Finalists "How did you pop the question?"

B.F.
I have a beach house in Connecticut with a pool. The bottom of this pool is painted black. I went out late at night, after my girlfriend was asleep, and in white grease pencil (china marker) I wrote "MARRY ME?" in 15 foot letters on the black pool bottom, diving repeatedly to the 10ft. deep bottom. Almost killed me; took an hour and a half. I then waited till the next night. I had no fear of early discovery: the black bottom made the pool look like a mirror in the sun. That night, in the Jacuzzi, I casually suggested that she turn on the pool lights from the remote, which she did. Her shocked look was followed by me grinning and showing her the ring I had hidden on my pinky: a 2.50 ct. marquise-cut canary, flanked by 2 round .75 carat canaries. Um, she said yes.

D.J.
My fiance' (and my dad, unbeknownst to me) dressed up in tuxedos and boarded a plane to Dallas. I was waiting at the terminal when the plane arrived. My fiance' gave every passenger on the plane a long-stemmed red rose. As the passengers came off the plane, they each handed me their rose. I didn't know what was going on. Then my dad came off the plane and handed me a red rose, and my fiance' got down on one knee and proposed while I was holding over a hundred red roses. I said yes and the airport passengers cheered.

***Cracker Jack #1***
S.C.
I had bought the ring at the store while my soon-to-be fiancee was still in the store. She was a little suspicious, but when I cancelled plans to go out to eat (because the ring hadn't yet been resized) she became incensed and this threw her off my trail completely. But I digress... I took her out to eat. We had a nice, quite dinner. After eating, I said to her, "You know, I'm not going to get dessert." "Oh really?" she replied, unsuspectingly. "Yes, I ate something before I came." At this point I should mention that my fiancee and I have had a running joke about how I was going to give her a ring from a Cracker Jack box. Anyway, "Yes, I had some Cracker Jacks, and you'll never guess what the prize was. "At this point I got down on my knee and pulled out the engagement ring from my shirt pocket in a Cracker Jack prize wrapper and got out, "Will you..." "YES!!!!" she exclaimed as I finished,"marry me?"

***Cracker Jack #2***
D.B.
My then-girlfriend had once told me that if a relationship isn't going anywhere in three years, it never will. (I had also heard this termed elsewhere, "The Thousand-Day Rule".) I took this advice to heart. Since we had met the day after Valentine's Day, three years later to-the-date, I took my love for a picnic. We packed our lunch, and on the way, stopped off at a convenience store. Among other last-minute things, I asked her to pick up a box of Cracker Jacks. We then went to the South Mountain Park in Phoenix, and climbed a good part of the mountain. When we got to the top, we were rewarded with a gorgeous view of the Native American reservations on the one side, and all of Phoenix on the other. We ate our lunch, finishing with the popcorn snack that she had bought. She laughed when she opened it, and joked, "Wouldn't it be funny if there was a ring inside the box?". I replied to her, "Honey, if there's a ring inside that box, you can have it." She rolled her eyes with a "gee, thanks" look, and started to feed me and herself the popcorn. When she got near the bottom, she took out the standard Cracker Jacks prize envelope, opened it, and dropped her jaw. I was already on one knee, and asked her to marry me. "B.. But how did you get that in there!?", she asked me, stunned. "Will you marry me?", I asked a second time. "How did you get the ring inside the box!?" .. "Hon, I asked you my question first. If you answer my question (correctly), I'll answer yours." Sometimes I wonder if the only reason that she said yes was to find out how I did the trick.

R.R.
When my girlfriend got home from work one day (we live together), she found a heart-shaped helium balloon (w/"i love you" on it) floating in the foyer. Attached to the string, about eye level, was an "I Love You" card (the kind you send with flowers) with "My dearest Angela,.." on it. In the living room I had another balloon floating with another sentence to my love poem on it. Another one was in the dining room, and another in the kitchen. The kitchen one said "I never want to be without you. So...." The next balloon, in the bedroom, said "...will you marry me?" This one was tied to a rose.

Well, she said "YES!" and we will be married on 9-14-96.

There's a lot to do in only six months.



Copyright © Leo Robbins & Sons, Inc. 1996
Leo Robbins & Sons, Inc., 801 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19107-9767
Contact: Jason Robbins     Phone: (215)925-5120 Ext. 151