February 27, 2013

Composing A Complete Proposal


In an interview this week I was asked if I could give ONE piece of advice about proposing, what it would be. It's difficult to choose only one, but if I absolutely had to, I'd just ask guys not to wing it. Asking a girl to marry you is a big question. You're asking her to spend her life with you after all. Plus, it's a question she has probably been excited to hear for quite sometime. Give it the thought it deserves.

I was a journalism major in college and they teach you to always ask the Five W's: who, what, when, where and why. These questions encompass the most basic information gathering and are the backbones to helping you formulate a complete story. When it comes to proposing, the what and the who are easy, but what about the whenwhere, and why? The beauty of these questions is that you can't answer them with a simple yes or no. Give them some thought, and if you can't answer all of them, then your story isn't ready.

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