Chris & Mel

NSW, Castle Hill

I knew Chris had the ring and I was getting a little annoyed that he hadn’t proposed yet. The day before he proposed he had rung to ’remind’ me that we had made plans to go see a movie with my sister and her partner on the following night. A little annoyed as I didnt remember this conversation and another day without a proposal I figured I could at least wait until Saturday. On the Friday evening we arrived at my sisters (Kristys) place and the place was quite dim. While she was fixing something up in the kitchen she asked if I could pull the blinds up that led to the courtyard to bring some light in as she was busy. As I started drawing the blinds to the courtyard, a string quartet started playing one of our favourite songs (Dont stop believing, by Journey) The music was the most magical thing I had ever heard. Chris got down on one knee and asked me to be his wife. I said yes and all my close friends and family were hiding upstairs and screamed ’surprise’ after I had said yes. Chris picked it to a tee. He knew it would be something that I would love to celebrate with the my close family and friends and it was great to have them there on our special day. Chris also organised for my cousin to film the whole event so I get to watch it over and over again.

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Leann Loo

Queensland, Runcorn

During my trip back to Launceston for friends visitation, he has quietly arranged for a surprised proposal at the place where our memories formed. On the 5th day of my trip in Launceston, I was invited by a friend to a restaurant where he and I celebrated for our first anniversary – Springwater Restaurant. As I stepped into the restaurant, I was brought to a table at a quiet corner next to the window, where I found a black box. As I opened the box, I saw the most wonderful hand-made album that took my breath away. It was filled with the photos of our memories in Tasmania with loving and touching words that brought tears of joy to my face. As I turned to the middle of the book, my favourite song, L-O-V-E, was in the air. As I turned back, there I saw my prince charming, the lover of my soul, Joel, standing there with a bunch of roses and a ring in his hand. As I turned to the last page of the album and saw the words ’Will you marry me?’, he was already on his knee handling me the favourite Tiffany diamond ring. With much tears on my face, I accepted his expression of love firmly. On that night we celebrated our engagement with our closest friends in Launceston with a sumptuous dinner and a champagne toast at Dynasty Restaurant. It was a holiday that we will never forget!

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Nathan & Samantha

NSW, Blacktown

I have been engaged to my partner for over a year now and we are getting married in September this year. It was my 21st birthday party I had it at a local club. My other half had me convinced he was buying me a car for my birthday because of the secretiveness that was going on. Later in the night I had forgotten about it all. It came to cutting my cake and speeches after they were said and done i noticed Nathan out of the corner of my eye walking towards me. In his hand he had a little mud cake with "will you marry me" written on it with a little red rose and the ring sitting on top of the rose. He got down on one knee in front of about 120 people and asked me. I was blown away that was the most sweetest and fairytale way I could ever imagine being asked. After it was said and done a friend asked what made him think of a cake? he replied "well I figured if she didn’t say yes and made me look like a fool, she was going to wear it" haha yes that is the sort of humour he has.

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Carly Odlum

Western Australia, Thornlie

We were staying at the Hyatt for the weekend with his family. We had all decided we were going to go to dinner on the Saturday night and were trying to decide where. His mum asked him what time his booking was "for that thing". When I asked what thing he said he’d booked for us to go on the Ferris Wheel. I thought it was strange that the others knew about it and he hadn’t told me, but then I thought nothing more of it. Saturday night came around and everyone decided they didn’t want to go. It went from 6 people, down to just us 2. I asked him how much it cost and he vaguely answered "oh $15 per person I think…" When we got to the Ferris Wheel he said he had the booking and the girl said "oh yes, the VIP cabin" I looked at the pricing chart and instead of the $15 per person,he had booked the $119 VIP cabin. I asked him what made him book the VIP cabin and he said "Oh it’s brand new and it’s our first time on here, I thought we’d do it right!" So again I thought nothing more of it. When we were up at the top I told him to turn around and look at the Bell Tower and he told me to turn around and look at the river because it looked so beautiful. I insisted he look at the Bell Tower, but he insisted I look at the river, so I reluctantly agreed and turned around. I was sitting there looking out at the river thinking "it’s pitch black…what can he see that I can’t?" and then I heard him say my name. I turned around and he was down on one knee with this gorgeous wooden ring box in his hand. He said "I’m asking for your hand in marriage." then he opened the box to show this stunning triple diamond engagement ring, and he asked "will you marry me?" I of course said yes and then asked him if I had to put the ring on myself, he laughed and took it out of the box and put it on my finger. He kept asking me if I liked it, and I insisted I love it. The next morning he asked me again if I liked it and I again told him I love it, and he said "good, because it’s even more special, it was nanna’s ring." I teared up then. His nanna had told his mum over 12 months ago that she wanted him to give me her ring. His mum didn’t tell him. His nanna passed away 6 months ago. When Scott told his mum he was thinking of proposing to me, she told him about Nanna’s ring. Even though his nanna can’t be here to give her blessing, she gave it long ago, which means so much to me. I love that I have her ring.

