Romantic engagement locations

[KeithS]

Reading Andrew's great story of his engagement to Vicky on the Inn Pin took me back over 27 years to my engagement when I popped the question to my girlfriend Jane on the Isle of Ewe (try saying it out loud) and we have just celebrated our silver wedding.
http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=18921

Does anyone else have any interesting or romantic locations?

[ciderpeter]

We got engaged on Hartsop Dodd it was meant to be gable but the ring didn't arrive in time!!! Ended up being grey the day we did Gable, but beautiful the day on Hartsop

[RicKamila]

Tried to pop the question on Storr last year, have a look at my walk report. She thought i had fallen off the cliffs as i was looking for the ring in my bag and she had walked off and lost site of me. Ended up proposing at Loch Fada in the end. She did yes.

[rockhopper]

Keith - not far from you ! We got engaged standing on the rather small "beach" at Tollie Bay on the far northern shore of Loch Maree (just down from Tollie Farm) looking down towards Slioch. Were staying at the Drumchork Lodge Hotel in Aultbea - I'd taken the risk the previous day and ordered a bottle of champagne - the owners at the time had to get it on their Inverness shopping trip that morning in time for us arriving back in the evening. It was in the late 1980s - silver anniversary in 2014.

[KeithS]

Rockhopper, that's a coincidence, when we came off the Isle of Ewe we returned the boat to the man who lent it to us. When I told him we had just got engaged he took us to the Drumchork Hotel and bought us a celebratory drink. I was in the hotel twenty years later and told the landlord (not the same one from our first trip) the story of borrowing a boat etc. A few minutes later he came back and took us into the other bar to introduce us to the son of the man who had lent us the boat. His father had told the story of the couple who had come up from England and borrowed his boat etc. I told him to tell his father "same wife, three kids and a house about two miles away!
By the way I know your beach at Tollie well, I use it when I take my boat onto Loch Maree

[rockhopper]

Rockhopper, that's a coincidence,

aye, it's a small world...I can remember that at that time the hotel was owned and run by a couple with a young child - they were friendly, the food was good and hotel comfortable. I was told it subsequently changed hands and wasn't so good (maybe closed ?) but changed again and we visited a few years back to see it doing well again - still have a small bottle (unopenend) of the Loch Ewe distillery spirit (I think it's not whisky as it wasn't aged for 3 years) - cheers

[Fudgie]

This guy is raising the bar:

http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=25999

[Meatball]

How do you trump the in pin?
Everest? Lol

[pillar rock]

How do you trump the in pin?
Everest? Lol

Funnily enough, my own proposal of marriage (back in the early days of internet/email) was made from a ramshackle internet cafe in Namche Bazaar, on my way back down to Lukla airstrip from Everest Base Camp. I was clearly suffering from the effects of both altitude sickness and sharing a tent with my unwashed mate for three weeks!

[nathan79]

I found my place about 18 months ago. That was the easy bit. Now I just have to find the right lass to take there

[IamAJMiller]

A few months ago I popped the question on a moonlit Ben Vrackie. My main worry was "if she says no, this walk out is gonna be horrendous!!"......luckily she said yes!

[Fudgie]

I also proposed on a hill but something a bit smaller than a Munro, Palatine Hill in Rome

[SMRussell]

Andrew's engagement story sounds just the perfect way to do it... Rockhopper, the shores of Loch Maree isn't far off either. No wonder the ladies said yes

If we weren't already married and engaged before hiking became such a pivotal aspect of our lives I suspect mountains would have featured in one of those events. As it happens we (RTMcB and I) proposed to each other in bed after 'dating' for about 3 months and finally got hitched about 5 years later at the Inukshuk on English Bay, Vancouver as the sun set (about 90mins after I gave a conference presentation ). Not a hill but lovely none the less.

[Border Reiver]

I proposed one sunny summers day on a secluded beach near Balachuilish. Beinn a Bheithir was reflected in a calm Loch Leven and bluebells covered the ground in the wood nearby. We had been together for 6 months. She dodged the question, but we had a great afternoon. Over a year later, in October, on top of Ben Nevis, by ourselves, she said "you know that question you asked me last year, well the answer's yes". We're still happily married.

[fasgadh]

Nancy's - now unbeatable as the place is no more.
The hard bit was the bike in from Newtonmore.