“If I coulda, woulda, shoulda,” are all statements that precede a regretful event. These foretell of items that the person knows were available choices to move forward with their actions, but chose not to follow. This is not the statement that you want in front of your marriage proposal. You want to have your story that you can be proud and represents you fully acting upon what you feel is your best effort. With this in mind, you should carefully think about what regrets that you could have in a very poorly planned proposal. A plan does not have to be elaborate, but will enable you to prevent the most foreseeable problems that become very apparent with the development of a plan. You will be able to recognize potential “snags” that may arise in your plan that could lead you to end up with a less than desirable proposal. When you act without a plan, you often have no clue of the consequences of your actions and the “what next” factor. If you simply had created, even a paper napkin sketch of your thoughts, you would see areas that could be improved or that may not work well. Everything becomes real the moment that it goes on paper and you can experience this vividly with a marriage proposal. When the plan for the proposal is written, you can visualize placement of all the necessary props, how they will interact, and know that your stage is set for your event. In the development, the items that you may forget or could become regretful for are highlighted and can be eliminated. This all becomes apparent, the moment that your ideas are made real with a written plan. What is on the plan will only get better with each stoke of the pen, pencil, or keyboard. If you use our T.I.P. in the development of the plan, it should be nothing but unforgettable. If you don’t know about T.I.P., it stands for Thoughtful, Intimate, and Planned; which we have found as a recipe to prevent “coulda, woulda, and shoulda’s.”