How did you know when you were ready to get married?
 

How did you know when you were ready to get married? Some of my friends have started discussing this lately.

When I was 6, my best friend Bryan, who lived across the street from me, asked me to marry him. It seemed like a good idea at the time, so I went in my jewelry box and got my She-Ra ring, and a pretty plastic purple jewel ring that I won in a gumball machine. His older sister married us on my front lawn. We had plans to live in my playhouse, but 6:00 rolled around, and we both had to go in for dinner. Nothing much was said about our marriage from that point on, I think the next day we started an involved game of freeze tag or something.

Sorry Wine&Silver...I've never really been proposed to, but I wanted to reply to your thread because no one else has.

that story made me go all :D

i knew i was ready when the thought of spending time without him or with somebody else was physically painful to me and waking up with him every morning was exactly what i wanted to do for the rest of my life...

- marissa

Barf. :p ;)

We eloped and then did a (little bit) bigger wedding thing later. It was great.

well that's when i knew i was READY to get married - we actually did the civil service thing after sept 11th while he was still in the military with a bigger ceremony later on!

So you knew you were ready to get married because you eloped? LOLZ. Imagine if you eloped and were like SHIT! I'M NOT READY! ;)

Oh hell, my husband and I still have a running joke that we shouldn't have gone to Georgia that day. I don't remember what the actual turning point when we decided to get married was. I think maybe it was when we figured out that he had more clothes and personal effects at my apartment then he did at his.

I couldn't see being with anyone else. He bought the ring about a year after we met and waited another 6 months to propose. He'd done the whole dating scene after college and was ready to settle down. I'd graduated from college and was ready to be more of an "adult." (Though, after almost three years of marrige and now a baby, I still don't feel like more of an adult.)

I knew I was ready to marry my soon-to-be husband because I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him, and that I could put up with even his most obnoxious habits in the long term.

When my father told me that he didn't like my boyfriend, I knew it was time the boyfriend and I got married.

I had to come home from college for a semester to help with family stuff and I couldnt stop thinking about him. He was a wreck all the time and came home every weekend I couldnt come up to see him.

We just couldnt bare to be apart and we both knew each other was the one. Being away from each other showed how much we missed each other and couldnt see being with someone else.

When I came back to college we just knew it was right and a year later he proposed. We both were poor college students and he wanted to save to buy a ring.

I think we still would have gotten married if I didnt go home for a semester, but that semester really showed us what it was like to not have the other in your life all the time. We took for granted being able to see each other anytime when we were together and being apart showed us what we meant to each other.

I knew being home that he was the only person for me and I hope he felt the same because I couldnt imagine not being together forever.

The plane tixs were too expensive for a long distance relationship... So, I asked him how serious he was with me and told him I'm too old to be waitin' 6 months if all "this is" is a fling...

Never thought he'd actually propose, then we'd get into a fight and then he'd fill out the paperwork for the marriage license...

I realized what I had chosen to do after I actually saw the ring I designed from the jeweler and the judge said, "WOW, nice ring" and we said "I do..."

As weird as it sounds, I feel like he's the male version of myself. We both have the same or similar personality quirks, we both have the same downfalls, similar things that make us happy... and of course the patience to live with each others ups and downs because we both do the same thing to each other. (Yeah... if that makes sense...)

And he's shown more empathy and general concern about my health than any other person besides my parents... so that's a big plus.

We had lived together for a couple of years and were in love. I had always thought I wanted to be a bachelor for a long time, but I started thinking seriously about marriage. At that point, I realized I wanted to propose to her.

I knew it was time when my now-wife mentioned how long we'd been dating over and over and over and over and over (repeat ad nauseum).

Well, I'm engaged to my best friend ever :D I realized that if we broke up and I started dating someone else, that he would still be the person I would want to call every night to talk to about it. I realized that I would talk to him more than I would talk to anyone else I could ever imagine dating - which probably wouldn't be very nice or healthy for him, me, or anyone I dated. So that was that - we simply would have to never break up. So I told that that was never going to happen, so at some point, we were just going to have to get engaged, and then at some point after that, we were going to have to get married. He decided that sounded good to him, and so not too long later, we were "officially" engaged, and we're getting married next year! (We decided that we wanted a long engagement - to get a good feel for the idea of marriage and really work everything out with that kind of commitment in mind, and to wait for both of us to get out of school.)

Dawwww...... :D

Congrats girl! I wish you a long and happy future together. :)

This is going to sound retarded, but I knew after our first (and only - to this point) HUGE fight when we were able to work through it and move on, that he was going to be the one for the rest of my life. I wasn't ready to be married then, I wasn't even ready to be engaged. But I knew that he was "the one". We've been engaged just over 6 months now - and the wedding is next October (2007).

This sounds so stupid but.....

I realized I was ready to get married when my dad said (before we left for our weekends), "Be careful and love you BOTH" instead of his usual, "..love you Kayla" :D

Dusty realized he wanted to get married to me on our first date...but was ready to do the deed when he pinned me, heh.

The best time to get married - yay for October 2007 :D

Well, I had to wait for him to get out of the navy first (he gets out in August 2007), and I'm Graduating in May... Besides, summer months are too expensive anyway.

What day for you? Mine's the 6th.

I knew when everything I thought of in the future involved him.

We made all kinds of plans for 5, 10 years down the road. Plus, he is my very best friend.

We're getting married next weekend :D

Tentatively October 13th. He graduates in May, and we didn't want to pay for summer either.

This is cheesy but I knew he was the one & I was ready to be ready when I realized that apart, we'd each move on & likely have good lives but together, we'd make an amazing team. We support each other through everything including some of the drama & 1 really awful thing we went through together. If we could beat those odds, then we knew it was meant to be.

:end cheesy soap opera music:

i think when you get that warm tingly feeling in your stomach

I think it all comes down to when and if you have been dragged through enough crap with one person and then you realize you would not go through this with anyone else.