This Week's Off Topic Topic... (5/03/12)

[Ludwig Venter]

My wife, was a wrong number on the telephone (where her sister answered)....... 3 sisters and we were invited for coffee... (my brother & myself).... It was 2 days before my (now) wife's birthday, ...... So having met these 3 chicks by accident (wrong number)..... the favourite past-time on a Sunday night was .... to do window shopping..... (all else was closed)

As we walked past a furniture shop..... my wife (then 1 day old new friend) commented about a sewing machine in the window display...... I knew it was her birthday the next day, ..... so??? what did I get her for her BD???.... a Bernina sewing machine..... (half my monthly salary went into that present)

2 weeks later, we walked in a park with beautiful water features and I played with her ring (pearl - her birthstone).... throwing it up in the air and catching it..... only until I dropped it.... We scrutinized the area and could not find it on the lawn...... I promissed her that I'll replace it the next day with a diamond ring.... (innocently - of course) not thinking - or even knowing that a diamond ring means engagement..... and engagement meant a pending wedding..... (which happened 2 months later)

Well..... to cut a short story long..... I never proposed.... we just got married due to a pearl ring getting lost...... (38 years now on the 18th of May - still happily married)

This week's off topic topic is....... How did you propose (or get proposed) to...... or have you decided to just live together

 

[Blubble37]

unfortunetely... i dont propose to get married at all... (sorry lexi

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[Dieses Madchen]

Me and my husband met at a party. I was really drunk (surprise surprise) and he was nice enough to hold my hair up lol. I know romantic, right? We really hit it off from that point on, and while it was never spoken, we knew we would be together forever. No proposal at all. We got married after a positive preggo test though. Almost 8 years together and going strong.

 

[Rummynose]

25 years ago I was accompanying a friend for support to meet with someone whom she had just recently met. I was not looking to find someone that evening myself, but as it turned out "destiny" had already made plans for me! Either that or I was being affected by those two and their pheromones!

As soon as I saw him I knew, it felt like a puzzle piece had just fallen into place, I know it sounds corney, but that's exactly how it felt! He asked me to dance! We met on many occasions whenever this group of friends would go out.

We started seeing each other outside of the group! Made trips to France, Switzerland, Austria. We went hiking, moonlight swimming, go-carting, visited zoos, and fairs, we took planes, trains and automobiles and he took me to see his home country Canada. Four months after we started going out he proposed to me. He'd surprised me after coming home from work with a bubble bath, shrimp cocktails and champagne...and a ring!

We got married 2 months later, and 5 months after that I said good-bye to my family and friends and became an immigrant! I'm sure many wondered if we would make it, but here we are, 24 happy years and counting!

 

[This Old Spouse]

My husband's dad and I were friends for a long time, working at the same newspaper. He asked if I'd ever met his son. I said no! And five minutes later Steve walked down the hall to my office ... he worked at the same paper! First time spent together was on a cattle drive on horseback. Just short of a year later we got married. Sixteen years this October!

 

[FishFanatic04]

My husband says he saw me one day when I was working, but didn't have a chance to talk to me. Then later that same night we ended up at the same party, and voila! We have been together since. We didn't have a chance against a persistent fate.

Congrats on the long marriages everyone! Been married for 8 years on the 20th of this month, and we dated a year before our wedding.

 

[coldcazzie]

I met my hubby via a night club. A group of regulars posted on the forum and often went out together. The guy I was dating at the time was one of them. We all used to meet up outside clubs nights too, went for meals out, picnics in the parks, did a Brid trip once (that was fun, slept on the club floor after a Sat night and then got on a coach at 8am on Sunday).

I spent ages agonizing over the decision to break up with one guy to date another, but it was worth it (been together ten years this year). As for the proposal it was kind of a formality to be honest. If I were to do it over, I actually wouldn't bother - it was largely just extra expense that we could've done with putting towards the wedding instead

 

[micko]

I was proposed to on the 29th March just gone!
After being together for 16years, we met at school, had our first child very young and have been together since. Personally I don't feel the need to get married after all this time but that doesn't mean I don't want to.
I did propose a few years back, but one of ugly sisters (they're twins and I still can't tell them apart) had just been proposed to that day and I wasn't aware of this. She didn't say no but said we would leave it until that ugly sister was married and I would have to ask again. I said I would never ask again.
So here we are, 16 years together, four kids and have been together through thick and thin. No date set, no plans yet but im sure the madness will start soon.

