How to create an engaging proposal
Want to have your own incredible engagement story? Here are some ideas to get you started ... now all you need to do is get your nerve up!

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• Freeze the ring in an ice cube and give her a drink.

• Take him to see his favorite football team playing and get the commentator to ask him to marry you.

• Ask him/her to marry you by writing it on the bathroom mirror.

• Or if you are the sensible, unromantic type, you could just try sitting down and having a chat about getting married and suggesting it is about time the two of you did so. (But where's the fun in that?)

• Wrap the ring in gold foil and place it in a candy box.

• Put the ring on a string or ribbon and place it around the neck of a stuffed animal. Give the animal as the present.

• Buy a balloon that reads, "Will you marry me"? Tie the ring to the bottom of the balloon.

• Go to a theme park and propose at the top of the biggest roller coaster ride you can find — and hopefully get the right answer on the downhill slope!

• Arrange for a “singing telegram” to sing your beloved's praises and ask the question on your behalf.

• Arrange for your proposal to be written on a banner trailing behind a plane.

• Gather friends and family outside your/his/her home waving banners with the words “Will you marry me?” on them. (Make sure that they get the right house).

• Take out a full-page advertisement in a paper that you know they will read.

• Spell the message out with dozens of potted plants in the garden.

• Arrange for a message to be shown on the big screen when you go to see a film at your local cinema.

• Do it the old fashioned way: Get down on one knee with a rose clenched in your teeth and the ring in your hand just before you are about to eat dessert in a busy restaurant.

• Take her/him to the theater and ask the stage manager if he will ask her/him to marry you after the final curtain. This is the perfect ending to a perfect evening.

• Write will you marry me (her/his name) in chalk on the street outside her/his house or flat in big enough letters so that she/he will notice it.

• Phone up your local radio station and get them to pop the question for you over the airwaves at a time that you know she/he will be listening. Then dedicate a song to her/him.

• Gather all your friends and family around for drinks and pop the question then.

• Sneak in to her home and fill it to the rafters with flowers and in the middle sit a teddy bear holding the ring and a note asking her to marry you.

• Propose in French — the language of love.

• Play Hangman and have the phrase be "Marry Me."

• Throw her/him a surprise party inviting friends and family and then propose.

• Phone your loved one at work and get them to meet you at the place where you first met each other. Take along a bottle of champagne and two glasses, then do the deed.

• Plan a treasure hunt. Set the clues in place and when he/she gets to the last clue you will be standing there with champagne and a proposal they can't refuse.

• Bake a cake with “Will you marry me?” written on top.

• Give your girlfriend a foot massage and place the ring on her little toe.

• Pour her a glass of wine with the ring in the bottom of it.

• Go for a picnic together, then pop the question.

• Propose at Christmas by hanging the ring from the top of the tree instead of a star or an angel.

• Run her a bath with scented candles, rose petals and rubber duck with the ring tied around its neck.

• Scratch your proposal into the frost on his or her car's windshield.

• Take your partner to the beach and write "Will you marry me?" in big letters in the sand.

• Write him/her a story about your relationship, almost like a diary with dates, if possible. Then end it with the date you are going to give it to him/her telling how you proposed and that the story can't be ended until you have the answer.