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[King Bob]

Good Afternoon Everyone,

A 'friend' of mine is looking to propose to his long term girlfriend in Korea. He had an idea of doing it in a helicopter ride but can not find any information on this. If you have any ideas that he could use it would be gratefully appreciated.

Cheers,

KB

[mrsquirrel]

Easy.

Look love do you want to get married. It will save a lot of hassle with visas and what not when we go places.

Easy. Worked for me. DO REMEMBER THOUGH once married do not tell her that you got married for visas or a swift smack to the face will follow it.

[riley]

Give her mom a big freaking gift. Seriously, it'll help get her on your side. If you have the MIL on your side from the beginning, it'll save you a lot of hassle later. The other reason is that, probably it'll make your girlfriend happy with you also. It's like getting credit for 2 gifts but spending for only one.

I'd recommend spending like about 100,000 won or so on flowers for her Mom.

[BS.Dos.]

A 'friend' of mine? Yeah right.

Proposing to someone should be a life defining moment. You can't possibly expect someone else to provide you/him with a ready made answer, that's coping out.

Dig deeper my man and ask your 'friend' what he'd do.

Something original, sincere and impulsive might work.

[khyber]

He's just asking for IDEAS bs...not to tell him what to do.

On a mountain top.

on a deserted beach at sunset.

In a crowded dancefloor

in the changeroom of a lotte department store

whilst screwing after a night of drunking.

put it in some flowers as a gift

at a rest stop restaurant table

hollow out a little hole in her bible and put the ring in it. Then ask her to read the verse...i've always wondered how an xtian woman would take that.

[BS.Dos.]

[Col.Brandon]

Get your fiance to shave off all of her hair. That way you'll rob your father-in-law the satisfaction of doing it himself.

[willneverteachagain]

google it

lots of great stories

that's what i did

i ended up doing a mix of different stories i read

[theatrelily]

I would perhaps suggest that he stay away from the helicopter ride.

Although the view would be incredible, the noise is ASTOUNDING and even with your headsets on and shouting everything it will be difficult to communicate.


Ideas:

At the top of the 63 building at sunset.

On the river cruise at said time. (...he drapes the jacket around her shoulders, ring box in the pocket. He asks her to pass him his phone from the pocket.....)

Draw her a hot bubble bath (rose petals optional) with candle light and and soft music. Bring her a glass of wine and put the ring in the wine. (this way saves you a bit of time since she'll already be "dressed" to celebrate the engagement...) **(this option could be at the end of a 'night out on the town' of window shopping, coffee shop, dinner in a nice restaurant and a stay in a nice hotel)**

[princess]

[Corporal]

[willneverteachagain]

because Catholics like holes in their bibles?

[Corporal]

because Catholics don't take the word all that seriously...ah never mind, joking dude.

[goodgood]

Maybe you can use billybrobby's classic romantic gesture post for inspiration.

Sorry it's not in quote form- I actually have this saved on a notepad so I can read it every once in a while- sooo funny. (I'm really just using this as an exuse to repost this- sorry)

In response to Faron's:

"Well if you must know, I thought of making it a warm picnic but the area in which I wanted to have the picnic was pretty far so I decided do go with cold

plates. I had shrimp(she loves shrimp) with homemade sauce, salad and club sandwiches(her favorite). I bought a lovely bottle of wine and made a nice

cheesecake that turned out better than I thought. But when your on a pinic, the most important thing is dessert. So the cheesecake was awesome and I bought

nice large strawberries with the stems and made a nice semi sweet chocolate sauce. I wanted to do a fondue but I didn't want to lug a bunch of stuff with me.

I brought alot of candles, and some creams for a massage. I was lucky because they were calling for clouds but the sky was filled with millions of stars that

night and well it was just perfect. An extra blanket always helps to keep each other cozy.

Now if you decide to do a 6 or 7 course meal, I once made an amazing dinner. I had made bear paws and basicly these paws (painted red) walked all around the

appartment giving different clues and gifts. She likes that alot. For the meal, I made a nice little table for two, which included candles, and a formal

dinner setting. The Hard part was I made almost all the serving dishes from ice(took me a while to master it with a small freezer). I made heart shaped

icecubes, ice glasses, ice bowls, ice plates for the appetizers, ice bucket, etc. My bedroom had 365 candles in it(to represent 365 days), 90% of them

tealights but that was a masive mistake. The room became so warm in the first ten minutes that I had to blow them all out except for the ones on the table

and all my lovely ice crafts were melting way too fast. Anyways back to the meal, I made a menu for her to read and the courses went as followed:

1) Soup-Homemade beef and rice soup)
2)Bruschetta
3)A very lovely salad
4)Shrimp with a mild sauce
5)Wine flavoured slush to cleanse the palate
6)Chicken squewers made with a homemade teriyaki sauce which came with japanese rice, sliced cucumber and other healthy veggies
7)Tiramisu

*For a romantic gesture, I would also recomend strawvberries and chcolate sauce.

This takes alot of work and when I calculated the costs, I saved a little, but the effort is what counts."



billybrobby wrote:

"yeah, you gotta put a little effort in. I remember one time I planned an elaborate dinner for me and my girlfriend's first anniversary.

I started out by building a heart-shaped house and filling it with heart-shaped furniture, windows, kitchen appliances, soap, and throw pillows. Then,

starting with one at the front door, I left a series of teddy bears in the house with a note containing clues on how to find the next one, each being more

huggable and cuddly than the next. The last bear was an actual live grizzly bear which I had taught to sing Joe *beep*'s "You are So Beautiful." After the

bear serenaded her and then smashed through the wall to attack a salmon truck, I had my manservant blindfold her and lead her into my Musty Chamber of Love.

Then I had myself lowered from the ceiling riding atop a massive sculpture of a stallion carved from ice. Although the extreme cold made me sterile and i

lost 40% of the skin on my legs, the dumbfounded look on her face was worth it. After I shared a special interpretive dance that I had choreographed for her,

I changed out of my deerskin loincloth and we shared the following meal:

1. Some bread shaped like two doves to symbolize our journey together
2. A live cow's heart to symbolize our love for each other
3. A bag of Funyuns to symbolize onion rings
4. A delightful fruit platter
5. A cake that had "I'll Kill You Before I Let Anyone Else Have You" written a zingy cherry sauce.

*I hope that heartless *beep* rots in hell."

[bnrockin]

My conversation partner took his wife to a nice spot on the han, got out of the car and held up some signs like in "Love Actually" asking her to marry him. I thought it was a good one.