I think just making it special between the two of you and personalized to your relationship, whether that's a place that's special to you or a day that's special to you, whatever that might be, just do something that is for the both of you, not for the theatrics of it or for the show of it, but just something that's for the both of you.
So my husband proposed to me at a magic show and I had no idea. During the show he had an envelope and he says I will open this at the end and he opened it at the end and he asked somebody to come up front and it happened to be my husband-to-be and he was reading this note about what happened throughout the evening and at the very end they said and this one that's helping named Linda and it wasn't it was my boyfriend and so they had me come up and then during the whole thing he got down on his knee and proposed to me in front of everybody and it was like just really amazing because the magic tricks were just had me enthralled and I was like totally and having fun time with him with this amazing date and did not expect that he would propose to me at the magic show. For like two weeks before the date he gave me an envelope pretty much every day I know it was every other day and in the envelope had of course a coding that I had to decipher and I had to go find that place which had a note and basically it was like where we had our first kiss, where we went geocaching, just all the different things that we had done together and our dating and I had to go find not all of them but most of them and then the last one basically was a really hard code to figure out because I had to go to the computer and I had to flip it I mean it was really difficult please don't do difficult it's like so hard but it was fun and we had a really great time trying to figure out where our date was and where we were going to go.
I thought I'd describe how my husband proposed to me. So we had met at a football game during the fall semester, obviously. So when we decided to get married, he actually had called somebody he knew and got us into the stadium, even though it was the middle of winter. And he lined up pictures all the way through the stadium and took us to the place where we had first met at that football game. And that's how he proposed. And he just had a little setup with flowers and some of the pictures of us dating. And that was definitely a super creative and very unique way to propose. I've also seen someone else do something involved with BYU and that was hiking Y Mountain. And there's lots of different ways to creatively propose. But I think if you do anything that involves a little bit about you and your story, that makes it even more fun and creative.
So I'm just going to describe how I got proposed to, but basically he did like this whole scavenger hunt. So each place like had a clue and it went back to another place that we had been on dates. So it was just a bunch of dates that we've been on, like we've gone to the gym together, like we went to fish kiss, like swimming we go to all the time. And then it all led back to where we first started, where our first date was. But it was it was so cool because he was able to include like so many people in on it, like that were big parts of my life. Like my school was in on it, so all my instructors, like my best friend was the one driving me around. So yeah.
Disneyland and not doing it in front of the castle like everyone does but do it in front of like the Tower of Terror or something when it's dropping so all the people are screaming and then it's like they're screaming for you.
I don't know about being super creative, but I know something that is a very romantic proposal idea. I'm married and my husband proposed to me and going to the place that we first kissed, but he did it in a scavenger hunt, I guess you would say, with giving me hints and clues to things that were important to me. So it was kind of a little tease because I knew he was going to propose to me, but at the same time I didn't know when he was going to propose to me. So you can just have fun with it and have a little game with it, but also have it being romantic.
Okay, so a great proposal idea that I did a year ago, actually on a cruise ship, was I got in the big theater room of like 300 people and there was a big show. I talked to the marketing director and he had everything all planned for me. He actually had a fake ID for me and said, I found your ID on the boat, come get it. And then got me up on stage and he's like, are you here with anybody? Well, yeah, my girlfriend. And he's like, oh, why don't you come on down? And then when she came down on the stage, he gave me the microphone and I got down on one knee and proposed. And it was actually pretty cool. Turns out the wedding didn't work out, but it was a good proposal.
So what my husband did is he distracted me all day um and tried to steer the idea that he was gonna propose that day like away and for the most part it worked. I had a little bit of a suspicion but for the most part he did a really good job at um keeping it under the radar. Um but we went back to my house and in my backyard um my best friend had helped him and got pictures of us on like these um stands and then like these like uh artificial candles that were just kind of like lined up. It was kind of like a walkway up to part of my backyard and he had a slideshow video with one of my favorite songs in the background and then he proposed and it was super cute. It just it had a lot of thought to it. It wasn't like huge or glamorous but I honestly like the um how simple well like I wouldn't say simple but how just like I don't know just how authentic it was so I don't know that was just a really cute idea.