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Chantelle & Amir

Victoria, Dandenong North

Me and amir have been talking for years, we chatted on the net for around 3 years, I was never really interested in him in a romantic way, I just saw him as a really good friend who listened and cared for everything I said or my thoughts, we soon began talking more and I started to learn more about him. One night he called me giggling and being shy, i was quite shy myself but i soon came around. After a really bad day at work I needed some cheering up so I went online and asked him to come meet up with me (Ive known him 3 years, it was about time lol). I was scared about my appearance, as im not the skinniest girl you will meet. When I met up with him, I can say cupid hit me in the butt, he was so charming, innocent (smelt like he had smashed a whole bottle of perfume on himself). He took me to Brighton beach where we sat in darkness just with the twinkles of stars in sight, he talked to me about his family and where he’s from and what he wants from life. We hit it off. I remember placing my head on his chest to rest and listening to his heart going "duddddd dudddd uddd" really fast. I looked up at him and he placed his lips on mine. That’s where we had our first kiss. I will never forget it. Since that day we have pretty much been inseparable, always together, always loving each other He went overseas to be with his family for 2 months as his dad was quite sick, unfortunately his dad passed away and it hurt me that I couldn’t be there to comfort him. After 2 months of being overseas he finally came home. I was at Tullamarine airport at 4am, tired waiting, people started to come out but no Amir. I was thinking "oh my god, maybe hes not coming back" then all of a sudden those doors open. I ran and jumped into his arms and kept cuddling and kissing him for around 3 hrs. On the drive home all I could do was smile we decided to move in with each other the following April. It was awesome. My own privacy my own space. I was being responsible, after our first meal together amir kinda giggled at me and said, Chantelle will you marry me, under his breath, (hes always shy). I was like what!?!??! I said your out of your mind, a couple of weeks later we were celebrating our anniversary on how long we have been together and he offered to get me a coffee (those horrible polystyrene ones) after having the drink I noticed it was quite heavy. I had thoughts in my head like oooOOOOooo there has to be a ring in here!!! arghhh what do i do??, Anyways it turned out to be a 10C coin. Very funny. We were out and about around a couple months after and he told me he has talked to my dad and asked for permission. He then said "Chantelle will you marry me?" I said YESSSSS!!!! he gave me a promise ring that day. It has evolved into an engagement ring, all the family are thrilled and I cant wait to be his wife in October

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Adam Schwarz and Hayley Hoffie

Queensland, Redbank Plains

In August 2004, Adam and I had been together for 8 months. A couple of friends of ours were in a band "Fallen Isis" and were playing in a pub in front of a hundred people, all their friends and family (however we only knew them!). After the band finished their playing, Adam got up on the stage and grabbed the microphone and said very quickly (obviously very nervous)"ladies and gentlemen can I please have your attention" he called me over with shaking hands, got down on one knee, in-front of a hundred people that we didn’t know, said "Hayley, I have loved from the day we first met and I would like to know….will you marry me?" I was 16 at the time and was about to faint myself, I replied very quietly "yes". No-body even knew that I had said yes until Adam jumped up, hugged me very tightly, spun me around and then kissed me!!! Then the manager in the pub walked over and told Adam that he could have all the free drinks he wanted for doing such a romantic thing…but Adam had to drive home, ha, ha, ha! And now almost 5 years later, we are getting married!!! I love him so much and I couldn’t possibly imagine spending my life with anyone else in the world. We have gone through so much together…cancer, 2 car crashes, finding out that we can’t have kids, it’s only right that we should get married… I guess you’d call it fate!

