Engagement-cation

Candle's, romantic music, champagne, surprise, handsome and amazing man down on one knee.

All of the things that I think of when it comes to being proposed to are looking like something that is going to be no longer.

Prince William and Catherine Middleton are some of the first, of many I'm sure, to take an engagement-cation.  Which is where you plan a vacation to pop the question.

I actually find some big problems with this.  

1- Do you know whats going on? Like are you both planning the entire thing with the pretense of getting engaged on day 3 of the get-a-way?  And if not, wouldn't that be a little bit weird.  At least for me, I'm not a big vacationing person, so if my beau decided that we were going to take an extravagant vacation I would definitely know that something was up.

2- What do you do for the honeymoon then?  I mean these aren't just your weekend 2 hour drive bed'n'breakfast get-a-ways.  Couples are actually going out of country, across country, and on romantic cruises.  

3- What happens if she says no?  How's the rest of the vacation go then?  Do you go your separate ways and decide to find your own ways home, or do you actually stick out the vacation and deal with the HUGE decked out in diamond elephant in the room/car/plane?  And if you do decide to stick it out, does it turn into a joke? Or what do you talk about the rest of the time.  Small talk can only go so far.. Do you end the vacation early?

4- What happens if one is expecting it to JUST be a vacation and one is expecting it to end with the proposal?  Not as awkward as the denial, but I would think that would stir up some problems.

I guess there is going to be that couple that have talked about getting engaged at some point and they go on an obviously not mutual engagement-cation, the proposal ends in denial, and they are able to talk it out, and laugh about it by the time the vacay is over.  But what about all those other couples that don't have communication and think they can make a relationship work without it?  

 Maybe I'm just not swept off my feet yet, so I don't get the whole lure of it all, but I'd much rather go for old-fashioned in this area.

What about you?