Marriage is the most auspicious and sacred moment in everyone’s life. Because marriage brings a lot of joy, happiness, new relations, and beautiful people, (of course some new responsibilities too), but remember, one can get all these joy and unforgettable moments only when the right and desired person enters their life. So what to do? Yes, now we are on the track. The key to every successful marriage is the best marriage proposal. Want to know how to do a marriage proposal successfully? Come let’s start the treasure hunt for good marriage proposal ideas.
Unique Ideas for How to do a Marriage Proposal:
By this time you can understand that there is a lot of competition for brides in the market. You know! The scenario is different for grooms because we can find gentlemen from every corner of the earth but unfortunately, the earth is round. Hey, guys cool I’m just kidding. It is equally difficult for both genders to get married with the perfect partner. So when you find your soulmate don’t dare to lose him/her at any cost. Go With the best marriage proposals and get your dream partner successfully.
Here we come up with unique marriage proposal ideas for both genders. Many people may think that these kinds of pre-marital celebrations are only meant for celebrities or ultra-rich people. If you think like that the answer is a big no. Because love can be expressed in multiple ways, if you blend your love with some creativity everyone can enjoy the real happiness behind these marriage proposals. In the following section, we list the ideas into different categories and choose those that match your criteria.
Nature-inspired proposal ideas:
Bloom with Flowers:
Write about your marriage with beautiful flowers in a pool or pond and plan a surprise visit for your partner to that place.
Let campfire speak on behalf of your:
This is the perfect idea for a romantic couple. Just imagine you both are at romantic seashore, a cool breeze passing through your faces, a lovely full moon playing hide and seek with the clouds, little dew of snow sliding down your both cheeks, a hot campfire in front of you increasing the glow
Of your faces. Exactly at this moment look at her/ his eyes, hold their hand and with your husky voice simply ask them “ Will you marry me”. Ahh! Yes, that’s it dude, come out of the imagination. Hey if you are a good singer, add a few lines of a song to your proposal and believe me your proposal will go to the next level.
Steal the heart with a musical concert at the beach:
I think you are aware of musical concerts, organize a musical concert of their favorite playlist or with the love and marriage theme songs. It would be a great idea if you could sing or play violin or any other musical instrument to do your marriage proposal.
Sunset and sunrise proposal:
Plan a to a hill station, take her to the highest point of the and convey your proposal at sunset time. Likewise, you can express your love during sunrise on a beach or at a river.
Propose while planting:
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Send love fortune plants like Anthurium red, hoya heart plant and orchids. These plants are considered the fortune of love and are believed to strengthen the relationships of partners. You can order these plants and personalized pots with your name on several online platforms.
Adventurous theme:
Plan some adventures adventure:
If your future partner loves adventures, try to make marriage proposals with some exciting adventure activities like scuba diving, parachute gliding, bungee jumps, trucking, etc.
Go for a Long drive:
This idea will work out if you both are in a relationship. Plan a long drive and express your marriage proposal in a peaceful(Romantic) and private space. On a long drive, you will get many chances to show your care and love towards each other. So I believe this idea may do wonders.
Treasure hunt:
Arrange a small treasure hunt game in a forest or at a recreational space that finally takes them to the treasure (small ring, pendant or any other gift) with a marriage proposal message.
Traditional options:
Mehandi art:
Convey your marriage proposal to her through mehandi art. If you are good at drawing you can try it with your own hands.
Colourful Rangoli:
Draw a beautiful rangoli with vibrant colours and a marriage proposal before their living room or at any other convenient place.
Try the string puppet tradition:
If you are an Indian you might have an idea about this ancient Shadow puppet tradition. Before movie technology evolved, artists used to entertain people by telling stories with this tradition. If your love is childish and loves traditions try to express your marriage proposal through this art.
Write a letter:
Writing love letters is an old tradition but we know old is gold right? Sometimes we can’t express what we exactly feel to the other person. If you are in such a state your words can do magic. But make sure to use realistic words instead of making it cinematic. If you want to add an extra surprise, you can send letters daily for a week or 10 days or more. On each day you can give them compliments and reasons to love them, and on the final day, you reveal your marriage proposal.
