Today, I went through with my elaborate plans to propose to my girlfriend with creativity. I took her skydiving and proposed in midair. She rejected it. Why? She wanted a more "traditional" proposal. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I proposed to my girlfriend, whom I'm madly in love with, by having a plane fly over her house spelling "Marry me Abby?" After seeing it, she locked herself in her room and cried for hours, exclaiming that this wasn't how she wanted to be proposed to. I'd invited my entire family. FML
Today, I was going to propose to my girlfriend of 3 years. I got reservations for a romantic dinner, and at the end, fireworks would spell out my proposal. The whole thing had taken weeks to plan out and had cost me a lot of money. She proposed to me at a subway station first. FML
Today, I tried to propose to my partner in a creative way, but ended up getting stuck in a tree. FML
Today, I proposed to my girlfriend from the top of a bungee jumping platform at an amusement park. I yelled out, "WILL YOU MARRY ME?" from the platform, pointing her out. Turns out, I was pointing at the wrong girl. My girlfriend was very angry and ran away when the wrong girl yelled, "Yes!" FML
Today, in the middle of a hot air balloon ride with my girlfriend, I asked her to marry me. She said no. The rest of the ride was the most awkward two hours of my life. FML
Today, after my girlfriend telling me for years that she would marry me in a heartbeat, I finally proposed. She said no. FML
Today, I proposed to my girlfriend. She promptly had a panic attack and screamed, "No!" FML
Today, my girlfriend fell asleep while I was proposing. FML
Today, I was going to propose to my girlfriend. I told her best friend the plan the day before. I got reservations to a restaurant on the beach, and we were going to arrive via boat. She never showed. Her parents called me asking why she left town to go to Paris. FML
Today, my girlfriend caught the bouquet at her sister's wedding. I took it as a sign so after we got home, I proposed. She laughed and said no way. I'm done. FML
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BigK_Diet_Cola 1
Next time, bring some cows and offer them to her father in return for his daughter. Traditional.
xxphil 1
Sucks, to go through all that preparation and to be rejected. She doesnt deserve to be with you if she can't understand all the work you went through for that proposal.
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Comments (169)
skyeyez9 25
well, she sounds like a selfish twit. Had you proposed the old fashioned way, she would have whined that it wasn't original.
cornsnake 0
a skydive proposal? that is just for the win!
Jcat_fml 0
Well I kind of agree with the Op's girl. I mean I got proposed to after trying on clothing, out of no where in front of my mom. It put me on the spot and was not easy for me to think about it. She was probably more worried about staying alive and her shute to open then marrying you. Try instead to give her only the time to think about the possibility of the "us" you two will become instead of survival and marriage.
MusicalRose 0
Dude, your girlfriend sucks. That would be like, a perfect surprise proposal to me. I can't believe she turned you down.
biggie007 0
Calling fake unless you held up a sign or the ring. Holding up the ring is just stupid as it can fall out of your hand, a sign is dangerous and no certified jumper will let you do that. It's impossible to hear anything while you're skydiving, and good luck trying to read lips. The only way this could work is if you were certified and she was tandom with you and you proposed after deploying.
MusicalRose 0
-Message somehow on chute. -Message somehow on skydiving outfit or body. -Ring sewn on to suit and revealed. -Proposal right before jump. -Possible tandem proposal after deployment. -Possible sign language or other gesturing that would be obvious. There's probably a ton of other possibilities that a creative person could think of. Don't call fake because you aren't creative enough to think up a way to do it.
greeneye_fml 12
I've seen videos of wedding proposals done during skydiving. Like said before, you can hear after the chute is deployed. Or you could always have a sign. And who the hell said he even had a ring, genius? To the OP, what a b*tch. This is a sign of how things will be in your marriage - rejected if not to her "good enough" standards. I suggest heading for the hills.
someguy945 0
According to Mythbusters there is no way you could have heard each other while skydiving, even if you shouted into her ear.
plutosaplanet 0
i went skydiving. once the shute opens you can hear. everything gets silent. its when you are falling fast to the ground pre shute opening you cant hear anything but your girlish screams
perdix 31
She is right. The man has to get down on a knee and look up to ask her to marry him. That way, he gets used to the idea of her looking down on him . . . for the next 60+ years.
Rota 0
Get away from this one quick man, it only gets worse from here.
djcoolj10 0
This is a full grade bs fml. if you know anything about skydiving u would know it is impossible to hear a person shouting at u right in front of u. Number #19 also points this out.
Vrathal 0
#22 points out how it COULD be done. It may not be true, but it at least might be.
mojopen 0
i think it shows how you don't really pay attention to her personality or what she would like. the elaborate woop-de-doo seemed purely self-serving and something that only you would think is "cool" (if the story is even true).