Well. I am not ready for marraige or getting engaged (again).
I can tell you what not to do: don’t do it while she is in bed or in pajamas. Not even sure why I said yes to that complete atrocity of a proposal…
But that was then, and this is now. If & when my new man and I get to the point where a proposal is imminent, I would want it to happen somewhere that was special to the two of us. A romantic night, maybe picnic by the beach under the light of a full moon. Hey, what can I say? I’m a sucker for sentimentality.
I think better proposals are done in private, though, because the public ones put too much pressure on the girl to say yes or might scare her to saying no.
If she’s a more traditional sort or even if she really values her family, you might want to try asking her dad for her hand in marraige before popping the question.
It really depends on what she is like, though, I would think.
