We decided to spend the weekend in NYC. After we had checked into the hotel we went sightseeing around NYC. We then went back to the hotel to change for dinner. Before dinner we stopped at the tree at Rockefeller Center. We walked around took some pictures and then walked up to the tree. He then turned to me and said, "Will you make 1999 the best year of my life and marry me?"
He got down on one knee in front of the tree (and hundreds of tourists) and pulled out the ring and asked again, "Will you marry me?" OF course I laughed and cried and said yes. We then proceeded to have drinks at a restaurant that revolves and has a magnificent view of the city. Then we had a fabulous dinner at One if By Land Two if By Sea. When we got back to the hotel he had champagne and strawberries chilled and waiting. It was the most wonderful weekend of my life!
M G., Monmouth County, New Jersey
We met through a community rowing club, and after we had been dating about 1 1/2 years, he proposed on the water. He was in a launch boat while I was rowing. He had enlisted the other women in the boat to be in on the secret, as well as the two people in the launch with him.
The other people in the launch were parents of high school rowers who also rowed out of the club, and they had asked to videotape our row to instruct their kids. My fiancé was in the launch with them (he was coaching the high school kids at that time).
After we had been rowing for a little while, the woman behind me said that she heard something rattling in the boat. I didn't hear anything, so I ignored her statement. Then the woman in front of me also indicated she heard a rattle. So we stopped rowing to look for what was causing this rattle that I still did not hear. The woman behind me looked under her seat and announced nothing was there, so I decided to look under my seat, and noticed a yellow rubber duck.
I announced to the boat that I had found a rubber duck under my seat, and as I was pulling it out, noticed that there was something taped to the bottom of the duck. I pulled it out further and noticed that what was taped to it was a jewelry box. At this point I started to clue in, and looked up at my fiancé, who simply said, "Please don't drop that in the water!"
Opening the box, I found the engagement ring. He proposed, I said yes, and it's all captured on videotape for posterity!
P. F., Williamsburg, Virginia
We spent the whole day (July 4th) in downtown San Francisco. Had sundaes at Ghiradelli Square, rode the trolley, strolled down Pier 39, had a picnic dinner on the bay near the Presidio (half way between the Golden Gate bridge and the downtown area) then walked along the bridge right before the fireworks.
We were right in the center of the Golden Gate bridge and watched the fireworks in Sausalito, Oakland and downtown SF (largest show I have ever seen). After the show, once we were alone in that area on the bridge, he proposed. So excited, I started to jump up and down.
He pulled out the box and said, "Are you calm...we are so high up, that if this goes over the bridge...there is no retrieving it...so you have to hold still..." Needless to say, my fear of heights and big bridges was cured the rest of that evening.
S. C., San Diego, California
We were at a friend's house and I was sitting outside waiting for her to come out. [My fiancé] walked over to me and said, "There is something that I have to ask you." I said, "What" and he took my hand and said, "Will you marry me?"
At first I thought that he was joking and then when I realized that he was serious I said, "Yes."
We have been engaged for almost a year and a half now.
C. R., Lakeside, California
We were at Atitlan's Lake in Guatemala, and we were coming back from Santiago Atitlan to Panajachel. We were very tired from all day enjoying the view, he looked at me with his blue eyes, took my hand, and ask me if I would marry him.
Of course I said yes, and he was like he just won the lottery, very happy, his eyes were like he got suddenly something very shiny. He looked at me and give me a very hard hug and a sweet kiss.
P. G., Washington DC
We were on vacation at the beach. We woke me up the day before we went home after a week's stay. When I woke up he was holding my hand up with the diamond ring on it I didn't even feel him put it on my finger and he asked to marry me.
A.B., Washington, New Jersey
When he picked me up from the airport he had a red long stemmed rose and the ring was placed in between the petals in the center of the rose. He got down on one knee and asked me, right there in the middle of the airport terminal.
R. A., Burlington Ontario, Canada
My boyfriend said he felt like taking a ride and insisted I go with him. I didn't want to as I had a really bad cold and menstrual cramps besides. We drove around and he stopped and bought some Italian food to go and kept driving. He drove through the woods and drove through the brambles and drove down roads where a rabbit wouldn't go.
Finally, he stopped on a dark road that was vaguely familiar. He got a blanket and tote out of the trunk and led the way down a steep hillside in the dark. Finally we reached a clear area and I remembered it was the place where we had had a romantic picnic once. The edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean, a full moon over us just like that night over a year before.
He spread out the blanket, and set out the food and champagne. He gave me an armload of flowers that he had in the tote. He got on his knees and proposed. I wasn't sure I heard right as I was running a fever and was shivering so much (it was a very cold night). I had to ask him to repeat it.
I. K., Huntington Station, New York
My fiancé proposed in the Bahamas at about 40 feet under water. We were scuba diving and he had a friend hide the ring box under a rock. When we swam by, he pointed it out. I swam up to take a closer look and he showed me his dive slate on which he has written "Will you marry me?"
He put the ring on my finger as friends took pictures. I then gave the sign to surface. It was getting hard to see because I was crying so much.
J. H., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
