{"id":41495,"date":"2017-01-20T03:26:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T16:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/articles\/awkward-proposals\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T14:45:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T04:45:36","slug":"awkward-proposals","status":"publish","type":"au-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/awkward-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"Five awkward proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\" style=\"text-align: left\">People place a <strong>lot<\/strong> of expectations on how their proposal is going to pan out. Buying a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/WeddingJewellery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ring <\/a>and <a title=\"Signs you\u2019re ready to propose \u2013 or accept a proposal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/signs-propose-proposal\/\">asking someone<\/a> to be your husband or wife is a big deal and takes a lot of courage. But when it goes wrong&#8230; or they say no, you have to be able to laugh about it (even if it&#8217;s years later)!\u00a0Check out these five awkward proposals!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">Mascot madness<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-64180\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/giphy-1.gif\" alt=\"proposal fails\" width=\"500\" height=\"286\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">via Giphy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Even the mascot was shocked by this one. Ouch!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">Washed away<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-64181\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/giphy-2.gif\" alt=\"proposal fails\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">via Giphy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Even though they <em>almost<\/em> got washed out to sea, she <strong>does<\/strong> seem really happy when she stands up! We&#8217;ll give this one five stars for effort.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">Put a ring on it<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-64182\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/giphy-3.gif\" alt=\"proposal fails\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">via Giphy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I&#8217;ve got a feeling she didn&#8217;t like the ring&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">Will ukelele marry me?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-64183\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/giphy-13.gif\" alt=\"proposal fails\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">via Giphy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Ow. I feel like that&#8217;s a no?<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">Shut down<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64184\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-64184\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/giphy1.gif\" alt=\"proposal fails\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">via Giphy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Probably a no, too. We&#8217;re not having much luck here, guys. \u00a0Perhaps you should\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/tips-for-proposing-to-your-partner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":20661,"template":"","au_article_tag":[1082,1254,1145,1453,1122],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/41495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/au-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/41495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"au_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au_article_tag?post=41495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}