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Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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Feb 29, 2024, 7:23 AM
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I did. Do Yankees and westerners propose on one knee?
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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Feb 29, 2024, 7:33 AM
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That was 27 years ago…
But yes, I did get on one knee. Called her dad to get his blessing as well.
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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Feb 29, 2024, 7:36 AM
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Yes. We were behind Dry Falls one spring afternoon. Just so happened another couple who were professional photographers were there and ended up capturing the whole thing. They waiting in the parking lot for us to have our moments and then approached us telling us they had photographed the whole thing and got our emails and sent the digitals to us for free.
It was awesome.
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Sure did...
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Feb 29, 2024, 7:40 AM
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I also sat down and talked to her parents in advance to get their blessing and consent.
My wife was an elementary school teacher. It was her birthday, and her school was also having an assembly for spirit week. I dressed-up in the school mascot costume (a Cardinal), something I coordinated in advance with her principal. When they called her up on stage to sing happy birthday to her, I got down on one knee, took off the mascot head and proposed in front of the entire school (about 500 students, faculty and staff).
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Re: Sure did...
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Feb 29, 2024, 11:08 AM
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That was awesome!!
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Re: Sure did...
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Feb 29, 2024, 11:11 AM
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Dang man I feel like a failure! Kudos to you!
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Legend [17626]
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Nope.
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Feb 29, 2024, 7:44 AM
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48 years ago I picked her up to go to dinner in Columbia and pulled over just before we got on I-26. Opened the glove box, got the ring, and proposed. I already had her father's blessing.
I know, I'm so romantic.
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Wow. At this moment your post has garnered 5 TUs
Feb 29, 2024, 10:53 AM
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I’m assuming on how hilariously awful your story is. In your car on the side of the road before dinner in cootville. Wow
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Ha
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Feb 29, 2024, 9:02 PM
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Should've told her you'd get on I-26 unless she said yes
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Re: I did, and even back then, the back was sad enough, she almost had to help me
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Feb 29, 2024, 7:55 AM
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i feel your pain.....literally
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I didn't get married until I was 30. But, even so, we are coming up on 39 years
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Feb 29, 2024, 8:06 AM
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this August. Maybe it'll work out.
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Re: I did, and even back then, the back was sad enough, she almost had to help me
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Mar 1, 2024, 12:09 PM
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Actually I did, but I put her down real fast once we got over the threshold. Sometimes, for some things, you just have to grit your teeth and bear the pain!
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Legend [19610]
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Sure did, but it was under an arbor at Biltmore House.
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Feb 29, 2024, 8:02 AM
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And I had loaned her my jacket because she was chilly. I had to ask her to reach into the pocket to extract the ring box.
Not how I planned but it worked well enough.
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You sly debil, you. That sounds so rheumatic.
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Feb 29, 2024, 8:07 AM
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Or something like that.
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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Feb 29, 2024, 8:03 AM
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Yep, this was just a couple years ago but got her mother’s approval because her dad is a deadbeat that hasn’t been in her life.
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My son asked his future in-laws for their blessings and they said
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Feb 29, 2024, 8:51 PM
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“ It’s about time!” He took the ring on a mission trip to Costa Rica and popped the question a few days later- was nervous about hiding the ring in another country.
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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Feb 29, 2024, 9:06 PM
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See this is one reason why I'd never do it in front of a crowd like this
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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Feb 29, 2024, 8:13 AM
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Husband is a yankee and he got down on one knee. Now he’s been here longer than he was in NY so maybe he can be considered a southerner at heart.
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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Feb 29, 2024, 8:13 AM
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Nope. We year both sitting on my parents couch. It was a spur of the moment thing. I didn't ask her parents permission... we told them afterwards. I've told y'all before that I am not the romantic type.
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Nope! Both knees!
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Feb 29, 2024, 8:14 AM
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That’s how ya’ Beg!
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Grovel, the term the ladies like us to use is grovel.
Mar 1, 2024, 9:33 AM
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"I had him groveling at my feet."
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Yep!***
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Yes, absolutely.***
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Re: Yes, absolutely.***
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Feb 29, 2024, 8:50 AM
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Well… did Brad say yes or no?
Don’t leave us hanging!
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Re: Yes, absolutely.***
Feb 29, 2024, 9:35 PM
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I think he got on both knees for the Brad proposal
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Absolutely***
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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Feb 29, 2024, 8:23 AM
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I got on one knee and asked her dad for his blessing before proposing. I was more nervous about that conversation than I was about proposing to my wife. I'm 38 now and we've been married 12 years.
