Read on for proposal stories

I’m a sap for proposal stories. I’m always curious about how couples get engaged. I thought it would be fun to ask some couples around this area and I got some interesting stories. I decided to share them in my blog, so here goes.

Lucy’s proposal story

Lucy and Jacob of Lincoln had talked about getting married, and she knew it would be coming soon. She was suspicious one date night.

“We went to dinner and the whole time he was checking his phone behind my back and hiding his phone from me,” she said. “This was super unusual behavior as he is never on his phone when we are on a date.”

Jacob asked her to take a walk on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus, and she anticipated this is where he would stop her and ask him to marry him. Instead he again sneakily checked his phone. They then walked to the car at the top of a parking garage.

Once at the car he decided to slow down and look out at the city at night. Lucy says it was like he was waiting for something or someone. What followed was two hours of “hidden” phone checks, she said.

Finally after two hours fireworks started to go off.

“I knew this was the moment we had booth been waiting for all evening.”

Jacob got down on one knee and proposed, and Lucy said yes. Her mother and sister, who had been hiding for three hours on the other side of the parking garage wall to get pictures, came out of hiding. They joked about the “delay.”

“It turned out that the secret phone checks were to check the score of the Saltdogs baseball game,” she said. The fireworks were part of the end of the game. The game went into extra inning innings, which is the reason for the delay.

“We had to wait a little big longer but we laugh every time we tell our proposal story,” Lucy said. “I definitely wouldn’t change it.”

Melanie’s proposal story

Melanie made it a little more difficult for her boyfriend to propose – all because of a cinnamon roll.

The two of them went to Kansas City in 2016 and one morning decided to try a place called The Big Biscuit. Melanie ordered a giant cinnamon roll pancake topped with icing, not realizing that her boyfriend had intended to propose shortly thereafter. The problem was – he was allergic to cinnamon.

After breakfast they visited a botanical garden, where he was planning to propose. He delayed it though because he wanted the cinnamon taste to go away. Had he kissed her too early, “his throat would have started to close,” Melanie says.

After she learned later about what he had planned, she felt bad. Especially because it was mid-March and a cold day. Walking around for an extended period of time wasn’t ideal, she said.

It’s pretty funny looking back, she said. The same weekend a year later they revisited the gardens and it was beautiful weather and full of people. It was then she realized the bad weather was a blessing in disguise as she did not want other people around to make the moment awkward.

Taylor’s proposal story

When Taylor first met her fiancé she was an avid amateur snowboarder. In college she and her friends would go on multiple snowboarding trips. She got her fiancé hooked on snowboarding after they started dating.

They planned a trip with a group of friends and, Taylor says, everything seemed normal. They made it to Colorado on a Friday night and people started arriving.

The group played games and chatted. Taylor thought to herself this would be a perfect time for her fiance to propose.

Everyone was getting ready for bed and he gave her a ring shaped box. He opened it to reveal a beautiful diamond necklace.

Taylor says she was a little disappointed but she still loved the necklace. He explained to her that he had wanted to get her a ring but it wasn’t financially possible right now. They had just bought a house and a new car the previous month. He said, though, it would be soon.

The next day while exploring a new mountain the group decided to go to the top of the highest peak. One in the group was starting to take a photo of everyone when Taylor noticed her boyfriend down on one knee with his snowboard.. He popped the question — one she totally did not expect considering his words a day earlier. It turns out the necklace was just a diversion so that Taylor would be really surprised, and she was.

“I did what any snow bunny would do and made snow angels,” she said.

Sami’s proposal story

She and Aaron had been dating for about three years when they went on a Caribbean cruise with some friends who were married. They had talked about getting married and Sami suspected the proposal might happen on the trip since he had promised her it was going to be a very special trip.

They stopped at the Cayman Islands and drove to a beach. Their friends were ahead of them and they had drawn a heart in the sand in front of a pretty tree. The friends suggested they take photos there. While they posed for the photo, Aaron pulled out a ring and got down on one knee in the sand. Tears were shed.

About 10 minutes later, it started to rain. The group went back to the dock to on a ferry that would take them back to their ship. The small ferry was pelted by rain and the water got really choppy. Sami was afraid it would capsize. The ferry eventually turned around and the group had to wait two hours for the storm to pass to try again.

“Needless to say it was one of the happiest and also the scariest days of my life,” Sami says.

Seraea’s proposal story

Seraea’s boyfriend used a blindfold to throw her off during his proposal.

One night he said he wanted to show her something but she had to be blindfolded. He drove all over Lincoln trying to throw her off. Finally he stopped and they got out and she started walking. He asked her to stop. After a time she was worried he had left her there because he wasn’t talking. He finally laughed and told her to take off the blindfold.

They were at Pinewood Bowl, where they had their first date. He was on one knee with a ring.

Sydney’s proposal story

Sydney always talked about being engaged on a mountain top. Her boyfriend Justin figured she wouldn’t have been surprised if he simply suggested they take a trip to the mountains. Sydney suggested using a gift card they had to James Arthur Vineyards, and Justin thought that would be the place to propose.

They drove to the vineyard and near the entrance was a big hill with a scenic overlook. “Sydney’s mountain!” Justin thought to himself.

They walked to the top of the hill and made it to a beautiful gazebo but Justin’s plans were thwarted by a group of drunk girls who were there. So they walked about 100 yards to the left and found the view at the top of the hill was a good one. The sun was shining and there was a slight breeze in the air.

Justin proposed and the drunk girls noticed. Fortunately, they took off and the couple made it to the gazebo, where they shared some special moments. The proposal was a perfect ending to a perfect engagement.