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Engagement Ideas: Over 125 Ways How to Propose Marriage

There are so many ideas for how to go about it when you are ready to ask her to get married, with suggestions from romantic and wonderful to whacky. Don’t feel limited to proposing marriage in the traditional way -- meaning on bended knee to pop the question to your beloved. Instead, use this list for inspiration on ways how to get engaged. But no matter how you decide to ask her about getting engaged, make sure you are ready to slip that diamond engagement ring on her finger as a symbol of your true love when she says yes!

Proposal Tips:

How to propose to the woman you love is personal, so use your own good sense and customize as you think is best! Don’t worry, if she is going to say yes, there is likely no “wrong” way to ask her to marry you. There are as many unique and different styles of asking the big "Will You Marry Me?" question as there are happy, loving couples. Just be sure to make it a special event and speak honestly from your heart!

LIST OF WAYS TO PROPOSE

  • Photoshop it on a favorite photo and blow it up poster size
  • Make a collage and include your message
  • Spell it out with matching votive candles floating in a swimming pool
  • Put it on Youtube
  • Say it with lyrics custom written to her favorite song
  • Say it by reciting a custom written poem – by you or someone else
  • Say it on a kite you fly together at the beach
  • Say it with a temporary tattoo
  • Say it as the prize in a scavenger hunt
  • Record it on a dvd you “rent” from Blockbuster
  • Make a Facebook request
  • Text it – while she’s sitting next to you
  • Prop up a sign on an easel
  • Include it in a special online photo album
  • Include it in a scrapbook of your favorite memories together
  • Send her a series of postcards, one letter or word on each card
  • Deal her a special poker hand with your message on the cards
  • Write it on her vanity mirror with soap
  • Have your message embroidered on a pillow case
  • In winter, spray paint it on the snow
  • Tape a note to her goldfish bowl
  • Write it in ink on her new pet rock
  • Paint it on a hot air balloon
  • Slip a note in her golf bag
  • Paint it on her four wheeler
  • Project a lighted message on the cave wall while spelunking
  • In winter, stomp the message in the snow
  • Use fake frost to paint it on the windows
  • Publish it in a newspaper crossword puzzle
  • Hang a sign from an overpass she drives thru to commute
  • Rent a flashing electric sign for her driveway
  • Display it on a billboard
  • Display it on a taxi cab
  • Drape it over a school bus
  • Write it out one letter at a time using signs along a stretch of country road
  • Say it with a sandwich board you wear
  • Write it on your tee shirt
  • Spell it out using letters on hay bales
  • Spell it out with 4th of July sparklers
  • Spell it out with scented candles
  • Write it out with lunarias
  • Spell it out with twinkly mini-lights
  • Write it in rose petals or lavender flowers
  • Shine it with Christmas lights
  • Hire a skywriter
  • Hire a courier to hand deliver your message
  • Send a singing telegram
  • Fax it to her office
  • Write it on the side of a semi-trailer parked outside her house
  • Rent a mobile billboard to drive around town
  • Soap it on the car windshield
  • Put a pennant on her car
  • Use letters driven past her on a caravan of cars, motorcycles, trucks, bicycles, scooters
  • Chalk it on the sidewalk
  • Hide the ring inside a Twinkie (break it open for her so she doesn’t break a tooth)
  • Put up signs along your favorite ski run
  • Put a sign at the top of the ski lift
  • Write it on her skis
  • While camping, write it in stars on the ceiling inside her tent
  • While camping, pin a note to her sleeping bag
  • Chalk the message on a plain brick wall
  • Hang a banner on a fence or wall
  • Write it on the chain fence: stick tennis balls, aluminum cans, or plastic cups thru the wire mesh
  • Say it with flowers
  • Say it with chocolate kisses
  • Say it with sweethearts candies
  • Say it with letters on cupcakes
  • Say it with writing on a cookie
  • Spell it out with mini marshmallows
  • Spell it out with jelly beans, M & M’s, peppermints, or gum drops
  • Write it out with icing on a cake
  • Say it on a CD
  • Put it on her iPod
  • Put it on video
  • IM it – while she’s sitting next to you
  • Set it up with your World of Warcraft team
  • Say it on a paper airplane
  • Attach a message with the rum on a Saint Bernard’s collar
  • Attach a note to her puppy’s collar
  • Unfurl a banner midway through a skydive
  • Display a waterproof sign while scuba diving
  • Write it in chalk on the tennis practice board
  • Chalk it on the bike path
  • At the game, make it part of the halftime show
  • List it on the scoreboard
  • Display a banner during the tailgate party
  • Mark it on the playing field
  • Announce it on the public address system
  • Do it on the radio
  • Paint it on the side of a car running in a demolition derby
  • Buy an ad in a show program
  • At your favorite restaurant, have the wait staff insert a note in the menu
  • At your favorite bar, have the bar tender put your message in a bottle (or her drink)
  • At your favorite microbrewery, order a beer with the word diamond in the name
  • Present the ring during a passionate dessert course (chocolate of course)
  • Hire a mariachi band to serenade her
  • Hire singers/actors to perform it as a musical number
  • Say it with sign language
  • “Read” it off a Magic 8 Ball
  • Whittle it on a piece of toast
  • Write it on an Easter Egg
  • Write it in squeeze mustard on a long submarine sandwich
  • Write it on an origami flower served with a plate of sushi
  • Slip a note into her fortune cookie
  • Write it on a giant pizza using green pepper strips or olives
  • At the beach, write it in the sand
  • At the beach, mark it in the sand with long stem roses or carnations
  • At the beach, place a banner on a sand castle
  • At the beach, put a sign on the volleyball net
  • At the beach, spell it out on a beach ball
  • At the beach, hang a sign on the lifeguard’s shack
  • At the beach, write it on the sun umbrella
  • At the beach, write in on the beach blanket
  • At the beach, sing it with a ukulele
  • At the pool, send the ring to her on a floatie
  • At the pool, tie the ring to a rubber duckie
  • At the pool, hang a banner on the lifeguard’s chair
  • Spell it out letter by letter on buoys at the lake
  • Write it on the sail for your boat
  • Put it on a banner on a cruise ship
  • Write it on streamers strung across the room
  • Freeze the ring inside an ice cube
  • Slip the ring into a glass slipper
  • Hide the ring inside a cereal box
  • Tuck the ring inside her Christmas stocking
  • Hang the ring on the handle of her favorite coffee mug
  • Attach the ring to the rim of her glass like a drink charm
  • Hide the ring inside a plastic Easter egg
  • Place the ring inside a hollowed-out book
  • Tuck the ring inside her favorite bridal magazine
  • Braid it into her horse’s mane
  • Present the ring on a crystal plate surrounded by rose petals
  • Present the ring on a zen style pillow of moss
  • Pin the ring to her pillow
  • Hang the ring in a sunny window so it shines prismatically
  • Roll the ring inside a parchment declaration of your love
  • Clip the ring to her keychain
  • Tie the ring to the stem of her champagne flute using satin ribbon
  • Lace the ring onto her running shoe
  • “Win” the ring at the carnival goldfish bowl or ring toss game
  • Rent a limo to visit a jeweler’s where you “need” to stop for “something”
  • While touring a vineyard, “find” the ring in a bunch of grapes
  • Pull the ring from behind her ear like a magician’s magic trick

  • Drop enough hints so that SHE asks YOU!

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