The ball and Chain!

[revjvegas]

It doesn't matter how you propose, but you better go to Jarred's.

[carrbowl]

Originally Posted by lscottpht

Here you go: YouTube - Proposal Video.m4v. I thought it was a really cool proposal, and definitely got a lot of attention.

now there is some serious thinking happening there!!!

So I don't know if you are this kind of person...but you could go to a bar type place, or even have a party, and do karaoke and find a good song to sing that has love and marriage in in...or just make up a song or change the words half way through a song that has the proposal in it...

[Mr KWA]

yeah that guy put some time and effort into that one. :)

[ito4u]

I'm no where near proposing to anyone and I'm already taking notes... thanks TPF.

[Mr KWA]

Originally Posted by revjvegas

It doesn't matter how you propose, but you better go to Jarred's.

LOL :) I didn't go to Jarred's, i took the easy road and the idea of she will love me no matter what and stopped off at the gumball machine on my way out of the store the other day and got lucky on a whitish ring with a BIG ROCK on it. :) i am sure she will love me for my efforts.
LOL

[jtriron]

The "Ball and chain" theme has a lot of underlining truth.
Just saying..........

Good luck.

[Jeff_Green]

Originally Posted by carrbowl

find a good song to sing that has love and marriage in in

I hear it's an institute you can't disparage. Ask your local gentry and they will say it's elementary.

[dwilliams35]

I certainly appreciate the effort and imagination involved in these big spectacular productions some do for their proposal, but there's one thing to remember: whatever you do, it's going to be burned in her mind forever, whether you're kneeling naked on second base at yankee stadium in the final game of the world series or kneeling next to the McDonald's counter.. You certainly don't want to "cheap out" like the McDonalds, but there's a big part of me believes that the big productions are a whole lot more important to the guys who like hearing their new wife relate the story again and again.. I proposed on a park bench on the Mississippi levee in New Orleans: she had actually "snooped" for the ring in my luggage, thinking this trip might be "the time", but couldn't find it since she didn't dig into the magazine well of the Glock... After a couple of days, she had decided this wasn't the time after all, and on the day in question I had really just had that ring in my pocket for the better part of the morning looking for just the right setting around the French Quarter.. Sooner or later we went up to the levee and I decided that was it: took a few pictures of her, kept looking at the display, and when she started to complain about the impromptu "shoot", I just said "I've gotta get a good one: it's the last picture you'll ever have without a ring on".. She was trying to wrap her mind around that when I dropped to a knee. Since then, that park bench has been really important to her: when Katrina came through and the early satellite photos came out, the only thing she wanted to zoom in on was "her" park bench. Every time a friend goes to N.O., she draws them a map and asks them to check on "her" bench... Every time we go there for a weekend, we've got two must-sees: I wanna go to St. Louis #1 with the camera, she wants to go check on her bench..

My point? No matter what you do, it's going to "stick"...if you come up with something really cool, that's great, but just a plain, intimate proposal in a place that's "special" for whatever reason is going to be just as important to her as about any complex production you can come up with.. If the production is "right", fine: however, don't plan on the production to make it special for her: that's going to be a given one way or another: just make sure you're after "special" for her as the primary goal: spectacular in and of itself doesn't always qualify...

[MyKey]

Here is my efforts - Link to a edited "Full Story" of the entire event:
I finally made an honest women out of Suzy…




A simple YouTube Video of it from the Crowd:

[TxLerman]

So Keith: Did what did she say????

[Jeff Lane]

Well, this is timely. This past Thursday, the young man (a.k.a "That Boy") who's been dating my daughter for a long time asked my permission to marry my lovely little baby girl. He wants to ask her before her birthday (this Saturday), so that she can "surprise" all the rest of us with her ring.

Now y'all have to keep this a secret -- she doesn't know. (I can trust you, right?)