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For me and my husband.
The reason we got married before being formally engaged was because of our serious family values and convictions. Both of our folks vehemently felt that we should not be "shacking up" with each other and not be married...
But both of us are in our 30's and who can tell us--two professionals--what to do? So we decided that we were gonna try the "live in together thang"... But as the move out date for myself got closer, we decided that it would be better to just go to a JP and get legally married, then have a formal ceremony with reception...
We got legally married by the court, but the formal ceremony and reception was not fun for either of us... Too much work and expectations from others that had nothing to do with us, being together, married.
It was tough to learn each others idiosyncracies, but I would not trade it for anything in the world than to be married to my husband rather that trying to work it out by living together...
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