At Crumbs! Couture we have been SO blessed with orders/ features and publicity in 2011. This is why we would like to do something special for our brides in order to say "Thanks!".
As you know we are partial to a competition and our last competition ended during the Glastonbury Festival which we were lucky enough to provide cupcakes for. Last week we put our thinking caps on and decided that our next competition should be for a lucky couple who are planning their wedding. The winner will have an entire cupcake tower provided for their wedding for free.
This is what we "propose":
We want to hear all about how you proposed to your significant other. You can either reply to this post, e-mail us on hello@cupcakeslondon.com, Tweet us or give us your story on our Facebook Wall (links to Twitter and FB pages are here www.cupcakeslondon.com) . Once we have chosen our top 5 stories, we will ask our fans to vote for the couple who should get their wedding cupcakes for FREE! The only condition is that your wedding must be taking place in the UK!
As many of you will know, I got married in August 2010 and I LOVE all things wedding related so am really looking forward to reading your stories. To start you off I will tell you how my husband proposed to me in Feb 2010. We had been together nearly 4 years and I am awfully hard to surprise. I knew that a proposal was on the cards and I was being really annoying; each time my other half said we were going out I would say "make sure you have the ring in your pocket!". Valentines Day was looming and so my mind was in overdrive, so my other half knew that surprising me was key! 2 days before valentines day, I returned home from a day of baking to find the house dark and the alarm disabled. I walked in to find a trail of candles, rose petals, gifts and cute messages leading me up to my bedroom which faces over the garden. The final message told me to look out of the window, where I saw the words "Marry me" written in fairy lights and my sweetheart on one knee.... The rest is history!!
Good Luck!!
The Cupcaker x
I love that my fiance, Sean is odd, it makes every day interesting and our time together hilarious. I always knew that he would never be the down-on-one-knee type, but I didn't expect a wave of proposals like ants at an ice-lolly wrapper.
ReplyDeleteProposal A: Sean wakes me in the middle of the night (March 2011) whispering loudly to my subconscious "REeeeeeeen, REeeeeeeenm REeeeeen I want to marry you"...though this was more a fact than an actual proposal, still, very sweet.
Proposal B: While visiting my parents in Australia (April 2011) Sean proposed to me while we were watching a stunning sunset on the shore of a lake, as we're cooling down from a power walk...I say yes, of course, but asked if we could perhaps have a proposal memory where we're not slick with exercise-sweat.
Proposal C: Days later while sitting in a sandstone paddling pool at Wileys Baths, Coogee Beach, a hearfelt, romantic proposal occured as the sun beat down on our backs and cool waves crashed around us. Aaah, perfect.
Proposal D: Perhaps the wrong way around, but Sean asked my parents after he had asked me. He cried, they cried, I listened to them cry (I was banished from the room). Apparently my Dad replied " Had you not asked me, I would have had to buy a shotgun". Awww.
How could I say no...the dude is persistant.
Oh, and I love him. Der.
From Sophie Mitchell (submitted by e-mail)
ReplyDeleteMy boyfriend and me planned to stay for a week in London with a friend. The friend kindly offered to pick us up (from our home in Eastleigh) and drive us to his flat. He took a detour and we ended up at the airport. My boyfriend then informed me that we were booked to go to Gran Canaria for a week! He had also arranged for us to go to the VIP lounge.
We arrived in Gran Canaria and after a few days went for a romantic meal. Afterwards we had a walk on the beach and someone had made a circle of stones which we stood in. He then said a little speech in Spanish (which he had got a friend to teach him and then memorised) got down on one knee and proposed! I obviously said yes.
When we returned I discovered that he had originally booked with XL airlines which went bust the week before we flew and he had to rearrange all without my knowledge! We planned to get married but had to postpone when I fell pregnant with our boy Riley now 18 months. When we get married Riley will be best man.
We love cupcakes and would love to win some of yours! X
From Karina via e-mail
ReplyDeleteMy fiancee proposed Christmas day 2009. He made handmade crackers for me and our 2 girls. He devised jokes and in it we had the choice of keeping £5 or donating the money to charity. My girls went 1st and proudly they donated the money to charity. My turn and I donated my money too. I read the joke aloud 'there was a man and a women with children and the man said to the women, will you do me the greatest honour on earth and become my wife?' I looked up and my partner was down on one knee with a ring in his hand, I was in tears! We have just booked our wedding after having yet another daughter and I will officially become Mrs Buckley on 3rd June 2012.
