Meet this week’s featured couples and vote for your favorite proposal!

1. Jesse Raub & Terra Jacobson
Location: Frankfort, IL
Date: June, 2006

Jesse & Terra

Jesse writes:
Nothing ruins a planned lakeside proposal during a weekend trip to the cottages like rain, and nothing ruins a good proposal better than proposing in your future in-laws’ kitchen while your future wife is doing dishes.

Except, maybe, instead of getting down on one knee you just sort of fumble out a ring box from your shirt pocket. Or instead of actually asking “Will you marry me?” you mushmouth something like “Whaddya say?”

Or instead of whisking her away to a nice dinner, you go upstairs to wake her mom to tell her what happened, and your future mother in law just shakes her head at you.

Or, and here’s the stinger, the fact that you didn’t think this through and now any time anyone asks you have you proposed, you have to relay this story instead. Except you got married before any of your friends, and now you have to listen to their romantic proposals, and face the ire of your glaring wife.

Yes, she did agree to marry me. And yes, she still begrudges me the proposal.

2. Jennifer & Dave Knapp
Location: Westlake Village, CA
Date: October, 2004

Dave & Jennifer

Jennifer writes:
Though Dave and I had been dating for just about a year; we had been friends for many years. One morning we had taken a trip to our local street fair We were having a great time when we ran into an old friend of mine.

My friend said, “Is he the one from Puero Vallarta?” Before I could answer, Dave said, “No.”

My friend went on their way, but Dave and I ended up in an intense argument. Apparently, he thought my friend had said, “Is he the one from the trailer park?”

Perhaps just the words, “Is he the one …” were enough to set anybody off, but in the midst of our battle, Dave proposed and I accepted.

I don’t think Dave planned this “proposal” day, but however it happened, it worked.

We were married in May 2005 and are living happily ever after to this very day.

3. Joe Kilgallon & Nicole Lappe
Location: Miami Beach, FL
Date: August 17, 2008

Joe & Nicole

Joe writes:
I’m a comedian, born and raised in Chicago. I love a good joke and the Chicago Cubs. I also love Nicole, my high school sweetheart.

I decided to propose to her at sunset during vacation in Miami. On the afternoon of the big day, my uncle told us that he bought us tickets to see a Cubs game that night. If I turned them down, Nicole would have known that something was up.

By the time the game was over, sunset had come and gone. We went for a walk on the beach anyway. While she looked at the sky, I walked ahead and wrote something in the sand.

I asked Nicole to come over and see what I drew. She thought it was going to be a childish, inappropriate drawing since I had been doing that throughout the trip.

But when she came over, she saw that I had written, “Will you marry me?” in the sand.

She looked back at me and I was down on one knee. Stunned, she kept asking if it was for real. I may be immature in some ways, but I’d never make a joke like that.

We plan to marry in 2011.

Now that you’ve read the stories, it’s your turn to weigh in!
You can vote for your favorite story once a day, so remember to come back tomorrow!
Voting closes at 12:05 am (PST) on Friday, February 5th.
We’ll post the winner later that day!

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