February 22, 2025 at 9:21 am

He Proposed To His Girlfriend At His Big Birthday Dinner, But He Wasn’t Even The One Who Planned It

by Ben Auxier

Source: Reddit/AITA

You’ve probably seen and heard some pretty wild proposal stories in your day.

Have you ever heard of a woman planning her own proposal and not letting her boyfriend in on it, though?

But this one from Reddit user @ExtraSupermarket8858 kind of takes the cake…and writes all over it.

AITA for Leaving My Own Birthday Dinner Because My Girlfriend Turned It Into a Proposal for Herself?

I (28M) had my birthday dinner last weekend, and my girlfriend, Sarah (27F), offered to plan it.

I was excited because I usually keep things low-key, but she said she wanted to “make it special.”

She booked a nice restaurant and invited close friends and family.

I mean, that’s arguably pretty low-key. Until…

Everything was going great until it was time for dessert.

The waiter brought out a cake, but instead of my name, it said: “Will You Marry Me, Sarah?”

I don’t…I don’t think that’s how asking questions works.

I was completely blindsided.

Sarah got all teary-eyed, turned to me, and said, “Well? This is the best surprise ever, right?”

Everyone around us started clapping, and her friends were filming.

There’s no way THEY all knew what was going on, right? RIGHT?

I just sat there, stunned.

She took my silence as hesitation and started going on about how she knew I wasn’t “big on grand gestures,” but she couldn’t wait anymore, so she “took matters into her own hands.”

At that moment, I stood up and said, “This is my birthday. If you wanted a proposal, you should’ve talked to me about it first.”

Then I grabbed my stuff and walked out.

Not exactly how she’d planned it.

Sarah was mortified, and her friends blew up my phone, calling me [a jerk] for embarrassing her and “ruining the night.”

She even said I humiliated her when she was just trying to do something romantic.

But whose night was it, anyway?

Now, my family is split.

Some say I should have just gone along with it for the night, while others think she crossed a major boundary.

So… AITA for leaving my own birthday dinner because my girlfriend hijacked it for a proposal?

You better believe the internet has opinions.

She clearly got all of this the wrong way around:

Source: Reddit/AITA

Run for the hills, buddy!

Source: Reddit/AITA

You can’t actually expect someone to react well to this:

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It’s a story so crazy…some don’t even believe it:

Source: Reddit/AITA
What’s your crazy proposal story?

I doubt it can top this one though.

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