Karina x
From Nic Curtis via e-mail
ReplyDeleteMy partner and I had been together for 8 months before he surprised me with his proposal! And like the cupcaker I am very hard to surprise, I ask too many questions lol! We went to Vegas for his birthday so for a present from me I booked us a helicopter trip to the grand canyon so I wasn’t expecting any proposal at all!. The trip was hilarious coz when we landed down in the canyon we both felt really sick from the bumpy ride and could hardly speak to one another. My partner called me back over to the helicopter and pulled out the ring, but the only words that could come out of his mouth was ‘will ya’ hahah. I started to cry and everyone else on the trip started clapping. Soon I will be a ‘Mrs’ and I cant wait for our big day xx
From Rachel Westwood via e-mail
ReplyDeleteThis may not seem very romantic to some but anyone who knows my fiance will agree it was for him. He and I had been together nearly three and a half years when he proposed. I had been up visiting my mum for the week and thoughout this week I recieved some texts off of him telling me how much he missed me and loved me (This is very unlike him), I didn't think anything of this just that it was very sweet, lovely and of course it meant alot. I got home from mums on the Saturday and went to see him, as soon as I saw him I saw the smile on his face where he was so happy to see me, we left where he was and went home before meeting some people later on for drinks. When we got in I was telling him about my week and the night out with my friends, I went into my suitcase to get something out to show him and when I turned around he was standing there with a smile on his face and the ring in a box in his hands, I was so shocked (pleasantly of course!) He then proceeded to say "This week I have realised how much I love you and that when you're not here how much I miss you, I am empty when you are not with me and can't imagine you not being there in my life" a pause then "will you marry me?" I couldn't believe it, I was so happy of course I said yes then he gave me a hug and a kiss then he slid the ring onto my finger, I think I even saw the relief on his face that I said yes :) and here we are almost 3 years on, planning our wedding, which is just around the corner! Soon I will be his 'wife' which seems strange but I cant wait to say those special words and officially be a member of his family.
Rachel Westwood
Submitted by Alexandria Peploe via e-mail
ReplyDeleteMy name is Alex and my fiance Scott and I were together for three years before he proposed to me (several times!).
The first time he proposed to me I was busy throwing up into the toilet with food poisoning and he said 'Would it make you feel better if I asked you to marry me?' My answer contained a few choice expletives that can't be repeated in pleasant company.
Anyway the food poisoning passed and I decided to take the proposal as a joke - after all there wasn't even a ring! A few months later I was putting his jeans in the wash when I found a reciept from a jewellery shop.
Deciding to be nosy I thought I could get away without being caught so popped into the jewellers on the way to the shops one day. Unfortunately I had the most over-exuberant shop assistant ever who was so excited about me collecting the ring that she 'helpfully' insisted on me taking it home with me there and then 'I bet you can't wait to wear it!' she said. Well I couldn't exactly tell her the truth (that I obviously wasn't meant to know about it!)
panicking I got it home and hid it in my underwear drawer and after dinner the next night insisted on a midnight walk to the Southbank of London where we settled down on a bench at our favourite spot, underneath lots of blue twinkly fairylights. I asked Scott where he would propose to me if he could, ever the romantic his reply was 'Here I suppose'. So I took the ring out of my handbag and gave it to him and he got down on one knee (in a puddle!), the rest as they say is history!
Alex
Submitted by Kate Macpherson via e-mail
ReplyDeleteHow Steve proposed:
It was a cold December snowy night……….As my family live in Scotland and Steve’s in the south east of England we weren’t going to be spending Christmas 2010 together, we decided to have a romantic weekend in Bath together the weekend before Christmas, we were due to leave on the Saturday morning and as we watched the news on the Friday night they were predicting heavy snow falls again across the south of England, I turned to Steve and said seriously are we being stupid driving to Bath in that weather tomorrow, the last thing I wanted to do is get stranded in the snow. He agreed reluctantly and seemed a bit upset as was I very disappointed however I said look we can spend the next 4 days here doing things at home and going out for days and perhaps we can walk into Purley (its not quite the same as Bath but walking distance!!) and have a thai or something tomorrow night, this did not cheer him up. On Saturday morning I woke up at 6.30am (very unusual for me) and sat upright and woke Steve up and said come on, s*d it lets just be impulsive and adventurous and just get down to Bath now before it snows so we raced out of bed and packed a few things, threw it all in the car and off we set. As we drove down the M4 it started snowing and snowing and I started getting worried as I had never seen it settle so quickly on a motorway before and thought we were going to end up a statistic on the news! I was driving and we had a moment where Steve and I looked at each other and thought what have we done!!! We kept going and eventually through the snow made it to Bath where the sun was shining brightly and it looked so beautiful in the snow. Steve had told me to pack a dress for the evening and we would go somewhere nice for dinner. We decided to go for a drink in the hotel bar at 7.30 so we left our room and on the way to the bar Steve grabbed my hand and said lets just go outside and look at the snow in the moonlight. I thought ok this is weird but ok he is being romantic……….outside he started behaving very strangely and walking around and asking me to come over to him. I said its freezing can’t we just go and get a drink!! No, he replied, because we are going to make a promise to each other tonight, (my heart started racing!) he reached into his jacket pocket and got down on one knee and asked me to marry him, I said yes!!! He got up and showed me the ring, he had got hold of my great grandmothers diamond from her engagement ring and had it set amongst two other diamonds….we are getting married on the 30th September 2011 and I am so happy. I think I am the luckiest girl in the world to have met ‘the one’.
