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The boyfriend of a kindergarten teacher I know prearranged with the principal to have his parents on stage while he proposed in front of over 200 Kindergarten and 1st grade students under the guise of a student assembly. All the K and 1 teachers and assistants were also in on it.
Come proposal time the girlfriend was quite visibly embarrassed and tried to hide her emotional response from the kids with her hand.
Question: Why would a guy want to propose in public?
It really depends. I'm a private person and don't like to draw attention to myself, but I can imagine some scenarios where a public proposal would be nice.
I used to do a lot of wedding photography, and at one wedding a groomsman got up during the reception, called his girlfriend (a bridesmaid) forward and proposed to her. The girlfriend was obviously trying to stop the proposal, but the boyfriend charged right ahead. She did accept. The bride was horrified. It was supposed to be HER night, not a stage for someone in her wedding party to call attention to himself.
I think public proposals are over-the-top wrong. (I did propose to my wife in a public place, but I did it discreetly.)
Depends on the couple and the individual personalities involved.
I fall in the camp of it being nobodies business but our own, however if I had (for some reason) a potential wife that loved public attention and the admiration of others I may be more willing to be a little more public with the event than I would otherwise be naturally enclined to do so by myself.
Those public proposals give me the heebie jeebies.
Let's get something clear. If you propose in a shopping mall food court with a mariachi band, at center court during a basketball game, or in front of dozens of friends in some huge orchestrated stunt, this isn't a romantic moment. It's exhibitionism with an added dash of coercion sprinkled on top. Because now you're putting the woman into a position of not only having to make the biggest decision of her life but humiliating you if she says 'No.' The only way you could make it worse is if you had a shot clock.
What's more, if you know the girl is going to say 'Yes,' then the whole thing is just inauthentic as hell, your private life offered up as entertainment for others. You are not in it for the lifelong partnership. You are in it for the applause of others. I mean, it's one thing to propose over dinner at some fancy restaurant. Bueno for you, you romantic dog. But the rest? No freaking way. You are just a creep to do it.
So, as a result, I've developed this perverse appreciation for YouTube videos where the guy has some elaborate proposal at a ballpark or live on air and gets turned down. Every time I see one of those I think, "Well, you deserved it."
The boyfriend of a kindergarten teacher I know prearranged with the principal to have his parents on stage while he proposed in front of over 200 Kindergarten and 1st grade students under the guise of a student assembly. All the K and 1 teachers and assistants were also in on it.
Come proposal time the girlfriend was quite visibly embarrassed and tried to hide her emotional response from the kids with her hand.
Question: Why would a guy want to propose in public?
As a parent I would be upset that the school was utilizing valuable time for personal proposals.
I would hope that a man would know his woman enough to know what her answer will be and what type of proposal she would want.
Disclaimer: I have not yet experienced the real proposal thing.
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