Express with diyas: Plan to visit a temple and there on the ground or in a pond write “Will you marry me” with diyas and ask them to ignite the diyas.
Plan a fake wedding of dolls:
In the south Indian region, children often play with wooden dolls of the bride and groom and perform all the rituals of the wedding for fun. Plan such a traditional wedding by portraying your characters in that wedding.
Through kites: Convey your love and wedding proposal by writing them on a kite and letting it fly near your partner.
Ideas for pet lovers:
Go with old tradition: In ancient times people used to communicate with the help of doves and parrots. Just like that, send your proposal letter with lovely birds.
Aquarium:
You can also present your marriage proposal idea with a lovely aquarium pot with a pair of tiny fishes, colourful pebbles, leaves and a marriage proposal placard.
Adore pets with your message:
Try decorating cute puppies and kettles with tiny bells, a Wedding proposal Letter and a present to your partner.
Most affordable proposal ideas:
Send a beautiful wedding invitation card:
Are you wondering, how could I send a wedding invitation for a marriage proposal? Read carefully, here is the secret. Prepare a beautiful wedding invitation with both your name and photos in a creative way to send a marriage proposal. You can give this card directly or can send it through a courier. This idea will do wonders if you are an introvert or do not have enough courage to get in touch directly. Do you know another benefit of this idea? It does not even decrease the bulkiness of your wallet.
Say marriage proposal with a photo album or scrapbook:
Hey, don’t be angry with me. Let me complete it, just collect the beautiful pics of the most adorable and famous couples like Romeo-Juliet, Asiwarya Roy-Abhishek Bachan, King Kohli and Anushka Sharma, etc. At the end of the album keep a card asking their permission ( can I add our snap to this gallery) to add your photo.
Use face swap technology:
With AI now everything is possible, right? Recently social media has stormed with AI-generated Ram and Sita with face swap technology. You can create such a Ram & Seetha pic with your faces using face swap technology. If you want to go in a traditional and yet trending way you can try this method.
Present speaking teddy or toy: Record your voice proposal in a microchip, keep it inside the teddy and present it to your love.
Shoot a video with your marriage proposal:
Sending a video marriage proposal is also a great idea. You can make a little grand by playing that video proposal in a Multiplex or an open theatre. If you want you can rent a theatre for some time or you can even make it happen on your terrace or in any open space with the help of a projector or a smart TV.
Recreate your first date: Try recreating your first date exactly in the presence of your family and friends. Finally, tell your marriage proposal suddenly with a gift.
Customization theme:
Customized jewellery:
Design handcrafted jewellery with your name, initials or photos. Propose your partner by adorning your partner with customized jewellery.
Couple outfits:
Let your marriage proposal reach them through couple outfits. Customize an outfit with a marriage proposal and gift them.
Print your love story book: Write and print a customized book in cartoon style that details your entire love story including your first date, and proposal date, capture your special moments and finally end it up with your marriage proposal.
Gift a calendar:
Create a calendar with your best moments of every month and gift it to your partner. At the end add your love quote and marriage proposal.
Outdoor ideas:
Laser show:
Arrange an amazing water laser show that details all the true essence of love, and at the end of the show convey your message.
On a romantic boat trip: Plan a short boat trip in a small village. Adorn the pond with floating oil lamps and love quotes written on lotus leaves and finally convey your proposal.
Recreate the best marriage proposal scenes:
If you are a bit cinematic, creative and tech bee you should try this amazing idea. In many classic movies, there are beautiful romantic and heartfelt proposal scenes and songs. Recreate them with your characters.
Propose with colourful lights and sparks:
This is not a new idea but I’m sure it is not a bad idea. You might have seen it in many movies, proposing by flashing lamps of love and quotes in the air.
Make a marriage proposal at a special place:
Express your marriage proposal in a very special place. Like your first meeting spot or at which you saw your soulmate first, etc. At that spot, you can pour your heart out about how your love has begun. This kind of proposal will assure them how much you value their presence.
Plan a surprise trip to a dream place:
Know the dream place or a favourite place of your love and plan a surprise visit to that place. In some cases, it might be a little expensive but trust me this trip will give you tons of unforgettable memories.
