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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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Check this winter engagement photoshoot from two intense med students

A passionate engagement photo shoot may be outside some people’s comfort zone, but Jordan Jay found that it conveyed her relationship with fiancé Nicholas better than the typical super-sweet shots.

Let's relive a seriously sweet surprise proposal at this engagement shoot in Spain

Let’s relive a seriously sweet surprise proposal at this engagement shoot in Spain

Álvaro and Josechu met while they were both playing in an opera orchestra which sounds terribly romantic to me. They fell in love and five years later, a proposal happened.

One morning, Álvaro found a note that lead him to the garden where Josechu had prepared a private picnic brunch… or at least that’s what got Álvaro to walk over…

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Not your average celebrity rings: imagining the engagement rings of our favorite fictional characters

Let’s just have some fun today, imagining the engagement rings of a few of our favorite fictional characters. We’re talking about everyone from the all-grown-up versions of Harry Potter characters like Luna Lovegood or Hermione Granger, to Star Wars characters, to movie faves like Lydia Dietz from Beetlejuice to Princess Buttercup from The Princess Bride, to comic book bad-asses like Wonder Woman, and Gamora…

A cemetery engagement photo shoot with pumpkins, colorful smoke, and their Best Cats

A cemetery engagement photo shoot with pumpkins, colorful smoke, and their cats of honor

Remember Lily and Joe’s dark and romanctic pagan wedding in Maryland that we featured a few months back? They also had the most amazing, spooky, and cat-filled engagement and we thought it was perfect to share right before Halloween.

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PEAK HALLOWEDDING: When you propose with a coffin ring at a pumpkin patch

Some of you may remember Laurie and Andrew’s moody halloween wedding which featured a ton of classy but macabre morbid details, complete with the bride and groom driving off in a hearse. But wait, did you notice that ring Laurie’s wearing? Did you think to yourself, hey wait a minute — is that a FREAKING COFFIN RING!?

This pair met Toothless at their How to Train Your Dragon-themed forest engagement shoot

This pair met Toothless at their How to Train Your Dragon-themed forest engagement shoot

Dorothy and Matthew are BIG fans of the How To Train Your Dragon movies and wanted to have some great couples photos with the feel of some of the scenes from the first movie, where Hiccup and Astrid are in the woods with Toothless…