Conversation at work here, leading to some funny stories. Like the girl who puked because it was in a milkshake (super thick, eaten with spoon) and she nearly swallowed it, or the guy who's (now) FIL got him drunk and he ended up falling over while going to a knee.
(And yes, this is in direct relation to THIS THREAD.
So, all, what are your stories?
Also, I said "YOU" in the title, but if you know of some good ones that weren't you, feel free to share.
I plan on using this:
I wish I had a better story, but I was a broke college senior asking my g/f to stay with me and help put me through grad school. It was pretty pathetic on my part.
We were sitting out on the patio one nice evening, having some adult beverages just chatting and enjoying the weather.
I excused myself to the "restroom," but really went and grabbed the ring. Came back outside, got on one knee made my cheesy speech about how I loved her and wanted to be with her.
BANG! She knew it was coming but didn't know when, I figured any other big buildup would make it obvious, I wanted it to be a complete surprise.
We were already planning on getting married in Vegas that year during a trip, but hadn't made the proposal "official" yet.
Not at all romantic:
She was driving me batty about getting a ring.
She suggested we go to look at some rings to get ideas.
She saw a couple she liked.
I said "pick one--now or wait indefinitely"
That was it.
Then I got violently ill with stomach flu that evening.
Married 11 years this Friday. 
Wife was pestering me- I said "Fine, go get a marriage license, we'll figure out the date tonight"
Told her that if they found more than a cyst and had to yank her ovaries I still wanted to be with her forever. She knew how much I wanted kids so it was a really big deal to her. I had made her a ring a couple of weeks before so it was all planned out on my part, but she didn't see it coming. Could have been the intestinal cleansing prior to surgery that had her distracted. Who can say?
I told her she was getting a lump of coal for Christmas. I actually found a bag of "Santa's Coal" at Spencer's. Then I got some silly kids' rings from a vending machine and put them into legitimate ring boxes from the jeweler. I put the phony ring boxes all into one big box.
On Christmas Eve, with both of our families together, I gave her the coal gift first. She was not amused.
Then, she got the big box of little boxes. She knew the size and shape of the little boxes and was giddy. I told her she could pick only one. She picked one with a kid's ring in it (obviously) and was disheartened. Her mom convinced me to let her open another one (she had a pretty good idea of what was going on). Again, Beth got a kid's ring. This went on, until she opened all four (five?) bogus ring boxes.
She was almost in tears, from being "toyed" with, until I pulled the real deal out of my pocket, got down on one knee, and asked if she would spend the rest of her life with me. "Of course!" was the tears-of-joy response.
Our 13th anniversary is the 25th, this month.
"So when are we getting married?"
"I don't know. How bout next week?"
I spent a week and a half trying to come up with some endearingly cheesy way to do it. Nothing sounded right so I ended up waiting until after dinner one night while she was taking break from studying, then proceded to jabber like a mook for what seemed like forever, then she said yes.
I wish I had the gall to have pulled off the coal and kids ring move lol.
I was going to propose at a local park epic cheese style but ended up doing it on the side of the road when my notoriously unreliable Datsun wagon broke down. We got a fancy ride home in a tow truck.
I laid the ring on the drivers seat of my Monte Carlo. I was on the front porch trying to hang a goofy sunflower welcome sign she bought. I asked her to go get my hammer that I left laying in the front seat of the car. When she came back around the corner I was on one knee and asked.
11 years later the car (well all the cars) is gone but she's still around. (And it appears she finally won the battle because I have no more cars)
On top of a Ferris Wheel at sunset. BAM. I toyed with the idea of getting a fake one and dropping off the side to see if she chased after it. Glad I didn't. She did however find a ring box in my car on one of our date nights about 2 weeks prior and got really excited. She wasn't amused when I opened it and it had about 2 bucks in quarters in it because my car had no good change holder.
I proposed two years ago while coming out of Turn 9 at Carolina Motorsports Park while giving her a ride along in my Civic during a HPDE session. I managed to get her to accept before the Kink and the RED FLAG they threw on the session. All the while a friend of mine was ahead of us with "Just Say Yes" in big tape letters on the back glass of his car. She finally figured out what was going on the second time I yelled "Just say YES" We were married this past July and the rest is history. I don't think I will ever have to sell that car.
Ours was simple.
Me, "You want to get married and blow this town?"
Her, "Absolutely!"
We stopped by a law office on the way out of town.
That was 27 years ago.
Toyman01 wrote: Ours was simple. Me, "You want to get married and blow this town?" Her, "Absolutely!"
Wow. She sounds fun. 
Weekend getaway in New York City.
Stayed in a fancy hotel, saw a Broadway show.
Sunday afternoon, rented a horse-drawn handsome cab in Central Park, pulled out the ring, and popped the question.
She said, "Maybe".
I even had champagne and real stemmed glassware I had lugged around in my shoulder bag all weekend to celebrate.
Just celebrated 28 years.
gamby wrote:Toyman01 wrote: Ours was simple. Me, "You want to get married and blow this town?" Her, "Absolutely!"Wow. She sounds fun.
We met in high school. Dated for 5 weeks, dropped out and eloped. Probably one of the smartest things I've ever done.
Proposed on the Jumbotron at a Padres game.
Kinda cheesy, but we were both huge Padre's fans at the time. She had no idea and I was sick to my stomach with anxiety. 12 years in January...
Was dating a foreign national who was supposed to go him in may. Met her in August and was out of town mid-sep through mid-dec, and would be again 1 Jan through April,, then again June- December for a deployment. Christmas at my sister's house after having known each other only a couple months- my sister had a cat who'd just borne 6 kittens. Cute as all get out during the day, but at night they pissed all over us as we slept under the christmas tree in the living room. Middle of the night she wakes up crying and we both knew we'd never see each other again when she left in a few months, so I told he we should just get married. Going to be 15 years on 1 April, and two absolutely fantastically intelligent and beautiful children later (and two E36 M3's, a WRX, and 4age blacktop swapped MG Midget).
I wrapped the ring in 15 boxes from small to large and the biggest box was a 19" color TV box. We hopped the Burlington Northern Commuter train to downtown Chicago and I quickly ran back when I saw the train coming to get the box. She unwrapped it on the train and I got down on my knee on the upper level of the train and asked her. Everyone on the train clapped for us. The conductor warned me that I had better remove all those boxes and wrapping paper. We stopped to see my grandmother who worked at an old school bakery near State Street and old Marshall Field's to tell her the news. It will be 27 years this coming 2/14.
My now wife and I had a running joke that she should propose to me. At the time we were both going to school in Pullman WA (middle of nowhere surrounded by wheat fields). One day she suggested that we go for a walk through one of the fields and during the walk we came across a row of balloons in the field that spelled out "marry me"
Nothing unusual about the proposal I made but I didn't get an immediate answer.
She waited a few days until I was in Australia & then sent a "yes" to me at the hotel by fax. This was back when faxes were uncommon.
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