West
Two people meet each other, they share life experiences together, they live together, they learn the most they can about each other, then they say "I Love You."
"I Love You." Such a strong meaningful word, the way it's said creates a strong feeling of security and comfort. Love is hard to find, hard to express and hard to maintain. So when they have the nerve to say it, they mean it. It's not in movies, it's not in books, it's true and real.
In the West, proposals take so much planning. It's romantic and sincere. It means a lot and it's the most important things after marriage for the male and the female. Two people fall in love, one of them proposes to the other, they put on the rings, and they're engaged. It's just genuine. I personally love how it's done, even for celebrities, the proposal is a major part in the relationship where major magazines should be there and major events should take place.
Easy, romantic and personal. These are the features of the classic Western proposal that all Middle Easterns wish they can do it as easily as Westerns do it.
Middle East
Proposal?! In the Middle East?!?! I highly doubt it and never recommend it. A proposal is a direct way of ruining the relationship with both the parents of the male and the female with them. If a guy proposes the classical romantic way, the families will feel excluded and the girl will be doomed; the word will be spread in no time.
Everyone will start looking at this girl in a very demeaning way that she disregarded her family's wishes and traditions. There is no such thing called "A Proposal" in the Middle East. Unfortunately "proposals" in the Middle East include parents and some religious blessings from both families.
In the traditional way, families meet, the guy meets the girl for the first time, the family of the male tells the other family what he has accomplished in life, then the other family agrees or not, sometimes with the girl's approval; of course that's if the guy approves after seeing her.
In the "modern" way, two people fall in love, each tell the parents, they meet together and they immediately start planning the engagement, wedding and marital future. Everything is bound to the families and not for the couple. Family first, then couple's happiness and plans second.
It's a shame for two reasons; the male or the female might be immediately judged with no second chances; the family of the girl will, in my opinion, transform their house into a showroom for the guests to see their daughter(s) and let the guests decide of they should marry her to their sons or not.
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