People Break Down The Least Suspicious Way To Get Their Significant Other's Ring Size
Confession: I love proposals. To a possibly unhealthy level.
Seeing someone be into someone enough to voluntarily be with them very early in the morning (like pre-coffee early, for you hot bean water addicts) every day for forever ... it's a beautiful thing that warms the icy cockles of my jaded little heart!
The homies (and the algorithm) know how much I love them and keep my feed deliciously filled with videos for me to cry about.
My favorites usually involve creatives proposing by leaning into their craft; like creating a film, a video game, portrait, and whatever you'd call this guys Google Earth masterpiece. I can't handle it. There will be tears, whether or not I know these people.
I've cried at proposals that I knew d*mn well were staged for photoshoots because I was part of the crew that organized it in the first place!
Having a reputation as a love-loving weirdo tends to make you the first person your friends call when they decide they want to propose. I've helped plan a weirdly high number of proposals for someone who has never proposed to anyone and isn't a professional.
By far, the biggest thing any of my friends stressed about was getting their partners' ring size without blowing the surprise.
Reddit user sept2two asked:
"What is the most non-suspicious way to get your girlfriends ring size?"
I'll give you my biggest tip at the end. Let's hear what Reddit has to say first.
Try Them On
"My husband wears rings and wanted to try mine on even though I have small fingers while he has 'big Shrek fingers.' "
"When he saw how small they were he laughed and was like 'what size is this?!' I told him and 1 year and 6 months later he proposed to me!"
"I was shocked he remembered the size because he sure can’t remember my birthday. 😂 "
- WebkinzCheekyFanatic
Be A Thief - But Beware
"Steal her jewelry."
- VoiceofTruth7
"Make sure it's something she has worn recently. Don't want to pick something she doesn't wear anymore because it doesn't fit."
- xAUSxReap3r
"I did exactly that with an engagement ring. So far off it couldn’t be resized and had to re order a new one. Whoops."
- jjen21
"Wish I had this thread a few years ago."
"I took one of her rings to the jeweler super smooth-like gave them all the details I gleaned from her Pinterest and random conversations, they gave me a weird look but made the ring. It came out beautiful!"
"Then the big moment hits, I go to slip it on and turns out, I stole a toe ring like an idiot. Thankfully they resized it easily enough."
"Jeweler must have thought my fiancée was 500 pounds."
- dansdansy
Mission Plasticene
"Buy a small square of plasticine at Michael's or art store for a dollar. Then make an impression of one of the rings they currently wear in the plasticene."
"Return the ring where you got it from, make sure there's no putty left behind on it."
"Take the square to a jeweler and have him measure that. They have a set of sizing rings specially for this kind of task."
"The plasticine will not shrink or expand, and will not distort if you're a bit gentle with it. Gives a spot-on measurement."
- AlanMercer
"This either comes from experience or maybe a scene from Mission Impossible that I can't recall; my guess if the former."
- justaspoonthanks
"If you hum the theme song to yourself, do it quietly."
- AlanMercer
Great Gum Health
"Take a piece of floss and tie it around her finger while she's asleep. Bring that to the store."
"Don't have floss? Go get some so you can healthy gums before you propose."
- berkeleyjake
"This was just an ad for floss."
- Stripperturneddoctor
"Did it work?"
- Just-Call-Me-J
Holiday Math
"Had my fiancées daughter draw a thanksgiving hand turkey with her mom’s hand. Then measured the outline and did a little math for circumference. Nailed it."
- Panther81277
"My husband did a very similar thing. He had small nieces in a different state and said they wanted our hands to do turkey drawings with, so we both traced our left hands. :) Sneaky."
- ceejaytee2
"Unfortunately, kids are terrible at this activity."
"If you have this angle it's better to figure something out where the parent and child do handprints in clay."
- africanized_swallow
"Diameter times pi for those of you trying to figure out how to do the math."
- SeasonsRollOnBy
Secret Shoppers
"Apparently women like trying on jewelry they don't even plan to buy."
"My now sister-in-law took my future wife out shopping and they tried on some rings. She reported back to me and there you go."