Kate x
The world's most scary proposal:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/07/13/marriage-proposal-of-the-day/
Submitted by Helen Clements via e-mail:
ReplyDeleteI was proposed to after about 3 and half years of being with Andrew, at this stage I have to thank my brother as he was the one who introduced us in the first place. And also was hiding the ring for 6months as Andrew couldn't decide when or how was best and didnt want me to find it.
So I arrived down to Andrew's house to spend a normal weekend together to find no-one answering the door. Thankfully I had a key!! After opening the door I found a note saying put your bags down, take your shoes off, relax and follow my notes. From there on I followed the notes up to the first floor all notes relating to different highlights of our relationship and then I started going up the second set of stairs were the notes became more romantic bringing me to tears even before the actual event. The last note said 'take a breath and a arrow directing me into his room.' It was covered in tea lights on the floor and had taylor swift love story playing in the backround as I walked round the corner of his room, there he was in his uniform(military man makes my heart melt) down on one knee!! And as they say the rest is history we topped the day off with a lovely dinner and champagne! It all happened on the 2nd April 2010 and planning on getting married in Sept 2012.
Submitted by e-mail from Jo Brady:
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After being with my other half for over 10 years you would think I would have guessed but I hadn't a clue- it was valentines day and in the past he had called V day 'tacky and a waste of money' so I really had no idea ;-)
I came home from work expecting to see him asleep on the sofa as he was off sick that day. (I now realise he took the day off to prepare!) I opened the front door and to my amazement the whole flat was scattered with rose petals. All down the hall, right through into the front room. There were 10 vases of full bloomed stargazer lillies (my favourite ever flower ) all over the flat. 10 vases- one for every year we have been together, and exactly 125 flowers - one for each month we have been together. (BLESS!) I was totally overwhelmed and thought how amazing he had done this all for valentines day. But my other half was nowhere to be seen! I walked into the front room, taking it all in and smelling the gorgeous lillies when he appeared wearing a gorgeous grey suit and handed me a boxed card. I opened it and it said 'to my wonderful fiancé,' on it. I burst into tears (this proposal had been a long time coming!) and then I turned around and he was on one knee, and said' Miss Brady, will you do me the honour of becoming Mrs Brodie, and Marry me? I could not stop crying and of course said yes! I literally collapsed into his arms sobbing with DELIGHT! He had already ran me a candlelit bath which I sat in drinking pink champagne, (he sat on the loo as our bath is tiny and couldn't possibly fit the both of us lol.) We sat chatting, taking it all in then rang our parents and best friends. He then cooked me a three course meal (mussells in white wine, fillet steak and my fave ben and jerrys ice cream) and we proceeded to get very tipsy on more pink champagne lol. I've never felt so happy and we are getting married on Saturday 4th August 2012. It would make us so happy to win your amazing cupcake tower and really would be the icing on the 'cupcake'. Thanks so much, Jo and Darren xxx
Submitted by Lisbeth via e-mail
ReplyDeleteMy partner had chased me to three different countries around the world before we married! The snag was that I had decided I never wanted to marry so that's why he had to be so persistent.
In the end he waited until I was very jetlagged and sleep-deprived - after yet another flight form one country to another- and then he proposed me.
In the morning I didn't even remember a thing! Now I have learnt life doesn't go according to plans and that you have to be flexible.
I have to say that if he had proposed to me at Valentine's Day or some similar cliche he would have needed to keep on chasing a bit longer!
Lisbeth
Submitted via e-mail from Sophie Mitchell
ReplyDeleteMy boyfriend and me planned to stay for a week in London with a friend. The friend kindly offered to pick us up (from our home in Eastleigh) and drive us to his flat. He took a detour and we ended up at the airport. My boyfriend then informed me that we were booked to go to Gran Canaria for a week! He had also arranged for us to go to the VIP lounge.
We arrived in Gran Canaria and after a few days went for a romantic meal. Afterwards we had a walk on the beach and someone had made a circle of stones which we stood in. He then said a little speech in Spanish (which he had got a friend to teach him and then memorised) got down on one knee and proposed! I obviously said yes.
When we returned I discovered that he had originally booked with XL airlines which went bust the week before we flew and he had to rearrange all without my knowledge! We planned to get married but had to postpone when I fell pregnant with our boy Riley now 18 months. When we get married Riley will be best man.
We love cupcakes and would love to win some of yours! X