Too bad she didn't see it beforehand. She could've gone out and spelled "NO" right in the middle of it with Round-Up.

Oh, wow, another "special proposal" story. What a bunch of shiat.

what a load of ...

Relatively Obscure: What a bunch of shiat.

...goddamnitsomuch....

That poor guy. He needs to know that women want to stop having sex after they are married, unless of course it's with one of your buddies.

Ron T Davenport: Seems like a lot of trouble and expense to go through just for an impending divorce after you come home from work one day to her telling you she's fallen in love with Larry from payroll.

He prefers "Lawrence."

I've done something similar. Our kitchen overlooks the backyard from the second story (we have a walk-out basement in the back), and one day I had some extra fertilizer from doing the front and side yards, so I made a big heart with the initials of my wife and I inside it in the back yard.

My wife was simultaneously touched, and pissed.

Came for Principal Skinner "MARRY ME PATTY", leaving satisfied.

I have a friend who's a farmer who did this with his hayfield, then took his wife up on a hill so that she could see it, and he popped the question then.

They still have the framed picture of the hayfield proposal hanging in their house. :-)

dittybopper: I've done something similar. Our kitchen overlooks the backyard from the second story (we have a walk-out basement in the back), and one day I had some extra fertilizer from doing the front and side yards, so I made a big heart with the initials of my wife and I inside it in the back yard.

My wife was simultaneously touched, and pissed.

Tell her it could be worse. At the high school I used to work out, some idiot teenagers burned the initials of their wannabe gang into our football field with some sort of herbicide. That shiat stayed dead and bare for months. My classroom looked out at the stadium, so every time I had to look at it I got pissed off all over again. I farking HATE vandalism.

I did something similar once.

I brought my girlfriend over to the window, bent down on one knee, handed her a small yet luxurious satin box, and asked her to look out the window of her flat.

In the grass outside I had chemically burned my message. It was "U cheating biatch." As she looked, I walked out the door and left, never to look back or return.

Inside the box, by the way, was one perfectly formed dog's egg.

What the...that was the most boring proposal story to make the news ever. It isn't clever or unique. Two of my friends have been proposed to this way (eco hippies, ugh).

So far nobody has topped my husband's proposal (as far as our circle of friends goes). In fact, people only asked me about the proposal for maybe a week after it happened and then were either insanely biatchy to their spouses because of it (married ones) or demanded their boyfriends do something better (for the single ones). It wasn't super creative, just romantic.

/Foggy beach morning in Key West on a private beach while combing for seashells on Valentine's Day
//Since we can't top that, our new Valentine's Day tradition is to do a crockpot recipe of some sort then stay in bed all day watching movies or tv shows

Ron T Davenport: dittybopper: I've done something similar. Our kitchen overlooks the backyard from the second story (we have a walk-out basement in the back), and one day I had some extra fertilizer from doing the front and side yards, so I made a big heart with the initials of my wife and I inside it in the back yard.

My wife was simultaneously touched, and pissed.

You sound whipped.

Meh. She puts up with *MOST* of my eccentricities, and I occasionally get some pussy. If that's whipped, I'll take it.

/Been together 18 years this month.
//Fifteenth wedding anniversary is in October.

BreezyWheeze:
wtf. Why even put that in the article? Just as well to write: "This money-grubbing coont immediately took it to a jeweler to have it appraised to find out how much her douchebag of a cretin boyfriend loved her". If you're that materialistic, marry someone other than a landscaper.

No, she might actually have been worried if he bought it a little too big or if its too small that she might lose it.

When I was looking for an engagement ring, I tried a few of my (now) wife's rings on my fingers. Turns out her ring finger was the same size as my pinky finger, so I could get the ring the correct size from the start and avoid the embarrassment of giving her a ring the incorrect size when proposing.

/Was it really almost 17 years ago that I proposed?

dittybopper: BreezyWheeze:
wtf. Why even put that in the article? Just as well to write: "This money-grubbing coont immediately took it to a jeweler to have it appraised to find out how much her douchebag of a cretin boyfriend loved her". If you're that materialistic, marry someone other than a landscaper.

No, she might actually have been worried if he bought it a little too big or if its too small that she might lose it.

When I was looking for an engagement ring, I tried a few of my (now) wife's rings on my fingers. Turns out her ring finger was the same size as my pinky finger, so I could get the ring the correct size from the start and avoid the embarrassment of giving her a ring the incorrect size when proposing.

/Was it really almost 17 years ago that I proposed?

Yeah, that is what I thought. I don't know how my husband got my ring size (I don't own any other rings that this one and my travel ring which I just got a week ago). At first I thought it was too big, but after a quick trip to the jeweler (and the $1800 price tag to get it resized) I decided to deal with it. I'm glad too because if I stay properly hydrated it fits great, but if I'm dehydrated it is a tad loose. If I would have had it resized I wouldn't have been able to wear it normally!