A/n: So at the end of this are some pictures. Those pictures of some of the ones that Shawn chose to put behind you guys. This imagine is going to be from Shawn's point of view. Also, I think that this is a long imagine, so I apologize for that. Okay, let's begin!
Shawn's point of view
I want to propose to my girlfriend of three years, Y/n Y/l/n. She's the love of my life and I don't know what I would do without her. The first thing that I need to do is get her parent's blessing. I drove up to the home that my lovely girlfriend, hopefully soon to be fiance, grew up in, and parked the car.
"Hey Shawn." Her mom said.
"Hi, how are you guys?" I asked.
"Good, but you seem nervous." Her dad said. I nodded and let out a shaky breath.
"Can we sit down?" I asked. They nodded.
"Sure. What's up?" They asked.
"I would like your daughter's hand in marriage. Y/n is the love of my life, I have absolutely no clue what I would do without her. Can I please have your blessing?" I asked. They smiled, looked at each other, and nodded.
"Of course Shawn." Her mom said. I smiled.
"Oh thank God. I don't know what I would have done if you guys had said no." I said, causing them to laugh.
"Do you know how you're going to propose?" Y/d/n, Y/n's dad, asked. I nodded and smirked.
"I have an idea." I said.
The next thing that I needed to do was get the ring. I took Y/n's best friend, Grace, along with me to get the ring. We picked a ring that was sparkly yet elegant and simplistic all at the same time. I hope that she loves it.
Following getting the ring, I needed to set up the proposal. I picked about twenty of my favorite pictures of the two of us and printed them out. I love the one where we're at the beach and I'm giving her a piggyback ride. Another one is from a wedding that we went to. My head is buried in her neck and we're in the middle of hugging while we're dancing. There are a couple where she's sitting on my shoulders, either at a concert or just randomly. Basically what I'm trying to say is that there's a lot of amazing pictures.
I used a clothes hanger to pin all of the photos up on clothes wire and put a white sheet behind it all. I set up a table for two and some candles on and around the table. I hope that she likes it. I asked Josiah to hide in the bushes and take pictures and he agreed to it. I just hope that she likes the proposal and says yes. I had Josiah watch my setup while I went home.
I walked in the door and immediately saw my girlfriend on the couch crying. I rushed over to her and wrapped my arms around her. She's always said that she loves my "strong, manly arms" and loves to be held by me.
"What's wrong my love?" I asked. She hugged me. I rubbed her back, which helped to calm her down. When she stopped crying she pulled away and wiped her tears away. I continued to rub her sides.
"I had a quiz in math today and I probably flunked it. I didn't understand like, two or three out of the eight questions. I got an essay back and I got a C, and you know me, I like to get a B or an A," she said, causing me to nod. She continued. "Then, I almost got into a car accident because some jerk almost didn't stop. I've just had a really rough day and I've missed you." She said. I kissed her forehead and she smiled.
"Well baby, don't beat yourself up on the quiz, you probably did better than you think. I know that you like to get a B or an A, but a C is still good, plus this is the class that you can revise papers in, right?" I said and asked. She nodded.
"Yeah, it is. We can revise as much as we want until we get the grade that we want." She said.
"See, you'll be fine. And about the jerk, at least he did come to a stop, and you're still here, alive and not hurt or anything. Everything's okay baby, you're fine. Why don't we do date night tonight my love?" I asked. She shrugged. Oh no.
"I just want to cuddle with you." Y/n said.
"But we can always cuddle afterwards." I said. She thought for a moment before nodding and smiling at me. Oh thank God.
"Where do you want to go?" She asked.
"Well, I know of a great place, but I don't want to tell you just yet." I said. She shook her head.
"Shawn Mendes, you amaze me." She said. I chuckled and placed a quick kiss on her lips.
"Let's get dressed up nice. I'll send you the address and you can meet me there." I said.
"Wait, why aren't we going together?" She asked, a look of confusion etched across her beautifully gorgeous face.
