Engagement - would you ?

[TDTH1975]

Personally, I thought proposing to your future wife was supposed to be a highly personal and romantic moment between the two of you - but on national television, on question time

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4234907.stm

[jacobyte]

Not really the done thing, but ten out of ten for bravery.

[cotty]

I wish she had said no, might stop these people from ramming their proposal down your throat.

[v8thunder]

I can't understand that approach either - it embarrasses the person into giving an answer. I'd make a proposal as discreet and personal as possible.

[shadowninja]

oh dear

cotty said:

I wish she had said no, might stop these people from ramming their proposal down your throat.

[Plotloss]

I simply dont understand.

I also dont understand people who do it at football matches just to get their names on the Jumbotron.

A mate did it on the Millenium Eye. He bought 26 tickets to get a pod for just the two of them and asked the chap where it could be done so that no other pod could see them.

He got down on bended knee and they moved the pod when they werent supposed to so everyone on the wheel saw what was going on.

He got a round of applause when he got off

[tonyhetherington]

He could have at least got down on one knee when he did it!!

Now, check this out....THIS is romantic...

bbc site said:

The long-running political debate show has indirectly played a part in one previous engagement. An enterprising would-be bridegroom from Hull last year proposed to his girlfiend via the programme's interactive service - available by pressing the red button or on Ceefax page 155 - and she accepted.

[DanH]

NAFF.

Apparently its not uncommon for the girl to then change her mind once the cameras are off!

[tonyhetherington]

DanH said:

girl to then change her mind

I've always wondered that! I've never seen something like that where they've said NO!?

[EmmaP]

I'd have said, "No!" just to embarrass him.

[tonyhetherington]

pah, I'm never asking you to marry me, Emma!

[cotty]

tonyhetherington said:

DanH said: girl to then change her mind I've always wondered that! I've never seen something like that where they've said NO!?

I saw one a few years ago when the girl refused to answer the question, the guy did not know what to do

[EmmaP]

tonyhetherington said:

pah, I'm never asking you to marry me, Emma!

[Coco H]

revolting - whey do you need to get engaged in public?

[minimax]

Coco H said:

revolting - whey do you need to get engaged in public?

no sense of decency - what's all that about?

[wedge girl]

Surely a proposal of marriage should be a romantic and intimate moment.

[munter]

wedge girl said:

Surely a proposal of marriage should be a pure financial arrangement.

[wedge girl]

munter said:

wedge girl said: Surely a proposal of marriage should be a pure financial arrangement.

Must remember to marry for money and not love in future.

[Witchfinder]

A friend of mine proposed to his girlfriend in public. He knew she was going on a day trip to York, so he hired a suit of armour and loitered about outside York minster under the cover of handing out leaflets for the medieval market.

When his girlfriend arrived to tour the church, he surprised her and popped the question in front of a huge crowd. Really cool, but I think it cost him a fortune (and is going to carry on costing him a fortune )

[jvaughan]

When I proposed, we were in Paris, with the Eiffel Tower in the back ground, and Albanian immergrunts trying to sell us tower cigarette lighters were all around us..

I first told Kerry-Ann that all the money was safe, and I had our passports.

Then I popped the question

I only gave her her passport back once she had said yes

12 months later, I reminded her of the same the night before our wedding in Cyprus