- Create your own crossword puzzle and be prepared to help her work it out over breakfast.
- Spell your proposal out in glow-in-the-dark star stickers on your ceiling. Get into bed, turn the lights off, and wait for the inevitable gasp.
- Spell out your proposal with refrigerator magnets.
- Scratch your proposal into the frost on her car’s windshield.
- If your girlfriend is a teacher, sneak into her classroom before school starts and write your proposal on the blackboard. Stay hiding in the coat closet or right outside the room for the moment she arrives.
- Get a ring size chart and ask your girlfriend to look up her size. When she accuses you of ruining the surprise that you’re shopping for a ring, say, “Okay, try this one instead,” and show her that you’ve already shopped for a ring.
- During your annual Halloween prep, challenge her to a pumpkin-carving contest and carve the words “Marry Me” in your pumpkin.
- Write “Will You Marry Me?” on the underside of a kite and take flight one warm, breezy afternoon.
- Play Hangman and have the phrase be “Marry Me.”
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