Hello all! First post EVER on here

Some info about myself: 21, graduating from my university this winter, boyfriend is graduating this Spring. Then he's off to a year of grad school. So we'll both be done school by Spring 2016 - yay! We've discussed the future (and continue to discuss it every day) and want to get married as soon as we can financially swing a wedding. We're both in good spots career-wise; I have a job guaranteed after graduation and he likely will, too. We're both quite anxious to be engaged to each other, and boyfriend has said multiple times that he really, really wants to propose shortly after we've graduated. We plan to will hold off living on our own (aka, living under our respective parents' roofs) until 1-3 months after he's finished school, so that the both of us have a little more money in our accounts before we're paying our own rent/utility bills.
So my question here is whether or not it's "weird" to get engaged months prior to living together. We've discussed how we both would rather be living with each other the whole time we're engaged--but we're also pretty excited/anxious to make things official. Thoughts? Comments? Yay/nay?
PS - Yes, I know, the "logical" answer here is to simply wait out those few months and THEN get engaged once we're in our own apartment. We're just bouncing around ideas here.Very excited
Re: Engaged Before Living Together - Weird or No?
We are not even going to live together until after we are married. You need to do what works for you and your FI. Every relationship is different and there is no wrong or weird way of doing it.
I'm the fuck out.
This. I don't really understand the initial question to be honest. Why would it be weird, if it's what you want to do?
Does it really matter if you are living together the whole time you are engaged? I honestly wouldn't worry about it. Everyone just does things in an order that works for them. If getting engaged and then moving in together a few months is what works for you then do it that way.
ETA: If you would prefer to live together before getting engaged then tell your BF that you'd rather put of the engagement until you've lived together for awhile. I'm just not sure what exactly it is you're worried about from your post.
I don't really understand your issue.
Don't worry about what's "weird" versus "normal". Worry about what's healthy and makes you happy.
Do what works for you.
Did somebody write a new set of rules that I didn't hear about? I thought part of the women's movement was to give us choices, not install a new set of rules.
It is OK to wait until marriage before sex.
It is OK to wait until marriage before you live together.
It is OK to live together before you are married or engaged.
It is OK to have (safe) sex when you decide that it is time.
It is YOUR choice. Sheesh!
I don't understand the question.
That's kind of like saying "well, some people take public transit to work, but some people drive their own vehicles - will people think it's weird if we drive our own vehicles?" Both are completely acceptable and normal choices. Living together vs. not living together are both completely normal and acceptable choices.
We didn't live together until we got married, for the record. We also don't live in a town with public transit.