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So now you can get as close to the perfect proposal as possible: you know that this is the ring she wants, you know that she really is ready to get engaged, and, particularly with a little clever indirection**, you can still make it a pretty good surprise. ** My husband John McDowell, the night before we got engaged: "Uh oh. Where did all those notes on ring shopping goes? Did we lose them when we moved? Oh well, we can maybe find some time in the next couple weeks to go again." or should you wait until after proposing to have her choose it or to choose it together While everyone different, the typical romantic dream proposal has these three elements: (A) The man chooses the perfect ring. (B) The proposal is a total surprise. In order to achieve a marriage proposal that is a true surprise, you cannot pick out the perfect ring (unless you know exactly what she likes -- and she may not know exactly what she likes without shopping) and you cannot confirmed her stance on getting engaged. Give a temporary ring. Many women will find that this takes something out of the proposal -- that it feels less "official."Take a guess at a ring. You probably won find just the right thing. She may or may not say anything. You can offer to trade it in for something she likes more, but then, again, she may be attached to ring you gave me. They won necessarily really know her taste though, and they may end up leaking the news to her. And, again, by making the proposal a true surprise, then you haven (by definition) really talked to confirm that she ready for getting engaged. What if she has doubts? Do you want to rush her into this? Can you relax on the "surprise" element? Okay, great. Then you can go "hypothetical ring shopping" together. Most couples don truly make their engagement a surprise. They talked about marriage, and they confirmed that they are, in fact, ready to get engaged. The man knows that the woman will say yes, and the woman knows that a proposal is coming at some point. If you done that much -- if you confirmed that you will be getting engaged at some point in the next 6 - 12 months -- then you can go "hypothetical" ring shopping together. She already knows you going to propose at some point, right? So she knows that you will, at some point, be buying her a ring? Then there no harm in going "hypothetical" ring shopping. In hypothetical ring shopping together, you don actually buy a ring. You just look at styles, find out her ring size, and have her discuss what she does and doesn like about different cuts of diamonds or different bands. But that it. You don buy it together, and she doesn even necessarily say "this one! Get me this one!". You buy the ring later, on your own -- possibly from her exact choices, possibly some fusion of different things she liked. Then, several weeks or months later, you actually propose. Did she know that a proposal was coming? Sure, but she would known that without Fake Chronoswiss Watch the ring shopping too. And she definitely didn know when it would be. So now you can get as close to the perfect proposal as possible: you know that this is the ring she wants, you know that she really is ready to get engaged, and, particularly with a little clever indirection**, you can still make it a pretty good surprise. ** My husband John McDowell, the night before we got engaged: "Uh oh. Where did all those notes on ring shopping goes? Did we lose them when we moved? Oh well, we can maybe find some time in the next couple weeks to go again."