Sometimes the best Christmas gift is… you! Let your sweetheart know you want to give the gift of forever with these romantic Christmas proposal ideas!
Create a treasure hunt of clues. For each clue, leave a message that says something about how you feel about your love. Include how your love has grown and how you can’t imagine life without them. For the last clue, hide in your Christmas tree a small gift wrapped package with the ring inside and a note that says, “Will you marry me?”
Take an ad out in your local paper (the smaller the paper, the cheaper it will be). In the ad, include a letter written to your sweetheart stating why you love them. Also include, since they are obviously the best person in the world, “Will you marry me?” Get a copy of the paper, leave it open to the page of your ad and put in a place where you know they will see it.
Take your sweetheart out for a romantic Christmas dinner for two. Arrange with the manager of the restaurant beforehand the following details. Have your meal happen as normal. As the final dish, have a waiter come out with a covered plate saying, “This is a special treat on the house for a beautiful lady.” (If you’re the female proposing, have them say something more befitting.) Don’t have the waiter remove the the cover of the plate. On the plate, have the engagement ring and a note saying, “Will you marry me?” If you present the ring in a box, have the box opened.
In the Christmas decorations section of your favorite store you should find lights that have different cutout messages that go over them, that you can shine on your garage door. Get one of these and make your own cut out, which says, “Will you marry me?” On the night of your proposal, tell your sweetheart you’re going outside to fix one of the lights or add some new ones, etc. Get everything ready and test that it’s positioned properly. Turn it off. Then go ask your sweetheart to come and see what you did. When they get there, turn on the light and have your ring ready!
Hang mistletoe on the top of every doorway in your place. When your partner comes home, grab them and take them under each doorway and kiss them. On the last one, kiss them for a few minutes. When you’re done, tell them you want to be able to kiss them forever like this. Then, take out your ring and ask, “Will you marry me?”
Write down your most memorable moments with your sweetie. Choose the 5 to 6 most meaningful ones. Get a gift and write a sentiment that best reflects each one (one gift and sentiment per moment). Arrange for a different person per gift to deliver the presents to your sweetheart every few hours throughout the day. Deliver the last gift yourself (the engagement ring with a note saying will you marry me), and say, “The gifts before marked the memories we’ve already made. This next gift marks the promise of our memories in the future.” Give them the gift.
Create a timeline of your most memorable moments and where they took place. For example, you first met them at a park, your first kiss was at the beach, etc. On a day you know your partner will be free, blindfold them and take them to each place in the order of your timeline. If you met at a park, you’d take them to a park and say, “Here is where I met the most important person of my life.” Then, blindfold them again and continue to where you first kissed and say, “Here is where I first tasted the sweetness of your lips.” Kiss them again and then blindfold them. Proceed to all the destinations. At the last location, say, “You don’t know this place yet, but it will have the most sentimental value.” Pull out the ring and continue saying, “This is the place where we got engaged. Will you marry me?”
An Alternative to the above idea, if you can’t take them to each place, take a photo of each of them. Get a hard back journal. On each page, paste a photo in the order of the event. Below each picture, write what the special moment is. For the last photo, take a picture of wherever you are going to give them the book. Underneath it write, “This is the most special memory of all. This is where we got engaged, will you marry me?” Be behind them with your ring.
For a sensually romantic proposal, during your next lovemaking session, lay your partner down on a bed of red rose petals surrounded by candlelight. (Try the winter romance setting found here.) Ahead of time, get one red rose and put the ring on the stem. Tell your partner to close their eyes. Take the rose and trace their body with it. Pay special attention to sensitive areas like the face. After a few minutes, tell them, “Your love is as perfect as a red rose. Each petal alive with newness and romance.” Tell your partner to open their eyes and hand them the rose, making sure they notice the ring on the stem. When they see it, ask them, “Will you marry me?”
Plan for a romantic night at home, complete with a picnic of wine, cheese, crackers, etc. in front of the fire. Bring out a poetry book or a few papers with poems written on them. Tell your partner you found these poems the other day and they perfectly described your relationship. Begin to read two poems to them, asking them what they think of each one. For the third poem, tell them you really wanted them to read it to see what they thought. Hand them a poem you’ve written or found that asks for their hand in marriage. When they get to the end part which says, “Will you marry me?” be ready with your ring!
