It serves the guy right for putting her in that position and having to decide publicly. Also, she may just say yes to avoid embarrassing him. I'd never put my girlfriend in that position.
sharehttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=woman+says+no+to+proposal
shareI enjoy them all.
shareWorking Girl (1988) has a public engagement where the girl says “no”.
shareI agree, but I have to think he's already pretty certain he knows what the reply will be. But the whole public spectacle for what is supposed to be a serious and intimate moment does not speak well of either of these people, and if she agrees publicly she is complicit. It's just a bad, tasteless idea to my modest mind.
btw, this reminds me of a joke. Have you seen the Kiss Cams some baseball games have showing people sharing a kiss in the stands? Things have progressed to where they show men kissing each other but not women. What's up with that?
The answer is - the women are paying attention to the game.
Haha. It's true though.
sharei agree.
that said, the kinds of guys who like to make proposals in public are probably dating the kinds of women who want to get public proposals.
so presumably they'll be very happy with each other.
a less charitable interpretation would be to say they deserve each other.
i don't understand why someone would want that, & i don't want to know, but it's a big world & people are entitled to their preferences.
I might be wrong, but haven't most couples who wind up in a proposal situation usually already discussed how they'd feel about marriage in their future? It's not usually a total surprise, or at least that's my impression. If it is a total surprise to the recipient of the proposal, there's already something kind of off about it, public or not.
My boyfriend-who-became-my-husband practically nagged me into it rather than formally proposed. It had become a regular conversation almost the same as keeping on raising the issue of what color to paint the kitchen.... :(
"So come on, don't you think yellow would be good?" :(
I didn't get a proper proposal, no down on one knee, just kind of "conversations" about it.