How did you propose to your fiance/wife?
Here's how I proposed (I've been telling this story a lot lately)
It was just over a fortnight ago. We were staying at a beach house with our friends from church (it was technically a leadership retreat). We were in one of our nightly logistics meetings and I learned over to her and whispered "this meeting is draggin'. Let's go for a walk after this." She says okay.
So the meeting ends around 9 p.m. and she's wearing her pajama bottoms. She says that it's probably too late to go for a walk; the sun has already gone down. I say nah, we'll be fine. She's pretty agreeable. I tell her to put pants on...and she just kinda looks at me and asks "why? we're just going on a walk.". I just shrug, and she looks clueless, but for some reason she decided to take my advice.
So I walk her down to the beach (the beach is her favorite place in the world). It's like 60 degrees out and super foggy, which is a nice relief from back home where we had a high of 105. The path down to the beach leads us through a natural tunnel of beach-growing shrubbery, up to a small sand dune that overlooks the rest of the beach.
So we stop on that sand dune and watch the ocean, then I hold her close to me. At this point I can hear my own heart beating through my chest, so I'm sure she can hear it to. I took the ring out of my pocket (I didn't keep it in the box...that's too tacky in my opinion) and get down on one knee. I told her some heartfelt words, followed by the four magic ones (which are the only four words she can remember).
At that point there is nothing that we can see but camera flashes. My buddy (who I had hiding there) jumped out of the bushes and started taking picture after picture. My now-fiancee can't see a thing, and she thinks that all of our friends are there.
So we get our pictures, and my buddy heads back up to the house. We walk around on the beach and talk about wedding plans, and how we're going to tell everyone. She is really particular about how to do things (which I knew she'd be) so she starts saying how we have to call her family and stuff, and certain people have to be called, because the second we tell our friends it's gonna go on facebook, and she doesn't want people finding out that way. So I just kind of humor her; I told my buddy that he had to tell everyone at the house, but she didn't know that.
So we get up to the door, and we take a deep breath. Then I say to her "there's one more thing I have to tell you". She looks at me and as I open the door I tell her "Everybody already knows". We walk in to all of our friends cheering and taking pictures, and she turns bright red. She's super flustered, but she's also beaming. The pressure is off. We celebrate with our friends for the rest of the night.
And that's how it went down.
