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    Proposal Stories!

    Alright...the time has come. I told y'all I would be releasing this thread sometime soon. I want to know everyone's proposal stories. For me, I've been thinking about how I will propose to my girlfriend and I think I've figured out what I'm going to do.

    We started dating two summers ago in Orlando, FL. I was there working as a PR/Marketing Intern for a company and she was interning with Disney. We began hanging out because of the University of Georgia connection and spent a lot of time together during the summer. Because she was a Disney employee, we were able to get into any of the parks for free. Therefore, many of our first dates were at places like the Magic Kingdom and Epcot, which was a lot of fun. So, this Spring Break (2nd week in March), we will be going to my family's condo in West Palm Beach. However, we're going to drive up to Orlando one day and spend the day at Disney. Her favorite thing about the Magic Kingdom is the Wishes fireworks show at night(don't question it, she worked there and knows more about the place than I'd ever want to know). I've decided that because of the special meaning that Orlando/Disney has for our relationship, that I will propose at the end of the fireworks. Possibly a little cliche, but also unique because that's where our relationship started. It's crazy to think that I'm less than a month away from proposing I believe I'll be going to buy the ring sometime next week.

    So...what's everyone else's story?

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    Well, I already did mine, but it's always worth another read.

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    A guy I work with, called a local radio station to offer to his girlfriend, knowing she was listening on her job. Unknown to either of them, one of his ex-wives was on the same channel and called in to say, on the air, "Girl, if you know what's good for you, don't you do this!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by ugadevil View Post
    Alright...the time has come. For me, I've been thinking about how I will propose to my girlfriend and I think I've figured out what I'm going to do.

    I will propose at the end of the fireworks.
    Maybe you can get Disney to spell out "Will you marry me (insert name here)" in the fireworks, or perhaps on their laser projections in the sky.
    Ozzie, your paradigm of optimism!

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    Ah, fireworks! I proposed on the beach at Duck, watching the world famous (if somewhat impromptu and rather illegal) July 5th fireworks displays. This was after a marvelous dinner at Elizabeth's Winery and Cafe, where she was sure I was going to propose. (And if you haven't eaten there, do. The six course, prix fixe wine tasting dinner is to die for. But Elizabeth's is a couple other "Ymm" threads by itself.)

    It was raining, of course! I think it rained on our first 10 dates, most of which involved traipsing about the countryside.

    -jk

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    This thread is probably going to make me depressed, but hopeful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by billybreen View Post
    Well, I already did mine, but it's always worth another read.
    Wow, Billy, we actually have pretty similar proposal stories.

    I too dated my wife for a long time. In our case, we started dating freshman year at Duke, December of 98. We got engaged in May of 2005, and married in August 2006.

    I bought the ring in advance, but didn't know what size she wore. Someone told me to measure one of her existing rings, so I tried a few, and they all seemed different sizes. So I just grabbed a handful (she has a lot of jewelry), and took them to the custom jeweler I was having make the ring.

    This is where the story gets good. She came home that night, and thought we'd been robbed! I had to convince her that as a gift I was getting all her old jewelry cleaned and polished!

    Anyway, we were headed to Europe for a friend's wedding in Milan, and the trip was a great backdrop for an engagement. I lengthened the trip from 1 week to 3, and routed us through Iceland on the way over, where we went to the Blue Lagoon spa, and rented a 4WD vehicle and trecked all over the island. Then we stopped by my parents' house in Germany, borrowed their X5, and drove down through Interlaken, to the Northern Italian lakes, then Venice, where my wife had never visited.

    Our first day in Venice, I left our table during lunch, and snuck across the street to a stationary store, and bought a really nice photo album bound in italian Leather and Silver engravings. That night, I woke up in the middle of the night and spent hours cutting out the middle of the photo album, creating squares in each page to make a little box inside the album. Then I pasted in photos I had brought with me of us throughout the years, with our families, friends, on vacation, etc. When I was done, I put the ring in a box inside the album, put it back in the bag, and prepared for the next day.

    The next day, I was super nervous all day. I had the bag with me , but the wife just thought I had been shopping that morning. At one point, I gave her the bag to hold while I took a picture of the canals, and she set it on the railing of a Venetian bridge. A passing tourist bumped it, and it almost fell in! I about flipped out!

    Long story short, I was super nervous, and finally managed to get us to the Piazza San Marco (the place with all the pigeons you see in movies), where I gave her the photo album, and got down on one knee and proposed. I had serious performance anxiety in front of like 1000 people, but the Italians love that stuff, and they call clapped and took pictures. I'm normally a pretty private person, but it was a neat experience.

    We had a blast the rest of our trip, and have some really great memories associated with the engagement. Plus, Venice is now a special place to us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reisen View Post
    Wow, Billy, we actually have pretty similar proposal stories.
    Well done! That's a great story and a great memory. As you clearly are, I couldn't be happier with the way things turned out.

