When I proposed it wasn't really all that sophisticated. She was at work. I got off early and got a cake I had ordered, some really nice flowers, a couple other gifts, a card, some gifts, and a small feast and set the table up in our dining room with it all on there real nice.
Lived in a studio apartment then. You could see the table from the door, but had to go around a corner to see the kitchen. I waited till I saw her coming up the walk, and I knelt in the kitchen on one knee with the ring box open. I had two cats then and they sat on either side of me (not laying, actually sitting up... I didn't even tell them too, they just somehow knew what to do). So, she walks in sees the table and walks around the corner and sees me kneeling there with the cats, holding up the open ring box, and she started to cry happy tears and said yes.