Proposal Ideas?

So I know a guy, who is not very creative. So hopefully I can get some ideas for him here, because neither am I.

Him and his Lady have been living together for going on 5 years now. They have been living as hubby/wife for 2 years or so, and he has recently bought a ring after saving that he feels she deserves, and he knows she would really like to wear it.

He wants to do something nice and ask her for real and eventually have a real wedding after the savings grows so he is going to pop the question. He is in the metro area.

Sorry to be a downer but.... From your description, it sounds more like he is asking her because of guilt and feelings of obligation. I don't think that is a reason to get married. Hopefully I am just reading it from the wrong perspective.

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Originally Posted by clodhopper

Sorry to be a downer but.... From your description, it sounds more like he is asking her because of guilt and feelings of obligation. I don't think that is a reason to get married. Hopefully I am just reading it from the wrong perspective.

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Naaa he is very happy, he just recently was able to afford the token and thought it would be nice she have it.

Give her the ring, get married on the budget. use money saved on lavish wedding for a better place to live, like own instead of rent.

Why do people want BIG Weddings? The pric etags for some of them like my sisters and niece are insane. They spent more than our first home cost.

They just bought a house, and have settled financially. They have no family and very few friends here so they would pretty much just fly their parents out here for something small anyways.

Thanks Jim I agree with your suggestion.

Extra points to suggestions that are not pricey. :-D

What kind of hobbies/activities/interests do they have?

You can have nice weddings on a fairly small budget. My wife and I just did it. She did A LOT of work to cut costs and we did A LOT of shopping around/finding deals but it was all worth it. There is something to be said to have a fun/nice wedding. Hopefully, it's a one time event so make it memorable. Just don't go broke doing it.

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Originally Posted by rbeau30

They just bought a house, and have settled financially. They have no family and very few friends here so they would pretty much just fly their parents out here for something small anyways.

Thanks Jim I agree with your suggestion.

Extra points to suggestions that are not pricey. :-D

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if budget is a primary concern. I suggest procuring strippers OOPS "EXOTIC DANCERS" from CL and not some agency with good reviews.

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Originally Posted by Dave_L

What kind of hobbies/activities/interests do they have?

You can have nice weddings on a fairly small budget. My wife and I just did it. She did A LOT of work to cut costs and we did A LOT of shopping around/finding deals but it was all worth it. There is something to be said to have a fun/nice wedding. Hopefully, it's a one time event so make it memorable. Just don't go broke doing it.

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Well right now between the two of them hobbies include taking care of several children so they don't get much time to themselves, mostly the reason for why they don't have many people they hang out with. They haven't really gotten to that wedding stage yet, he is trying to put together some nice way of giving her the ring he bought.

Is she thinking a ring is coming soon? If so, may have to get a bit more creative to "surprise" her.

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Originally Posted by Dave_L

Is she thinking a ring is coming soon? If so, may have to get a bit more creative to "surprise" her.

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Honestly I don't think she does. They both are pretty happy and I don't glean from her that she is really expectant of anything anytime soon.

Yep tell him to wait longer!

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Originally Posted by sniper7

Yep tell him to wait longer!

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LOL!

A few quick ideas:

Watch Groupon for those discounted helicopter rides over the city. http://www.groupon.com/deals/colorado-heli-ops-1

It can be fun to incorporate the kids, too. We have 2 dogs so I wrote "marry me?" on a tennis ball. We took the dogs to the park to play and I threw the ball and had one of the dogs bring the ball back to my then GF. I went to one knee behind her and pulled out the ring for when she turned around after she got the ball from the dog. So maybe something like that would work. Go on a family hike and have the kids call her over because they "found(a rock with "Will you marry me?" or something)" something and want her to see it. It also depends on how old the kids are.

Do they like to shoot? He could write "Will you marry me" on a sign and put it down range as a target and have her look through the scope.

Also, this time of year allows for a lot of the typical ideas such as carriage ride around Denver and other fun holiday stuff.

But to help with a budget, I'd keep an eye on Groupon for deals on activities. Then find a way to incorporate the proposal into the activity.

They do like to shoot, Thanks Dave for those awesome ideas.

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Originally Posted by trot

Oh no, your competition gun is jammed? oh whats that in the magazine? Here let me go down on one knee to help you clear it.....

(you are asking a gun forum)

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HAHA that is awesome!

