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1. "So I had gone to a Dallas Mavericks crippled successful March with my dad, and during halftime, they had this mates travel down and play a game. The miss was precise intelligibly not into hoops astatine all, and her spouse precise intelligibly was. In the game, the cheerleaders held chests with letters successful them (they were expected to beryllium prizes). Eventually she opened each of them, and it spelled 'Mavs' and 'Will you wed me.' When they closed the chests, she turned around, helium was connected his knee…and she conscionable kinda stared astatine him, not smiling, and picked him up disconnected the crushed and whispered successful his ear. They near with her walking successful beforehand trying to support it unneurotic portion helium nodded uncomfortably…most awkward acquisition ever."
—Anonymous
2. "I was astatine Fenway Park successful 2017, and for immoderate reason, the Red Sox had precocious decided to marque a nightly Jumbotron connection a thing. With most, if not all, of the ones I’d seen, the pistillate intelligibly had the heads-up and went on with it. This one, the mates came connected the surface and they were some waving astatine the camera, and the feline did his thing. She looked precise amazed and aggravated and precise intelligibly yelled, 'What the fuck?!' and turned her backmost to the camera, and they started arguing."
"The camera chopped distant without a definitive yes. The assemblage benignant of laughed and groaned, and a 'She said no!' chant started up. I ne'er recovered a video afterward of the existent proposal, but determination is 1 of the aftermath. The 2 of them were arguing nether a elephantine Budweiser motion portion the camera relation and a information feline oregon parkland escort stood awkwardly disconnected to the broadside waiting it out. The adjacent crippled I went to didn’t person the connection feature, and I presume (hope) this incidental enactment an extremity to it."
—Anonymous
3. "During assemblage (and for respective years afterward), I rowed gondolas for other currency connected the side. I had seen astir 500 proposals during that time. The lone 'no' I've ever had came from a feline who pulled retired each the stops. Dinner, Venetian gondola, roses...even a customized connection successful a vessel to beryllium 'found' during the Venetian gondola ride. So erstwhile the clip came, helium knelt down and popped the question. After what felt similar a afloat infinitesimal of stunned silence, she took that infinitesimal to pass him that she was already married."
4. "My person worked astatine a Coldstone Creamery, and immoderate feline came successful during the time and said, 'I'm gonna travel successful aboriginal contiguous and enactment 20 bucks successful the extremity jar. When I do, I privation you guys to sing "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath, and past I'm gonna suggest to my girlfriend.' My person and her coworkers recovered it unusual but agreed. Later that night, the antheral reappeared with the woman astatine the Coldstone. Awkward oculus interaction betwixt the antheral and the coworkers ensued portion the brace waited successful the long-ass line. He yet got up to the beforehand and enactment the 20 bucks successful the extremity jar. No 1 sang close away, truthful my person went for it solo: 'DUH, DUH, DUHDUHDUH, DEDEDEDEDEDEDE, DUH, DUH, DUH.'"
"The feline went down connected his knee, pulled retired the ring, and said, 'Will you wed me?' There was a long, soundless intermission arsenic the workers and each the radical astatine the Coldstone waited. She pulled him disconnected to the broadside of the store and they had a speedy connection portion everyone watched. They past went retired to his car successful the parking batch and sat there. For hours. My person was inactive moving for astir 4 much hours that night, and the feline was inactive sitting retired determination with her erstwhile helium was done.
"My person assumes that she did not accidental yes. I concur."
5. "I saw a connection neglect erstwhile astatine a shot game. I was sitting, I think, astir 2 rows down them, and the feline gets down connected 1 genu and says his spiel....the miss gets up and throws brew successful his face, screaming, 'YOU DUMB FUCK, I KNOW YOU SLEPT WITH ANNA LAST WEEK!'"
"I haven't laughed that hard since."
6. "I didn't witnesser it; I was the 1 who turned down a nationalist proposal. It was wholly unexpected, since I had met the feline six days before. We were astatine Bible campy the summertime aft elder twelvemonth of precocious school, and helium instantly gravitated to me. I was a shy, bookish miss without galore friends and was beauteous but not successful a flashy way, which was the benignant astatine the time. So I was flattered. I thought we mightiness extremity up dating. On the past day, successful beforehand of the larger radical (a fewer 100 teens), helium dropped to 1 genu and proposed. I thought it was a gag and pulled his hands to person him basal backmost up, but helium was wholly serious."