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Stephanie Schembri & Iain McConnell

NSW, Baulkham Hills

Iain had advised me a week before hand that we were going to go for a picnic, on the Friday afternoon to Watch our friend sail his boat in the city harbour. On the Friday Iain had picked me and our daughter Annabelle up from home after going to the local fish shop to get fresh prawns and Oysters. On driving to the location I kept asking Iain if he was up to something, he kind of giggled but said no…. I knew Iain was going out in two weeks to the Snoop Concert and thought that he was buttering me up to tell me he would spend the whole night out, or come home very drunk. When we got to the place at Valclaus I followed Iain down a path, I kept asking him if he wanted a hand to carry anything as we had our 10 week old Daughter with us, he said no. The view was amazing of the Harbour Bridge and of the water at Sunset with Sail boats. We were eating the seafood when Iain said he had bread rolls to and if I wanted butter for my roll (my first thought was fresh raw seafood with bread rolls, that is weird what am I to do put a raw oyster on the roll ) I said yes, so when Iain passed me the butter and I opened the lid, I didn’t find butter at all but a box, Iain proposed to me and I couldn’t answer him straight away cause I was crying…..Obviously I said yes. The Funny thing about the spot where Iain proposed to me was, he had told me about 6 months into our relationship that he would take me to his most special place in the whole world to ask me to marry him, I hadn’t even put two and two together when he proposed.

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Kristy and Bradley

Western Australia, Morley

I have been with my fiance for over 7 and a half years and for the last 4 years we have been living in London. Majority of our friends and family were constantly asking when we would be getting married and Brad was getting harassed by his family constantly asking him when he would propose to me. So we decided to finally head back to Perth after nearly 4 years of living in London and we booked a holiday on the way home to go through America. First stop was New York. Little did I know that Brad had a ring. We went to the top of the Empire State Building (he went up with the ring in his pocket( but when we got to the top it was pouring with rain so he decided, I wont propose here. Next stop after New York was Miami which was great seeing Miami Dolphins play and going to the Everglades. Then we went to Vegas where we had organized a tour to take us to the Grand Canyon. The tour involved getting a little cesna 10 seater plane to fly to the grand canyon. I was hung over after going clubbing the night before with a friend. The plane ride was nerve racking as there was cross winds and lots of turbulence and I thought I would be sick. We arrived at the canyon and it was beautiful up there. We did a tour around the south rim and had lunch at a reservation there. We then went for a walk around the area and he insisted we walk up to the top of a small rocky outcrop. I was tired by now and slightly cold as the wind was quite high here. But he insisted and we went to the top and sat down and enjoyed the tranquility of looking over the vastness of the canyon and seeing eagles flying around. When there was no one around, Brad asked me to sit at a different area of the rocks saying that there was no wind there. Which I did and he pointed at something on the horizon and told me to look. Which I did. He then got down on 1 knee and asked me to be his wife. I just about cried. I was so surprised and excited. And the ring was beautiful. He had chosen the diamond and had the ring created. He slipped it on my finger and it fit just perfectly (he had figured out my ring size one day when we were trying each others rings on). It was such a high to my day that I didn’t care about how rough the plane ride back would be. I was on a high. Plus I would never call him unromantic again and he put so much thought into it and surprised me. Now we are planning the wedding!!

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Jordana & Rob

ACT, Canberra

Rob and I have both been married previously and have 2 children each. We get to go out alone every second weekend if we have the money which is not all that often. Rob and I had talked about marriage a bit and I knew he planned on asking me but he kept telling me he wanted to do it properly (my last proposal was "there’s a sale on. Want to get a ring?"). My 30th birthday was coming up and I knew Rob planned to take me out to dinner. We’d been looking at rings for both Rob and myself so I secretly went back to the shop and bought the ring that Rob liked. We went to dinner to celebrate my birthday at a really nice restaurant with wonderful food, wine and service (First Floor in Canberra is fantastic!) I can’t remember exactly when but during a wait in the courses Rob asked me to be his wife and produced the ring that I loved. Of course I said yes! I then surprised him and gave him his ring. Now we have 2 years to save the money so we can have the wedding of our dreams (which is surprisingly similar).

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Megan Plunkett and Ashleigh Williams

South Australia, Adelaide

It was our 5 year anniversary coming up and I thought we were going away to Glenelg for the night. Ash said he organized it all so i didn’t have to worry about it. Little did I know he was actually planning something much bigger then just a night away. He woke me up the morning before we were set to go away on told me that we weren’t going to Glenelg but instead a trip interstate. He wouldn’t tell me where, just told me to pack a suit case for 4 nights! He didn’t tell me where we were going until we got to the airport that day. We were going to Hamilton Island! We went to a nice seafood restaurant on the night of our anniversary and had a beautiful dinner. When we were finished he suggested a walk along the beach and I agreed. while we were walking he stopped and asked me for a hug and of course i gave him one! He then asked me "Am I having a good night?". I replied with a "yes" and then he said "well I think its about to get even better". He then got down on one knee and asked me to marry him! I immediately said "YES!" It was so romantic, on a beautiful beach under the moonlight!

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