50 Ways to
Pop the Question
It`s no good
planning a
wedding if you
haven`t even
popped the big
question yet.
Here are 50 of
the best ways to
let that special
person know that
you want to
marry her/him.
Then you will
really have a
story to tell to
family and
friends.
1. Do it the old
fashioned way.
Get down on one
knee with a rose
clenched in your
teeth and the
ring in your
hand just before
you are about to
eat dessert in a
busy restaurant.
2. Have a waiter
bring you a
small cake with
the ring inside
of it. (Be
careful that she
doesn`t swallow
it).
3. Take her/him
to the theatre
and ask the
stage manager if
he will ask
her/him to marry
you after the
final curtain.
This is the
perfect ending
to a perfect
evening.
4. Turn up at
her/his office
in the middle of
the afternoon
armed with a red
rose, a bottle
of champagne and
a glass with the
ring in it.
5. Write will
you marry me ---
her/his name in
chalk on the
street out side
your apartment
in big enough
letters so that
she/he will
notice it.
6. Phone up your
local radio
station and get
them to pop the
question for you
over the air
waves at a time
that you know
she/he will be
listening. Then
dedicate a song
to her/him.
7. Gather all
your friends and
family around
for drinks and
pop the question
then.
8. Gather
friends and
family outside
your his/her
home waving
banners with the
words will you
marry me on
them. (Make sure
that they get
the right
house).
9. Send a
singing telegram
to her/his
workplace
singing your
love and urge to
marry her/him.
Then walk in
just after he
popped the
question.
10. Create a web
page all about
your life
together.
Photos, places
that mean a lot
to you etc..
Announce your
love by
proposing, send
him the web
address and wait
for his/her
reply and when
accepted you can
then send the
address to
friends and
family.
11. Wrap a large
box and fill
with smaller
boxes all
wrapped the last
box that she
will come to
will be the
smallest with
the ring inside.
Or alternatively
wrap a large box
and fill with
those tiny foam
pieces and let
her look for the
small box
inside.
12. Cut the
bottom out of a
very large box
then wrap it.
Take it to her
place of work
and ask one of
her colleague's
to go get her
telling her that
there is a large
parcel for her.
Meanwhile you
climb in from
the bottom and
when she unwraps
it jump out with
the ring in hand
and ask her to
make an honest
man of you.
13. Take her/him
away for the
weekend and when
you are on your
last day pop the
question.
14. Get up extra
early and
prepare her/him
breakfast in
bed. Cook
his/her
favourite meal
with a red rose
and a bottle of
champagne a kiss
to wake him/her
and then declare
your love.
15. Scatter rose
petals all over
her bed and wrap
the ring and
tell her that
you have gotten
her a gift to
show how much
you love her and
when she opens
it tell her that
you want to
spend the rest
of your life
with her.
16. Cook your
loved one a
romantic meal
and place a note
around a candle
asking her/him
to marry you
then get her/him
to read it.
17. Give your
girlfriend a
foot massage and
place the ring
on her little
toe.
18. Phone your
loved one at
work and get
them to meet you
at the place
where you first
met each other.
Take a long a
bottle of
champagne and
two glasses then
do the deed.
19. Bake him a
cake and write
on top of it
Will you marry
me?
20. Take out a
full page ad in
a paper that you
know your loved
one reads
regularly and be
close by when
he/she reads it.
21. Buy your
loved one a
watch and have
it inscribed
"marry me."
22. Pour her a
glass of wine
with the ring in
the bottom of it
and when she
says yes get out
the champas.
23. Go for a
picnic together
then pop the
question.
24. Propose at
Christmas by
hanging the ring
from the top of
the tree instead
of a star or a
fairy.
25. If you're
dining in a
fancy
restaurant, ask
the
waiter/waitress
to write, "Will
you marry me?"
in chocolate
sauce around the
rim of his/her
dessert plate.
26. Run her a
bath with
scented candles,
rose petals and
rubber duck with
the ring tied
around it`s
neck.
27. Serve her
oysters in bed
with the ring
inside the
shell.
28. Write a note
asking your
other to marry
you, place it
inside a bottle.
Take her/him to
the beach when
he/she is in the
water slip the
bottle in and
ask them to open
it to see what
it says.
29. Spell your
proposal out in
glow-in-the-dark
star stickers on
your ceiling.
Climb on top of
him/her and wait
for the yes,
yes, yes.
30. Leave a
trail of notes
fro your partner
to follow and
when he/she
reaches the end
you will be
standing there
naked with a bow
wrapped around
you with the
words "Will you
marry me?" on.
31. Scratch your
proposal into
the frost on his
or her car's
windshield.
32. Take your
partner to the
beach and write
"Will you marry
me?" in big
letters in the
sand.
33. Take him/her
on a sail boat
up a river and
pop the
question.
34. Leave the
ring on her
pillow a long
with a note and
go to work. She
will probably
get there before
you do waiting
with arms out
stretched.
35. Take her/him
up in a hot air
balloon with a
bottle of
champagne and
announce that`ll
you`ll jump if
she/he doesn`t
marry you.
36. Take her/him
to see his/her
favourite band
and ask one of
the stage crew
if they will pop
the question for
you.
37. Plan a
treasure hunt.
Set the clues in
place and when
he/she gets to
the last clue
you will be
standing there
with champagne
and a proposal
they can`t
refuse.
38. Hire a
skywriter to
spell your
proposal on
high.
39. Hire a plane
to fly a banner
with your "Marry
me (insert name
here)" message
written on it.
Take him/her
somewhere open
and point to the
sky.
40. Sneak in to
her home and
fill it to the
rafters with
flowers and in
the middle sit a
teddybear
holding the ring
and a note
asking her to
marry you.
41. Propose in
French the
language of
love.
42. Play Hangman
and have the
phrase be "Marry
Me."
43. Throw
her/him a
suprise party
inviting friends
and family and
then propose.
44. Send her/him
4 balloons with
the words "Will
you marry me?"
written on them.
45. Write
her/him a story
about your
relationship.
Almost like a
diary with dates
if possible.
Then end it with
the date you are
going to give it
to him/her
telling how you
proposed and
that the story
can`t be ended
until you have
the answer.
46. If it`s
snowing write
"Will you marry
me?" in it.
47. If you are
brave enough get
a tattoo done
with "Will you
marry me?" but
only if you are
sure that he/she
is the right one
and once he/she
has accepted
finish it off
with the date of
your engagement
and marriage.
48. Take him to
see his
favourite
football team
playing and get
the commentator
to ask him to
marry you.
49. Ask him/her
to marry you by
writing it on
the bathroom
mirror.
50. For the last
one send your
loved one a
coffin (hehehe)
only joking...