- HeyWhatsItToYa
"Absolutely, have her go to a place like Pandora with a friend/family member and have that person report back to you."
"That way you can figure out the size, but also get an idea about the style of ring she likes."
- cothai
"My other half did this the best way."
"They convinced me that our mutual friend Bob was going to propose to his girlfriend, and would I please do him a solid and spend the afternoon with him helping him choose what to buy?"
"Of course, I'm happy to help my friend in this difficult choice. I then spent an afternoon, offering ALL my opinions on what I like, etc etc and of course I try a few on for fun..."
"Hey presto, Bob reports back to my partner, and the ring I get eventually is A) perfect size and B) exactly what I'd choose."
"I didn't even realize it had happened until years later when Bob spilled the beans."
- hav0cnz_
Insurance
"I made my wife try hers on under the guise of insurance."
"I told her to bring them out, try to evaluate them all for insurance purposes, and then when she had them all lined up I acted like I was just curious in the moment about which ring went on which finger."
"Then I took the wedding ring finger sized one to the jeweler. She was none the wiser till I proposed."
- DryCoughski
Napkin Holders
"Some restaurants have paper rings that go around napkins. Next time you go out to eat at one of those restaurants, find a way to wrap one around her finger, and when she's not looking, keep it."
"I wrapped one around mine, and said something like, 'look! This is my size, does it fit you?' And she put it on."
"It was too big, so I resized it for her finger. Then I tossed it on the table, and when she wasn't looking, I slipped it in my pocket."
"Took it with me to the jeweler and the ring was the perfect size come the day."
"It's not uncommon for me to be fidgety and play with things on the table, so the napkin holder game wasn't unusual for us and I still have one of the first napkin rings from one of our first dates in my memory box."
- SpriteMonkey
Bag Of Fakes
"My mother inherited a whole pile of costume jewelry, in a variety of sizes, because Grandma had the habit of wearing rings on multiple fingers."
"So I asked Mom if she'd give me some so I could do some intel and see if any of it appealed to my (soon to be) wife."
"We tried everything on and I paid attention to what fit where and what styles she gravitated towards. Wifey didn't like much of it since she has a very different style than gran did - and not much of what she liked fit, but there were a few pieces and I got the info I needed."
"Turns out she has exactly the same ring size I do."
"Oh, and when I went to give all the unwanted stuff back to my mother? 'No takebacks, it's your problem now!' So I have a gallon bag of fake jewelry in a closet."
- technos
The Stand In
"You are doing this wrong. Get a cheap plastic ring. Propose. Then go together and find something nice you both enjoy. She might not even want diamonds so if she can pick anything that’s great!"
"My wife is really in to lord of the rings so I got her a prop of the one ring and used that. She loves it and will still wear it from time to time."
- Mathrinofeve
"My husband proposed with a plastic Batman ring and we picked out a ring together afterwards."
- hey_sjay
"Propose with candy ring. let her chomp on that bad boy while waiting for the ring she likes."
- Illustrious-Hat8029
Work Together
"I was the one who solved this problem for my partner years before he decided to propose. I got myself a cute ring that would fit my ring finger once I was sure he and I were getting serious, and I flat out told him where said ring was located in my jewellery box and that any time he decided he wanted us to take that next step, he could feel free to borrow that ring and take it to a jeweller’s shop to size an engagement ring correctly, with zero need for me to be aware of it."
"And that ring turned out to be a great idea, but not for the purpose I bought it for 😝 He didn’t have time between buying the engagement ring and proposing to get it resized, but he’d been carrying around that sizer ring for a while, and the night before he proposed, he was stumped at what to do because he planned to propose at a theme park, but didn’t want to risk the too-big ring slipping off and getting lost."
"After fighting back my tears of joy, I asked if he had the sizer ring I had bought, and when he said he did, I suggested he propose with that instead and I could wear that until we got the proper one resized. And he did, and I wore that ring around the entire theme park with zero worries 🥰 Don’t leave it all up to your partner, people! Help them out! You’re supposed to be a team, after all 😉"
- Sparrowflyaway
Pinky Is The Way
"My dad got my mom’s ring size by commenting on how small his hands were compared to his. He asked if the ring she already wore would fit any of his fingers."