"He had misled the campy leaders into believing that helium and I were superior and this was a emotion lucifer truthful that they would hold to the nationalist connection betwixt 2 teenagers, but that was not the case. Once I realized helium was serious, I walked distant shell-shocked portion helium stood determination crying. It turns retired helium was leaving for the Army the adjacent period and wanted a woman earlier then."
—Anonymous
7. "I was astatine Taco Bell with a fewer friends of mine, including a feline and a miss who had been dating for a fewer weeks. A fewer of america got tacos, but the miss lone got a fare soda. So her fellow asked her, 'Do you privation blistery sauce?' She said, 'Uh...no. I conscionable got a fare soda; what the hellhole would I privation blistery condiment for?' He said, 'I dunno. But I conscionable deliberation it would beryllium truly bully if you had immoderate blistery sauce.'"
"They argued astir whether oregon not she needed blistery condiment for a portion until yet she conscionable said, 'Okay, whatever.'
"He went implicit and got some. Came backmost with a packet, got connected 1 knee, handed her the bundle that says 'Will you wed me?' connected it, and pulled retired a cheap-looking engagement ringing retired of his pocket.
"Keep successful caput they'd been dating astir 3 weeks astatine this point, and we were successful the mediate of Taco Bell.
"She got this look of implicit daze connected her face. And past said yes. They got joined a fewer months later. They got divorced a fewer months later. And that was the astir humiliating travel to Taco Bell of my life."
8. "I watched a antheral suggest to his woman astatine the apical of the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) successful Chicago. He got retired successful 1 of the solid boxes that let you to look consecutive down, got down connected 1 knee, and proposed. She wouldn't spell retired connected the glass. She got connected the floor, scooted retired implicit the solid connected her ass, and wept the full clip (not retired of happiness). It was the astir awkward happening I expect I volition ever witness."
9. "Pilot here. Guy asked maine to alert him and his S.O. implicit a field, wherever 150 radical had formed a bosom and 2 rings. Huge show; I was truly impressed. When she saw it, her effect was, 'Look astatine each those idiots! How ridiculous is that??' He did not inquire his question that day."
10. "A person of excavation had been dating this miss successful my creation programme for 4 years, and they had been talking astir getting joined for a portion but didn't cognize erstwhile they would necktie the knot. The summertime of his graduation, our programme was going to London, and they decided that they would enactment determination for 2 weeks. The clip came, and helium boarded a level to conscionable her connected the past time of our trip. She met him astatine the airport, and they were some excited to spot each other. They went successful a taxi to her edifice country and decided to get dressed to spell astir town. They did, and I joined them with 1 of her feline friends. In the elevator, my person got down connected 1 genu and asked her to wed him. She turned him down and said that she had recovered a fellow successful London and was not readying connected coming backmost to the US."
"The meal was awkward, and helium ended up staying successful London by himself for 2 weeks."
11. "Saw a mates successful a jewelry store erstwhile my woman and I were looking. Guy asked to spot a ring, knelt, and asked, 'Will you wed me?' She flipped: 'Ohmygod! Ohmygod! Ohmygod! Ohmygod! Yes, yes, yes!!' He said, 'Great!' past handed the ringing backmost to the worker and tried to permission the store. He'd projected with a borrowed ring. Tried to explicate to the miss that helium couldn't spend the ringing but wanted to suggest correctly. She slapped him truthful hard, MY look wounded (she enactment her full assemblage into the slap), and started screaming astir however her parent was right, etc., etc."
"No hint if they ever got together, but it was hard to watch."
12. "This happened 3 years ago. Some friends and I decided to road-trip down to Orlando and spell to the amusement parks similar a mates of 21-year-old children. Well, we were successful 1 of the Disney parks (Magic Kingdom, perhaps?), and I saw 1 of the wildest redneck things ever. We were looking astatine a map, figuring retired the program of action, and each of a abrupt we heard, 'Boy, what the hellhole bash you deliberation you're doing?' Some guy, similar 5 feet away, was connected his genu with a ringing retired successful beforehand of a girl, and an older feline was adjacent to him yelling. This is wherever it got weird. The feline said, 'That's your damn cousin, you fuckin' idiot. Get disconnected your goddamn knees earlier I bushed the piss retired of you.' This evidently got our attention."
"The feline doing the proposing (who I volition telephone George Michael from present on) started crying and said, 'But I emotion her and I privation her to beryllium my wife, and you and nary 1 other tin halt this from happening. Mary, volition you beryllium my wife?' The miss (Mary, I guess) looked astatine him and said, 'Why are you doing this? Don't you ever speech to maine again! I hatred you for this!' And she ran off. Then George Michael ran successful the different direction. The older dude was pissed disconnected beyond belief, and truthful was the remainder of the family. I wanted to clap, but I felt similar I would've been killed."
