Asking someone to spend the rest of their life with you is a pretty big deal, let alone planning how you're going to get down on one knee.
So, spare a moment to think of Channing Tatum who recently revealed his proposal fail to wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum.
In an interview with BBC Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw yesterday, the Logan Lucky star revealed his proposal ended in tears, and not in a good way.
'When I proposed to my wife I did something pretty cruel because I thought she was on to me. I basically told her I never wanted to get married to try to throw her off,' the 37-year-old actor recalled.
'I told her, "I don't believe in the institution of marriage and I don't think I ever want to get married". She basically broke down crying,' he added. 'I thought, "This is not going well at all' so I had to propose to her sooner rather than later."
I mean, joking that you don't believe in marriage to the woman you want to marry isn't exactly the way to go about a proposal.
In 2008, People reported Channing asked Jenna to marry him in Maui, Hawaii in front of close friends, who were invited under the radar to surprise her.
Fortunately, the actor - who met his wife on the set of the 2006 dance film Step Up and is father to four-year-old Everly - appears to have learned his lesson when it comes to romantic gestures and helped a radio caller surprise his girlfriend over the phone.
Channing Tatum- ever the charmer.
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