The Proposal

by: Mike Co

      Sydney, Australia 2012 

One of the popular trends nowadays for peopled aged between 21 and 50 is the marriage proposal. This is no exception for guys who already made their final decision to move on from being single. For guys like me, it means a lot, as we will be submitting ourselves to the woman who will become our partner forever. Well it’s the same case with women. But this time, I will give more credit to the brave guys as we need to carefully plan what sort of proposal we should do, and that includes when, where, who are the people involved, and how.

Having said that, I would like to share my personal experience, and especially the plan I used when I proposed to my fiancé. Hopefully this will help other guys who are also planning on proposing to their girlfriends.

Before the BIG DAY, below are things that I considered before executing my marriage proposal:

1. When?

    - Since my favorite number is 7, I said to myself, “I will definitely execute this plan on the 7th day of the month no matter what happens”. And yes, I did it on the 7th day of the month.

2. Where?

    - This question was the hardest for me as I wanted to propose on one of the romantic places in the world, like Paris, Tokyo, Sydney, just to name a few. But when I look up at my bank account, “Oh dang!!” I always ended up questioning myself “Am I sure I want to propose on those places?” Because of this, my proposal had been postponed for months, and even a year. Luckily, because of God’s grace and blessings, Sydney became our new home and this is when I moved to the next question.

3. Who are the people involved?

    - Most of the time, it will automatically come to your mind that you need to invite your friends, her friends, or your common friends, but not in our case. I decided to use the people around the area, but this one failed, as when we were already on the spot where I will kneel down, there was NO CROWD!! It’s because the wind outside the Sydney Opera House was very strong at the time, so most of the people were hiding inside the restaurants within the vicinity instead. Ok, if there’s no crowd, I will do it by myself.

4. How?

    - Before the proposal, I did a couple of research on the internet, especially Youtube.com to get some tips and ideas on how to propose and to make myself more confident as well, but in the end I didn’t copy any of those ideas because I wanted to be unique. So the final question is “How did it go?” Well, the first thing I did is ask her out to have a fancy lunch near the Sydney opera house to distract her and keep her unsuspicious regarding my plan. Then I asked her if we could take a picture in front of the opera house. And when we reached the place, I prepared my DSLR and placed it in a tripod and set the timer on, but what I really did is put the camera to video mode. Unknown to her, instead of taking a picture, I was recording the proposal hehehehe. So when we were having our couple shot, she kept on asking me why the camera was not beeping, and that’s it!! I already started saying the magic words and she started freaking out. What the heck!!!! Thank God she calmed down when I took out the beautiful expensive ring that made my wallet skinny. And she finally said YES!!!

Special thanks to:

• Carlo and Joan for helping me find the perfect ring.

• Eliska and Aaron for taking good care of the ring before the proposal.

There you go folks! Hope you enjoyed reading this post as I did writing it. Please feel free to comment, or subscribe to be updated on my future posts. Thanks!!