Comments on: Marriage Proposals: Geek Style!

By: Neil Gaiman lê seu novo livro: The Graveyard Book « Caducando, lendo e assistindo.

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:45:25 +0000

[...] O fato é que Gaiman é bom no que faz. A escolha nas ações de relações públicas foi ótima e combina muito bem com ele, sempre simpaticíssimo; e falo com alguma experiência de causa, já que fui um dos muitos agraciados com um autógrafo, aperto de mão e dedicatória, quando lançou Caçadores de Sonhos, na Fnac. Quer outras pistas da simpatia do rapaz? Vejam seu journal, pelo que vi tem um bocado de interação dele com seus leitores; e vejam também como ele ajudou um garoto em seu pedido de casamento. [...]

By: e

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:34:47 +0000

Kristen – someone should do a follow up and find these people!

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:24:34 +0000

These are cute ideas. I wonder how many of them stay happily married.

- Kristen

By: Kane

Kane — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:17:32 +0000

while my engagement didn’t have a “geek” flair, my wedding sure did, My wife and I got maried at the renaissance festival here in Michigan. There is nothing more romantic then saying “I do” with swords and plate clashing together in the jousting event going on in the back ground Not to mention, later one of my inlaws had my “arrested” and put in town jail, where I had to sing and dance my way out, took forever, as I can not do either very well, and least not sober

By: e

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:10:09 +0000

John,

Stuff on My Cat may be taken, but what about I Can Has Cheezburger? Picture of you with a ring with the caption:

I CAN HAS UR HAND IN MAWWIGE?

By: e

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:14:50 +0000

Awwww, this is all so warm and fuzzy.

By: Kameron

Kameron — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:49:56 +0000

I didn’t take the geek approach in my proposal. About the only geek activity I ever got my wife to participate in where a few MTG games when we first started dating. That dwindled away as I got involved in competitive tournaments. It might have been a neat idea to create a “Marry Me?” MTG card, ask her to play and “draw” it from my deck to show her (putting it in her deck might not guarantee it got played).

The actual proposal was classic romance. I had written a poem for my-then-girlfriend as an anniversary present. The poem was a 3 verse summary of how we met and our time as a long-distance couple (she moved a couple hours away to finish school a month after we started dating). I had a planned fourth verse that would be the proposal.

We took a trip a couple months later to the Ashland Shakespeare festival. I bought the ring ahead of time and decided to propose to her before the play in a park that was near the outdoor theater. I had her sit on a bench while I got down on my knee, read the poem with the fourth verse and presented the ring.

As a funny aside, she almost ruined the surprise when we first arrived at the park. I had tossed my jacket–with the ring box in the pocket–in the backseat of the car. She grabbed it for me as we got out, and felt the box. She would not stop asking me what was in my jacket as we walked down to the park. She even tried to make a grab for the box a couple times.

By: The Chatty DM

The Chatty DM — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:34:01 +0000

I proposed to my wife when we came out of a screening of Empire Strikes Back a bit before Phantom Menace came out.

I stopped at a jewelry store with her and I asked her if she’d like a gold ring into which you could put different colored inserts in it.

When I bought it and gave it to her, I asked her to marry me, on the spot.

By: John Arcadian

John Arcadian — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:28:35 +0000

I had heard about the Neil Gaiman one, and it struck me as totally awesome that he would help out like that. A marriage proposal is something that should definitely have a lot of meaning and bring a smile every time it is remembered. I’m sad to see the stuff on my cat idea taken, well I guess I can scratch that one off the list of potential ideas.

By: LokyCat

LokyCat — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:03:12 +0000

Wow…sure give me some ideas!!
err…not that me and my GF are up to that point(sweats) but I always thought the hole “geting on one knee” things is WAY over don.

This are great and even a hard core sarcastic person like me cant help but say…”ahhh…thats so romantic”.