Proposal stories can be some of the most magical moments of someone's life. But as these stories prove, they can also be some of the cringiest.
INSIDER found stories from Redditthreadsabout some proposals that range from funny to heart-breaking to outright disastrous.
"When she turned around the second time, she thought I was tying my shoe or something."
"My wife loves the zoo to the point where I joked that I was going to go to the zoo while I'm in Japan (work) and she was upset for a day then demanded pictures. She would always talk about going so it was a familiar dating spot for us. The one thing she had never gone to was the winter zoo lights.
"So my whole plan was to take her and propose in front of the polar bears (her favorite animal). Well when we got there, we wandered around making our way towards the polar bears. Well it turned out that the area the polar bears were in was closed off. All my plans were ruined.
"We wandered around some more and I was more nervous trying to find the right moment. Well, I got dumb lucky. There was a crowd around some newborn snow leopards, so while she pushed her way to the front, I stood back and got ready.
"She turned around to try and pull me up to see them and I got down on my knee. The crowd got quiet when they noticed me on a knee and she was too wrapped up in the cats. When she turned around the second time, she thought I was tying my shoe or something. It took her a minute to realize what was going on, I asked and she squeaked out a yes.
"A bunch of people congratulated us and [I] guess the nervous look was apparent because some guy offered to buy me a beer." - Redditor BeringSeaGrizz
"When he finally popped the question she left the restaurant without saying anything."
"A friend of mine was dating a girl for four years. She pressured him for the last year of their relationship about marriage and when he finally popped the question she left the restaurant without saying anything. The next day she called him and said, 'Yeah, we're done. I'm breaking up with you.'
"To this day we still have no idea what her problem was." - Redditor FestivePlague
"Luckily I followed her around."
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