aaaaand yeah, i'm excited, so there

3/21/2007 7:54:30 PM

welcome to the club.

3/21/2007 7:54:52 PM

congrats... not to be a buzzkiller, but i (we) we broke up a 1 year 9 month engagement 2 days ago.

hope yours lasts and materliazes into marriage one day soon.

3/21/2007 7:56:33 PM

isnt it great?

3/21/2007 7:56:38 PM

^^you were engaged for too long.

3/21/2007 8:02:56 PM

^^^ atleast you saved yourselves from a divorce.

3/21/2007 8:08:04 PM

she's really good at figuring out my surprises, so the best part was being able to get one by her. we're thinking may 2008

3/21/2007 8:13:43 PM

congrats i just got engaged recently too and its such a good feeling

3/21/2007 8:15:44 PM

^^^^ thank god, because otherwise it would have led to a very awkward situation.

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"^^^ atleast you saved yourselves from a divorce."

exactly. that's the only good to come from it.

btw, we wanted to get married earlier, but because of different citizenships, had a hard time finding a country where the process would be easy.

as they say, god works in mysterious ways.

(we finally found MAURITIUS and were going to go there in april/may)

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3/21/2007 8:17:51 PM

^^^ Congrats. As ^^ said, we just got engaged a few weeks back. I had a smile plastered on my face for a week straight, and still feel giddy when I sit back and think about how happy I'll be the rest of my life.



[Edited on March 21, 2007 at 8:19 PM. Reason : not engaged to 0EPII1]

3/21/2007 8:18:29 PM

congrats to all those who just engaged and have posted in this thread.

and as i said in my first post in the thread:

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"hope yours lasts and materliazes into marriage one day soon."

3/21/2007 8:22:38 PM

i just hope y'all bitches are going to counseling before you say i do.

3/21/2007 8:32:32 PM

^Meh?

3/21/2007 8:39:26 PM

^So the child molesters can teach you about the fastest way to get pregnant -- the rhythm method.

3/21/2007 8:41:20 PM

me too, on the 11th

congrats all

3/21/2007 8:42:48 PM

good for y'all.

have fun with that

3/21/2007 8:46:56 PM

I'm assuming its to a dude, since you are a UNC fan.

3/21/2007 8:52:19 PM

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"i just hope y'all bitches are going to counseling before you say i do."

One of the reasons we didn't want to get married in a church/have a priest marry us is because of the stupid ass counseling.

3/21/2007 9:20:52 PM

CONGRATS

3/21/2007 9:24:32 PM

congrats, im getting close to 30 and woudlnt mind going for it

but its not gonna happen for me until the girl grows up a little more..

3/21/2007 9:28:36 PM

Congratulations! I got engaged just before Christmas - We are super-excited too

3/21/2007 9:31:32 PM

Is this the lucky guy?

3/21/2007 9:31:38 PM

My advice for the wedding planning, pick your battles well. No matter how nice or sweet the girl is, she can and will turn on you in a dispute over "her special day."

Don't back down if there is something you want, but I would suggest not wanting too much.

3/21/2007 9:34:00 PM

DUMBASS

3/21/2007 9:39:55 PM

^^ haha nice

It's been cool so far for us because my sweetie and I have been on the same page about everything! He's been quite involved with the planning too (well, he was before he went overseas), and we're still talking about stuff now through email and on the phone, when we get the chance. No battles so far, with each other anyway, and hopefully it will stay that way!

3/21/2007 9:43:25 PM

This thread (overall) makes me happy. Congrats

3/21/2007 10:01:18 PM

how could it ever be just us two
we just met and i just F*cked you

3/21/2007 10:07:23 PM

YAYYYY congratulations
I've been engaged for like a year . . . i love it

3/21/2007 10:33:09 PM

NICE!!!! CONGRATS!

I remember our engagement day crystal clear -- what an awesome experience.

Our engagement was a painstaking 13 months (hadta graduate and all), but was well worth the wait. Married life is the hottness if you pick the right one LIVE IT UP!

P.S. -- Wedding planning isn't all that bad. It's a LOT to do, but if you can coax your / her mom into taking on a lot of the reponsibility (typically isn't hard, they love this stuff), you can just sit & watch for most of it. Ours wasn't stressful and didn't elicit any bickering, but we had TONS of help from friends & family along the way. BTW, go ahead & start an Excel spreadsheet with colums like "Name, Quanity of folks in family, RSVP?, Address, Gift received, etc." Makes sending thank you notes a breeze and starts up a nice address book for your newly combined family list.

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3/21/2007 10:37:42 PM

I can't think of too much that a guy should give a shit about in wedding planning.

1. Open bar
2. Less than astronomical amount of guests

3/21/2007 10:39:01 PM

ahhhh, why do i click on these threads??

3/21/2007 10:39:31 PM

Congrats!!!

The like 3 or 4 couple I knew in college who got engaged all broke it off, but they all set over a year to 5 years until the wedding so you knew they weren't serious about it anyways. It was just they needed to move ahead a stage in a relationship to keep it alive for the time being. I've only ever been to weddings of people I only sorta knew because no one I'm close friends with has ever gone through with it.

Best wishes!

3/21/2007 11:21:08 PM

congrats. engagement is nice, but we're almost at the end of it. (wedding is june 9th. tdub is not invited. ) next step, being officially hitched

3/21/2007 11:50:50 PM

nothing counts til you have a kid.

3/22/2007 1:07:59 AM

suprised no one has been an ass and posted that engagement ring thread in chit chat yet, could it be tww is losing its asshole qualities.

3/22/2007 1:30:48 AM

i have a hard time working up the willpower to be an asshole.

i keep hoping someone else will.

3/22/2007 2:27:34 AM

^^^^Hey, some TDub is invited. I finally get to meet ya then.

3/22/2007 5:55:09 AM

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"No matter how nice or sweet the girl is, she can and will turn on you in a dispute over "her special day.""

This is absolute fucking truth. She won't stay anywhere near budget either.

3/22/2007 7:30:22 AM

congrats bro, i hope it works out for you

3/22/2007 7:33:03 AM

So who's the lucky guy? [/gratuitous UNC joke]

3/22/2007 7:42:57 AM

my fiance and I are having a blast planning everything. He has a few specifics he really wants and that actually helped me get started on the planning. Everything else i've been looking at some options that I like, narrowing them down and then we decide together what we like best. Ours will be outdoors in the fall on the sound. YAY!

Congrats on the engagement!

3/22/2007 7:43:44 AM

dude, you look just like Steve-O

3/22/2007 8:07:09 AM

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"One of the reasons we didn't want to get married in a church/have a priest marry us is because of the stupid ass counseling."

Everyone should do marriage counseling. Its amazing how many people get married without knowing about or talking through very big issues that simply seem obvious.

3/22/2007 9:17:33 AM

congrats stingray

who is the lucky guy?

3/22/2007 9:24:07 AM

gtfo

[Edited on March 22, 2007 at 9:33 AM. Reason : 30703]

3/22/2007 9:32:18 AM

i would say congrats, but you're a carolina fan.

so instead, ill say go fuck yourself.

3/22/2007 9:33:07 AM

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" but if you can coax your / her mom into taking on a lot of the reponsibility (typically isn't hard, they love this stuff)"

I'd like to meet these moms that love the wedding planning. Mine didn't give a hell.

3/22/2007 10:09:16 AM

if you feel like traveling to sc, im sure my mom would meet you.

3/22/2007 10:12:17 AM

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"my fiance and I are having a blast planning everything."

i think you really meant you are having a blast planning everything.

3/22/2007 10:21:06 AM

set em up

3/22/2007 10:36:30 AM