MINSTRELS AND PSALMISTS

It’s the most romantic day of the year and of course you want to for your girl, to propose her!!! But what you do depends on how long you’ve been seeing one another and what level of romance you want to bring to

1. If you two want to travel around – You can tell her to meet you at a hotel and tell her that your parents are coming to town. But as she’s entering the suite, instead of seeing you family, she will see an acoustic guitar playing your song. You can also prepare a runner inscribed with a phrase eg. “To a lifetime of adventures together” leading to a world map, a collection of vintage trunks, antique globes, and paper airplanes with memories of your travels written in calligraphy and vintage prints of your travel photos. You can cover the room with rose petals and with a final surprise: an engraved compass and leather-bound journal that read: “To a lifetime of adventures together.”

2. Choose a favorite place – Whether it’s a fountain, hotel rooftop, monument or national park – that has personal significance to the two of you. Once you’re there, ask someone nearby to take a picture of you together, and instead of posing, drop down on one knee.

3. Have a choir, brass band or drum line show up for a surprise performance of your fiance-to-be’s favorite love song in a park or public location for your proposal. For a really personal touch, ask the performers if they can incorporate your fiance’s name into the lyrics.

4. Arrange a surprise proposal with a street caricaturist. Have the caricaturist sketch a picture of you two with word bubbles that say,

5. Ask the divers at an aquarium to put on a proposal show inside their biggest fish tank. Give them a (waterproof) sign that says, “Will you marry me?” to hold up against the glass and then position yourselves for what will, at first, seem like feeding time.

6. Send your unsuspecting fiance-to-be on a treasure hunt that ends with your proposal. Start with a clue at home (a handwritten note or text message) that leads to a tour of your favorite spots all over town. 7. Go out for a night of dancing and ask the DJ or bandleader to pass you the mic so you can dedicate a song and propose on the dance floor.

8. Hire a skywriter to spell out your proposal for everyone around to see.

9. Take out a full-page ad in a newspaper, and then pick the perfect spot to have a relaxing morning of catching up on current events. Another twist on this idea is to call into a radio station and then make sure your fiance-to-be is listening when your proposal is on the air

10. Plan a romantic destination . When you’re on the plane, use the loudspeaker system (of course, run your plan by the flight attendants first) and propose at 35,000 feet.

11. If you’re out of town, after a long day of sightseeing, have a drink in the hotel bar. When it’s time to go, have roses, candles and champagne all set up in your hotel room — everything for a perfect surprise proposal.

12. Invite her at your apartement, turn off all the lights and make a trail of candles that leads to a circle of votives positioned around the ring.

13. Cook a five star worthy meal of all your fiancée’s favorite foods or hire a personal chef for the night. Make a heart shaped cake and put the ring in it.