>>33634629 (OP)
I mean, I proposed to my wife over a decade ago, and considering we're still married I'd say it went well.
Though admittedly the proposal itself was kind of a shitshow - I bought a ring my wife had her eye on at a mall jewelery store, and the day before I planned on proposing she went to that mall with friends and saw the ring was gone, so she asked me if I bought the ring, and I was caught so off guard I made up a pretty poor lie that she saw through right away. Then, I tried to salvage the proposal by taking her and our dog on a walk to a nearby dog park - the idea was that when we were alone, I'd tie the box to our dog's collar and have her act as the "delivery dog" for the ring. Naturally, since I didn't train our dog at all for this (young idiocy), the minute we got to the park our dog fucking ran off with the ring attached, and we both spent a good ten minutes trying to get her back. After that, I was so flustered I just got down on one knee and gave my wife the ring, and she accepted.
These days, the proposal story is just a funny little anecdote we tell whenever the subject comes up, it certainly wasn't a portent of doom or anything like that. Even at the time, we had a good laugh about how fucked up the proposal went, and she thought it was sweet that I actually tried to make it cute despite circumstances ruining everything. I think that is pretty emblematic of how a proposal should go: it's not about how you do it or how expensive the ring is, it's about the person you're proposing to. If she loves you, and you show that you love her, the proposal itself doesn't really matter.