The thing that I did when I proposed to my husband, because we both proposed to each other, one of the things that I did is I took out, I took a book, made it into a book box, the back of it, and then I put some pages in with different pictures of our relationship and made like little comments myself, and then wrote a whole bunch of love letters throughout our relationship, put them in envelopes, put them in the back, and so when you open the box you see the envelopes full of love letters. Whenever you take those love letters out there was a a ring box and the writing, Will You Marry Me?
I think the most creative proposal ideas are just the most sincere ones. The less you have to do, the better. I think it's more just about the words you have to say and less about the whole shebang of it all. I feel like in the culture that we live in, it has to be this big, grandiose production sometimes, it feels like. But when my husband proposed to me, it was just me and him, and that was it, and it was awesome and perfect. And so, yeah, that's kind of what I prefer.
I think a creative proposal is something that's very like significant to the relationship. I guess like it should show that they they really know each other. I know a girl who like her thing is running like she runs marathons and her now husband proposed to her by they went on like an early morning run on the beach and he proposed to her at like six in the morning and they had the cutest selfie together with the sun rising and it was just cute because like he knew her he knew she loves to run so I think like things like that where you can just like tell that they know each other so well and know each other's interests I think any like thing like that is a good proposal.
The best way to propose to someone is open your mouth and say, do you want to marry me? The end. That's it. That's all it takes.
My fiancé did my proposal very intimate and very personal and I really loved it. We went to the temple that morning and then he came home and he... Breakfast is one of my favorite meals and so he brought me back to his place and we made breakfast. And when I opened the door, sorry, before that, when I opened the door, he had a big sign saying, Marry me. And there was breakfast food already prepared on the table and he had dark chocolate, covered strawberries and he had mangoes, which I really love mangoes. And so really, I think you can get as creative as you want as long as you know what your partner wants and how much, what brings them joy, like the little things like mangoes. It's such a little thing, but like I love mangoes or dark chocolate. I love dark chocolate. And so just get to know your partner, get to know what those little details are and a little goes a long way and it'll make a big difference.
I wrote my wife a song. I wrote her a song on the guitar, like You Are My Sunshine, just three extra verses to that song that had to do more for her. And then when I was going to propose that day, I told her, I'm like, hey, I have this guitar extra credit. I just needed to play in an outdoor setting. Can you record me doing that? And she's like, yeah, I can help you. And so we went to the park. My friend was hiding behind Memorial thing with his camera. So I sang her the song and I ended with, I love you. And then put my phone, put my guitar away. And she was like, oh, that was so nice. And I turn around and I had the ring in my case. And so I proposed that way. And my friend got it. It was sundown. It was good.
One proposal idea that I've seen a lot of people do, but like it's also not talked about a ton, is where you do a little scavenger hunt and you start off where you guys first met and go through your relationship in like areas where something big happened, your first kiss, and then it ends out and you can end it with like a mystery where it's like and where our next big location will be and then you take her there and then that's where you propose. But yeah.
The way that I proposed to my fiancé was, we went driving up through Purple Canyon and beforehand I had some of my friends hiding out in the spot where I proposed to her. They had a speaker kind of hidden in the grass and they were all kind of hiding, laying low. So my fiancé and I, we just went for a drive up Purple Canyon, just pulled off a pullout just to be able to see Bridalveil Falls. We did it in the winter when it was kind of getting dark, so it was right at like this. Like right at sunset hour, so it was kind of dark, but not too much that you couldn't see the falls. And we turned on the headlights so we could see them better and got out of the car just to look at them. And then as we started walking back to the car, I had one of my friends play Perfect by Ed Sheeran and we just danced in front of the headlights and then I proposed to her there in the dark in front of the headlights.