How To Plan the Perfect Wedding ... Step #1 - The Proposal

TO DO LIST - The Proposal (Step by Step Checklist)

The Cinderella Proposal (AKA One Day my Prince will Come)
Should I ask their Parents Permission? (Getting the OK before the I DO)
Getting the Proposal Just Right (The Goldilocks Method)
Fighting Nerves
The Big Proposal (Preparation is key)
Perfect Proposal Ideas (Take a leaf from someone elses book)

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Step by Step Checklist

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Glass slippers, a rich prince, and the stroke of midnight?

The Cinderella Proposal is a wallet-busting, nightmare-inducing ideal.
The romance, the joy... the gi-normous diamond sparkler.

But, never fear!
Not many gals (and even fewer guys) actually
want the over the top, grandiose, classical proposal.

So what do they want?

To feel like you know them!
That you have thought about the things they love
most and tried to incorporate it into your proposal -
which is essentially a selfless, humbling act.

So how do you that?
No worries! Read on...

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Asking for someones permission to marry their daughter or son, can be nerve wracking - but once done is well worth the effort.

This is really about personal preference,
and your relationship with their family.

Its hard to know how people will react to an engagement, but more often than not people are over the moon to hear that the people they love most in their life have found someone to love as well.

Asking permission to marry someones daughter or son may seem like an old fogey tradition, but it is really about showing respect to the persons family and is also a lovely way of involving them in the special occassion (without them actually being there!).

It is a good way to bond with your future in-laws and can alleviate some of the shock of the engagement. Especially if their family loves you to bits, they will appreciate that you thought enough of them to ask.

That being said, if tensions are tight, or you have never met the parents, don't feel pressured to put yourself in a terrible situation for the sake of tradition.

Most people will be charmed that you even thought to ask.

So think hard about it, its not everyones cup of tea, but its a tradition well worth considering.

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Ok, you want to marry them, you're pretty sure they want to marry you and all that is left to do is ask them. Yikes!

So how do you do it?
The most important thing to remember is that you are making a memory, a special occassion that you will look back on and regale your grandkids with for years to come.

So you want to make it about them, show that you have thought about their likes, their loves, have listened to them and want to show them how you truly feel.

That doesn't necessarily mean spending the big bucks, its all about heart.

Heres the definitive

Goldilocks Method of Proposing
(Not too little, not too big, its just right)

1. Think hard about their personality.


2. Pick a Memorable Place.

Where you first said I Love You, where you had an anniversary dinner,
the beach where you went that time to watch the sun set together, the street corner where you danced in the rain together and fell in love.

Those types of places.

Not the place where you she watched you score your first century in cricket, the arcade where you finally beat him in air hockey, the pub where you had a hilarious night because she accidentally tucked her skirt into the back of her undies.

No, no. Not those places.

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Perfect proposal

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