While we think proposals should be kept simple and sincere, check out these creative and adorable ideas to inspire your own! From flipbooks to fuzzy ring bearers, these ones caught our attention:
1. The flipbook
Take a trip down memory lane and revisit some of the best moments you’ve shared with this adorable flipbook that illustrates all the highlights in your relationship. The best part: You don’t have to do this on your own if you’re not much of an artist. We found flipbook artist Ben Zurawski of The Flippist (www.theflippist.com), who does custom hand-drawn animated flipbooks here, and were sold on the idea instantly. The book doubles as a ring-holder, where the ring is nestled at the back, within a few cut-out pages.
2. Ask Fido to help
If he or she has a beloved pooch, cat, or other pet, enlist its help to score brownie points with your woman (or man). The idea is similar to how you’d have your pet as ring bearer during the wedding: tie the ringbox around his/her pet’s neck, or a sign that reads: “Will you marry me?”
3. Fake newspaper or magazine page
Real bride-to-be Sandy Wong received the surprise of her life when boyfriend-turned-fiance Lester Chee worked with now-defunct Cosmopolitan Singapore to help pop the question. The idea is simple: If you’re unable to reach the editorial team of your girlfriend or boyfriend’s favourite newspaper or magazine, see if you can ask your friends to help out in the creative department to create a fake page that looks exactly like the real thing. The message or article you wanna convey is of course, to ask her (or him) to marry you.
4. In a photo booth
Take a leaf out of this adorable boyfriend’s book: capture her expression of surprise via a photo booth!
5. In her/his mug
Instead of the ring in champagne thing, leave the ring out of your cup or mug, and have the words “Marry me?” etched or inked permanently onto the base, so she’ll see it first thing after her draining her morning coffee.