"He was able to get it over his pinky, between his first and second knuckles. When he went to the jewelry store, he tried on a handful of rings there until they found the ring that stopped at the same spot on his pinky."
- wife_mom_tire
Its All In The Details
"My girlfriend (now wife) at the time had talked about marriage and know we wanted to get married so we literally drove over to Kays one day and picked up the ring."
"She didnt know when the ring was coming in, how she was going to be proposed to, or any other details. For those of you that think ring size is important, remember ring sizes do change with body weight/loss and rings can usually be resided unless its made of something that cant. Gold can be resized."
- CommanderMandalore
Two Birds Two rings
"Find a cool but absolutely not engagement type ring on Etsy or something. Something cheap but maybe niche that she would actually like."
"Say you really want to get one (heck you wanna support small business right?!) and then ask what her ring size is really casually. Be willing to buy it right then and there to really seal the deal."
- HopelesslyFucked
Guesstimate
"I think they have PDFs out there you can print and cut out, then wrap the paper ribbon around the finger."
"I eyeballed my GF's finger against my own, measured my own, came up with size 9 which was the biggest "normal" size you could get without paying more. Figured if she needed resizing it'd be cheaper to cut a bit of gold out vs soldering more in."
"And it fit perfectly."
- eljefino
Communicate, Browse Together, Surprise.
"Browse rings at a jewelry store together. I'm not joking!"
"I think there's nothing wrong with being clear about an impending proposal. If you've been together a while and are serious about each other, it's probably come up in conversation."
"My husband simply asked me as he was dropping me off after a date one night 'We both know where this is going. So when the time comes, do you want to pick the ring or do you want me to pick it out?' Quick little convo there where we made plans to go to a jewelry store together and look at options so he'd get an idea what I like. And the sales person at the store grabbed my ring size while I was there and made note, along with styles that I liked, for when he went back without me. A couple months later he proposed one night and it was a super sweet and wonderful surprise when it happened, even though I knew it was coming."
"Someone I know said it well: The when and the how of the proposal should be the only surprise about it. The fact that a proposal is coming shouldn't be a surprise."
"There's also the idea of proposing with a Ring Pop (or another toy/candy/goofy ring that's size-adjustable) and then going shopping for the ring together after."
- RotiniHuman
Have Her Help
"Why do you need to get her ring size without her knowing?"
"I understand everyone has different experiences and expectations but I actually took my girlfriend ring shopping with me. She was involved in every step of the process other than purchasing the center stone and paying for the ring."
"Have you thought about doing this process together? I certainly think it's a great relationship builder and my gf got to pick the setting she loved instead of me having to guess or drop hints etc."
- MacrosBlack16
False Facts
"Make up a "fun fact" like "I heard that your finger diameter is the same as the length of your nose" then you measure her finger and then her nose and then just play it off as falling for a fake fact meme."
"On second thought nose length isn't the best since the nose is likely shorter. Maybe go with eye width or something instead"
- willstr1
Alright, now that you've heard what Reddit has to say - here's my biggest piece of advice:
Chillax.
Stress is what gets people busted every single time.
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This Video Of A Husband Proposing To His Wife Of 63 Years Again Is The Sweetest Thing
It's a scene right out of The Notebook.
Ryan Gosling and Rachel MacAdams, eat your heart out!
In that time, they've had four kids together, followed by nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Donna, who is 81, survived a lot of health complications in 2018 that could have been fatal; including open heart surgery, a seizure and a stroke.
Crying https://t.co/uWrqgsQaxD— christina (@christina) 1551575262
gma & gpa ❤️ https://t.co/Ia78rmCB1d— christina (@christina) 1507766827
"Grandpa never left her side," said their grandaughter, Karly Gibbs.
"The rehab center brought in a chair where he slept every night until she was strong enough to come home."
