Marriage proposals

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Why the heck do girls want it to be super gaudy and extravagant and sh*t???  Why can't it be normal?  My proposal is gonna be super nonchalant.  Kinda like this.

Me:  Got the mail

her:  thanks yo

Me:  how was work?

Her: meh, how was your day?

Me;  decent...

Both of us:...

Me:  oh by the way do you wanna get married?  I got the papers filled out on the table you just gotta sign it and I'll give it to the place where you get married Tuesday morning.

Her:  yeah sure let me finish typing up this email

[j_menz]

You're being marginally less romantic than a drunken Las Vegas drive through. 

BTW, it hasn't gone unnoticed that she has "work" and you have a "day". 

[chopinlover01]

In my very limited experience (which probably doesn't count for much, since most of my female interactions have been hormone hyped attention seeking drama queens), women tend to want the romantic side, even if it's just something as simple as flowers or perhaps a hot bath and a glass of champagne.
Just my guess?
Oh, and this sounds like it would lead to eventual disaster..
"she has "work" and you have a "day"."

[j_menz]

Oh, and this sounds like it would lead to eventual disaster..
"she has "work" and you have a "day"."

Exempla contra - HM QEII and HRH PtD, DofE

[ahinton]

HRH PtD

Shouldn't that be "PtG" - i.e. Phil the Greek?

Best,

Alistair

[j_menz]

Shouldn't that be "PtG" - i.e. Phil the Greek?

Best,

Alistair

Here we prefer "Dill" as being better rhyming and less controversial amongst our largish Greek immigrant population.

[timothy42b]

women tend to want the romantic side, even if it's just something as simple as flowers or perhaps a hot bath and a glass of champagne.

They do, and it takes an amazingly small amount of effort to give it to them, and that keeps them happy. 

But guys don't get it. 

[quantum]

Me:  oh by the way do you wanna get married?  I got the papers filled out on the table you just gotta sign it and I'll give it to the place where you get married Tuesday morning.

They do, and it takes an amazingly small amount of effort to give it to them, and that keeps them happy. 

So can r4 duck tape a flower to the pen?  Is that romantic enough?   

[ted]

I am much more of a romantic than my wife, who rarely remembers anniversaries of any sort. Trust me to be contrary as usual. I did, in fact, write a formal proposal letter, because her family and culture liked it, but over four years of correspondence we had discussed marriage many times and thrashed out every pragmatic aspect we could think of. As we had no money back then, our wedding comprised a visit to the registry office with my parents as witnesses, followed by fish and chips. Dad said he'd be buggered if he'd see his only son married without a drink so we all had a few whiskies.

Profoundly romantic, however, it certainly was. I think there is a tendency these days to confuse the truly romantic with large scale spending and grandiloquent gesture. This connection persists despite the interminable and sad examples of the rich and famous we read about every day. Real romance does exist, in the mind, and deeply so, but requires no concomitant external display to prove its worth.

[chopinlover01]

I think there is a tendency these days to confuse the truly romantic with large scale spending and grandiloquent gesture . . .  Real romance does exist, in the mind, and deeply so, but requires no concomitant external display to prove its worth.

Two very insightful remarks.

[8_octaves]

Hello,

subjectively I must say the following:

Unfortunately, I'm not romantic at all. I'm offish, scientific, dry. Most women dislike me, because they are romantic, sometimes!

As an example: If I want to marry one, I only donate a printed picture of this to her / them:

, under which the text "marry me? y / n" is printed, so she can select and cross out the option which she does (not) want. 

(Of course there's place for later discussion between them and me, because of course I'll leave it unclear to her (and to myself), whether the NOT CROSSED or the CROSSED option will be the relevant assertion,  and... hmm..while writing this, I show unromanticism, again, so I won't continue..! )

I have described this characteristic feature of mine on other places, too, but some of the women and girls there said, that I only fibbed,  and that I''d be very romantic! But I couldn't believe in their words at all! 

Very cordially, 8_octaves!