Rent a billboard and drive by it one afternoon while you're together. You can contact a large company such as EMC Outdoor that offers billboards throughout the US and Canada. You could also check the yellow pages for local billboard advertising.
Put your proposal up with the ads before a movie and take your sweetie early to see the show. You can contact your local theater for advertising information or contact a large theater such as Regal Cinemas for advertising information.
Sky write it. Contact a local skywriting company and plan to have them display your proposal on a clear afternoon while you're out. One idea... spend a Saturday afternoon at the beach (or a lake?) and arrange for the skywriting while you're there.
Have a plane fly a banner. Like the skywriting, you need to make sure you do this on a clear day. Plan a romantic outside date and they'll be pleasantly surprised when you ask what that banner says as the plane goes by. Your best bet in setting this up is to contact local companies to see if they or someone else provides this service. Arnold Aerial offers this service nationwide or check your local phone book for a local company.
Put an ad in the local paper. This is incredibly easy to do and very inexpensive. You can place a classified ad, such as 'Seeking single female/male named such-and-such to spend her/his life with me'. Or, you could up the ante and place a larger graphical ad with a picture of the two of you and your proposal. Contact your local paper for prices and details.
Have it displayed on the scoreboard at a ball game. This is a really cool way to propose, just make sure your girlfriend sees it! We've all seen the commercial where the guy proposes on the scoreboard and the girl misses it because she's eating a candy bar. If you want a memory, have a friend nearby to video the proposal and her response!
Paint your proposal on the roof then take her flying over it. You don't necessarily have to use paint, though it may be easiest to see from above. You could try using bricks to spell it out, chalk, or something else. Contact a local company that takes tourists in the air and ask them to fly you over it.
Do you live in a dorm or apartment building? Get neighbors to turn on/off lights to spell the words "Marry Me" and then take your beloved across the street for a surprise.
Take a charted hot air balloon ride for two with champagne. While up, have a chartered banner tow plane to do laps around the balloon with your marriage proposal message behind airplane. While sipping champagne, she'll be surprised when the plane comes by. Another idea would be a skywriting plane while you're up.
This idea involves a rather grand setup on a beach, but is well worth it. Choose a local beach site that is quiet and not that windy. Prepare a lot of candles (bulk candles in steel cases such as votives). Place the candles on the sand to create the words "Will you marry me" in very big letters. Light them up in the evening and have someone watch over them to make sure they don't burn out. Take your girl to the site "for a walk". She will be surprised to see the words glowing in the dark. Ask her to marry you in front of the grand scene and hopefully she will say "yes"!
Write 'Will you marry me?' in luminaries on a hilly road that you can drive up and see.
Take her out for a nice dinner and to a movie. In the middle of the movie, arrange for the staff to stop the movie and announce that they are having technical difficulties and it would be appreciated if everyone remained seated. Then, have them role a slide show of photos of you two together playing "your song." At the end of the slide show have a video clip of you talking and saying how much she means to you, etc. Next, ask her to marry you. When she turns around to look at you present her with the ring.
When you're at a place where horses are involved, such as a track, arrange to have 4 horses ride by with the words will you marry me on their saddle cloths. Each horse should have a different word printed on their saddle cloth. Alternatively, you can have 5 horses and have the 5th horse with the persons name printed on it.
Carve the words 'marry me' in a corn field, then fly her over it. Be sure you have permission first. :)
Make signs several signs with one word of the big question on each sign. Then, starting with one with your sweeties name on it, place them on his/her way home from work. When they get home, be waiting with your romantic plans for the evening.
Have a large banner made by BannerGram and surprise her with it over your garage when she arrives home.
If you'll be picking your sweetie up at the airport soon, give this one a try. Plan ahead to have friends and family at the airport with you waiting for her arrival. Create a large banner with the words "Will you marry me?" on it and have everyone holding it up with you at the 'me' end. Or, create several small banners with one letter on each spelling out "Will you marry me?" (again, with you holding the me?). When she arrives and sees her surprise, get down on one knee and propose.