In order to get her through the trying times, Karl, who is 84, promised Donna an engagement ring when she came home.
And he fulfilled that promise, wheeling her into a jeweler, buying the ring and dropping down to one knee to propose to her--again.
My grandma has been very sick & we don’t know how much time she has left. After over 65 years of marriage my grandp… https://t.co/365yW0To8I— christina (@christina) 1551574701
Since this blew up I’ll post the video too.. look how happy she looks omg https://t.co/IYTrflvzFw— christina (@christina) 1551652640
Needless to say, the internet is having some feels about these two.
@christinacherie crying so much 😭😭 makes me miss my grandparents so much. i lost both of them after new years.— geanna (@geanna) 1551668968
@christinacherie Bless them, omgggggg. This made me cry happy tears😭😭— Sarah (@Sarah) 1551668793
"What in the world?" Donna said when Karl dropped to one knee.
But look at her face.
It tells all you need to know about how she feels.
@christinacherie So sweet 😊— V_bts ⁷ 🧈 💜 ∞ (@V_bts ⁷ 🧈 💜 ∞) 1551692629
@christinacherie @relateshitt Aww :(❤️— ginaprovost (@ginaprovost) 1551601630
@wfaa That is the sweetest thing I've ever seen. https://t.co/jAv119oWX0— Sheila Busch (@Sheila Busch) 1551971807
"It was great because it's a gal that I've loved all of my life," Karl told WFAA in an interview.
"It was very easy. You know we've been together so long that we can't stay apart really."
Has there literally ever been a truer love story?
Orlando Bloom's Proposal To Katy Perry Sounds Like The Most Romantic Disaster Ever
Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry officially announced their engagement earlier this month, and the actual proposal sounds like it was a doozy.
Perry stopped by the set of Jimmy Kimmel Live to dish on what it was like to be proposed to by Legolas himself.
Perry said the two went to dinner––and that she expected they'd head to an art show.
"But we pulled up to a helicopter," she said. She and Bloom boarded: There was champagne on hand for a toast.
"The box was in his pocket and he had written down everything he wanted to say in a note to divert -- he was gonna pull it out while I was reading it," she said.
Things went awry after Bloom tried to pull the tiny engagement ring box out of the even tinier pocket of his jacket. His elbow hit the champagne bottle in the process. It fell to the floor of the helicopter and shattered, sending shards of glass everywhere.
"And I'm like, 'No, I'm just reading the note. I know you're not doing anything,'" she said, saying that she was able to dismount from the helicopter and meet family members once they'd landed on a rooftop without further incident.
"My whole family was there, and all my friends... he did so well," she said lovingly.
You can watch Perry recall the memory below.
Katy Perry on Orlando Bloom Engagement www.youtube.com
Take a look at that ring, by the way.
That story's adorable... and it's a pretty cute disaster. But love is love as they say.
The story she tells of how Orlando proposed to her is so adorable 😭❤️ https://t.co/cCObGsuRrt— Leigh Michael (@Leigh Michael) 1551182220.0
True love exists ❤️🍔 https://t.co/3l71WFJ7XO— POPSUGAR (@POPSUGAR) 1551192427.0
@enews Laughing. So cute!— Ivi Jayde (@Ivi Jayde) 1551222094.0
@enews Happy for the new couple!— Ivi Jayde (@Ivi Jayde) 1551221761.0
@enews I’m so happy for these 2 😭— ❤️ (@❤️) 1551192048.0
Perry recalled that she and Bloom first fell in love after they bonded over an In-N-Out Burger at the Golden Globe Awards a few years ago.
"He stole one off of my table. I was sitting with Denzel Washington and he took it and I was like, 'Who...oh, you're so hot. Fine, take it,'" she said. "Then I saw him at a party and I was like, 'How are those onions resting on your molars?' He was like, 'I like you.' Then, you know, cut to!"
You never know, ladies and gents. The love of your life could be a burger snatcher. Get off Tinder right now and head to your nearest fast food restaurant.