Proposal ideas at home:
Arrange a house party with family and friends:
Unlike regular marriage proposal talks. Host a small lovely family gathering with very close persons from both families at a hill station or a resort, have some quality time with all of them and reveal marriage proposals in one fine moment.
With a puzzle: Prepare a crossword puzzle or sudoku puzzle in such a way as to get your names and marriage proposals as the final answers.
Jigsaw puzzle: Convey your love and message with personalized or customized jigsaw photo puzzles of you both. You can buy and order these jigsaw puzzles even on Amazon
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With traditional ceramic or pottery art: Design a ceramic or pottery art with both your hand or footprint, write a marriage proposal on it and present it to her.
Invite for a private candlelight dinner at home:
Invite your love for a private candlelight dinner in your penthouse. Welcome him/her grandly by showering flowers or with lovely music. Hey, believe me, instead of ordering food from restaurants, if you could prepare and serve their favourite dishes with love, they would fall for sure and see hundreds of sparkles in their eyes.
With placards:
If your partner loves kids, let cute kids hold placards of your marriage proposal in a line at a beautiful scenic view and take your partner to that place by closing their eyes.
Food fun theme:
Bake customized cakes:
If you are good at cooking try baking a love-shaped cake, write your proposal on it and garnish it attractively.
Spell out with cookies: Prepare different cookies and garnish them to express your marriage proposal.
Vegetable and carving:
Convey your proposal with different vegetable carving ( an art of cut cutting and designing veggies and fruits)
Go with the aroma of arts:
Sand sculpture:
This is again a must try idea to get absolute yes for your proposal. Arrange sand professional sand sculpture to create sand sculpture of you both along with the proposal. Invite your partner to the beach and just unveiled the sculpture.
Art Gallery: Rent out a small room or you can even use a room at your home and fill that room with beautiful paintings and sculptures that details your love life. Finally present an art form to reveal your marriage proposal.
Wax statues: Consult wax statue museum coordinators to prepare a wax sculpture of your likeness and ask them to exhibit in the museum. Then plan a surprise visit for the museum to present your sculpture and propose.
Live painting show:
Arrange a live painting show either in a private place or at a public place to picturise your story and at the end convey your proposal.
Sculptures: Propose by presenting a customized sculpture of your marriage proposal with your names using clay or rock. This kind of message lasts forever.
Best places for Marriage Proposal:
There are no specific best places for Marriage proposals. The places that work for me may work for others and it also depends on several factors like the likes and dislikes of the people, proposal theme, budget, climate, time and some X factors. After some research and considering some general factors, we prepared a list of a few best places for marriage proposals.
- Nature’s lap is always a great idea. Try beautiful natural enriched places like God’s own country “ Kerala”, Borra caves ( Araku, Andhra Pradesh), the Marble rocks of Bhedaghat Jabalpur, Living root bridges in Meghalaya and many more. For more details about these places refer to this website.
- Ever best Beaches. Some of the romantic beaches are Rushikonda Beach in Vizag, Arjuna Beach in North Goa, Butterfly Beach in South Goa, AlappuzBeachach, etc. In India there are several beaches to know more about all those beaches explore this blog.
- Lovely Hill Stations like Shimla, Darjeeling, Mussoorie, Nainital, etc.
- Love Themed Resorts in and around your area. Some of the most visited resorts for couples are wooden treehouse resort in Himachal Pradesh, private houseboats in Alleppey, and Royal Orchid Bengaluru.
- You can take a trial at islands like the Great Nicobar, Majuli Island, Lakshadweep Islands, Netrani Island, etc.
- Green and Thick forests
- Peaceful and sacred River banks like the longest Ganges river, the Beas River in Manali, and Yamuna are also ideal places.
- Historical places like the Taj Mahal are considered symbols of love.
- Beautiful waterfalls like Dudhsagar Falls in Goa, Tincha Falls in Madhya Pradesh, and Kunchikal Falls in Karnataka are the highest waterfalls in India and are also the best places to choose.
- Romantic places like Kullu Manali, Ooty, and Kashmir are also perfect choices.