"Because I have to make sure that everything is as perfect as you are." I said. She blushed, causing me to laugh. Her and I went upstairs. "I'll get dressed first, I don't want to see what you're wearing until I see you at the place, okay?" I asked. She nodded and sat down on the bed. I put on black dress pants and started to put on a white button up.
"Here, let me do something and help." She said. I smiled at her as she helped me button up. I studied her face. I couldn't stop smiling.
"You're so beautiful. So divine." I said. She blushed.
"Stop! You're making me blush!" She said. I laughed as she finished buttoning me up. "There, you're good to go. I love you Shawn Mendes." She said.
"Thank you. I love you too Y/n Y/l/n." I said. She pecked my lips and I got going to where I set up the proposal. Josiah shook his head at me.
"Dude, what took you so long?" Josiah asked.
"She had a rough day, so I had to comfort her and then I had to get dressed. Let me do my proposal in peace." I said. He laughed and shook his head while getting into position. Y/n's car soon pulled up and she got out. Wow. She looked stunning. She was wearing that little black dress that she knows I love so much with silver heels and a silver, sparkly, small purse. Her hair looked wonderful.
"Shawn this looks amazing." She said as she walked over to me.
"You like it?" I asked nervously. What if she says no to my proposal? Oh God. She smiled at me.
"I love it. You seem nervous baby." She said, brushing a stray curl out of my face. I nodded.
"I just really want you to like this dinner. Come here so you're in better lighting, I want to get a better look at you." I said with a smile. She giggled and blushed.
"Do I look okay?" She asked.
"You look stunning. Wow. I have no words." I said.
"You just said stunning and wow so I think that you have words." She said teasingly. I laughed. I pulled the ring out of my back pocket and got down on one knee. She clapped her hand to her mouth and I see tears form in her eyes. "Oh my God." She said. I laughed again.
"Y/n Y/m/n Y/l/n, I have loved you since the moment that I laid eyes on you, and I'll love you until I take my very last breath. You are the love of my life, my best friend, my teammate, my biggest fan, my confidant, my everything. I have no clue what I would do without you but I know that neither of us are ever going to find out. I can see my whole future, my whole life with you. Little kids running around. Growing old together. All of it. I see it with you. I want you, only you. I love you Y/n Y/l/n. Will you do me the honors of becoming my wife?" I asked. I opened up the box to the ring and her eyes widened. She nodded her head violently and took her hands away from her mouth.
"Yes, yes, a million times yes!" She exclaimed. I stood up, and put the ring on her finger. She gently grabbed my face put her lips on mine and I felt sparks shoot through me like fireworks, I felt my heart beat speed up, and I felt butterflies erupt and fly around in my stomach. We pulled away, smiling at each other while breathless from our amazing kiss.
"I love you." I said.
"I love you too. Oh my God Shawn we're going to get married! Is this real life or am I dreaming?" She said and asked. I laughed and shook my head.
"This is real baby. We're going to get married." I said. She kissed me again. "Did you know that you make me the happiest man alive?" I asked. She giggled and shook her head.
"No." She said.
"Well you do. You make me very happy." I said.
"Well that's good because you make me very happy too." She said. I rested my forehead against hers and we smiled at each other.
"Oh and one more thing." I said as I pulled my forehead away from hers.
"What?" She asked. I pointed at where Josiah was. He waved.
"Josiah just captured this whole thing on camera." I said. She gasped and her eyes widened.
"No way!" She said.
"Yes way." I said.
"Oh my gosh that's amazing. Oh wow I love the pictures that you chose." She said, looking over at the pictures.
"Good, because they're my favorites. Remember that one?" I asked while pointing at a picture of us standing in front of a wall that had "I love you so much" written on it. She was making a kissy face at me in the picture and I was smiling at her. While we were looking at the pictures, I wrapped my arm around her waist as she did the same and nodded at me.
"I do. Oh my gosh, I'm going to be saying I do at an alter. Oh wow this is amazing." She said. I laughed.
"Hey, don't forget that I get to say it too." I said. She giggled.