Airline Helps Man With Proposal For Flight Attendant Girlfriend—And We're Swooning
Many men decide to propose in romantic locales like Paris or Rome, but Stefano Inve decided to defy expectation by popping the question while traveling from one picturesque destination to another.
According to Business Insider, Vittoria Stabile is a flight attendant for Emirates, and thought her day was going to be like any other one as she arrived at work and prepared for travel from Rome to Dubai.
Little did she know that her boyfriend, Stefano, was also onboard the flight, and (with the help of her fellow flight attendants) had decorated the cabin with hearts and streamers. He also enlisted the help of the passengers to make the moment extra special.
As Stabile emerged from the galley, she was greeted by the sight of decorations, passengers giving her roses, and many people holding up pictures of Stefano's face. Immediately tearing up, she made her way down the aisle, collecting a bouquet of roses along the way.
@emirates Love Is... in the mid galley! Belliniiii— martacamilla (@martacamilla) 1546013971
Waiting for her at the back of the plane was Stefano, who, after a long hug and some romantic words, got down on one knee to ask his question. Good news: she said yes!
The whole proposal was captured on video from countless angles, which Emirates cut together and posted to their Instagram account. It now has nearly 560k views, and internet users can't get enough of the couple's romance!
Let's end 2018 and start 2019 with a nice feel good story. Congratulations to Vittoria and Stefano, wishing you bot… https://t.co/JWKkJz9A3o— Nithin Narayan (@Nithin Narayan) 1546295459
@emirates Can't explain in words... Beautiful— Jofin (@Jofin) 1546013464
@emirates GOD BLESS A HAPPY LIFE TO BOTH OF U— Starfishh (@Starfishh) 1546091251
It was definitely an interesting shift for Vittoria.
@emirates Is it allowed to do that during working hours? #justasking— lobeli_lobeli (@lobeli_lobeli) 1546320872
Many were just glad she said yes...
@emirates I’m glad she said yes ( it would have been an ackward rest of the flight if she had said no)— Jorge Benavides (@Jorge Benavides) 1546018771
@emirates I’m happy she said yes, imagine if it was a no.....— Mshengu (@Mshengu) 1546013183
But, considering it all went off without a hitch, this will surely be remembered as one of the most unique proposals around.
@emirates How romantic you deserve each other 💕💕💕💕💕 congrulations— Gary potier (@Gary potier) 1546142235
@emirates Great way to propose.. I think I'll consider it— TherealGabrielAsanga (@TherealGabrielAsanga) 1546079304
Congratulations, Vittoria and Stefano! May the rest of your days be filled with happiness.
@emirates https://t.co/NaNMTfA5wQ— 🇮🇹 T J 🇪🇸 💃🍷🍁🇬🇷 🇩🇪 (@🇮🇹 T J 🇪🇸 💃🍷🍁🇬🇷 🇩🇪) 1546027138
@emirates Well done... Congratulations— Lipe (@Lipe) 1546022825
This Couple's 'Harry Potter'-Themed Engagement Was So Magical Even J.K. Rowling Cheered Them On
When Heather Pearson of Portland, Oregon decided she wanted to marry her girlfriend, Kelsey Stacy, she knew the proposal would have to involve their favorite books: the Harry Potter series.
Pearson planned the proposal "for about a year," before finally sending Stacy on a Potter-themed scavenger hunt on Halloween day.
What Stacy didn't know at the beginning was that the scavenger hunt would inevitably lead to the rest of her life.
The story of the proposal was shared on Youtube.
Watch it here:
Harry Potter Halloween Proposal 2018 - BEST PROPOSAL EVER!!! youtu.be
Pearson explained to Pink News why this was the perfect proposal for them:
"Kelsey and I went to Harry Potter World on our first anniversary, we love Harry Potter, all the movies and all the books. Growing up I never pictured what my life would look like, but when I met Kelsey, [I knew] that this is it."
The pair, devout Slytherins, already owned matching robes and wands.
As the fateful day got closer, Pearson convinced Stacy to help her throw a Potter-themed Halloween party. What Stacy didn't know is that she was actually helping to plan her own engagement bash.
