Are you engaged?
 

Are you currently engaged or feel that the question is just around the corner? What kind of things are you working on for the wedding and any good suggestions/hints/tips when preparing for the wedding?

I ask because my boyfriend has been talking about marriage lately. I have been looking at wedding magazines even before we were together, but I am really starting to look at them now.

Thanks!

I was just getting ready to start a thread to say --

YES! I am getting married, as a matter of fact. Next January. :)

Right now, we're picking colors, looking for a place for the ceremony and reception, and picking our bridesmaids and groomsmen. We're also etting my ring made.

Congrats, MTSUGURL! :D WOnderful news.

No, I am not engaged. Single and lovin it. :D

I'm engaged, but we're remarkably chill about it. I think that one weekend we'll just wake up and say, "Hey, let's get married today" and then do it. It's amazing how much people freak out when I say that.

MTSUGURL---Whoa! When'd you get engaged? :p Congrats!! :D

On the subject now..heh.. :)

TKE209 and I have been talking and preplanning it for a good year now. I was supposed to get my ring sometime this fall, however, the college screwed him over and he said he won't be able to afford it....buuuuuuuuuuut that's what -he- said..I've never seen the paperwork of him getting "screwed over". Hmm... :p Plus he's taking 3 good payign jobs over the summer..sheehs..he really hides it well :rolleyes: :p

I'll tell you a good ole hint that we discovered early on. The decision making is not all my responsibility. We decide on everything together and compromise (even the colors...and who's who going to be whatever)!

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Cool, you're getting married on my birthday! :D

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Congrats, Crystal! :)

My husband and I were engaged for about 2-1/2 years. We did a few things right away - setting the date not being among them! Someone actually told us we weren't "really" engaged because we hadn't set a date :rolleyes:

My biggest piece of advice is not to wait until the last minute. Good dates at good reception halls in many places get booked years in advance. Get your reception hall, ceremony location, and officiant lined up early on. Then, ask people to be in the wedding party. Then start getting into details like colors, flowers, etc.

It's also very easy to turn into Bridezilla. Don't stress if every single little detail isn't perfect... the important thing is that, at the end of the day, you're married.

Congratulations. :) It takes a while to plan a decent wedding (I helped my older sister plan hers a couple years back), so you'd better get going ASAP!

I, personally, am nowhere close to sporting a diamond...I've been asked 3 times but I'm commitment phobic so maybe the 4th time's a charm! :D

I am not engaged. And I love it.

I'm engaged, and we're getting married April 2, 2005. Basically all we've done is set the date and pick out who is in the wedding. I've found a dress I want and bridesmaid dresses, but we haven't done anything else. We need to get on that!

Not engaged...100% single.

But...my good friend is getting married in June. My piece of advice from watching her plan her wedding, is get your maid of honour to help you. That's what she's there for. Make sure your maid of honour is some you love and care about and that you know you can count on her. My friend's maid of honour started out not caring about her wdding and not helping out when my friend needed it the most. I ended up helping her a lot of the time until she finally sat down with her maid of honour and had a good long talk with her.
Now I don't mind helping out and I was happy to do so, but your maid of honour needs to be there for you.

So pick the girl you can count on, because when you need her (and you will need her) she'll be there for you.

ahh, i should have probably put this in the break-up thread but thr best way to break-up with me is to start mentioning words/phrases like marriage, life-long committment, settling down, tired of the game, children, joint accounts etc.

I'm engaged... September 17,2004! Almost exactly 6 months to go!

We took a break from the planning for a few months after we got the big stuff done (we got engaged last July), but now that it's getting closer, we're lining up all the little things. I'm so excited... I can't wait to be his wife!

Damn girl, do you realize you have been proposed to more times than the number of sexual partners that the average GC girl would confess to ever having been with? :p

That's exactly how we are doing it. Could be next week, could be next month. Who knows!

My parents decided on March 12, 1974 to get married. Today (03/15/04) it year # 30. To bad my dad died a week and a half before today. SO we are celbrating their love with out him (physcialy).

mr. honeychile & I have been engaged for 2 years, 2 months. We will make NO plans until our premarital counseling settles every one of our "issues"!