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    Question I saw pigeons in the Bond flicks, BUT ...

    Quote Originally Posted by Reisen View Post
    Long story short, I was super nervous, and finally managed to get us to the Piazza San Marco (the place with all the pigeons you see in movies
    This may sound strange, but I can only think of four American market movies with any scenes in Venice:

    1) Three Bond flicks: From Russia With Love, Moonraker, and Casino Royale.
    2) Death in Venice.

    Any other movies shot there? Which obvious ones am I missing? You have me puzzled.

    Thanks,
    Lavabe

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lavabe View Post
    This may sound strange, but I can only think of four American market movies with any scenes in Venice:

    1) Three Bond flicks: From Russia With Love, Moonraker, and Casino Royale.
    2) Death in Venice.

    Any other movies shot there? Which obvious ones am I missing? You have me puzzled.

    Thanks,
    Lavabe
    I can't tell you what movies or TV shows have shot there, but it is a lot. They even use it in commercials. I've been in Piazza San Marco (in 1972) and every time I see it on the screen I think "I've been there!"

    Maybe they just recreate it in Hollywood to simulate the Piazza and the pigeons?
    Ozzie, your paradigm of optimism!

    Go To Hell carolina, Go To Hell!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lavabe View Post
    Any other movies shot there? Which obvious ones am I missing? You have me puzzled.

    Thanks,
    Lavabe
    Katherine Hepburn filmed a little movie called Summertime in Venice. I heart Venice.

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    Smile My turn?

    I met my wife in the summer before grad school, so the first 4 years of our relationship was strictly long distance (except during the summer). We come from different religious backgrounds, and I received a few religious conversion spiels from her family. I did the down on one knee thing somewhere in NC, but she was just not ready to accept our differences at the time.

    Flash forward two months or so, and I came down with mono while living alone in St. Louis. I came back to Durham sick as a dog during Christmas break. Literally, she just propped me in the bed to recuperate; she was a bridesmaid at her best friend's wedding that night, and had to leave. Before she left for the evening, she asked if I needed anything. I said that I needed her hand in marriage, and asked if she would marry me. No knee this time. Just sick as a dog. She blubbered/cried yes. I double-checked, and asked if she was really okaying all of it. She confirmed. Then she left for the wedding. I fell asleep in a daze. When I woke up in the morning, she confirmed it again. Still couldn't believe it after the first time, when the traditional down-on-one-knee routine didn't work.

    So much for tradition. I returned healthy for Valentine's Day, gave her the ring while Vivaldi's Four Seasons (Spring) played in the background at Aurora in Carboro, while we were having our Torti di Spuma desserts. The temperature outside was a cool 48 degrees, with a slight drizzle.

    We've been married now about 20 years.

    Cheers,
    Lavabe

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reisen View Post
    I too dated my wife for a long time. In our case, we started dating freshman year at Duke, December of 98. We got engaged in May of 2005, and married in August 2006.
    Great story! Wow, nice to know there are so many romantics out there. Mr. DA completely caught me off guard (in a good way) -- when I get more time, I'll add my story.

    When in August? I ask, because Mr. DA and I got hitched on Aug. 19, 2006.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lavabe View Post
    I came back to Durham sick as a dog during Christmas break. Literally, she just propped me in the bed to recuperate; she was a bridesmaid at her best friend's wedding that night, and had to leave. Before she left for the evening, she asked if I needed anything. I said that I needed her hand in marriage, and asked if she would marry me. No knee this time. Just sick as a dog. She blubbered/cried yes. I double-checked, and asked if she was really okaying all of it. She confirmed. Then she left for the wedding. I fell asleep in a daze. When I woke up in the morning, she confirmed it again. Still couldn't believe it after the first time, when the traditional down-on-one-knee routine didn't work.

    Cheers,
    Lavabe
    That is the best story of all, sorry billybreen, his just has yours beat.

    My wife and I met professionally at a conference - she was living in Central Massachusetts and I in North Carolina. We both had to make a two-day trip to DC for work, and decided to make them at the same time to spend the weekend together (at my suggestion - I was smitten. She saw it as a way to have a little companionship on a required trip to DC - I was hoping with all my might that I could make her fall in love with me in one weekend). She stayed at a nice B&B in Adams Morgan, I booked a cheap hotel in Bethesda. Being only 250 miles away I drove to DC. She flew. I drove to National Airport and picked her up from her flight. I took her to a Chinese restaurant in DC's little Chinatown, I took her back to her place, and we made plans for me to pick her up the next morning and to go to the National Zoo. (I had the double-cooked pork) About 3 a.m. I woke up as sick with food poisening as I've ever been. Projectile vomiting. Fainting. High temperature. This went on the rest of the night. At around 8 I barely had enough strength to make it to my car. I drove to a corner market and tried to eat a plain half a bagel and drink a cup of weak tea. I couldn't keep it down long enough even to get to the restroom. I literally had to be helped to my car. I drove to her B&B, faked a smile and we left for the zoo. That lasted about 3 minutes. We headed back to her place where I was incredibly sick for the next 48 hours - urgent care, medication, the whole nine yeards. I think she may have literally saved my life.

