Dear Queenie,
I’m planning on proposing marriage to my girlfriend and I’d like to make a real big spectacular occasion of it.
Got any good ideas, Queenie?—Would-be-fiancé
Dear Would-be-fiancé,
First, ask yourself how your girlfriend would respond to something big, spectacular – and presumably public. If she is basically a private person, she might not take your big, spectacular proposal the way you hope.
And ask yourself how you will take it if her (big, spectacular and presumably public) answer is “No.”