13. "I was connected abrogation with immoderate household members astir 5 years ago. While connected vacation, we ended up going to 'Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede,' which is simply a dinner-and-show-type establishment, and not peculiarly my cupful of tea, but my household wanted to spell and I didn't privation to beryllium 'that guy.' I'm gladsome I went, for what I saw was good worthy the terms of the ticket. Before the amusement started, the announcer listed a clump of blessed birthdays and the like, and past said thing on the lines of, 'And present a peculiar announcement from blah-blah.'"
"This feline was connected the screen, a prerecording, and asked his woman to wed him, and past the surface showed the feline kneeling down with a ringing successful the amusement audience, asking his girl. His woman was visibly horrified and conscionable shook her head. You could astir perceive the guy's heartbreak.
"It was connected that time that I learned not to bash things similar that unless a) you're perfectly definite she'll accidental yes, oregon b) you inquire her successful beforehand and conscionable privation to marque a bully story."
14. "I saw a feline suggest to his woman successful a Subway edifice astatine astir 9 astatine night. It was truthful unbelievably awkward due to the fact that it was conscionable the 3 of america successful the shop. She said no, the feline cried, and I inactive had to bid my sub portion they sat there."
15. "I was successful Paris for concern and decided to locomotion by the Eiffel Tower. As I was walking, I noticed a miss was holding a batch of balloons, truthful galore that I was amazed she didn’t up and alert away. In beforehand of her, a feline was kneeling down connected 1 knee, holding 1 of her hands. He was saying however overmuch helium loved her and wanted to walk the remainder of his beingness with her. She looked wholly shocked and amazingly uncomfortable. As helium finished with, ‘Will you wed me?’ she shook her caput no, apologized, and walked away, inactive carrying the balloons."
"The feline stood up, took retired a cigarette, lit up, and past proceeded to beryllium down astatine a adjacent café looking arsenic if helium didn't person a attraction successful the world. He ordered an espresso and work a paper arsenic if thing ever happened. It was the strangest thing."
16. "I was erstwhile astatine the gig of a person who plays beauteous wild, distorted stone with a shitload of synthesizers and stuff. It was truly rather debased key, with lone astir 20 to 30 radical there, and this drunk feline got up onstage halfway done my friend's solo and grabbed him to susurration thing successful his ear. My person looked ace confused but benignant of nodded and continued playing. Then, aft the song, helium said, 'Hey, truthful this feline present wants to accidental something,' and fto the feline leap connected the mic. The guy, slurring each word, past asked his woman to travel up onstage. She came up (appearing obscurity adjacent arsenic drunk arsenic helium was), and arsenic she was looking disquieted and confused, helium got down connected 1 knee, grabbed her hand, and muttered somewhat of a connection to her."
"She fto spell of his hand, helium stood up, she slapped him crossed the look — echoing done the tiny hallway — and helium stood bewildered arsenic she stormed disconnected the stage. My person past helped him disconnected the signifier and said to the crowd, 'Ah...so. Let's go!' and continued a raging set."
17. "I was astatine a demolition derby successful Winchester, Ontario (small municipality of possibly 5,000). One of the drivers was from my municipality (Maxville, population: 900). He projected to his woman earlier the contention by getting connected apical of the car, and the announcer called the woman arsenic if determination was a problem. The feline got a microphone and asked her. He enactment the microphone up to her face, but she intelligibly didn't privation the mic adjacent her. All we truly heard was, 'I can't bash this,' and she walked off. The feline had to execute successful a demolition derby aft that...I person to ideate it wasn't his champion night."
18. "I be Brigham Young University, which has perchance the astir marriage-focused radical of assemblage students anywhere. One time portion sitting successful the pupil halfway eating lunch, I saw a feline with a camera filming a mates astatine a table. Turns retired the feline was going to suggest to his woman of 3 weeks and wanted it filmed truthful that their aboriginal children could witnesser the fantastic moment. He got down connected 1 genu with the remnants of his Beefy 5-Layer from Taco Bell smeared each implicit his look and popped the question."
"She started crying and shaking her caput no. He kept explaining however overmuch helium loved her and however helium had a imagination from God that they were expected to get married, and she yet got up and ran retired of the pupil center. The bittersweet happening is that worldly similar that isn't uncommon astatine each astatine BYU."
19. "I was astatine assemblage successful a large lecture hallway (room for 500 people). In the mediate of a lecture, this feline and his friends came successful throwing confetti and stuff. This feline knelt down successful beforehand of his woman and projected to her. She was shocked and said 'NO!' The feline and his friends left, broken."
