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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

When He Popped the Question

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

What was the moment like when you got engaged? Greg and Erin Smalley tell the story of when he asked Erin to marry him. Then, Jim Daly talks to Rebecca St. James and her husband Cubbie on how he popped the question on a wintry night in Nashville

 

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0:00.0

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0:03.3

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0:12.4

We'll go to this thing, but this is it.

0:14.7

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0:16.3

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0:23.3

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0:30.6

I think most people who are married have a recollection of the proposal of what that was like.

0:42.5

I mean, these days we take pictures.

0:45.2

It's a mountaintop experience.

0:46.7

It's a big deal.

0:48.6

I'm John Fuller, joined by Greg and Aaron Smalley from the Focus on the Family Marriage Team.

0:53.8

I kind of qualified my opening statement because my wife does not remember a proposal

0:58.5

because I pretty much didn't.

1:00.5

And that's a story for another time.

1:02.2

How about you all?

1:03.9

So we're assuming you're married, though.

1:05.9

We are married.

1:07.0

Yeah, I got there somehow.

1:09.2

The short of it is I talked to her dad the night before,

1:12.7

and we had spent months, a couple of months at least, talking about when we get married. So she

1:18.3

knew that we were going to get married. Her dad gave me permission. And we didn't have an engagement

1:25.4

ring per se, but somewhere the next day, I just said, well, what date should we pick?

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