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Please clarify
Mar 1, 2024, 9:35 AM
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You got in one knee and asked her dad for his blessing?
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Yes, my wife was a 4th grade school teacher.
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I went to school one day to give the kids small individual surprise packages. I then gave my fiancé a small bag that included a plastic heart ring. She looked at the kids and jokingly said “ this doesn’t fit.” I dropped to one knee and said “see if this one will, will you marry me?” For the first time since I met her, she was speechless. One of her coworkers said “are you gonna answer him.” She finally said “I will.”
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No.***
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Re: No.***
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Feb 29, 2024, 9:09 AM
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It’s never too late to drop to one knee and thank her for being a huge part of your life.
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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Feb 29, 2024, 8:51 AM
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Yes, after she had kicked me in the other one.
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Yup!
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Feb 29, 2024, 8:55 AM
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Took her down to the Beaufort waterfront at sunset before our last year of college.
Originally I wanted to do a walk up to have both our families comes together on Huntington Island but that didn't work out.
Asked her parents some months beforehand for their blessing and saved as much as I could for a ring. Didn't have any funds to hire a photographer but was lucky enough for a couple to take a few snapshots for us as I popped the question.
No Regrets!
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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Feb 29, 2024, 8:55 AM
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Might of drowned if I did. We were in the pool while on vacation in the Keys.
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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After asking her father for his blessing I got down on one knee at Furman University in the "Place of Peace" near the lake. She is a Furman graduate. That was 51 years ago. Now she is a Clemson fan since she married a Clemson graduate!
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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Nope. A little over 55 years ago I came home from National Guard Summer Camp and had bought Her several goodies from the PX. Some very nice gifts actually. Was heading to Mount Pleasant to see Her. Decided to buy her a Diamond and ask Her to marry me. All of the items were in one bag. I pulled them out one a time. When I got to the Diamond I handed it to Her. She said aren't You going to ask me? I said oh Yeah, will You Marry me? She said yes but has never let me forget that. if We make it to October it will be 56 years! I guess I did pretty good!
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No. It didn't happen all at once
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We started discussing getting married on our first date. I had a lot of previous GF but none felt quite right.
Halfway through our first date, I started thinking "I think she's the one".
We were both in school so we waited 5 years to get married. When I had enough money saved, we went ring shopping together.
Now married 39 years, together almost 45, and it still great!
She was pretty patient while I finished grad school at Clemson while working full time and working a part time side job.
She's definitely the one!
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Checklist
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Feb 29, 2024, 9:13 AM
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Father's Approval - CHECK
Bend the Knee - CHECK
Keep Vows 31 Years and Counting - CHECK
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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Feb 29, 2024, 9:15 AM
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I most certainly did, and I asked her Father's permission first as well.
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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No. We were in the car at Petes drive-in waiting on our order. How more unromantic can a person be, and yet our marriage has lasted 51 yrs.
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Sure did, while walking at a local park,
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I pretended to have a sore ankle. we sat down on some bleachers and I took a knee, pulled the ring out of a sock and the rest is history!! That was 32 years ago!!!
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Does using one of those soda can pop off rings count?
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Feb 29, 2024, 11:04 AM
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Yes, turned off the baseball game and Dale Murphy and popped the question. 40+ yrs ago.
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Re: Does using one of those soda can pop off rings count?
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Feb 29, 2024, 11:17 AM
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That avatar is disturbing!😳😂
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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Feb 29, 2024, 8:31 PM
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68 years ago ,we sittig sitting in my car in her parents driveway after returning from a dinner date. I hugged kissed her and popped the question. She accepted and then I talked to her father. We were married in six months to the day,from our first date. Still in love and happyly retired. It was love at first sight for both of us! Four children, ten grand children ,and six great grandchildren.
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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I did, almost 10 years ago. I had written her a song years before just messing around with a toy guitar. I'm no musician. 4 years later had an artist my dad knew record it to play as a part of the proposal. Hilariously this backfired and her first thought was that I had stolen the song which distracted from the objective!! 🤣
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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We were sitting on a ledge so no.
Did not ask her dad, because not long before this, he took a swing at me.
The short story is that we had dated for a while, then I broke it off to be sure. (No that did not mean I took several other girls for a test drive.) If I couldn't live without her, I was going to make sure I never let her go again.
We got along perfectly and only had fights while we were broken up. We'd get together, break it off, she'd cry, he didn't like seeing her cry, yada yada yada.
We will be married for 30 years this May.
