The Top 5 Most Notorious Points of Proposal

What I do think is won­der­ful is the ele­ment of sur­prise. Every pro­posal has that: and while you might sus­pect he (or she) is hid­ing a marry me ring in a back pocket, you can only really guess when you’ll hear that very spe­cial question.

Or is there more to it? Can past pro­pos­als give us more than a lit­tle clue into where and when he’ll pop the ques­tion? Would you want to know, or be pre­pared just in case? Read on… and if you’ve got a hol­i­day booked, maybe there’s a clue in today’s fea­ture! Enjoy xxx

The Top 5 Most Noto­ri­ous Points of Proposal

wed­ding blog arti­cle by Richard Paul

Aside from the count­less dreams about the actual wed­ding, the dress and that first mar­ried kiss, the sec­ond most roman­tic moment of your life will be the pro­posal – when your other half gets down on that one knee, enthuses about how much they love you, opens up the box, sees that dia­mond glis­ten in your eyes and asks: ‘will you marry me?’

Or hope­fully it’ll go some­thing like that per­fect movie scene of a pro­posal and not instead see him belch­ing out the ques­tion after a take­away curry, but you’ll never know until it hap­pens if he’s played his cards right… and that’s all part of the romance. How­ever if he’s just pre­sent­ing you with tick­ets to one of the fol­low­ing cities, your heart can start beat­ing a lit­tle faster about the pos­si­bil­ity of it hap­pen­ing at a famous land­mark it is home to. Here are the top 5 points of proposal:

5. Venice, Italy – The Canals

If you’re not mar­ried or engaged yet and are sat on a Gon­dola across from your part­ner whilst float­ing along the Venet­ian canals, it would be hard not to think that he might be get­ting set to pop the big ques­tion. As long as you’re okay with the gon­do­lier being present whilst this extremely per­sonal moment is tak­ing place, then let’s hope you’ll be fly­ing off to Venice soon.

4. Lon­don, Eng­land – The Lon­don Eye

Now if you’re in the UK you won’t have very far to go for this one, but the Lon­don Eye is still stand­ing tall as one of the most pop­u­lar places for peo­ple to pro­pose. Maybe it’s the panoramic views across the whole of Lon­don or the chance to hire ‘Cupid’s Cap­sule’ – the only way to make it just you two, a bot­tle of cham­pagne and that ring.

3. New York, USA – Cen­tral Park

Yes, New York has its hot dog ven­dors and rick­ety rides on the sub­way but it can also be one of the most roman­tic places in the world. Espe­cially when rid­ing through its Cen­tral Park in a horse drawn car­riage at sun­set. This might sound like too much of a cliché, but it’s mag­i­cal for a rea­son. This or a stroll through it near Christ­mas time and there’s no way you can say no.

2. The Very Scene of your First Date

Now this breaks away from the rest, but if things were get­ting a lit­tle too cliché and pre­dictable for you, then this is one that is com­pletely per­sonal to you and your rela­tion­ship. If he remem­bered where your first date took place (and he really should) then this is a place that’ll just be yours. It could be a restau­rant, a cof­fee shop, even a lit­tle park you met in. What­ever it is, it’ll mean a lot.

1. Paris, France – The Eif­fel Tower

Where else could the num­ber one most noto­ri­ous place to pro­pose pos­si­bly be other than atop the Eif­fel Tower in Paris? The cen­tre­piece in the home of romance, it doesn’t really need any intro­duc­tion, just don’t be sur­prised if there’s about 5 other guys doing the same thing whilst you’re being pro­posed to. But once you’ve said yes, you can set off down the River Seine and get chat­ting about what mar­ried life will be like…

Writ­ten by Richard Paul for Hen Heaven, the peo­ple who can send you on hen week­ends abroad once you’ve been pro­posed to.