He can toss it at her and say "here put that on your booger flicker."

We got married in Vegas for a total of $5,000. We had 50-60 people. We paid $900 for a house With a heated pool and hot tub with a 60' covered patio with plenty of room for guests since we held the ceremony and reception at house. The house slept 10 peoplr as well. In Colorado, you can get a mediocre venue for $5,000 for 3-4 hours.

So my suggestion is that if it will be snall and they'll be flying folks out anyway, fly them some where cheaper to get married.

My buddy lives in the suburbs and had a bunch of neighborhood kids holding signs spelling out the "will you marry me" and she saw that when she got home from work. No wait, that's from a movie. There's a sign someone nailed up along the hike up Mt. Falcon in Morrison saying "will you marry me". I've pointed it out to girlfriend's I've taken up there to hike (with an advanced warning that I'm not popping the question). I'm kinda partial to mountain tops. There's effort involved in getting to the top that I think adds to the experience. Then again, I'm 34 and single. My idea of date night is the GF cooking up dinner and watching Duck Dynasty reruns while enjoying a Guinness, so what the heck do I know?

+1 to the helicopter idea. Night flying this time of year is awesome. Colorado heliops at KBJC does that sort of thing.

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Originally Posted by Irving

We got married in Vegas for a total of $5,000. We had 50-60 people. We paid $900 for a house With a heated pool and hot tub with a 60' covered patio with plenty of room for guests since we held the ceremony and reception at house. The house slept 10 peoplr as well. In Colorado, you can get a mediocre venue for $5,000 for 3-4 hours.

So my suggestion is that if it will be snall and they'll be flying folks out anyway, fly them some where cheaper to get married.

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My venue was $5k and that included $1,000 for liquor, 3 meal choices, salad, champagne toast and we had the venue from 8 am until midnight. Our final total came in around $11-12k. That was for her dress, photographer, flowers, venue, DJ, everything we possibly needed. About 110 guests.

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If she isn't the romantic kind.. Use that money to fly to Bali, ask her to marry and have a private ceremony there.. No need for annoying family members or in law to be there lol

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Just saw this on Facebook.

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Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey

If she isn't the romantic kind.. Use that money to fly to Bali, ask her to marry and have a private ceremony there.. No need for annoying family members or in law to be there lol

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Foreign travel makes clearance paperwork complicated :-|

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Originally Posted by rbeau30

Foreign travel makes clearance paperwork complicated :-|

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I am sure there are plenty of option within the border.. But I thought the world has open border policy.. Oh wait that's just us! ;)

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Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey

I am sure there are plenty of option within the border.. But I thought the world has open border policy.. Oh wait that's just us! ;)

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Pretty good Idea though having it all done right away, I'll pass it on.

Save money on the wedding and go on a nice honeymoon. I can't remember most of my wedding but of course I owned a liquor store at the time and we had an open bar. [Beer]

As far as something for a proposal I got nothing. I was going to do it on the gondola in Steamboat but it wasn't running that night so it was in the condo on the couch.

Dave, sounds like you made a good choice going outdoors. My cousins all got married here. 5k for some old building where they didn't even bother to brush away the cobwebs.

Have your friend take her to a nice place to eat. Let the restaurant know ahead of time that you want to put an engagement ring in a glass of wine. I was going to do this for my wife, but I don't like a lot of attention. You could also put the ring in a piece of cake, you just have to be careful she doesn't chip a tooth biting into the cake. Good luck.,

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Originally Posted by Irving

Dave, sounds like you made a good choice going outdoors. My cousins all got married here. 5k for some old building where they didn't even bother to brush away the cobwebs.

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Yeah Stu, we did a lot of searching around. We were amazed at what some places wanted.

small wedding, big honeymoon.

going the other way around is silly.

Well.. being together for a period of time he should know what is special to his significant other.. it's not about being creative it's about knowing what the other half would like/appreciate.

sent from a soup can and some string..

I would think incorporating the kids'd be a good idea. What are their ages? Perhaps if they're old enough where they can keep a secret, and have any singing ability, he could get them to help him with a song or something?
(Too bad they're not gamers, Ethan from ctrl-alt-del.com had good valentine's ideas/proposal ideas :P)

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I disagree with most of the people. We had a fairly spendy weddin' and it was a hell of a party. We celebrated with our friends and family and it was great. We had a good honeymoon as well.