@heatherpearson_ @jk_rowling @HarryPotterFilm @blaiselucy https://t.co/VN7aq8k4hc— Amy Bisp (@Amy Bisp) 1541082872.0
On Halloween, Stacy was led on a scavenger hunt that took her all over the city, seeing old friends and finding copies of the Harry Potter books with love letters from Draco Malfoy inside.
The search finally led her back to her own apartment, where Pearson was waiting on the balcony dressed as Malfoy, holding a copy of Goblet of Fire (their favorite installment in the series) whose pages had been artfully folded to spell out "Marry Me?"
Stacy said yes as the couple's friends cheered and the pair shared a tearful kiss.
Fortunately, the whole day was captured on video to be shared with the world!
Author J.K. Rowling herself saw the video and tweeted out a message for the Potter-heads:
CONGRATULATIONS! 🌈💕 🍾 https://t.co/1kSDYdpBXO— J.K. Rowling (@J.K. Rowling) 1541067769.0
@heatherpearson_ @jk_rowling @HarryPotterFilm JK ROWLING NOTICED OMG— KT🌙 (@KT🌙) 1541078872.0
The newly-engaged couple could barely process it all!
Today has been a dream! Heather and I are so unbelievably honored and humbled by the amount of love our proposal vi… https://t.co/P5ZjjEEIha— Kelsey Stacy (@Kelsey Stacy) 1541123035.0
Twitter was enamored with the couple and their shared love of the Potter-verse.
@heatherpearson_ @jk_rowling @HarryPotterFilm May your cups of butterbeer always be full, may you never get pixies… https://t.co/Vf896jc6ok— Tara (@Tara) 1541069568.0
@heatherpearson_ @jk_rowling @HarryPotterFilm Congrats to you both and you’ve just raised the bar on all future prospective proposals 🌈 💕 👰🏻— TL Wright ☁️ (@TL Wright ☁️) 1541068277.0
@Brizzie22 @heatherpearson_ @jk_rowling @HarryPotterFilm Omg amazing (also that ring is BEAUTIFUL)— Emily Jayne (@Emily Jayne) 1541116538.0
What better way could there be for two die-hard Slytherins to start their lives together?
@heatherpearson_ @jk_rowling @HarryPotterFilm Congratulations!! This is awesome! 😘😍I can't imagine your happiness r… https://t.co/deBWt3nLAi— The Dreamer (@The Dreamer) 1541180167.0
@heatherpearson_ @jk_rowling @HarryPotterFilm Yay! Congrats!! https://t.co/69Q5opj0Lo— SuzyQ (@SuzyQ) 1541072236.0
@heatherpearson_ @jk_rowling @HarryPotterFilm Holy hell, how in the world did they do the "Marry Me" in the book? That's incredible!— Kyle (@Kyle) 1541068211.0
Some other Twitter users couldn't help but make some Potter-themed jokes.
@heatherpearson_ @jk_rowling @HarryPotterFilm I'm all for equality, but two slytherins? This I cannot abide.— Blair Goldberg (@Blair Goldberg) 1541068092.0
@heatherpearson_ @jk_rowling @HarryPotterFilm I can't believe they folded up a Harry Potter book for that. My inner… https://t.co/PeqYzQCnIn— Ayesha Lopez (@Ayesha Lopez) 1541068892.0
Congratulations, Heather and Kelsey! May you have a magical life together!
@heatherpearson_ @jk_rowling @HarryPotterFilm Oh my gosh! I'm Slytherin, and ordained, so...I'd be willing to offi… https://t.co/gaMqUYqvTO— Christopher Mogel (@Christopher Mogel) 1541117999.0
@heatherpearson_ @jk_rowling @HarryPotterFilm Congratulations to my fellow Slytherins! All the best!— Irish Sarmiento 💚🐍 (@Irish Sarmiento 💚🐍) 1541075243.0
@heatherpearson_ @jk_rowling @HarryPotterFilm Congrats! Super propossal! Wishing you to all the happiness in the world!— Alice Wessels (@Alice Wessels) 1541067870.0