While in Florida. We were in Magic Kingdom and she is a massive Disney fan. We sat down to watch the fireworks right under Cinderellas Castle and I asked her just before they finished. She said yes almost perfectly in time with the finale.
She told me to bugger off and stop being silly at first. She hadn't seen the ring I was holding up and thought I was playing around. She said yes the second time a few moments later. Then people around us started crying including her sisters/mum and some randoms.
I asked her dad on the second day of the holiday (we were out there for 3 weeks) and he said "yes, but make it a long engagement" as we were only 22 at the time. Her and her sisters were on some ride or another. I also told him when I wanted to do it which he of course told her mum. So the day that we were going to Magic Kingdom wifey has come down in a big ol yellow spongbob squarpants t shirt as obviously you are trying to be comfy in the heat and stuff, her mum is standing there going "you sure you don't want to wear anything else?" lol.
I had the ring in the bottom of my camera bag all day, at the breakfast place her sisters asked to look at my camera and I said no (they didn't know and are TERRIBLE secret keepers) and then I looked a bit odd when I went to the loo with my camera bag since I knew they would just look at the pictures anyway otherwise.
A mate of mine proposed to his gf on the 23rd december last year during all the snow. He wanted to go to Paris but with all the snow that was out, so he snuck out one day without her realising, trudged into the middle of nowhere in the snow, set up a load of candles around some trees and stuff and phoned her asking her to get something from behind the clock on the wall. There were a few clues and then it just said "ear something warm, a cab will be there soon". He met her at the cab, walked back up to the candles and proposed.
She thought he might be about to kill her. lol.
I proposed in the bedroom after getting back from a weekend away with family.
In hindsight I do regret it not being a more romantic occasion, not least because people always eem to ask "How did you propose?" and then it is a bit embarrassing as we don't have any story to tell other than the fact I got down on one knee having got home from a 'holiday'.
To be fair though it wasn't a surprise engagement it was more just me getting round to doing something that had been on the cards for a while. Still a shame, though :/ My advice for any prospective fiances is even if you are not a traditional 'romantic' still make a bit of effort around the proposal, it gives you a nice war story if nothing else.
Nothing to stop you doing it again. Just renew your vows or something but you can do the proposal again. It'll still be something she'll never forget even if she is already legally married.
