Marriage Proposal Stories - A Marriage Proposal on a Bar Stool

There are few phrases in the English language that are more sweated over or rehearsed than "will you marry me?" People who are about to make marriage proposals are often a crazy bunch, in need of hand-holding and calming measures. If you're sweating over your own marriage proposal, try reading these marriage proposal stories for inspiration and company. Or, if you're a romantic like I am, read them just because – regardless of how soon or recent your own marriage proposal might be.

From weddings.about.com reader, Felix Johnson

I had just returned home from a week in the hospital over the Millennium New Years and decided to check my email for the last week or so. I felt weak and a little depressed from having missed out on the good times others had celebrating. I was dating several fellows and had cancelled plans with one of them for New Years.

While I was online I was contacted by a guy who read my profile and was smitten with it. He had just returned from Provincetown, Massachusetts, where his date was so taken with him that a move was planned to Texas and was imminent. Simultaneously, I had decided that the person I was dating most regularly was not the person for me, and planned to tell him so when I joined him a week later for a week-long visit and a trip to New Orleans. Anyway my Internet friend and I started chatting and hit it off right away. He wanted to come over that same night! I postponed it until the next night when I thought I would feel better and have time to get ready for a blind date. He arrived the next evening with two dozen long-stemmed red roses. I was in love immediately. He took one look at me and after 15 minutes we were madly embracing and kissing endlessly. We were delayed going to dinner because we progressed onward from kissing. Need I say more? Dinner was exciting and wonderfully intoxicating even though we each only had one glass of wine. Love at first sight is the only way to describe what happened to us. He spent the first night at my house and did not leave for 6 days. By the third night we both spoke of spending the rest of our lives together, as if it were certain to happen.

I felt I had to honor the date I had with the fellow I had been dating. So I told my new love goodbye and that I would be back and would still love him – but I had to tell this other fellow good-bye in person to be honorable. Even though my visit was to be an 8 day visit I told him on the fourth day that I had concluded that we were not made for each other. He was about to tell me that he wanted us to be a committed couple when I broke the news. So the next day I went home to my new love.

My new love and I met that evening and he took me for a drink before dinner. The bar was crowded and the only seats were on barstools. We sat down and he almost immediately asked me to marry him. I accepted without hesitation. He had been afraid that I would change my mind once I was with the other guy, and was about to tell him goodbye. Since we both have grown children we wanted to plan an event that would include them. We were married a year later and have been together for over five years. I never have regretted one time that we were married so quickly. I knew he was the right man for me, and I would be happy forever married to him. I am more certain every day that passes.

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