Waitresses/waiters of Reddit, what was the "marriage proposal gone horribly/embarrassingly/hilariously wrong" story you've witnessed?

1. Not the waitress (sorry, I always answer if I have a relevant story, forgive me)... I was a young guy at an extended family dinner. Dude at a table near ours gets up and announces "I Have an Announcement... This is _______, she makes me the happiest man in the world and want her to be my wife." then dude drops to his knee, pulls out a ring, girl puts her hands over her mouth. My uncle, the Devil, wastes no time and jumps up and yells, "Champagne for everyone!" (he was new money, and waaaaayyy too much a show off to let an opportunity to wipe his wealth in my dad's face go to waste). Girl fucking starts yelling something (probably, "NOOOOOOO") then gets up and storms out in tears. My uncle jumps up again, "Make that, Champagne just for us." It was fucking classic.
   — billbapapa


2. I was the sous chef at a nice, dimly lit, candle on the table, soft music gently breaking the silence of the restaurant, waterfall next to the dining room high end steakhouse for a few years. Over those years proposals were fairly frequent. I can't blame them because the restaurant was gorgeous! One night after finishing up the last few tickets in my window, I leave the kitchen to go refill my drink at the soda fountain just outside the kitchen door, and peek around the corner to also check out the dining room. A server walks up while I'm doing this and she tells me the boyfriend on table X is going to propose to his girlfriend. I'm curious what the couple looks like so I check them out. They're almost done with their dinner (I distinctly remember thinking "thata boy she'll say 'yes' because she's not hangry"). Moments after the man at the table behind them stands up, assumes the position and boom out comes the ring box. The woman is thrilled, she says yes, and the dining room breaks out in applause. All but one guy... The original couple I was peeping out. He goes ballistic! No need to quote the guy because that'll involve a ton of editing out curse words. In a nut shell he is pissed because the other man "stole his thunder." The two men start attacking each other verbally, which led to physically, I won't lie, I walked back into the kitchen and let the staff know what was happening and we all poured out to watch. The general manager was on the phone screaming at the 911 operator to get the cops here. None of us intervened, we let them duke it out for a bit, the women of both parties were screaming at their significant others to stop, and eventually the men tired out. The Thor couple (I've always given them this nickname over the years of telling this story) demands we comp their meal, our GM wasn't having that and the argument lasted long enough for when the police came to take the two men out. Dipshit Thor was arrested, we did comp the other couple's meal and provided a discount to anyone in the dining room who asked for something because of the disturbance.
   — M16andKnockedUp


3. I worked at Bennigan's in the 1990s. One guy chose *Bennigan's* first of all, and then surprised his girlfriend of a month. She was just so uncomfortable and sad for him. He seemed so baffled. He had us put it in a dessert. They just sat quietly and politely after we brought the dessert. She had the quietest whisper and kept saying something to the guy, but wouldn't take his hand or touch him. One of them got the ring off the table really quick. The whole staff knew, but to our usually stupid selves credit we all got quiet and tried not to stare. By the time I brought the check the two of them weren't even making eye contact with each other. She was staring at the fake antiques on the wall and he was staring at the dirty carpet.
   — loetou






4. Not the worst proposal but here’s my story A man walks in, asking the hostess if he can talk to our manager. After a few minutes my manager walks back to the kitchen and informs the staff that this man is going to propose to his girlfriend in the presence of their family and friends. I work at a Cracker Barrel, which isn’t the most romantic place to get engaged. We push a bunch of tables together in the middle of the dining room, and about an hour later a group of 25+ people walk in. For some reason, my manager decides to give this party to two servers. The one server was new, and still learning the menu. Along with the party, they each had 3 other tables to wait on. Long story short, all their food orders got messed up, girlfriend was pissed off at the staff, boyfriend complains to the manager. Basically the whole family was in a bad mood. Later the boyfriend stands up, starts yelling and making a scene, girlfriend looks mortified. He then pops down on one knee and proposes. She said yes. tl;dr guy proposes to girlfriend in a crowded Cracker Barrel after horrible service and overall negative afternoon lunch. Girl says yes. Waitstaff was tipped $5 each
   — 4kvatch


5. It wasn't my table but when the guy got on one knee everyone in the immediate area just kinda gave him this look like "really dude, this is not a fancy restaurant get outta here" but she said yes so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
   — MG_72


6. Through college I worked at a private country club serving tables, normally we would only get around 15 tables a night, this one time a guy came up and said that he was going to propose that night and wanted us to bring out flowers and champagne after he proposes. Being a private club we know our members and we know that he knocked the girl up and was marrying her because "that's what you do" Both their parents were there and they are their dinner and then he got down on one knee at the table and asked her to marry him. She said yes (sorry no big she said no story) but the way she said it was just so heartbreaking she basically just said yes didn't well up or look excited at all. We brought the flowers over and popped the champagne. The whole situation was just very anticlimactic, and then my dumbass poured the pregnant girl champagne not thinking (I know I am not allowed to deny a pregnant girl alcohol but I should have asked and not just poured) and got scolded by the girls parents.
   — OverusedKleenex






7. She teared up and said yes. He grinned and said, "April Fool!" She. Was. PISSED!
   — jacobr1020


8. One night a couple were on a date and the guy got down on one knee to propose, my friend didn’t see and ended up tripping over him. The plates she was carrying were empty luckily, but they still went everywhere.
   — vancitypuck