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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January 16, 1984 about 5:30PM. She had come in from work at the Shipyard and I came down from Cottageville to her Mobile home off Ashley Phosphate. I got down on one knee and asked her to be my wife. She said "Yes". We went out to eat and then spent the evening at her place till I had to go to work on Grave Shift at the Shipyard. We were married that year and stayed that way until she died from cancer last May. I still cry.
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
Mar 1, 2024, 9:41 AM
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I’ll bet you have some great memories. Hope you can think of them instead when you start to feel like crying.
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I got on one knee and proposed to my wife 42 years ago
Mar 1, 2024, 8:43 AM
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"death do us part is a helluva long time though
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
Mar 1, 2024, 9:28 AM
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Yes indeed.
Proposed on one knee in front of the Sullivan's Island lighthouse on station 18.
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I honestly dont remember
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I’m pretty sure we were in my dorm room in Lever Hall but I’m not one for details. It was January of 1982.
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Re: I honestly dont remember
Mar 2, 2024, 9:21 AM
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I don't even remember if I asked.... been so long ago she might have asked me.
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Yes, at the Botanical Gardens gazebo in the rain.
Mar 1, 2024, 10:33 AM
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April 20 1996
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Yes siralthough it wasnt a very romantic proposal
Mar 1, 2024, 12:32 PM
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For anyone who cares, here is the story (TLDR warnin)::
We had dated and broken up several times, so I thought it would be clever to pop the question at Old Faithful. We booked a trip to Jackson Hole. She was a novice skier, and I wasn’t. Remember that later. We were leaving a couple days after Christmas 1995. I woke up Christmas morning as sick as I have ever been, but I had to get up off the couch to drive three hours and get her dad’s blessing. Approval in hand, we left, not realizing that Clinton’s government shutdown had closed Yellowstone National Park. Snowmobile trip had to be rerouted, and big idea was shot. Then, a couple days later, I went off and skied with some powder hounds and left her with the bunnies (it was a ski club trip). When we got back to the room that night, she was so mad she was in tears. I had planned to propose on the snowmobile trip, but this was an emergency. Went to the front desk to “get some firewood”, came back to the room and got on one knee. She said yes. Next chapter for anyone still reading/interested in a reply.
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Chapter 2
Mar 1, 2024, 12:35 PM
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We went snowmobiling the next day (but not to Old Faithful). On those guided trips, they make you ride single file. I was the last guy in line. After a short time, my machine broke down, and I watched the line disappear into the distance. My fiancé of just 12 hours didn’t even miss me until they stopped for lunch an hour later. Bright side was when the leader came back to work on my ski, he gave me his (ungoverned) ski, and told me to catch up with the group. Yeehaw!
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Chapter 3
Mar 1, 2024, 12:40 PM
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Now happily engaged, and with my fiancé having gathered her revenge, we resumed our trip. We went out big on NYE, then I took New Year’s morning off to watch the Tangerine Bowl at The Mangy Moose. Another bad idea. Anybody remember that game? Ouch! And the hangover didn’t help.
The good news is we were married six months later, still are almost 28 years later, and I wouldn’t trade her for a basketball AND a baseball national championship for my Tigers.
Anyone still here, thanks for reading and following me down memory lane.
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In Boston, MA for the 2016 BC game.....
Mar 1, 2024, 3:47 PM
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.....best thing I ever did. Her response was "you goober", but that translated to a yes.
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Re: In Boston, MA for the 2016 BC game.....
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I wish I had had said yes the first time she asked me to marry her.... J/K Got married on 12-20-75 so going on 49 long suffering years...
WT
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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Mar 1, 2024, 5:26 PM
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Original Western'er here...what difference does it make?
Drove to her parents to ask for their blessing first and got down on one knee. I was raised that that was the only way to do it.
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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Mar 1, 2024, 6:52 PM
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I did. Got her parents blessing before taking her to Rockville, SC, where I had arranged for a good friend to set up a table and chairs by the intercoastal waterway with champagne and crab dip from Cappy's restaurant. Sadly the whole thing was a complete disaster as that day it rained constantly and was about 45 degrees(this was May 15th). Ended up at Cappy's at a table inside on one knee.
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
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Mar 1, 2024, 7:18 PM
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Yes and asked for her father’s permission the day before. I worked part-time at a small jewelry store my last year in college in exchange for her Diamond ring. A couple of days before graduation I proposed to her at night on the beach. She lived on the beach and we went for a walk, I had hidden a picnic basket with a blanket, champagne, hollow stem glasses, under a hobie cat deck. Good memories!
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Re: Did you get on one knee when you proposed to your wife?
Mar 2, 2024, 9:58 AM
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I got on BOTH knees to give thanks when I was rid of her.
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