[TW]Fox;22804681 said:
Agreed.
And agreed. The most romantic proposal is one you thought of yourself. Not someone else's idea. That sucks!
Spec me a last minute New York proposal...
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Agreed.
And agreed. The most romantic proposal is one you thought of yourself. Not someone else's idea. That sucks!
You are a very strange person
How about dinner at the Central Park Boathouse followed by proposal either in a rowing boat or gondola. Just like Venice but, err, not.
Good suggestion, will add to the list. At mid October the weather may not be cooperative. Restaurant looks good so could certainly head there and see what the weather is like for a boat/gondola. She loves boats so that might be a good time toothy question because it is still kind of private.There are some cruise boats around manhattan that look good, but not private enough for my likings.
Will add to the list and see how the budget stretches, would be very cool.
Maybe I didn't make myself clear, I am not directly looking for a proposal idea but romantic things to do in NYC, especially if they are popularly used for proposals. When and how I propose will be my own decision, the aim is to keep my GF on her toes so she doesn't know when or what activity I will ask the questions, and we just have a nice time doing different fun things.
It's not so different to any other tourist thread asking for things to do, just have a twist and I'm looking for tips from people that know NYC. I really don't know the city at all and I really hate cities anyway so I need help in finding out what are fun activities to do there.
I had a much different and more personal proposal idea but I cannot wait to next summer, I have to work in the situation I am in and make the best of it.
What's more romantic than getting married to your long term girlfriend so you can be together forever.?
Exactly, we have been together for 5 years almost and some things have popped up that could every detrimental to our future together unless we get married.
Basically my GF is a processes to get a us green card, if we get married after the last stage of the application then there is no valid spouse visa option except a green card application for me- but that Process is currently backlogged to may 2010 and in total can take at least 3 years. Worse still within that time I cannot live in the US and couldn't even visit as a tourist. I have. Work visa which is fine and entitles me to stay here, but if I loose my work visa then I could be very screwed. Being married but living on different contingents for 3 years just isn't a possibility.
We both currently live on opposite sides of the states, we want to move together. This invariably means one of us having to resign, at that moment that person would loose their right to live and work in the US so we cannot moved other until one of has a permanent residence/ green card.
If one is married before the final steps of a green card application then the spouse will automatically get a green card. So compare the 2 options, high chance of spending 3 years living in different countries even when married or getting married a little sooner and taking all the stress and difficulties away to allow us to live together forever which is what we want to do.
I nearly proposed last year but thought I could wait 1 more year to let things settle after our big move to the US. I couldn't believe that the visa process for green cards would be so stupid that if you get married your spouse is completely screwed but that is the way it is so we will have to get. The paper work done soon and have a proper wedding back in Europe another time.
These are the downsides to emigration!
Caporegime
Your greencard application aside...You discussed the proposal with her already?
Really? I thought this is one thing that a man keep to a complete surprise.
I suggest you just do it off the cuff, all these planning in restaurant, hotel rooms with flowers feels so generic and dare I say it, boring.
Grand Central Station, Haribo ring, announcement from Tannoy, start singing the theme to Dirty Dancing.
Or go somewhere that means something to both of you. Be it the first place you met, the day you realise you fallen in love with her, the place where you first said I Love You, her favourite place as a child, the place where her parents proposed, anything with meaning.
Really? I thought this is one thing that a man keep to a complete surprise.
I suggest you just do it off the cuff, all these planning in restaurant, hotel rooms with flowers feels so generic and dare I say it, boring.
Grand Central Station, Haribo ring, announcement from Tannoy, start singing the theme to Dirty Dancing.
Or go somewhere that means something to both of you. Be it the first place you met, the day you realise you fallen in love with her, the place where you first said I Love You, her favourite place as a child, the place where her parents proposed, anything with meaning.
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Soldato
February the 29th has been and gone already!
Caporegime
propose at ground zero 9/11 and say "baby you blow me away" as you present her with a ring.
Caporegime
Don't propose to her in New York. Wait until you're back in the UK and propose at the airport.
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Top of the Rockefeller.
Looks out over the Empire State etc.
Looks out over the Empire State etc.
Of course this was discussed - she was the one that had to raise the alarm bells after speaking to her lawyer and we had to work out all our options. we live at other ends of a big country and have work obligations such that we cannot drop work all of a sudden and do something else.
Our NYC trip was already planned and so it was obvious the time and place that I will have to propose. Beyond that she has no idea what I will do. That is why I want to make it a surprise and make the best, most memorable weekend I can out of the situation I am in. I don't particularly need someone to say exactly where/how should propose, I just want fun romantic tourist things to do to fill the weekend. She know I will ask her the questions, that is a given, I just have to surprise her the best I can. If I do something really romantic and cool like a horse drawn carriage ride or helicopter trip she might be expecting me to asks her but then if I don't she will always be on her toes. I wont let her go too long without knowing but I want her to be surprised.
You have some good suggestions of places but sadly we really cannot get back to Europe to go to romantic places from the past. I have plenty of my own ideal proposal situations but wont be able to enact them. My parents actually got engaged and married in Hong Kong, they lived their for 5 years, due to visa issues!
I'm not marrying to get a green card, I'm marrying so we can live together so if one of us looses their job we aren't thrown out of the country with 30 days notice. I have a work visa and that is fine, i don't give a stuff about a green card, but if I loose my job (this is a start up company so it will sink or swim). If I loose my job I will be kicked out of the country with no way of living with my GF, even if I was to marry her later I would not be able to visit her.
Another way to loom at it, i should have married her last year but I was too chicken to pop the question. I was then planning to get married next summer, so propose at Christmas time. Due to horrible and weird visa rules if I push the wedding date back a bit then everything becomes very easy and nothing has really changed to our status except I will be married 6 months earlier and I have to rush through a proposal.
so what you're saying is........ you're marrying for a green card?
Neither of us will be in the UK any time soon. When we leave NYC we will be boarding separate planes to separate cities in separate states.
otherwise it did cross my mind to really leave it to the last minute but i think we would prefer the time together afterwards to celebrate. I'm think of proposing on the Friday evening.
No, i am marrying so I can live with the girl that I love and should have married in the past and would have married 6 months later anyway but will marry a little earlier to ensure that we can both live together when we are married rather than one of us living on a different continent.
Believe me the green-card is irrelevant but is creates major issues later, bringing the marriage forwards a few months doesn't make me want to get a green card.
FYI, my GF is German. i'm not trying to hook up with an American to permanently live in the US or anything. I live and work with a H1B visa just fine, but there is a risk if one of use looses their jobs. Especially me.