20. "I was astatine the zoo by the penguin exhibit. A antheral and a pistillate were looking astatine the penguins erstwhile the antheral proposed. She conscionable stared astatine him for a coagulated infinitesimal arsenic if helium was retired of his mind. I disquieted if they adjacent knew each other. Then the pistillate conscionable said, 'Josh…no.'"
—Anonymous
21. "So my late-twentysomething sister was semiserious with a (slightly younger) household person for a mates of years. He did landscaping and she worked successful the movie industry. He lived successful a compartment successful the mountains and she lived successful the city. He owned cats and she was benignant of allergic. She loved to question and helium wanted to enactment wherever helium grew up. He wanted tons of kids and she wanted her career. She loved him and adored his family, but she wasn’t 'in love' with him. From the beginning, helium was talking astir matrimony and kids and what their beingness would look similar together. She kept telling him that she had been truly wounded earlier and wasn’t definite what she wanted agelong term. He decided to enactment with her. One Christmas season, helium was earnestly pushing what their wedding would beryllium similar (his ma organized weddings/parties arsenic a 2nd job) and however galore kids they would have, and truthful forth."
"My sister truly had to beryllium him down and explicate again that she didn't deliberation she was acceptable for matrimony and mightiness ne'er be, and asked to delight not propulsion her into thing helium knew from the commencement she mightiness not want. Cut to the Christmas Eve enactment with some families (because we are each friends), and helium busted retired a ringing and got connected 1 genu successful beforehand of EVERYONE. She leaned implicit and whispered successful his ear, and helium got up and followed her outside. They spent the remainder of the nighttime talking connected the backmost platform portion everyone ate, drank, danced, and exchanged gifts without them. They broke up a period later. They are some MUCH happier now!"
—Anonymous
And finally, we'll extremity connected a fewer that ended with matrimony but are inactive decidedly connection fails successful my mind:
22. "I knew a feline who was astatine McDonald's with his woman 1 time, and arsenic a joke, helium wrapped a fry astir her digit and said, 'Will you McMarry me?' She started crying and called her ma and, like, started readying the wedding the adjacent day. He hadn't meant to propose, but helium didn't person the bosom to archer her, truthful helium conscionable joined her. We've mislaid interaction since then, but I would beryllium precise amazed if they're inactive joined today."
23. "This mightiness beryllium a communal 1 with a spot of a spin. I was with a fewer friends astatine Burger King astatine astir 3 successful the greeting (yes, Burger King, of each places), and the lone different radical who were eating determination were a middle-aged couple. The pistillate got up to spell to the bathroom, and the hubby slipped thing retired of a ringing container into the woman's burger. When she came back, she ate the burger without noticing anything. The antheral went wide-eyed and told her she'd conscionable swallowed the ring, and past asked her to wed him. She said yes, and my friends and I burst retired laughing."
24. "I was astatine the formation 1 day, and this level started penning a connection successful the sky. The formation was crowded, and everyone was watching. Sadly, the aviator managed to fuck crap up by penning 'Marry maine Sally.' The level really went backmost to compression successful an 'e,' but by that time, the remainder of the letters were beauteous overmuch gone. It was truthful painful."
25. "My dada peed successful the snow, 'Marry me!' erstwhile they were successful Austria. He thought it was genius and helium had planned it well, uncovering the cleanable spot successful the snow. Unfortunately, my dada didn't purpose precise well, truthful my ma conscionable couldn't work what it said. They stood determination successful the freezing cold, with my ma trying to conjecture it and my dada giving her small hints. In the end, my begetter conscionable yelled, 'Will you fucking wed me, woman?!' She said yes."
26. "In Southeast Michigan, we person the Wayne County Lightfest during Christmastime. You thrust done Hines Park on Hines Drive, which is each acceptable up with lights and Christmas decorations. It's precise cool. At the extremity of the route, you tin halt and spot Santa if you person kids with you. My woman loves it. When I was readying to propose, I asked if she wanted to halt and instrumentality immoderate photos successful beforehand of the decorations she liked the most. While she was messing with the camera, I got down connected 1 genu and proposed. We had our infinitesimal going, and past a clump of cops pulled up and asked america wherefore we had stopped. They insisted that we were doing drugs disconnected successful the woods adjacent to the road. They kept screaming astatine us, and I was yet capable to get a connection successful that I had proposed. They stared astatine america for a fewer seconds and past said, 'Well, congratulations. Get successful your fucking car and support moving.'"
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