Marry Me, Okay?

The best proposals aren’t like what you see in the movies, but they come from the heart – hitches and glitches – and they’re perfect.

By EUGENE WEE

Tell someone that you’re engaged, and the question that follows will invariably be, “So how’d he do it?” If the proposal was the kind you’d dreamt of since you were a little girl, the story is likely to go on for several minutes. But if it was a crappy one, the story will likely last all of 10 seconds.

Good proposals would probably start off like this: “It was AMAZING! There I was on the beach waiting for him when he appeared on a white horse...”

Crappy proposals, however, would go something like this: “He called me into the bedroom, and then he just asked lor.”

The first one is made up. The second, unfortunately, is a true story.

But it’s not a bad proposal, if you approach it from a different perspective. I believe great marriage proposals are all about having a good story to tell after the ring goes on. Romance is all well and good. But there’s a reason why they are called fairy-tale proposals.

Forget what you see in the movies. As dreamy as they look on the silver screen, chances are yours will never turn out that way unless you’ve got a really good screenwriter.

Take a friend of mine, whose fiance chose to propose in a Japanese restaurant by getting the waiter to bring the ring in a soup bowl – a classic move. The ring came, she realised what was going on, and then he got down on bended knee.

And that’s as far as the fairy-tale part of the proposal went. Here’s what happened next: a girl who was eating with her boyfriend at the adjacent table squeals, “Eh, he’s going topropose. Just like in the movies!” On the other side, a student is heard asking her friends “Wah! He’s proposing. Must clap
or not?”

Romance just wasn’t in the air, so our heroine told our hero to take back the ring and try again another time.

 

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