'I'm disappointed by the way my fiancé proposed - I thought it was a prank'
A woman has admitted she thought her fiancé's proposal was a prank due to it not being very "thoughtful", and was left disappointed when she realised what he was doing, and how he had planned to propose to her. Bringing her for a weekend away, she expected he'd have picked a more picturesque setting.
Waiting for years for the special moment to come, she was shocked when she realised the moment was finally happening - in a place she would have never expected him to choose, as she admitted she had to "act excited" when he popped the question to her.
She explained how he had secretly taped the proposal, but watching it back "breaks her heart" as she said: "You can't hear anything he's saying to me, and the room looks so small and dark. You can see in the video my face of realisation of what was happening. I remember sitting on the edge of the bed not getting excited like all the people in the videos did, but thinking 'Really? Right now?' My first words were 'Is this a prank?' Of course, when he asked again, assuring me it wasn't a prank, I said yes and acted excited. But I just felt sad and let down."
She took to Reddit to vent her feelings on the matter, admitting she knows people will call her ungrateful. She wrote: "My fiancé and I had been dating for about a year before he proposed to me. He planned a whole trip to New York to see Phantom of the Opera, my favourite movie growing up. We had talked about getting engaged and being married, he knew I'd say yes. I wasn't expecting anything tremendous. In my mind I was guessing it would be in a park, or maybe on the beach, the usual romantic type proposal.
"The first day in New York, we're in the hotel getting dressed so we can go out and explore since we had limited time there. I walk out of the bathroom looking for my shoes and he sits me down on the hotel bed with the TV on blast, windows shut, and tells me how much he loves me and how dearly he holds our friendship, then proceeds to pop the question. I know people will call me ungrateful, and in other words, I'm prepared for that. I just wish he had asked me at least outside, and not in a hotel room while Times Square and all of New York is right there."
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Now when she thinks about her highly anticipated proposal, she gets "choked up thinking about it" and wishes he would have put "more thought into it" as she would have wanted it to happen anywhere but their hotel room. She knows it wasn't stage fright as her now fiancé isn't afraid of crowds, but she wishes she could tell him about her disappointment but knows it would "break his heart to pieces."
Other Redditors tried to sympathise with the woman, as one person said: "Oh my gosh that's so bad. Women should be the ones to propose honestly. We'd be better at it," and another advised: "Keep it to yourself, and take it to your grave. The reason is because of exactly what you said - you would break his heart. Could it have been better? Absolutely it could have. But maybe in his mind, all he wanted was to share that trip with his brand new fiancé."
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