When I think of Valentine's Day I think of all those dark, red, satin, hearts and dark, heavy-looking chocolate, some of the tacky plastic Valentine toys with jelly beans in them or comic cupids, and even the occasional pink flower (that doesn't go well with red). Oh - then there are the little Valentines that come in packages and have really stupid verses. (When I was a kid there was one with an animal creature and a missile, and the verse was, "Missile be my Valentine". Figuring out that that one probably was a play on words - "might as well be my Valentine" - was a challenge.)

In any case, I can think of nothing less romantic and more tacky than Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day, to me, would be a bad choice of day for a proposal.

If any holiday were right for proposing I think it would be Easter, provided the couple celebrated Easter from a "Spring Standpoint" rather than, or in addition to, the religious meaning to that particular holiday.

Easter is about Spring. Spring has all the pastel flowers (particularly yellows, white, pinks, and light purples). Spring has Spring rain, days that just kind of pop into bright green after the rain, and warm morning with fresh, clean, air. Spring is about beginnings, obviously - and its about fresh and clean and new. Spring is light and airy and free - the way love should be. Spring isn't about red wine and chocolate and a heavy dinner at some dark, Italian, restaurant. Spring is about Sunday afternoons in the park or Saturday evening walks in the crisp, ocean, air.

Valentine's Day may be for big, gawdy, expensive, engagement rings. Spring is more for a smaller, simpler, diamond engagement ring that somehow seems to represent a more honest and pure kind of love.

Spring is all about life, and love should be too - so Spring is the time for marriage proposals, I think.

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