our song! It was amazing and hilarious to think back on! It was so nice to share the moment with our friends and even one was secretly video taping ... [+] so we have it all recorded! Love him!

I'd had a crush on my lovely divorce lawyer but he was married at the time... a few years later, he, too, was divorced. We dated for six months but he was not ready to take on a new marriage with young children. Eleven years later, I sent him a Christmas card; he replied with an invitation to visit... I went up a month later, and within an hour (following a simple soup lunch) he said, from his armchair looking at me in mine, 'well, what do you think about getting married?" I said Yes... and less than a year later, we are about to get married! We are 58 and 60 years old!!!!

We were living at the beach at the time and had found a nice secluded spot on the beach that we would go to, to get away from the world. It was our spot. One night after work, my fiance picked me up, had packed a picnic basket and said we were headed to our spot. He laid out a blanket, opened the basket and we dined on cheese and crackers, fruit and wine as we gazed at the gorgeous moon reflecting on the calm water. We had been there about 30 minutes, talking about how much we were in love and about what our future would be like. Then he reaches in his pocket and pulls out a tiny box. In it was his grandmother's wedding ring set. As he opened it, everything seemed like it was in slow motion as he asked me to marry him. Of course I immediately said yes to the love of my life. That was ... [+] 2 years ago. We will be getting married in 2 weeks!

Steven was supposed to be at my house around 2:00 on Friday, May 13th. (Yes, we got engaged on Friday the 13th!!!!) He kept sending me texts telling me that he was going to be late for one reason or another. He finally ended up getting there about 3 hours later. I was still completely oblivious to why he was late or the fact that he had a ring in his pocket. We planned on grilling that night and did so even though it was late when we got to eat because he was so late getting to the house. Steven cleaned up the dishes as we were cooking and also manned the grill. After we ate, I was in the kitchen finishing up the last few dishes which Steven was watching tv. He called me in the living room because he wanted to show me something. I was finishing up the dishes so I told him to wait just a minute. ... [+] When I finally went in the living room, he said, "I got you something." I said, "You did, what?" At that time, he pulled out the ring box, and I immediatly started crying. He said he hoped those were tears of joy!!! That is when he told me that he was late because he had gone to my dad's house to ask for his permission to marry me, but unfortunately, my dad was not home at the time. He had to wait until after dinner to ask me because it wasn't until that time that he had been able to talk to my dad!!! He completely caught me off guard as well as everyone else because only 2 people besides him knew he had the ring....my dad and a friend of his that works where he bought the ring. We shared the news with my mom when she got home from work that night and then with other family and friends the next day. We are looking forward to our Nov 5 wedding date and the beginning of the next chapter in our life!!!!!

So my fiance and & moved in with his dad since he was 83, widowed and beging to have health issues and, was living in a really large house by himself. Being WWII children, my fiances parents save EVERYTHING. In order for us to make room for us to start a life and a family at this house, we had to sort through and throw away A LOT of junk (this is a brooklyn brownstone so 5 floors of junk) After a few months of doing this we finally had enough room for us to move in but there was still a lot for us to do in order to be able to claim a full floor for ourselves. So one night there is a thunderstorm and the cable goes out while we are lying in bed watching tv. I was feeling grumpy from a long day so I decided to go take a hot shower to relax. When I came out of the shower he comes to me with a ... [+] box and asks me to help him sort through it. I'm like "do we have to do this now, I'm really not in the mood". He says, "yes, I want to get it out of our room" So I start going through it and saying we should throw this out, we could use this in the house, etc. I come to a jewelry box. In my mind I'm thinking its another piece of jewelry that belonged to his aunt who once lived in the house but has passed away a few years ago now. When I open the box, my engagement ring was in there. I said will you marry me, and I was speechless. I started crying, said yes and hugged him for a really long time. Then we went into the next room and shared the news with his dad.