- Flower gardens or Botanical Parks also can do justice.
- If you want to be a little creative you can be in the middle of the sea or river or beneath the sea (In a submarine)
- Can arrange a private banquet hall in a luxurious hotel.
- If money is not a matter for you, then you can get an aeroplane and propose in the vast sky and air.
- Choose some remote areas where you do not even have a mobile network. Only both rest in nature’s lap and speak your heart out.
- Last but not least if you are a bit traditional you can even choose Temples like Iskon.
- You can even present customized delicious chocolates and cakes with your marriage proposal.
These are some of the best places to choose for an ideal marriage proposal. Now we have discussed how to do a Marriage proposal successfully and the best places for a proposal. So what next? It’s perfect planning and execution.
How to do a marriage proposal: Planning and execution.
I hope by now you have chosen an idea and the place for your Marriage proposal. It is time for planning and execution. Planning includes all the whereabouts like availability of resources, persons, and best time, in some cases we need to have bookings and permissions to turn your proposal idea into real. Here we give some information about planning and execution.
- Let us imagine if you want to make it happen on special days like on her/his birthday or your first meet date. Then make sure to complete all the necessary arrangements before the day so that you won’t miss that special day.
- If you are planning to invite her friends and family. Have a word with them in advance so that they will plan accordingly.
- Budget is the most important factor to consider when planning. Fix you before, get an estimate from experts and then execute your plan. If the estimation is more than the expectation then you will have an option to change your proposal idea.
- As we discussed above if you are planning for a theatre proposal, beach proposal, or any outdoor ideas make sure to get permission from the respective authorities.
- In case the chosen place is far, make sure to have bookings for your travel, stay etc.
- In certain cases, you need experts to bring life to your proposal ideas. So arrange them beforehand and explain your ideas perfectly to them.
- Don’t forget to arrange a photographer to lock the true moments of excitement and surprise in the couple’s face.
These are the things you need to focus on while planning your marriage proposals
How to execute your Marriage proposal ideas?
This is the most important and yet sensitive part of your proposal. Only with the best execution can one convey how much they love and value their partner and relationship. Perfect execution needs careful attention, dedication and time. I Understand your concern that in your busy life, it will be difficult to get time to plan everything alone. Worry not, nowadays nothing is impossible and difficult. Several event organizers, Date planners and wedding advisors are available in the market. They will help you to make your dream real.
All you need to do is, let them know How you want to do a marriage proposal, date, time and venue. Stay relaxed and everything will be done by themselves. Even if you are clueless about how to do a marriage proposal, the best venue, time, theme, gifts, decoration, photography and whatnot everything from food to fun they will suggest and execute everything you need in a very professional manner.
Wrapping up:
So my dear love birds, these are some of the best unique marriage proposal ideas you can try to impress your soulmate. Always remember, the pillars of a true relationship is all about trust, respect towards each other, and expressing and showing love for each other. So we encourage you to take some time to express your love. Celebrate every occasion because actions speak louder than words. Make your love life beautiful and unforgettable.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the best gifts for marriage proposals?
It is a good idea to give gifts in your marriage proposal. Some best gifts to include in a marriage proposal are a Gold or diamond ring, a Customized photo album with both your photos, some customized show pieces with your names, pets like cute puppies, love birds etc. imported perfumes, flower bouquets, flight tickets for their favourite place, presenting all their favourite things in a gift pack, etc.
How much does it cost to do a marriage proposal in India?
The marriage proposal cost in India varies depending on the proposal ideas, where you propose, how you propose, and additional requirements like decoration theme, photographers, etc. You can even do a marriage proposal with just 500 to 1000 rupees. Read our blog on how to do a marriage proposal successfully for the best proposal ideas and places.
How to avoid marriage proposal ideas from parents?
This is the most frequently asked question on Google by teenagers. Well, there is no better idea than convincing your parents. First of all, let your parents understand that you are not ready for marriage yet and give them some valid reasons why you are not ready for marriage right now.
How to ask a girl to marry you?
Start your conversation with her politely and give your valid and nice reasons why you want to marry her. Make sure to speak in such a way as to build trust in you. Finally, end it up with a Can you marry me?
request.