    I got through the weekend, she flew back to Massachusetts, I drove back to NC. She called to check on me. Due to my illness neither of us were able to make our work meetings. We re-scheduled them for a couple of weeks later. We met again, had a weekend right out of a movie, and hit if off. We dated long distance for exactly one year and married without ever having spent more than 7 consecutive days with each other. We are still madly in love 18 years later.

    It was over 2 years before I ate Chinese food again. By the way, my wife fully admits to being a horrible nurse - she hates it when anyone in the house gets sick as she simply can't stand the nurse role.

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    Quote Originally Posted by allenmurray View Post
    That is the best story of all, sorry billybreen, his just has yours beat.
    I bet to differ.

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    good luck sound wonderful
    Quote Originally Posted by ugadevil View Post
    Alright...the time has come. I told y'all I would be releasing this thread sometime soon. I want to know everyone's proposal stories. For me, I've been thinking about how I will propose to my girlfriend and I think I've figured out what I'm going to do.

    We started dating two summers ago in Orlando, FL. I was there working as a PR/Marketing Intern for a company and she was interning with Disney. We began hanging out because of the University of Georgia connection and spent a lot of time together during the summer. Because she was a Disney employee, we were able to get into any of the parks for free. Therefore, many of our first dates were at places like the Magic Kingdom and Epcot, which was a lot of fun. So, this Spring Break (2nd week in March), we will be going to my family's condo in West Palm Beach. However, we're going to drive up to Orlando one day and spend the day at Disney. Her favorite thing about the Magic Kingdom is the Wishes fireworks show at night(don't question it, she worked there and knows more about the place than I'd ever want to know). I've decided that because of the special meaning that Orlando/Disney has for our relationship, that I will propose at the end of the fireworks. Possibly a little cliche, but also unique because that's where our relationship started. It's crazy to think that I'm less than a month away from proposing I believe I'll be going to buy the ring sometime next week.

    So...what's everyone else's story?

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    Smile 20 years later

    Quote Originally Posted by billybreen View Post
    I bet to differ.
    Well this is the OTB ("off-track betting" in New York) ...

    I'm just happy with how mine turned out. Frankly, I like allenmurray's Chinese food story ... luckily they didn't have coconut custard pie!

    Cheers,
    Lavabe

    P.S. When I was done with the mono, I broke my drinkless stretch by seeing the great God-zky and the Oilers play the Blues in St. Louis. Probably the best Molsons I ever had.

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    hmmm...

    Quote Originally Posted by OZZIE4DUKE View Post
    I can't tell you what movies or TV shows have shot there, but it is a lot. They even use it in commercials. I've been in Piazza San Marco (in 1972) and every time I see it on the screen I think "I've been there!"

    Maybe they just recreate it in Hollywood to simulate the Piazza and the pigeons?
    Weren't there scenes in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" in Venice?

    Also, wasn't there a diamond comercial filmed in that piazza? The guy sneaks the family in and the girl is like "what's my dad doing here?" and then he pops the question and everybody starts clapping and crying?

    I think there was another one where this husband and wife are standing
    in the piazza and all of a sudden the man shouts out "I LOVE THIS WOMAN!!!" and the pigeons all fly away. The wife gets all embarassed, and then the man pulls out a diamond ring and shows it to her. Then she hugs him and says "I love this man, I love him, I love him."

    I think those were there.

    Also, I think I'd propose just before the fireworks start. That way, as you're kissing after the moment, there will actually be fireworks going off behind you! Just a thought.

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    proposals

    there were some good ones on the jewelry thread, too(like mine )

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    Mine is pretty simple but effective.

    My wife and I dated for 6 years before we were married. We lived together for the last three. Around year 5 she started talking about getting married - which scared me to death. After a year of me beating around the bush I finally manned up and bought the ring.

    My first plan was to give her the ring on-stage at a Further Seems Forever (her favorite band) concert. I myspaced them and had everything set up. However, a week before, the show got canceled.

    My second plan was to drive her out to the middle of nowhere and have a falcon fly the ring to us, land on my arm and then I would do the kneeling thing. It is really hard to get a falconer to let you do this, in fact it is impossible.

    So my final plan was to make her breakfast in bed, and then tie the ring to our dogs collar. I let the dog in after breakfast and she jumped on my wife and started licking. She saw the ring and immediately started crying. We were married a year later.

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