My now-husband proposed to me on Valentine's Day.
While I was at work he had hired a guy to detail my car whom also brought me a Valentine's Day card and two dozen red roses. Later that day he called me and mentioned he had made reservations at a wonderful restaurant here in Ojai, California, at 4:45 p.m. and not to be late.
When I arrived to the restaurant, there was helicopter waiting for me in the adjacent field; I couldn't believe my eyes. Is this really for me?
My husband ran across the field, grabbed my hand and off we went in the helicopter. The pilot asked me how I was doing and at that point I wasn't really sure, having had no idea what was happening.
The pilot took us over the coastline near the Ventura Beach, slowed way down and hovered over the break line of beach where, earlier in the day, my husband had dug a huge heart with river rock in the sand. In the middle of the heart were our names.
At this point the tears were just rolling down my face with joy.
The pilot took off over the big blue ocean for a while and we ended up at Santa Cruz Island where he dropped us off for about an hour so my husband could propose to me. My husband brought a big blanket, champagne, a coat and the engagement ring and proposed to me at sunset.
No one was on this island but us. It was truly the most memorable night I have ever had in my life.
And the rest is history!
B. H., Ojai, California
I had known Joshua my entire life.
When we started high school we both went our separate ways but, during our junior year, we somehow reconnected. Ever since then we became inseparable. We went to each other's proms, family gatherings, and soon it was like he was actually part of my family...and me his.
Years passed as college arrived. As luck would have it, we both attended the same university in Pennsylvania. Our relationship grew stronger and stronger until we had been together for about four years.
Our junior year in college was when he popped the question. For some reason I was not expecting it at all even though we had been together for so long. We met up Friday night, just like we regularly did for take-out Chinese food and a movie in. I remember sitting on the couch with my container of chicken fried rice and he had already fished out the fortune cookies.
"This one's for you," he said.
Smiling, I took the cookie from him and opened it to find a beautiful engagement ring inside! I looked up at him, speechless.
He said, "I have put a lot of thought into how I was going to do this. We have been together for so long and I want it to be perfect."
He got down on one knee as I started to blubber. He said, "You are the person that I want to spend the rest of my life with and, when I am 99, I want to be sitting on our couch, in our house, doing exactly this on a Friday night. I know that there will be hard times but I know that we can make it through anything. I love you more than anything else in this entire world and I will do whatever it takes to show you that. Will you marry me?"
Tears rolling down my cheeks as I responded, "Well I'm going to have to think about that" and gave him a huge smile. "Of course I will marry you!"
I gave him the biggest hug and the most passionate kiss that I could.
I will always look forward to our movie and Chinese food nights.
L. J., Baltimore, Maryland
My husband and I are from Colorado, so we like to hunt, fish, camp, and hike.
Through our dating we have come to love one certain spot at which we like to fish. It's dubbed our "special" spot. However I am still a little squeamish about putting the worm on the hook so he bravely always does that for me.
Well one day he decided that we should go up there and have have picnic, fish and relax for the afternoon.
We drove up, got settled into our spot and he baited his pole first, handed it to me and said to cast it out for him while he baits mine. So I did and, as I'm enjoying the views and the fresh air, he handed me my pole, but said, "Check your bait before you cast it to make sure it on there good enough!"
I looked at the end of the line and there was my beautiful diamond ring! I started to cry and he simply asked, "Will You Marry Me?"
S. S., Fort Hood, Texas
He popped the question again and again and again, with miles and miles of yard signs.
"MARRY ME? I want my best friend for life." Of course, the signs included my fiance's name.
She said yes -- several times, though far from once for each of the 100 signs that I had stuck in the medians along her commute in town.
I had told her to keep her eyes open on her way to work Thursday.
"I had to give her a little hint so she wouldn't speed past the signs," he said. "I told her to look for a sign -- not necessarily a sign sign, but a sign."
She figured on a single banner or something else large. She didn't really take in the first, at the entrance to her subdivision.
"I thought, 'Did that say my name on it?' Then I saw another set. Then another set. I started laughing and said, 'Oh, my God!'"
After the second set, she said, she called and told him "Yes."
"He said, "There's more.' I said, "OK, I'll call you back."'
There were dozens along the turn lane near the office and in front of the office itself.
"I started crying then and bawling and told him yes," she said.
That was Thursday morning. I made a more formal proposal that night, at a restaurant.
Over dinner, he gave her a photograph album of the highlights since they met. Then, on the stage where a band had been playing, he went down on one knee. With the ring.
J. L., Gonzales, Louisiana
I was at work in a busy hotel as a manager when I got a call through from security saying that there was an emergency in the lobby area and that I needed to get there ASAP.
When I got there, there stood a man dressed in a full suit of old-fashioned armour! Thinking this was very odd, and perhaps he was a mentally challanged individual or a lost actor, I walked over to inquire as to the problem.
As I approached, the man took off the helmet and there stood my boyfriend of eight months!
Time stood still he knelt before me on one knee and opened a box with a beautiful diamond ring! I felt tears welling up and a lump in my throat as I said yes.
He took my hand and led me outside to where there were two black stallions with white plumes attached to a beautiful white carriage. He swept me away to a hotel where there was a five-course meal laid out for us!
N. C., Des Moines, Iowa
I had ordered Emily's engagement ring online and received it last Friday. Since the wedding is in 90 days, I was a bit under the gun to get the proposal done. Normally, I would have planned a major production in order to make it a special, memorable occasion, but for this go round, I was short on time.
There were no good opportunities on Saturday, so when we met for church, I had the ring firmly tucked into the inside pocket of my Easter sport coat. The pocket had earlier received one of the most exhaustive inspections in the history of coat pockets. Still, I checked it about every five minutes for the rest of the day.
After church we went to eat at the Iguana Grill--a local eatery on a bluff overlooking Lake Travis, northwest of Austin, Texas. There is a beautiful view of the lake for miles in two different directions and a large outdoor deck for dining.
We had a nice table in the center of the deck for our meal. I noticed at one far end of the deck, there was a nice rock wall covered with flowering vines. The wall extended out to the wooden railing on the water side of the deck. At the intersection of the wall and railing was a table occupied by an elderly couple. Just as Emily and I finished eating, the other couple left and created the opportunity that I had been waiting for. I took her hand and said, "Let's go see the view of the lake from over there."
The little corner was quiet and peaceful. The sailboats looked like little toys on the dark blue water. The sky was a postcard blue and dotted with big white clouds that were floating by on a pleasant breeze. The rock wall was covered with a vine bursting with small, orange, trumpet shaped blossoms. You could almost hear the bees whispering to the nectar.
I took Emily in my arms and told her that she was the one I had been looking for all of my life and that I could not begin to express to her how happy she made me feel. I promised that I would do everything in my power to be the best husband I could possibly be. I took both of her hands in mine, dropped to one knee and asked her if she would marry me. She had a look of complete delight on her face and said that yes, she would.
I reached into the coat pocket for its last test, took out the ring and put it on her finger. We hugged and kissed and all of the rest of the people and the restaurant seemed to disappear. For one sweet moment we were the only two people on earth. It was really nice.
As we were leaving the parking lot, I was fishing for a compliment on how well the proposal had gone, and she said, "I'll always remember that you proposed to me at some lizard restaurant!"
Whatcha gonna do?
T. T., Austin, Texas
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