 

[Essjay]

We first met when I was in my third year at university. He was a year ahead of me but was so ill in his third year (burst appendix, peritonitis) that he missed too much of the work and redid his final year in my class. Fast forward a year, and we were both postgrad students. My husband enjoyed ballroom dancing and needed a partner so he and his twin brother asked me and my flatmate if we'd go (all postgrads in the same department) My flatmate chickened out at the last minute, but I went along and that was the start of it.
Eighteen months later, I was suffering from depression and we weren't supposed to be seeing each other that evening as he was doing some private tutoring and had homework to mark. But I felt so bad I went round to his anyway, and he proposed. He said it was a guaranteed way to cheer me up!
We married another 18 months later, that was 35 years ago.


[The depression was sorted a couple of months later when I decided to leave my course and got a job at the university instead. Once I made that decision it felt as though the weight of the world had been lifted off my shoulders.]

 

[the_lock_man]

'Twere fate that brought me and my missus together. I had dated a girl at secondary school, when we broke up she said she wanted to keep in touch, which we did. A couple of years later, at Christmas, we had just completed first terms at University (different ones). We went out for a drink along with another bloke, I was describing where I lived (which was halfway up a Welsh mountain).

This girl casually mentioned that she lived in a house with 23 other women. Me and the other bloke immediately asked for an invite to her house. Since I was for the most part living in Wales, I couldn't get into a relationship, but my mate did.

Fast-forward 2½ years, I graduate from Bangor Uni, whilst my ex and the girl my mate started dating still had a year to go. I was invited to this girl's 21st birthday party. One of her other friends got the train to the party, and a few of us went to pick her up from the station. And I knew immediately that she was the one. We got chatting, really hit it off, and started dating. This was in 1992, she graduated in summer 93, got a job near where I lived, and moved up to this area.

When I proposed, it was the first thing I said to her after Big Ben struck 12 at New Years 94/95. We were married the following August, and now have 4 rather lovely children.

Excuse me, now, I seem to be leaking from my eyes.......

 

[magical trevor]

Well thats a convenient off week topic. As my self and my partner got engaged on sunday!!!

Any way i had a ring made to my specifications so i bought a stone and decided how i wanted it set and then the ring which joins eather side of the diamond in 18ct white gold.

I bought her a little Me to You animal (a type of soft toy) as she has a soft spot for them. I also purchesed a kinder surprise (chocolate egg with a "surprise"toy inside) i carefully opened the egg down the middle where it joins removed the yellow plastic tub inside took the toy out wrote her a wee note poped it back together melted the two chocolate edges of the egg stuck it back together and put the foil back on.

Gave her the stuff animal (it was a pug if your interested.) with the kinder surprise. She opend the yellow bit and i got down on one knee and "popped the question"

She said yes lol.

 

[ainsy]

We were at uni together and the script from 'You've got mail' could almost have been based on us. In the days before the internet is what it now is we met through e-mail (remember pegasus mail anyone?)

We flirted remorselessly and for 6 months before we ever met!

After 6 years together I took her on an exotic holiday as I had been pestering her for ages to allow me to learn to scuba dive. She eventually relented and came with me - I proposed under water just off the coast of Jamaica on our first dive as qualified divers! There was an awkward moment when she nearly choked in surprise - but fortunately she survived.

Been together 17 years now......

but the last couple have been a struggle as we have been battling leukaemia (her!) and depression (me!)

 

[Blubble37]

awwww :'( best of luck to the both of you though

 

[ainsy]

Thanks - she had a bonemarrow transplant in december so we are just waiting to find out if it has worked!

 

[Xraymark]

I met my wife in the hospital were we both worked. She is a nurse. Our eyes met while pushing a patient on a trolley back to the emergency department.

I asked her to marry me 3 years later by texting.