Engagements & Proposals

Back in the dark ages, marriage proposals and proposal ideas were the domain of men. All women had to do was look surprised and say yes.

Q:My boyfriend has talked about getting married and he recently spoke with my parents and brought along his parents to ask for my hand in marriage.

For all the years that APW has been in business, and had a staff… we’ve never had a team member get engaged while working here. Not once!

In APW’s comments over the years (not to mention our inboxes) we’ve seen questions about engagements come up a lot. (I mean, we’

When people ask me my engagement story, I tell them my now-husband and I were at our favorite park, the one with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge and the

Everyone I know has an engagement horror story. It might be their own, or it happened to someone they know. There are the ones on Ferris Wheels.

Every time I write about engagements, women who are in serious relationships, but who aren’t ready to be engaged, lament the fact that strangers cannot

Let’s talk about engagement party ideas. Though before we even get started, I can see y’all out there cringing at the idea of more-guest-lists-more-parties-omg.

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I felt the first twinge of proposal envy when talking to a classmate a few days after my own engagement. “Josh, you’re engaged, right?” I asked casually