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Alexa OKC
Posted at 6:47pm on Sunday, January 8th, 2012
I think we need to reinvent proposals, do the unexpected and make sure we get that yes! It all starts with knowing what the person you are about to propose to is all about, what their passions and favorite things are. But once you know that then what? I have just the way to propose (or even just incorporate this in your proposal), but I'm not just going to put that out to the world because it's never been done before. So if you want some free information (no strings attached, no spam) then send me a message with the subject "I want to propose" at uniqueproposal@rocketmail.com
Dylan Greenwood
Posted at 8:29pm on Monday, November 14th, 2011
I have thought of propose and I'm a country boy and like to fish. What I have thought about doing is taking my girlfriend fishing on the boat and then pay a diver to put a note on the end of the hook and then tug so she reels it in and it being a sweet note and she turns around and u ask her to marry you?
Emily Mercer Ohio
Posted at 7:47pm on Thursday, September 15th, 2011
I hate doing things traditional so I am planning on proposing to my boyfriend. This is my idea. Make dinner in sexy lingerie. Sit on pillows with candlelight in the middle of the floor on a table. Then blindfold him, take him into the bedroom. Do some sexual teasing, then whisper in his ear that I love him. Take off the blindfold then as im doing that get down on one knee and ask him to marry me. Sound like a good idea?
Anonymous Location unknown
Posted at 4:50am on Thursday, July 28th, 2011
if you live together then one day paint will you marry me in invisible ink on a plain wall or sheet covering the wall then later that night when she is asleep tie a cover over her eyes and pretend kidnap her into the other room where you tie her to the chair and when you take the blind fold off you are standing behind her with a torch that shows what the words say then turn her around and shine the torch on the ring :-)
Gabby Pollard Utah
Posted at 11:58pm on Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
hahah an even cuter way is to have your boyfriend take you to the zoo and be in front of the penguins and he says do you know penguins find there soul mate they stay with them forever? then the girls replies then she says will you be my penguin? Cute!!!(:
Phil Peterson Corona, CA
Posted at 1:16pm on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Here's a great idea!! The guy gets a motel room, and then he gets a hooker to join him there. Then he calls his girlfriend and asks her to join them. During the impending fun, he can ask the hooker to pull the ring out from her special place and hand it to the girlfriend...
My Name Over the Rainbow
Posted at 8:00pm on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
A good way is to take her to places that were milestones. (ie where you first met, first date, first kiss, etc.) Then at the end, take her to a random place, and when she wonders why the place was a milestone, propose to her.
Jen Arizona
Posted at 12:27pm on Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Ok, well I thought of some ways for a guy to propose to a girl. I know, I'm too young,, but I am also a romance novelist and have thought this through many times. There is one where they go to this isolated garden at night, as a reminder of when they were young and always used to sneak out of their houses and meet up at night. At that garden, there would be a flower, that at the exact moment it would bloom, the guy would propose. It was beautiful in my novel because the girl was dressed in her best, a silvery gown that shivered amongst the night breeze, and glowed against the moon's pearly glow.
Another way can be proposing after climbing such a towering tree and just as you reach the top, you pull out the ring. These are really unique ways, though, and I don't expect anyone to use these. But good luck, guys ;D
SK CT
Posted at 8:39am on Sunday, June 6th, 2010
I like every single one of these ideas, but I like to be lil original and want to do something unique because my girlfriend unique herself. I was going to propose to her before she walks out of the shower, but replace her towel with the one where I will have prints on it "will you marry me?"
Do you think that this is a good idea?
Taylor Kansas
Posted at 11:11pm on Monday, May 31st, 2010
While my cousin was asleep her boyfriend came into her apartment laid a whole bunch of hersey kisses and candles all around her living room, he perpously made noises so she would come see what was going on, and in the middle of all the kisses and candles was him on one knee, and he told her that he wanted only to kiss her for the rest of his life. As a bonus idea, they put kisses on every table at the reception!
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