Shawn L. Bird

Here’s a great proposal- flash mob dance style: View the youtube video.

I think these sorts of proposals add a lot of pressure on the guys to come up with something absolutely incredible when they’re just trying get up the courage to propose. There’s enough on their minds just facing the commitment. It’s asking a lot of them to also expect them to be so creative.

My own husband does not specialize in creativity, so his proposal was a quiet walk with a pause beside a small cenotaph (which no longer exists) to ask The Question. There was no drama involved, because all those long discussions about the future had left no room for uncertainty. I suspect most people who propose are pretty sure of the answer, or it’d be a terrifying prospect to open themselves to such rejection. It might have been nice to have a choreographed dance in the park, but let’s be honest, if that was the marriage proposal I got, it wouldn’t have been the amazing, introverted intellectual I love who’d have been asking the question!

So what about you? What was the setting for your proposal?