"Look at that one. We're so cute." She said as she pointed at a picture of us holding each other's faces as we kissed in a car. The car wasn't moving of course. I smiled at the memory.
"When do you want to tell everyone about the engagement?" I asked. She looked at me and shrugged her shoulders as she rubbed my chest.
"I think that we should tell our family first, then our friends, then everybody else. Does that sound good handsome?" She said and asked. I blushed at her calling me handsome, and nodded. By now Josiah had left.
"That sounds perfect baby. Let's sit down and have dinner and figure this out." I said, pulling out her chair and then once she sat down, I pushed it in.
"Why thank you Mr. Mendes." She said.
"Why you're welcome future Mrs. Mendes." I said. She smiled as I sat down.
"Oh wow I'm going to be a Mendes. This is just so amazing! I love you so much Shawn." She said.
"It is amazing. I love you too." I said.
"So, I think that my family is closer. Should we tell them first?" She asked. I thought for a moment before nodding as we began to eat our chicken alfredo.
"Yeah. And then we can facetime my family and tell them." I said. She nodded. We had a really nice dinner and talked throughout it. I stared at her, amazed.
"What? Do I have something on my face?" She asked. I shook my head and reached my hand out for hers. As our hands touched, I felt sparks shoot through me.
"No, I'm just amazed that I get to marry that most amazing woman in the world." I said. She blushed again and giggled.
"Stop it, I'm not that great." She said. My heart broke.
"But baby you're so amazing in so many ways. I'm not even kidding or lying to you. You know that I would never lie to you, right?" I said and asked. She nodded.
"You don't have a lying bone in your body." She said. I laughed and continued to eat. After dinner we went home and cuddled. The next day we decided to go over to the house that she grew up in to tell her family. Not only were her parents there, but her brother was too.
"Hi guys." Y/n's dad said.
"Hi. We have some news for you." Y/n said before raising her hand and showing her ring.
"Congratulations!" Everyone said and so the hugging began. We thanked them and hugged back.
"Let me see the ring!" Y/n's mother requested. Y/n showed them and her mother's eyes widened.
"Holy shit!" Y/n's dad and brother said. Y/n and I laughed.
"I took Grace to help me pick it out." I said.
"Did you really?" Y/n asked. I nodded and kissed her cheek as she smiled.
"Come here baby. Come sit on my lap." I said as I patted my lap and we all sat down.
"Are you sure that you want my bony butt on your lap?" She asked. I nodded.
"Of course I'm sure. I love your bony butt." I said. Everybody laughed and she blushed.
"So, have you guys told Shawn's family yet?" Y/n's mom asked. We shook our heads.
"You guys are the first to know. Well, besides Josiah because he took the pictures." I said.
"There are pictures of it going down? Like Shawn on one knee and everything?" Y/n's dad asked. We laughed and nodded.
"Yes dad, there are pictures of it 'going down.'" Y/n said with a laugh that made my heart flutter. I pulled her closer to me and she smiled at me.
"I can't wait to see the pictures." Y/n's mom said.
"Mom, Shawn and I haven't even seen the pictures yet. They were just taken yesterday." Y/n said with a smile and a laugh.
"So how did you do it?" Y/b/n, Y/n's brother asked. Y/n looked at me. I explained how I had the pictures, table, and candles all set up, and how I made a heartfelt speech before opening up the box to reveal the ring. Y/n's mom got teary eyed while I told them everything, and Y/n smiled at me. She kissed my forehead.
"Oh my gosh that was so cute." Y/n's mom said.
"The proposal was beautiful. There's no way it could have been better, and if you guys could have heard what he said, oh my gosh it made my heart burst, but in a good way." Y/n said. I smiled at her. We soon left and went back to our house.
"Ready to tell my parents?" I asked. Y/n shrugged and played with her fingers.
"Um, yeah." She said.
"What's wrong love?" I asked as I wrapped my arms around her waist. She put her hands on my biceps.
"Well what if they don't like the fact that you're marrying me? What if they want you to marry someone else?" She asked. I kissed her forehead.
