When you are ready
A page to ask with, when you want the moment to keep
A page is not the proposal. Nobody should be asked an important question by hyperlink, and we would rather say so plainly than sell you the idea. What a page is good for is the fifteen minutes before, or the hour after — the case you want to make, and the record of the day that survives it.
The proposal template ends in the question itself, with a yes button and a no button that dodges away when you go for it and gives in after the third attempt. It is a joke, and it is escapable: keyboard users and anyone with reduced motion turned on get a button that stays exactly where it is.
What to write
Use these as they are, or as a running start. Every template also has a draft-it-for-me button if the words will not come.
The case, made briefly
I have thought about this for longer than you would guess and from every angle I could find. Every one of them ends the same way. So: will you?
Lighter, if that is more your register
Four reasons overleaf, and one question at the end. You already know the question. Take your time with the reasons.
For the day after
You said yes at 9:40pm on a Tuesday, on a bench, with your phone at four percent. Here is the whole thing, kept.
Works for: A partner · Someone you are about to ask
Questions people actually ask
Does the "no" button actually work?
It moves away three times and then gives in, so nobody is ever genuinely trapped. If they are using a keyboard or have reduced motion enabled, it does not move at all — an accessibility joke that locks someone out stops being funny.
Should I actually propose over a link?
We would not. Ask in person and use the page for the part around it — the reasons you would fumble out loud, or the record of the day afterwards.