Pop Goes the Question - Christmas Proposals

What's your favour?!

With the season of goodwill often doubling as the season of popping THAT

question, a little digging reveals that in some cases there’s Santa-sized effort

put into proposals these days…

Christmas Day remains the most popular day for proposals, according to industry experts, meaning that the 25th sees more than just crackers and corks getting popped. Certainly wedding suppliers see a surge in bookings in January, as newly engaged couples start to organise their weddings (top tip: book your Wedding Planner and Celebrant as SOON as you

have a date as we get booked up waaaay in advance.)

But while some proposers go for a low key affair – a small box left under the tree until last, or attached to a piece of mistletoe – some go for all the show-stopping pizazz of the London Palladium’s pantomime.

Take the chap who booked a private session at an alfresco ice rink. Complete with red

carpet, and having got his lady there by devious means, he then cued lights and music.

Skating over to her, finishing down on one knee, he then whipped out a Tiffany box.

SWOON!

Likewise, a friend of mine (who had previously sworn that her girlfriend didn’t have a

romantic bone in her body) was rendered a blubbering mess on Christmas Eve 2018. Going to answer the front door she found Santa in the driveway, along with a sleigh pulled by a team of horses wearing antlers. She climbed aboard, whereupon ‘Santa’ shed her disguise, produced a ring, declared her love in song (All I Want for Christmas is You) and proposed!

Rings secreted in crackers are another popular proposal method (beware the sparkler being dismissed as ‘fake’ or getting lost in a tangle of paper crowns), as are rings placed in champagne flutes (if you’re asking a guzzler then maybe rethink this one).

But winter walks on Christmas Day remain one of the favourite ways of popping the

question during the festive season, ditto having a bauble inscribed with ‘Will you marry

me?’ (casually handed to you unsuspecting partner as you decorate the tree).

Some like to make it a family affair and propose at the end of the family present opening,

while others wait for a quiet, private moment and then go for it.

There is, of course, no right or wrong. But if the idea of making your proposal a bit unique appeals, the options are pretty endless.

But whether you’re asking the big question privately or publicly; discreetly or with a full-

scale carnival behind you, so long as you ask it from the heart then it really doesn’t matter.

The important thing is that the answer is an unequivocal ‘YES!’

And of course the other REALLY important thing, remember, is to book your preferred

Wedding Planner and Celebrant faster than Santa can do his Christmas Eve delivery!

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