| • Take her on a picnic – bring fruit, cheese, crackers and champagne and an iPod docking station to play romantic music and set the scene. Hand her a napkin with a napkin ring around it. But it won’t be a napkin ring – it’ll be an engagement ring!
• If it’s Christmastime, get an ornament engraved with the proposal on and hang it on the tree for her to find on Christmas morning. • Go to your favorite restaurant and write your proposal on the ‘Specials’ board. • Cut a hole in a Cracker Jack box, replacing the prize with the engagement ring . • Fill up a small glass bowl with a bunch of reasons why you love her. Underneath it all she’ll find the diamond. • Bring her back to the place where you first met. Then hand her a red rose or other flower with the ring buried within it. • Display a cake in the window of her favorite bakery. Have it topped with the ring and inscribed with a romantic message. • Send her on a treasure hunt with clues leading to a special place where she’ll find your ring. • While she’s sleeping, slip the engagement ring on her finger. • Hide the ring in a box of assorted chocolates. • Make the ring her game piece during a game of Scrabble or Monopoly. • Spell out “Will you marry me?” with stones or flowers at the park or with seashells or sand at the beach. • Use the ring to hold together a small bunch of her favorite flowers. • Memorize a French poem. Then recite it to her at a French restaurant as you offer the ring. Or take the poem/restaurant approach in Italian, Spanish or another foreign language. • Rent advertising space at your favorite movie theatre. Before the movie starts, your proposal will be on screen. • Rent a knight costume and white horse. Ride up and offer to be her prince . • Attend karaoke night at a local bar. Sing “your song” and then propose before you leave the stage . • Commission an artist to paint her portrait, adding the engagement ring to her finger before your present it to her.• Have a plane sky-write your proposal the day of a family picnic or other outdoor event. • Attend a sporting event. Have your proposal light up on the scoreboard. • Create a personal web page bearing your proposal. • During dinner at your favorite spot, have the wait staff offer her ring as an option on the dessert tray. • Take her out for Chinese food. Have the waiter or waitress give her a special fortune cookie with your proposal in it. • Hire a magician to entertain you and make the ring mysteriously appear. • Take her on a hot-air balloon ride. As you glide over a certain spot she’ll see your proposal spelled out in rocks from way up high. • Make her a simple dinner and spell out a proposal with alphabet SpaghettiOs. • Hide the ring in one of her winter gloves. (Assuming it’s glove weather!). • Cook her dinner, and serve the ring as dessert. • Put the ring in a seashell, presenting it to her on the beach. • Hire a professional. Many companies now offer the services of a wedding proposal planner, who will work with you to devise a custom-made proposal for your girlfriend. |