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"V-Day is less than a month away, and that means you can expect to hear about engagement-ring-in-the-champagne-glass proposals galore. If Paul had proposed that way, I surely would&amp;amp;#8217;ve swallowed the ring, so I wanted to tell you lovely ladies about some other proposal ideas. (You&amp;amp;#8217;re going to LOVE these.) I got in touch with Sarah Pease, the Proposal Planner (TM) from Brilliant Event Planning, to get some fresh proposal ideas. Congrats to the guys who have stumbled upon this page because you&amp;amp;#8217;ll make your girlfriend so happy with any of these engagement stories. Proposal Idea 1: Slide Into Yes After a big snowfall, suggest some late-night sledding in your local park. Bring along a thermos of hot chocolate and head out, bundled up in your warmest gear (she&amp;amp;#8217;ll never see the ring box under all those puffy layers!). From the top of the sledding hill, she&amp;amp;#8217;ll notice the glow of electric votive candles at the bottom of the slope, and you&amp;amp;#8217;ll have arranged them to spell out &amp;quot;Marry Me?&amp;quot; Toast to your engagement with the hot cocoa. Another option: Do this at the end of a cross-country skiing day and hang votives in the trees surrounding the clearing. Proposal Idea 2: Choose Your Own Adventure Remember these books from when we were kids? Design a personalized &amp;quot;Choose Your Own Adventure&amp;quot; book and print it out. Write it to mirror your love story (if she hadn&amp;#x27;t met her friends for drinks that night, you two would never have met) with funny alternate options and rig it so whatever adventure she chooses, it ends up at the final page: a drawing or photo of you, down on one knee proposing where you two are standing at that moment. As she flips to the last adventure and sees that it&amp;#x27;s the exact location you&amp;#x27;re in, slip down on one knee and pop the question. Proposal Idea 3: Baker&amp;amp;#8217;s Betrothal Wait for a pal&amp;amp;#8217;s birthday and invite a group of friends over for an informal party to celebrate. Ask your fiance-to-be to bake a cake for the birthday girl or guy. During dinner, swap out the cake that she made for one that you&amp;#x27;ve specially arranged. At dessert time, offer to help her bring out the cake. When she pulls it out of the oven, instead of a birthday cake, she&amp;#x27;ll see a dessert that says, &amp;quot;Will You Marry Me?&amp;quot; When she gives you a yes, celebrate with two cakes and all of your friends! (Just check with the birthday guest before you do this so he doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t feel like you&amp;amp;#8217;re stealing his thunder.) Proposal Idea 4: For the Dogs What girl doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t love a cute pup? If you two are pet-less, book a getaway and stay at a hotel (like the Copley Plaza in Boston, MA, the Fairmont in Sonoma, CA, or the Ritz Carlton in Beaver Creek, CO) that has a dog on staff and &amp;amp;#8220;rent&amp;amp;#8221; the canine for a little while. When she&amp;amp;#8217;s not looking, tie the engagement ring around the critter&amp;amp;#8217;s collar and be ready to take a knee when she spots the bling. Which of these marriage proposals would you want? Any of these too cheesy for you? Are you hoping for a Valentine&amp;amp;#8217;s Day proposal? More Perfect Proposal Ideas The Most Creative Proposal EVER An In-Flight Proposal A Marriage Proposal in a Photo Booth What&amp;#x27;s With All the Spam in the Comments Section? Sick of all those annoying ads in the comments section lately? So are we! We police the site regularly and delete spam as soon as we can, but recently, the volume of spam has increased dramatically. We&amp;#x27;re working on a way to block them permanently, so please bear with us, and know that we&amp;#x27;re as eager as you are to get rid of these pests. Meanwhile, please continue to use the Report Abuse button to flag spam--it really does help!-- and continue to leave your brilliant feedback below. If you have any urgent questions about the spam, please contact us. And a special note to you, spammers; we officially declare you a major DON&amp;#x27;T. More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: Jupiterimages"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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