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Proposals & Engagement

How to propose to your boyfriend, alternative engagement ideas, engagement stories, unique engagement rings, and more!

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Proposing Part 2: How to propose to your boyfriend

Last week’s Why you should propose to your boyfriend post was a big hit, so I’m continuing on with Part 2: HOW to propose to your boyfriend. Of course there are as many ways to propose to your boyfriend as there are people reading this website, but when considering proposing, here are a few things […]

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Proposing Part 1: Why you should propose to your boyfriend

Girls, STOP WAITING! If you’re into questioning traditions, start by questioning the very first assumption about weddings: that a woman’s role is waiting for a man to pick her.

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Who picked THIS engagement pose?

Is it just me, or do the crossed arms of the headless groom-to-be comes off as creepily paternalistic? (“No, you’re not getting your bride allowance — you’ve been naughty this week!”)

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Diamond as dick size

See, when you talk exact carats, you’re getting into the dick-size game, whether you mean to or not. It’s sort of like pulling down your pants and saying, “Oh that? My 10.75-inch-long penis? Ignore that — I’m trying to tell about you my scrotal piercing!” Here’s a fool-proof way to avoid the whole OMG IT’S SO HUGE discussion.

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Can you skip it and have NO engagement ring?

An excerpt from the book recently ran on Elle Canada’s website. Granted, it was pretty sanitized (I curse a lot in the book — I guess Elle readers aren’t as foul-mouthed as I am), but you can check it out over here: The ring with the bling: Who needs an engagement ring?

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Non-sucky wedding bands

While my sweetie and I DO want to exchange rings, we DON’T want to spend a lot of money on them, and we have no interest in traditional, mainstream wedding rings.

We want something simple, and different.

We live in a town that doesn’t have anything like that, so online is our best bet.