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Spring is here, and love is in the air. Perhaps you've had a ring box sitting in your sock drawer for the past three months. Having bypassed a standard Christmas-New Year's proposal and the compelling pull of a Valentine's Day proposal, you may be wondering if you've missed the holiday proposal boat. Have no fear, Easter is right around the corner.
A holiday filled with hopeful symbolism, Easter brings to mind new beginnings and renewed hope. Expressions of romantic love are perfectly in step with these.
Perhaps you already have an Easter tradition: A day spent with family, at church, eating chocolate bunnies and jelly beans, hiding Easter eggs, or a visit to the Easter Bunny. If so, weaving your proposal into any one of these traditions is simple and filled with memorable possibilities.
In case you don't have Easter traditions of your own to spur your imagination, we've compiled a number of possible proposal options to make this Easter the most memorable of all:
- Jelly Bean Eggs. Purchase a set of plastic hiding eggs and fill five or six of them with jelly beans, nestling the ring into one of them. If she grows at all suspicious, shaking the eggs will offer her no clues. Place the eggs in a basket (she will be inclined to keep the basket as a memorial, so make sure it's a beauty), with the ring egg firmly at the bottom. Since she's not likely to eat all the jelly beans at once, hide love notes in each one, as well. She will be compelled to keep opening them to read the sweet notes. You can include a Will You Marry Me? note in with the ring, or you can just let the ring speak for itself. Note of caution: If your girlfriend likes to savor her gifts or her candy, you may want to hide the ring egg closer to the top. Urging her to open more will feel like suspicious pressure and will add a tension to the moment that she may not enjoy.
- Golden Easter Egg Hunt. Purchase a set of gold-colored plastic hiding eggs from a local party goods store. In addition, purchase one hollow egg made of real gold in which you can hide her engagement ring. Fill the plastic eggs with treats and clues that will lead her along to find all the eggs, ending, of course, with the ring egg. Note of Caution: Hiding the ring egg outside may be an exciting and wonderful opportunity to really surprise your lady love; however, it also presents some danger to the ring. We suggest that you do so only if you're certain she will find it without too much "egging" on. If you feel ill at ease about hiding the ring outside, send her inside with the final plastic clue egg and meet her in the doorway on your knees holding the golden ring egg, or hide the ring egg somewhere safe inside.
- Easter Basket Surprise. Purchase a beautiful Easter Egg basket--make this one count, as she will likely want to save it for life. Fill it with her favorite spring things. If she loves gardening, get her a set of feminine garden tools and some pretty gloves (make sure you know her size). If she loves candy, get her lots of chocolate and jelly beans (don't forget the Peeps). Whatever she loves, fill her basket with it and make it as beautiful as possible (get your sister to help you, or better yet ask her sister to help you). Whatever you fill it with, find a way to incorporate the ring/ring box into the mix.
- Chocolate Bunny Surprise. Chocolate bunnies are a staple of almost every Easter celebration. Ranging in size from colossal to minuscule, there are a number of ways you can incorporate these delicious goodies into your proposal plans. If she likes grand, purchase a colossal chocolate bunny in her favorite flavor (white, dark, or milk). Tie a ribbon around its ear, its paw, or its neck, and string the ring on it. Place it in her favorite spot in her house (or yours), and wait in the wings until she finds it. As she begins to untie the ribbon, bend on one knee beside her and say those magic words. If your sweetheart is more subtle, choose a more diminutive chocolate rabbit. Again, you can tie the ring around the bunny with a ribbon, or you might be able to slip it onto the rabbit's ears or one of its paws. It's really hard to go wrong with the chocolate bunny; there's nothing quite like diamonds and chocolate to make her swoon.
- Easter Picnic. Pack a basket filled with her favorite delicacies, hiding the ring box in and among the picnic supplies. Choose a favorite outdoor location, or find a special natural hideaway she's never been to before. Make sure you'll have privacy and cooperative weather. After you lay out the blanket for her (chivalry is not dead), you can ask her to help you unpack the picnic basket. Turn the basket so that the ring box will be within her reach. If your girl is hard to surprise, consider packing extra presents in the upper layer of the basket. One man threw his lady off the scent after he gave her a set of pearl earrings and a matching necklace toward the beginning of their time together.
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