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After 5 years of dating, and living in 3 countries...we were living in NZ. Which is where I've always wanted to live.
We had a small converted barn in an area of Wellington called Newtown (which was a...interesting area...but the house had a big wall all around it. Nice quiet courtyard, fig tree on one side.)
One day I bought her a ring (we shared a bank account, so I had to do it all in one day without her noticing the missing money), and put it in a strawberry plant...on the way into the house I mentioned that I thought there was something odd about the plant and she should look.
Friday night, after work is not the best time to ask your girlfriend to have a look at some "stupid plant". However after a bit of coxing, she relented to look at the plant. I think her first words were "is this a joke...is this for real".

NZ wasn't great for her, she got sick while we were living there. Stupidly we didn't have health insurance, although we lucked out as there was a drug trial going on at the hospital. So a lot of it got paid for by the drug company. Anyway, we decided to leave NZ and head back to Ontario which is where we were married.

Didn't quite go the way I planed, but life never does :)

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On the balcony of the Sheridan Hotel over looking Niagara Falls.
Took Jill on a surprise holiday, she had always wanted to visit Canada so I organised a holiday but did not tell her where she was going too. She only found out where we going when we got to Manchester airport and I walked off to the check in desk for Air Canada.

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A year ago last Tuesday... I had a day trip to London planned out in meticulous detail, and we ended up in Trafalgar Square sitting on the base of Nelson's Column, which is where we sat on the evening of the day that we started dating. I went up on one knee (we were sitting down) and asked her to marry me. She asked me if I was serious, twice, before saying yes. Only then did I show her the ring I'd had custom designed and made, and put it on her finger. I'd already asked her parents' permission, and they had successfully managed to avoid giving it away when they dropped her off at the airport.

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Me: Look, as children of the inevitable revolution, how about making an ironic statement on the corruption of society and getting hitched?

Her: Fantastic! That'll show the prats.

38 and a half years later we still giggle about it.

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he took me to San Francisco for my 30th birthday. picked a fight with me on the first night, then proposed just after i called him an ar*e.

we then sent postcards to close friends and family to tell them that we were engaged. when we phoned my parents on our way home, got the cold shoulder - turned out the only one who had received their postcard was my gran (a bit confused by then), who told everbody that we had got married at city hall!?!?

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It must be a laugh riot at Chez Novocastrian.

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Numbers 1 , 2 & 3 all involved lots of alcohol and none were very romantic :)

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First time around, he proposed on the top of Ben Nevis - asked me of I would marry him and then I said that of he was serious he'd go down on one knee, which eh did (despite having only one leg - mean heartless bitch that I am! :ohmy:). Kicked him out and divorced him several years later on arrival in Canada.

Fast forward several years - the ring has been chosen, ordered, paid for and, as far as I know, is somewhere in the house ... am just waiting now ... any day now ...:fingerscrossed:

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we were out camping (proper camping) in a tent..we were camping near gatwick airport and he asked me under the stars..very romantic..then after a8 year engagement got married on 1st aug 2010 in vegas...:thumbsup:

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Nobody took the bait, I was expecting comments like, 'not very romantic etc' giving me the chance to explain.....so bugger the lot of ya I am gonna say anyhow.......:p

I drove the three hours to the layby in North Wales to ask her to marry me because that was the first place I ever told her I loved her. So it wasnt so unromantic. :wub:

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How romantic:wub: I have probably passed right by that very lay-by! Is there a commemorative plaque?

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:rofl:

for me an oh as we'd both done it before i told him when i first met him i didnt wanna do it again, but 8 years later on my birthday (5th Nov) at our fave (packed and hushed) restaraunt he got on one knee and proposed ... we plan on marryin in canada next year. :thumbsup:

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I think the rain would have washed it away by now ;)

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Try this for size:

Firstly, I invited her parents to my bachelor pad and formally asked her folks for their daughter's hand in marriage.

Then I whisked her away to Boston, MA, for a romantic getaway, all the while having made secret arrangements with the Maitre'D at the Four Seasons to secrete a diamond platinum ring on the dessert trolley. It was our fourth and final eve in Boston. I suggested a really romantic dinner at a posh hotel; she agreed and, unbeknownst to her, managed the whole logistical issue adeptly and with discretion. In a packed restaurant at the hotel, after lobster, wine, champers etc, we ordered her fave dessert, chocolate souffle, which came out on one of those wheelie trolleys with two chrome dome lids covering the plates. Mine was lifted first revealing a lovely dessert, as ordered; hers was lifted a fraction of a second later revealing a polished ivory lined wooden hexagonal mahogany ring box among scattered rose petals, inside which was a beautiful, gleaming diamond ring.

I popped the question (still in my seat; I was full with lobster, y'see) and she replied, 'Yes!'

There was a round of applause and more champers. It was pretty special.

Upon our return, Lou told all her classes about our little escapade to the States. We made the front page of the school rag. She taught in the local girls' school and I was a mile down the road at the boys' school (we shared sixth forms - co-ed at the senior levels only) and became celebs for a time (minus the flashing bulbs and, er, money) ...

is that romantic enough for you all?

And it's all true; no word of a lie at all.

Fast forward almost 12 years, three kids and here we are today.

:thumbsup:

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Disgraceful, thoughtless behaviour:frown:!!!
Don't you realise that now there will be several cohorts of impressionable public school girls (and I know what they are like, because I was one) who will now be INCONSOLABLY DISAPPOINTED with the male of the species when they are eventually proposed to in lay-by in North Wales:blink:?