This is my second marriage, and I urge all you other future brides to consider counseling prior to getting involved with Bride Magazine etc! It surely can't hurt, and it WILL make your future marriage stronger!

What issues can there be before marriage? I thought everything was supposed to be generally fantastic at that point?

Please tell me that you're kidding!

yes i am. to a Zeta.

Zeta's make the best fiancees!!!! :-p Yes, I am engaged. We will be getting married on the beach October 2, 2004 :) We were originally planning an intimate wedding, but our small guest list turned into nearly 100. But, most of them won't come.

I've ordered my gown- Casablanca #1622 (it'll be in late April) and the bridesmaids' dresses- Bari Jay #709 (they're a burgundy sort of color). I'm making the invitations myself. We've put a deposit on the venue, food, DJ, cake, and flowers.

If you have access to military officers' and chiefs' clubs, I highly suggest using them as reception sites. They are FREE!!!! You just have to pay for them to prepare the food (roughly $2500 for us).

Using silk flowers instead of fresh ones cuts down on costs and makes for great keepsakes (of course my bouquet will be real, but the throw-away one will be silk).

I'm also making my own centerpieces!!! If anyone needs wedding ideas, go to www.theknot.com. The knotties are more than willing to share photos and ideas!

Whew, okay I'm done hijacking the thread. Sorry, I'm just so excited!!!

Ha Xylochick! Not only we are getting married in the same month but we have done exactly the same amount of work. I've been looking at reception sites too...I've narrowed it down to two places. I also have some ideas on flowers and cake as well as initial thoughts on all the rest.

Planning a wedding for 200+ is like this big monster taunting me but luckily I have a wonderful support system of my mom, aunt, and maid of honor to help me with the decisions and with the stress!

I think that's so smart. It's easy to get distracted about little things that mean absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things, so I figure -- why bother?

Mwuahahahahahahaha!

I would definitely suggest getting a good wedding planner (a book, not a person). All of my friends who have hired fancy wedding consultants have been upset because they didn't get to do everything they wanted. I got mine for $15 at Barnes and Noble, and it's fantastic. We're going next week to look at the 2 places we're looking at for the ceremony and reception :)

And yes, TriDeltaGal, it's a lot of work. I know I'm going to end up waiting until at least June to make a lot of big decisions!

Suprisingly, I haven't used mine all that much. I used it to get a good timeline of what to do when, but I haven't touched it in a good 4 months. I have a drawer of my filing cabinet devoted to wedding stuff, but other than that, it's all in my head! So wierd for such an organization freak like me :)

My latest exciting news... my dress is in, and my invitations came yesterday!!! Six months and one day to go!!

I got engaged not this past Friday, but the one before. He didn't ask, we were talking about it and before we knew it had set a date. He's going to ask my father in May, and he's planning some big surprise revolving around my ring. What's so funny is that in everyday life, we're really romantic. (We went to a field to pick buttercups the other day, for example.) The decision to get married was finalized because we decided that being together would actually be cheaper than being apart, and since we loved each other and both wanted to be together all the time and have children soon, we might as well get married soon as opposed to waiting. We're going through a couples Bible study, premarital counseling, Financial Peace University, and working extra hours to save up.
I think planning the wedding together is important because it may bring up things about each other's personality that you haven't had to deal with yet, and probably wouldn't have to deal with until you made major decisions when you're married. Might as well go into marriage as prepared as you can be!

I'm engaged, and getting married this December. We got engaged a year ago last December, but planning long-distance has been difficult. The ball is rolling again, though, and at this point I've had time to finish paying off my dress. :D That was the first wedding thing I did. *laughs*

It's funny.

I am no where near being engaged, let alone have a bf but...

I have a wedding planner (my big sis), a possible place to have the wedding (my great grand works in event planning), a possible caterer (my 2nd cousin), a place to print and design my invites/announcements (myself and my current job), and a dj (too many to name).

I just need a groom. :)