The moment you ask your honey to marry you is one of the most magical and romantic moments in both your lives. Everything should be perfect. And to help you pick the right spot, decorate it perfectly, pop the question, and get a positive answer, here are the latest and most useful proposal trends that are popular in 2023. Maybe you’ll find inspiration for your own declaration of love to the person of your dream. Good luck!
Staying local
Destination weddings are on the rise today, so you would expect proposals also happen somewhere abroad, during a romantic trip, for example. But this isn’t what we actually see. On the contrary, most engagements in 2022 happened locally, in people’s hometowns or nearby. Probably this is because people still travel not that often due to the Covid-19 restrictions but, besides that, we’ve become more sentimental during the last few dangerous years, so our native towns and familiar locations seem more meaningful to us.
Proposing privately
Do you remember the time when public proposals were so popular you saw someone popping the question practically every week or even more often if you lived in a big city? It’s over. The latest trend is to propose to your honey in private, where there are no strangers sharing the experience with you two. People choose various remote and privy locations, like a beach, a backyard, or a botanical garden. Often, they are ready to pay for a private space.
Proposals on a rooftop
One of the most popular locations for a proposal in 2022-2023 is a rooftop. It’s private, picturesque, has a romantic vibe to it, and can be equipped with everything you might need. You can organize a picnic or a romantic dinner on the roof, decorate the rooftop with flowers or another décor, create a personalized space meaningful for you and your partner, etc. Renting a rooftop, even without any décor, can be rather expensive, but it’s so worth the effort. Or another option is to get free access to the rooftop of your own building.
Using wedding vendors for proposal
This trend is getting more and more common. People started to involve florists, pro photographers and videographers, stylists, and other wedding vendors in their proposal prep. While a few years back, only grooms who wanted a really fancy proposal hired vendors to help them organize everything, today, lots of ordinary people do it. It’s become so popular that many vendors mention these services on their websites and offer rather affordable prices.
Using drones to pop the question
These days, people are looking for more spectacular ways of asking for one’s hand than to just knee before your honey and say the words. If you want to impress your beloved person, be inventive. One of the latest popular trends is to hire a drone that will spell a message in the sky. Drones can be used to spell something in the sky, to bring the tiny box with the engagement ring to your favorite person, to make special sound/visual effects, etc. Again, be inventive. Of course, such a proposal will be pricey, but your partner will remember this day for the rest of her or his life.
Live music accompaniment
Live music becomes more popular as an instrument to create a certain mood before and during the proposal. You can hire a pianist, harpist, violinist, or a whole small band that will play “your song” live. This is a truly memorable experience. And the price tag will be lower than to hire a drone.
Joint proposals
This trend is something comparatively new. It’s when one person pops the question and gets a positive answer, the other partner does the same shortly after. For same-sex couples, joint proposals are typical, which is understandable, but this trend is getting more and more common among heterosexual couples as well. This way, both partners get an equal portion of attention, both feel the excitement, both do the proposal prep, and so on. The time when men gave – attention, flowers, jewelry, etc – and women only received is in the past.