"Baby, they love you and they knew that I was going to propose." I said. She perked up and smiled.
"Really? What did they say?" She asked.
"They knew that you were the one for me already. So don't worry, okay my love?" I said and asked. She nodded. We sat down and set up the facetime. My parents and Aaliyah answered.
"Hi guys, to what do we owe the pleasure?" My mom asked. I nodded at my fiancé and she lifted up her hand.
"We're engaged!" I said. My family cheered and clapped. They congratulated us.
"How did you do it?" My mom asked as she wiped tears away. I explained again how I did it, but I didn't mind, it became one of my favorite stories - besides the story of how Y/n and I met. We met at a Justin Timberlake concert and hit it off right from the start.
"If you guys could have heard what he said, it was amazing." Y/n said while smiling at me. I pecked her lips.
"Ewww, I don't want to see my brother kissing." Aaliyah said. I stuck my tongue out at her.
"Well, we'll let you two lovebirds be lovebirds." My dad said. We waved goodbye and hung up.
"See, that wasn't so bad, now was it?" I asked. Y/n shook her head.
"Should we tell our friends tomorrow or next week?" She asked. I thought for a moment.
"Next week. Let's keep this a little bit of a secret for a little longer." I said with a smirk, causing Y/n to giggle.
"Can we tell Grace since she helped you pick out the ring?" She asked. I nodded.
"Definitely." I said. Grace came over that night and looked at me, trying to figure out if I proposed or not. I just smiled, hoping that nothing on my face gave it away, but something must have given it away because she looked at Y/n and exclaimed:
"Let me see the ring on you!" She requested. Y/n looked at me and then looked back at Grace.
"How did you know?" Y/n asked.
"It's written all over Shawn's face." Grace said. We all laughed.
"It is not!" I said, defending myself.
"Yes it is! Your smile is even bigger than before. I didn't even know that was possible." Grace said. I laughed. The following week we told all of our friends, which included, Camila, Brian, Andrew, the band, and Y/n's friends Grace (who of course already knew), Molly, Avery, and Anna. They all cheered and congratulated us.
"Baby," I said as we got into bed that night. "Can I please tell the world that I asked you to be mine forever?" I asked. She smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, we'll do it tomorrow. Okay?" She said and asked. I smiled and nodded.
"Sounds perfect." I said. The next day I woke up to the smell of bacon wafting through the house. I ran down the stairs.
"What's wrong?" Y/n asked, panic in her eyes.
"Nothing, I'm just really excited for bacon." I said, feeling bad that I scared her. "Sorry baby." I said as I walked over to her and wrapped my arms around her waist from behind.
"It's okay. I love you." She said. I pecked her neck with a small kiss.
"I love you too. We tell the world that we're going to be together forever today." I said.
"I was actually thinking about that..." Y/n said. Oh God.
"And?" I asked as I unwrapped myself from her so I could stand next to her.
"What if your fans get mad at me?" She asked.
"Baby look at me." I requested. She looked at me. "Everything will be fine. I promise. Okay?" I asked. She nodded.
"Okay." She said. After breakfast, we posted three of the pictures that Josiah had taken. One of me watching her walk up to me, the other was of me down on one knee, and the last was us kissing. I wrote the caption and Y/n's phone dinged. She gets notifications when I post.
"Read it out loud." I said. I wouldn't let her read it over my shoulder while I was writing it.
"I've been keeping a bit of a secret from you guys. Last week, I asked my best friend to marry me. Thank God she said yes. Baby, you make me the happiest man alive and I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you. I can't wait until the day that little kids run around the house and the day that we're grandparents. I love you now and I'll love you forever my sweet, precious, darling angel." She read as tears formed in her eyes.
"Why are you crying baby?" I asked as I pulled her into my lap. She smiled at me.
"I'm just really happy. That was beautiful. I love you." She said. I smiled at her.
"I love you too honey." I said. We rested our foreheads together and just kept smiling. Gosh am I a lucky man or what? I can't wait to marry this girl.