We were visiting his parents in Maryland and had been to the Lutheran
Christmas Eve service. My hair was all done up (by a hairdresser for
once!) because we'd been to a diplomatic party the night before - his
father was in the foreign service - and I was wearing a red velvet
dress I'd made
Janice Blair wrote:
How about the rest of you? Did you have a memorable proposal and are you still
together?
Janice
Neither of us can remember how or when we decided to get married, except
that it was an occasion to celebrate being together for 20 years. We met
on a picket line whilst
This subject came at a perfect time...
Our engagement wasn't any elaborate, we talked about getting married and I
thought, sure, that sounds like fun, lets try that 28 years later, we're
still going strong. Little did I know what it actually entailed, one does
learn as we get older.
They
This reminded me of lots of gifts, rings, brooches inside a box of
chocolates and lots of little poems inside gifts and cards.
Oh happy days.
He still manages the odd poem and has even written a song (without music)
and manages to help bring out some creative ideas in me from time to time.
Sue
Love him, I certain do but I dont ever remember getting a proper proposal of
marriage, but this intention to get engaged. Mind you we have been married
for 41 years now and make a pretty good team, so I guess it worked well.
I cant say I didn't get a nice proposal but I certainly dont remember
What a great question!
He proposed to me in his car outside my house, so far so ordinary. But the
car was a Sunbeam Talbot 2 litre drophead coupe, one of only 40 something ever
made. By the time they got back to production after World War II automotive
design had moved on and so they remained a
My DH of 47 years has a neat sense of humor. I was still in college and
on a date one evening he gave me a nicely wrapped box. He told me that it
was a special gift and go ahead and open it. I did, and inside was a carrot
(vegetable). He said that that was the only kind he could afford
Well, we'd already been living together for a year and a half by this
point and we were curled up in bed talking before we went to sleep.
Somewhere in the conversation we decided that we probably should get
married. I remember we got up, wandered out to the living room where
our flatmate was still
I was watching a proposal on tv yesterday where the man was a fireman. He got
his crew to stage a car crash with injured people and asked his girlfriend to
help hold a bottle of saline. He got down on his knees and proposed.
I wondered if the marriages where there were clever and/or romantic
DH and I were at a picnic and sitting on a merry-go-round. He casually
handed me an engagement ring and asked if I'd like to go 'round with him
for the rest of my life. We'll be married 25 years next September.
Janice Blair wrote:
I was watching a proposal on tv yesterday where the man was a
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DH and I were at a picnic and sitting on a merry-go-round. He casually
handed me an engagement
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