Whether the proposal is totally spontaneous or planned with military precision, something you expected or have been waiting for, or a total surprise. The moment somebody asks you to marry then  will be something that you remember for the rest of your life. A memory to pass on to your children.
The idea of getting married seems to evolve rather than follow the old traditional proposal. While the formal question of ‘Will you marry me?’ can appear to direct to some people.  When Bruce Willis proposed to Demi Moore he is supposed to have just say “We could get married” . While President Clinton said to Hilary on day when collecting her from the airport “I bought that house you like, so you better marry me because I can’t live in it by myself”.

However you are asked it will be unique and individual to you.  Although some can be less romantic than others, there is a story of a Scotsman who took his girlfriend for a walk in the local graveyard and stopping at his family plot asked her “How would you like lying there?” .
As much thought can go into where the proposal happens as how you are going to be asked. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed to Maria Shriver whilst rowing across an Austrian lake. Whilst politician Tony Benn asked his wife Caroline to marry him on a park bench in Oxford, which they later bought and placed in their garden as a memento.
It is becoming very popular for women to take advantage of the their one chance in 1,461 days to propose on February the 29th. A custom supposedly started by Mary Queen of Scots who in 1288 introduced a law that if a man refused he would be fined £100.
Research shows that that the majority of women want to be proposed to over a candlelight dinner. And although 40% of people say that they expected it, alot of proposers do their best to shock with their proposal.

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