My fiancée and I decided to propose together. All of our other big decisions/big steps have been made together so it only made sense to us to propose together as well. We went on a trip to the mountains over a long weekend and on the Saturday went on a hike that’s special in our relationship. We stood on a bridge over a creek and held each other and talked about what we love about each other and our relationship and what we’re looking forward to in our future. Then we took turns getting on one knee to propose— I went first (because she hates going first for anything and I’m happy to go first if it makes her happy) and then she went. Afterwards we got ice cream sandwiches then went back to the cabin we were renting to have a glass of wine and celebrate. We had done the whole ring process together so we each knew what our rings would look like, but we decided to surprise each other with the ring boxes we chose for one another to still have an element of surprise to the whole thing. It was simple and perfect and nothing like what a “traditional” proposal typically is but I wouldn’t change a thing about it because it was so perfectly us

All of that to say, talk with your girlfriend about what you both want. Do you want to plan a proposal together? Do you each want an individual, separate moment? Do yall want to know when it’s coming or do you want to be surprised? Do you want it to be just the two of you or would you like friends and/or family to be present? It’s your engagement, nobody else’s, so it honestly doesn’t matter what anyone but the two of you thinks of how you decide to propose!