20 Ways to Propose /

It’s a tricky one, how do you propose? Do you set the situation up or do you wait for an impromptu time when they are not expecting it and you feel the time is right? Do you lavish the event with time and money or do you want it to be a simple affair but romantic? Some people just ‘know’ how they want to propose but for some it may be a sticky point and inspiration may have left you. First you need to think of who the person you are marrying is. What would they like and what would they consider romantic. Here are 20 ideas for ways to propose:

1. Do it the old fashioned way. Get down on one knee with a rose clenched in your teeth and the ring in your hand.

2. Call your local radio station and get them to pop the question for you over the air waves at a time that you know she/he will be listening. Then dedicate a song to her/him.

3. Wrap a large box and fill with smaller boxes all wrapped the last box that she will come to will be the smallest with the ring inside. Or alternatively wrap a large box and fill with those tiny foam pieces and let her look for the small box inside.

4. Take her/him away for the weekend and when you are on your last day pop the question.

5. Get up extra early and prepare her/him breakfast in bed. Cook his/her favorite meal with a red rose and a bottle of champagne and a kiss to wake him/her and then declare your love.

6. Cook your loved one a romantic meal and place a note around the napkin like it is a napkin holder asking her/him to marry you. Or slip the napkin (use fabric ones not paper!) through the ring, when she goes to put her napkin in her lap she will find the ring.

7. Blindfold him/her and take them to the place where you first met each other. Take along a bottle of champagne and two glasses to celebrate after you propose.

8. Buy your loved one a watch and have it inscribed "marry me."

9. Go for a picnic together then pop the question.

10. Propose at Christmas by hanging the ring in its box from on the tree as if it was an ornament. Tell her to find her gift hanging on the tree.

11. Propose in front of her family and friends at her surprise birthday party or any special event for that matter: At the strike of 12 on New Year’s Eve could be a good one.

12. Scratch your proposal into the frost on his or her car's windshield.

13. Take your partner to the beach and write "Will you marry me?" in big letters in the sand.

14. Take him/her on a sailing trip and pop the question.

15. Take her/him up in a hot air balloon with a bottle of champagne and announc.e

16. Hire a skywriter to spell your proposal in the sky.

17. Sneak in to her home and fill it to the ceiling with balloons and or flowers and in the middle sit the ring in its box and a note asking her to marry you.

18. Play Hangman and have the phrase be "Marry Me."

19. If it's snowing write "Will you marry me?" in it.

20. Take him/her on a sail boat up a river and pop the question.