National Proposal Day: My Less Than Romantic Proposal

Brace your Facebook timelines! Engagement posts are coming! Today, March 20th is National Proposal Day.

The holiday was created by a man who's cousin had been strung along by her boyfriend for years without him finally listening to Beyonce's advice to put a ring on it.  He dedicated a day to proposing marriage to take the pressure off this guy and men across the world.

Over the years I've seen some pretty extravagant proposals from Facebook friends to Jessa and Ben Seewald on 19 Kids and Counting.  Every girl dreams of an extremely romantic proposal.  So how do you react when that's not what happens when it's finally time for him to pop the question?

Cause that's what happened to me!  You may or may not know I was engaged to someone back in Ohio three years ago (obviously, that circled the bowl.)  We started dating a year before I moved to Boise, but he didn't really embrace the move to the Northwest and stayed back.  Two years later (but still not interested in moving to Boise) he proposed, but it was less than romantic.

I think his intentions were good, but the execution sucked.  He'd made plans for us, my mom and sister, his dad and his stepmom to go to the first year of Christmas lights the amusement park he grew up near.  Sounds romantic, right?  It probably would've been had I not strained my back running in the snow earlier that day, but I was on to what was supposed to be going down that night so I smiled and persevered.  We enjoyed looking at the light displays, the fireworks and the few rides that were open (keep in mind, this was December in Pennsylvania.)

After we went and decorated Christmas cookies, we went to the carousel for one last ride of the night.  I looked at the horses and thought to myself "no way in hell am I going to make it up there with my back this screwed up."  Luckily, he claimed he wanted to sit in one of the stationary sleds.  The ride starts. He starts fumbling through his pocket (I'm thrilled and excited to see how this is going to play out at this point) saying he couldn't find his phone.  I pull out mine to call his while he keeps looking.  "Found it!" I look over and he's got the ring box.  Opens it and blurts out "so do you want to do it?"

Not "will you marry me?"  Not something amazing about our relationship. I wrote it off as nerves, but that made it the moment incredibly unromantic.  I accepted, but inside was incredibly disappointed with the lack of butterflies the proposal produced.

What did your man do to propose to you? Share your proposal story and we'll post the best and worst ones here at 1035kissfmboise.com!