Admittedly I don't lurk very thoroughly or very often (I do try!) but it came to my attention that, after a few months of being signed up to the community, I should probably introduce myself instead of just watching you all from afar like a weirdo. I apologise for my long-windedness, it's a seriously bad habit of mine.
I was torn between posting my intro in this board or the NEY board, because although I've not actually been proposed to with a ring, my boyfriend promises me on a daily basis that we'll get married. The intent is there, and we both consider ourselves to be engaged; he's told me he's just waiting for the right moment to surprise me with a ring.
As we won't be getting married for quite a while yet, I don't want to go over-board with the planning but my OH has been getting really excited over the idea of our wedding day and has asked me to start thinking about what sort of day I'd like to have. With his only request being that the colour scheme must include green, he's left the rest of it down to me. So for now I'm making an effort to keep the planning very vague and trying not to focus on the details.
Although I'm aware it's no one else's business but our own, I'm a bit hesitant to include certain details of our relationship as we're a young couple who've not been in a relationship for a long period of time (I (personally) consider a long-term relationship to be around 4/5 years), and although I know a lot of you aren't judgemental, I'd rather avoid accusations of being blindly naive from those members who would have a thing or two to say about a young couple doing something as serious and life-changing as getting engaged and planning a wedding. I feel it'd be immature and pretentious to try and justify this by saying that we're both level-headed and experienced with a genuine grasp on reality, but I literally have no other way of reassuring you that we're not just a stereotypically fervent young pair, who are more in love with the idea of getting married than we are with eachother. I would like to take more time to prove this to any of you who may feel otherwise, but to be honest I'm more concerned with our relationship and our future than to let the opinions of others put a shadow over things (in the least offensive way possible)!
Age aside, he's from Ireland and I'm from England. The way the two of us met was a bit unusual. I was lost in the city and asked him for directions, but we instantly felt a rare comfort and happiness around each other and ended up spending the entire day together just talking. He showed me around a ton of really nice places, it was a brilliant day. We were friends for another year, then our favourite band, Toots and the Maytals, toured in our city. We went to see them together, kissed, and a crush turned into unconditional love. Since then we've adopted a little cat and named him Toots
Moving on, I'm a catering assistant for weddings situated in the UK's biggest zoo. I'm also an apprentice florist and hold fine art, graphic design, illustration, history of art, digital photography, geography, English language and literature college-level qualifications and I'll be studying landscape architecture at university this September
My OH is a very talented chef, gardener and musician / DJ. Because of our combined range of skills and talents we figured it'd be silly not to do a DIY wedding and save ourselves a fair bit of money! I know I said I wouldn't focus on details but a few things we've decided on is that we'll be baking the wedding cake ourselves, as well as designing any stationary and flower arrangements. I'm sure we'll find more use for our skills the more we begin to plan in more detail.
I could ramble on forever but I'll do you all the favour of shutting up now. I'm excited to finally become an active member in the community